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by atom_arranger 8y ago
I would consider all passive investing rent seeking. Or at the very least a kind of rent. Just a quote from an article that sort of illustrates the attitude I have towards it: > One disturbing implication of Thomas Piketty’s new book, Ca
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by atom_arranger 8y ago
Not always. Some tests take a while to run and I might rather they run on the CI server than my own machine. Generally if I'm moderately sure things pass I'll just push to CI. Even sometimes when I'm sure they'll fail I&
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by atom_arranger 8y ago
Experts have been wrong about a lot of things in the past. In this case I'm not saying "everyone is an idiot and missing the obvious", I'm saying "politicians and economists are idiots and are missing the obvious&qu
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by atom_arranger 8y ago
Yeah, you're right. I think I just particularly mistrust economists. It's partially that if these new studies are correct it's just amazing how so many economists could be so wrong about something that seems so obvious. I can
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by atom_arranger 8y ago
There's more than one definition of the term. I do agree that the definition and examples you are using are common. "In economics and in public-choice theory, rent-seeking involves seeking to increase one's share of existing
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by atom_arranger 8y ago
Above comment is saying people don't trust studies and economists. Studies and economists can be bought.
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by atom_arranger 8y ago
I think a lot of the most valuable content is content produced by people not seeking to profit from it. I often say this about movies but it's also true of a lot of online articles: If the "content creators" can't make a
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by atom_arranger 8y ago
This mostly just makes it so less tech savvy users would have to be exposed to more advertisements. Even after they've gone out of their way already to install an ad-blocker. If I'm installing an ad-blocker I want it to block all
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by atom_arranger 8y ago
Extracting rents from things you own is literally "rent-seeking". It's the definition of "rent-seeking". You can argue the pros and cons or rent-seeking or of Airbnb, but "rent-seeking" clearly covers Airb
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by atom_arranger 9y ago
If it was wider the measure would not be optimal and it would look bad and be harder to read. If they increased the text size and image size to make up for it then the amount of items per page would go down. I don't see what they could
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by atom_arranger 9y ago
I wish that was still the case.
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by atom_arranger 9y ago
What about client side state? Form validations? Any sort of user input before it's being sent to the server. You also may need ways to handle persistence or offline use. There are some new features in Apollo for handling client side st
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by atom_arranger 9y ago
That pagination is using a spec relay and apollo advocate for: https://facebook.github.io/relay/graphql/connections.htm It's not really a GraphQL specific method though. I've seen the same sort of pagina
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by atom_arranger 9y ago
Apple released https://developer.apple.com/spritekit/ so people developing 2D games for iOS tend to use that instead now. Sort of sad to see it's less used now, although I do think Cocos2D probably had an impact o
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Law of the Instrument – Why you'll never use this in real life(dylanvann.com)
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