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by alxmng 4y ago
I agree it’s gotten harder to get by, and that influences cultural malaise and anxiety. I’d like to add that where I am people experience far more political and economic adversity than the USA, yet this doesn’t make them outwardly bitter,
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by alxmng 4y ago
I think it’s deeply cultural. I’m from the USA but live on the other side of the planet. Nobody here is like this, they aren’t angry or bitter, they are generally happy and polite, yet they are on TikTok and Facebook and the same Internet a
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by alxmng 4y ago
My account was randomly locked once too, with no warning or explanation. I went out to eat, tried to pay, and my card was declined. Chase said that there was some system whereby the treasury can just flag/lock accounts, and that they d
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by alxmng 4y ago
This. It’s way more performant too, because you can host DB and other services from the same machine. You don’t need to orchestrate a complex cluster to serve thousands or even millions of users. You can scale to hundreds of gigs of memory
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by alxmng 4y ago
Yes, this is an important point: it matters how new money is created. $100 isn’t created and given to everyone. It’s created and given to the apple producers to make more apples. This is government spending.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Because: 1) taxation destroys money. 2) new money can be absorbed by economic growth. Imagine you have $100 in an economy and 100 apples. $100 is added, so there’s $200/100 apples. Inflation might occur. But if you make 100 more apples
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by alxmng 4y ago
I don’t follow. A property tax is passed to renters. A land value tax would presumably increase the property tax, not lower it. Why would a tax increase on rentals lower rents?
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by alxmng 4y ago
No don’t talk about the elephant in the room (fractional reserve). That is the sacred dogma.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Fractional reserve is inherently financially unstable. Investing deposits while simultaneously promising to pay them on demand is inherently financially unstable. There’s over 100 years repeatedly demonstrating this. Like clockwork, this ex
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by alxmng 4y ago
This statement is confusing. It implies the Fed will guarantee investment accounts. Why keep any money in a non-interest bearing account? It’s amazing the mental and bureaucratic gymnastics needed to avoid admitting that fractional reserve
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Data-Oriented Design (2018)(dataorienteddesign.com)
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The Chicago Plan Revisited (2012)(imf.org)
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by alxmng 4y ago
The venture capital and stock market are not capitalized with bank deposits, and that comprises the bulk of commercial startup capitalization and investment. What percentage of startup capitalization and investment comes from deposit-backed
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by alxmng 4y ago
The way any other creditor issues loans? Investors put money together, loan it out at interest to make a profit and cover losses.
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by alxmng 4y ago
“Peer-to-peer” is the appropriate term for a decentralized network where each node is treated equally and communicates through any other node.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I've always wondered, could dollars be matched to equity? Imagine a company with three employees earning $100, $200, and $300 per year. Each year the company issues them 100, 200, and 300 shares. Has anyone done this?
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by alxmng 4y ago
Because receiving any kind of asset is a gain. For tax purposes an asset is valued at market or assessed rates depending on the type of asset (real estate, cars, stocks, etc.) It’s tempting to think that we should just tax cash income, but
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by alxmng 4y ago
Are you using the model to classify by topic, or show you stories that are similar to ones you’ve “liked” in the past?
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by alxmng 4y ago
For my existing products? No. I made a resume maker product before, and in retrospect I feel stupid not doing more research. I had good conversion, but I quickly realized that SEO was the only viable marketing strategy, and the competition
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by alxmng 4y ago
The FBI is a national security concern.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I’m essentially a full stack / product engineer for hire. I’ve done proposal type projects but I try and avoid them, I think it’s harder (almost impossible) to land clients with well-scoped projects. I find it easier to find companies
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Productivity in Plaintext (2016)(lukespear.co.uk)
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by alxmng 4y ago
The censorship model is mostly the same, right? If you don't self-host, your host can censor your communication and refuse to relay or peer certain messages.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I imagine it's because it doesn't play nice with @ mention syntax, and it can't be used as a profile/blog address in the web browser.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I run a Google News alternative, https://sumi.news – let me know what you think
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by alxmng 4y ago
I agree. There's a lack of quality, comprehensive UI libraries with ready-to-go, composable components. And the ones that do exist are tied to specific languages/frameworks like React.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I earn a living wage working as a software consultant. I work for myself primarily because it's the only way I know of to do software engineering with flexible hours. I work on retainer with weekly deliverables. Within the week I can c
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by alxmng 4y ago
Both.
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by alxmng 4y ago
The purpose of tokenizing everything is to report all errors upfront. Imagine a big source file with two syntax errors. Tokenizing and parsing everything and reporting both errors with one compilation is a better user experience.
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by alxmng 4y ago
A quick search reveals they were fired because of the luggage theft.

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