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by alwaysdoit 8y ago
The implicit part of this argument, though, is that blockchains are expensive: in order to have this trustless system you have to have PoW which is inherently computationally (and therefore monetarily) expensive. It's not going to be
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by alwaysdoit 9y ago
The author just kind of brushes by this, but my main problem with pensions in general is their tendency to be underfunded. It's just one more way for current voters to externalize the costs of their benefits onto future generations. 4
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by alwaysdoit 9y ago
If you're concerned about this level of location tracking, don't carry a cell phone at all. Keeping track of which cell tower your phone is closest to is fundamental to cellular technology. You can't make or receive calls unl
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by alwaysdoit 9y ago
Not to mention the value of the land that is set aside for roads and parking. How much property tax is the city forgoing by dedicating that land to cars rather than homes or offices? How much cheaper would our costs of living be? Also, a m
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by alwaysdoit 9y ago
Sure, you can't prevent your employees from leaving, but you can definitely structure the compensation so that they are highly incentivized to stay, which is what many companies do via stock grants with vesting periods.
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by alwaysdoit 9y ago
Does the animal's lifespan matter? Intuitively it seems like killing something that will only live for a few days or weeks at most matters less. So I'm not sure it's all due to "cultural worth" (though I don'
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
There are yellow loading and unloading zones throughout the city designated for that purpose.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
You mean, sometimes delivery vehicles and service vehicles illegally choose to stop and block traffic.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
> The whole point of the comment you replied to was that you don't know that - can't know that. People voted under the current system, we don't know what their voting behavior would have been if the voting system would hav
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
Agreed, it doesn't matter whether you're in the majority or the minority, everything above the 50% line is ignored. In fact, if there's a third party in play, more than half of the votes are ignored.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
Getting rid of the electoral college for the Presidential election would not affect representation in the House and Senate.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
> I feel like people's behavior would change if the metric to elect the president was solely based on the popular vote. Agreed. For most of us who wish to change or abolish the electoral college, the fact that people feel (mostly a
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
Free shipping is still valuable if you might return it, because shipping costs are not typically not refunded, but shipping costs baked into the purchase price are, unless they specifically state a restocking or return fee.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
Please stay home if you're sick. The productivity loss due to you not coming in < the productivity loss due to you coming in and infecting your coworkers.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
The news is a method of attempting to become informed about the state of the world exclusively through the examination of outliers. It's broken by design.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
You know, the standard definition of progressive: trying to put things back the way they were, to make SF great again.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
Brewing steaming hot coffee directly onto a glass carafe filled with ice looks like the perfect way to crack the carafe.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
> "The TPP ... limits governments’ ability to demand access to encryption keys or other cryptographic methods" This seems good though.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
This is nonsense. The employee usernames are RiotSoAndSo or RiotNameHere, so they are clearly representing the company with their behavior. In fact one of the explicitly listed common bad behaviors is abusing their position with the company
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
I don't understand why Tango has to be an integrated built-in solution rather than an accessory that could be added to any Android phone.
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
You do have some power over what gets built. It's called the zoning process, which allows us to decide ahead of time which types of things we will allow or not, so that people can plan and proceed accordingly. It's why we have l
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
I guess my biggest concern with this is tied up in this potential dystopian future where prostitution is basically the only unskilled job humans can do better than machines. How do we prevent people from being forced into this out of econom
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by alwaysdoit 10y ago
We've done this lots[1] of[2] times[3] when it threatens agriculture, but when it threatens the lives of poor people in third world countries, suddenly we're worried about the ecosystem? There will be an environmental impact, but
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Sensible defaults are not a harm to technical correctness or precision. It's not like anyone would be able to refer to any of the other internets without at least a qualifying adjective, and it would likely require much more context th
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A Long Game(techcrunch.com)
76 points by alwaysdoit 11y ago|46 comments
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
http://xkcd.com/1425/ Errata: I'll need a research team and a year and a half.
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A Long Game(techcrunch.com)
2 points by alwaysdoit 11y ago|0 comments
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
The reality is that people who are less well-off often do not have the "liquidity" to rebalance their assets (educational, experiential, financial, etc.) to take advantage of changes in the global economy. On a macro level, societ
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Sure, but presumably there would be a pattern of rising stress levels leading to the event. This looks like a square wave, which indicates an instantaneous change from one state of stress to another, which would indicate he was the party r
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
It's not. It looks "randomish" to humans, but it's not actually any different from 12345678.

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