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by beaner 6y ago
> The article says that parents are 5x as worried about C19 than about paying their mortgage. > They're 1/5th as worried about the possible deaths of their family members as they are about their mortgage These two statements
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by beaner 6y ago
> Apple is providing the platform that enables Epic to distribute their game for FREE to a billion+ users. Why shouldn't they take a cut from the in-app purchase monetization? Then they should charge the developer for install costs
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by beaner 6y ago
Can anyone elaborate on this? Do electric cars really cause less break dust for this reason?
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by beaner 6y ago
Compound, dYdX, crypto kitties, uniswap, Dai, Lightning network, Augur... These are mostly financial apps. Compound for example provides the ability to earn decent interest rates (currently ~2-6%) in a time of 0.1% at banks. That's def
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by beaner 6y ago
You could take some time to familiarize yourself with Docker and how to deploy a full-stack application as a set of "microservices" that talk to each other. It's really helpful for getting closer to understanding infrastructu
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by beaner 6y ago
Mastercard is a competitor to Visa. 2nd layers for Bitcoin can scale to many thousands of transactions per second.
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by beaner 6y ago
Because it won't be expensive. Visa does something like $11 trillion in volume per year. Why does anybody use that if visa takes 1-2%? 1% of 11 trillion is 110 billion. With that amount of fee revenue you'd be able to secure the B
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by beaner 6y ago
> I don't see any reasonable case for the prediction that Bitcoin's average transaction fee will reach those extreme highs. Why not? At scale with current block sizes Bitcoin would probably be settling payments of institutional
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by beaner 6y ago
IMO, "boring" is exactly what Bitcoin should be right now. It's becoming normal. Ethereum does have a lot of really interesting things going on that are super cool. But I wouldn't take this to mean that Bitcoin isn'
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by beaner 6y ago
Musicians need to wake up and realize that there is almost no money in recordings. Recordings are advertisements for performances. You make money from shows and concerts. You can't charge tech companies more than they themselves are ma
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by beaner 6y ago
What's the logic? It makes the problem much more visible. Ostensibly the fix for fake tweets would also fix whatever they'd be trying to cover.
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by beaner 6y ago
That's a bummer. You mentioned California specifically and one of the things discussed in the book is how charter schools in California specifically were neutered in important ways to basically remove their advantages; to remove what a
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by beaner 6y ago
This is a political opinion.
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by beaner 6y ago
To put it another way: it would have been against her principles to not take something she was made to pay for.
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by beaner 6y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it is morally consistent to take something that you paid for, while putting forth an argument that you should not have been made by others to pay for it in the first place.
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by beaner 6y ago
That the policy was arrived at democratically doesn't change the fact that if something is taken from you, it is morally consistent to take it back, while arguing that the policy of taking in the first place is wrong.
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by beaner 6y ago
Yes, the Spanish flu infected 1/3 of the world and resulted in 50 million deaths. It's possible covid-19 will get there as well but we're not anywhere close to that yet.
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by beaner 6y ago
> They are specifically saying that the fact that the epidemic has ripped through the country is because the government intervened too much You're conflating things. You are making it sound like they are blaming the spread of the vi
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by beaner 6y ago
Does it go contrary to evidence? We have prior examples of pandemics where things were not shut down and the economy did not collapse.
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by beaner 6y ago
Rand's books gave her more than sufficient income. She took social security because she paid for it.
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by beaner 6y ago
I don't know why you'd be downvoted, this is absolutely right and explicitly what she believed. That if you've had something taken from you it is absolutely your right to take it back. To not would be self-sacrifice - for wha
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by beaner 6y ago
I'll read yours if you read mine! I think Charter Schools and their Enemies may contain some stuff on CA schools but I haven't gotten that far yet. It starts out talking about NYC schools. It literally contains tables of data. I
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by beaner 6y ago
My comment by itself certainly isn't an adequate summary. That's why I recommended a whole book.
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by beaner 6y ago
It really shouldn't be. This is an excellent opportunity to hear a well-reasoned argument for charter schools. If they do help, wouldn't you want to know, and wouldn't you want to be able to argue for it? Edit: Further, the o
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by beaner 6y ago
Yes, these are exactly the topics the book addresses. A lot of it focuses explicitly on the difference in results between charter and non-charter schools in the same building , with the same demographics and student pool. If you're th
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by beaner 6y ago
What do you think 8-year olds constantly being surrounded by only other 8-year olds does for maturity? And that this insane pattern is held for 18 years?
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by beaner 6y ago
You can start with supporting charter schools. They're public schools that are allowed to push out of typical restrictions and teach children in new ways. Overall, they're an excellent investment and the data shows that they work.
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by beaner 6y ago
The corporations in these statements are guided by the people. They seem like an awfully random segment to point out for this. They haven't expressed anything because neither have your friends, Twitter, the news media, and politicians.
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by beaner 6y ago
I don't know that it's possible to debate without going down very large, very opinionated rabbit holes. You're very clearly wrong on a number of things, I'm sorry. But it should suffice to quantify it with numbers and tr
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by beaner 6y ago
I agree with your sentiment. But I'm also hesitant to simply throw ideas like this out the window. To an extent I feel like learning a language and getting in touch with the history of a new place can help to put the other things you m

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