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by bhupy 6y ago
> Despite the unethical and immoral behavior of Uber executive leadership, from the outside Interestingly, literally every C-level exec at Uber from the Travis Kalanick era has been replaced. Uber is the "Ship of Theseus" of co
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by bhupy 6y ago
This is a rare instance where I actually think both you and rayiner (both otherwise awesome HN users) are wrong. Your characterization of Trump vs Biden/Obama is refuted by the AP themselves: https://apnews.com/article&
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by bhupy 6y ago
I think the article attempts to demonstrate with its examples that some of the titles don't actually accurately represent what ought to be the core takeaways of a news story. Selected excerpts: "I actually watched this interview—a
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by bhupy 6y ago
That's a good point. Trader Joe's appears to use this approach even for their human cashiers.
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I don’t think anyone does, but in America one is innocent until proven guilty and not the other way around.
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by bhupy 6y ago
It’s also the airport layout information, including doors. From most US airports, you specify your pickup point by door (Arrival E6, for example), and I think some of that information lives in the app, along with the snap points that are re
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by bhupy 6y ago
Considering that Uber's binary size (330MB) is comparable to similar apps such as Google Maps (224MB), Lyft (435MB), and Didi (332MB), it might just be par for the course for iOS apps. Yelp, for example, is what you might call a "
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by bhupy 6y ago
> This is why some global apps have different apps for different countries Do you have some examples? Genuinely curious. To my knowledge, most of the major FAANG apps are single-binary.
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by bhupy 6y ago
I'd say this is the most comprehensive breakdown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
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by bhupy 6y ago
An old (but fantastic) comment from the previous discussion about Uber's app size that addresses why the Uber app is so big: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
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by bhupy 6y ago
You're right that it's more of a difference in degree and not kind. That said, the difference in degree is so vast as to be consequential. It's trivially easy to switch phone platforms (in the last 7 years, I've flip flo
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by bhupy 6y ago
I'll step over and forgive the personal attacks because I'd like to think that I've refrained from doing the same with you. > Large-scale hydro is major ecological harm. And even for something less damaging, that's st
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by bhupy 6y ago
> In a gold rush the big winners among the shovel makers will do worse than the big winners in the resource owning tier (those that own the gold, mines, land or oil). That's true, but what's the expected value for each? It&#x27
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by bhupy 6y ago
Oh yeah, it's certainly a spectrum. That being said, political influence on markets (e.g. via fiscal policy) is indirect and can take years to manifest. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-bill-clinton-does-no.
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by bhupy 6y ago
> major ecological harm This is _really_ debatable. By most measures, the vast majority of Bitcoin mining is done via renewables: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/bitcoin-energy-use-mined-th... "Around 60% to 7
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by bhupy 6y ago
> If Bitcoin is the same as gold, then we don't really need Bitcoin This argument doesn't make much sense. It's like saying if rubies are the same as emeralds, then we don't need rubies. Also, there can be multiple ty
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by bhupy 6y ago
Well, I'm glad I could provide you some entertainment! > Personally, I think the burden of proof goes the other way. Well, it's not exactly a brand new experiment, we already know what happens when you have a deflationary store
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by bhupy 6y ago
I suggest you re-read what I wrote. Your description of fractional reserve banking only holds in a world where bank deposits are fungible legal tender regardless of what they are backed with at any particular moment. This doesn't apply
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by bhupy 6y ago
That constraint is only really required because paper money can be minted in a way that BTC (or gold) cannot. That's why the distinction is relevant in the case of cryptocurrency. The overall point is that the ship has mostly sailed wi
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by bhupy 6y ago
I mean, no disagreements that unregulated markets can turn out disastrously (and hurt ordinary people). But regulated currencies can also turn out disastrously bad (see: Venezuela, Zimbabwe hyperinflation, Nigeria, Argentina). This hurts or
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by bhupy 6y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees that there are multiple causes of depreciation. The key takeaway from your link is that USD value is a combination of (1) Fed policy as well as (2) economic growth and corporate profits (or lack thereof).
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by bhupy 6y ago
That doesn't impact the value of Bitcoin. When you exchange USDT for Bitcoin, the loser isn't holders of Bitcoin, the loser is (potentially) holders of USDT. Exchanging USDT for Bitcoin doesn't create new Bitcoin. Coinbase, a
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by bhupy 6y ago
What you've described is also roughly how gold vs gold certificates work. You're correct that an owner of a gold certificate doesn't truly own the gold, and are exposed to extra risk on account of that. That being said, the
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by bhupy 6y ago
Okay, but you're talking about a completely different thing. Your Bitcoin balance, as it's shown in Coinbase's UI, is very different from your Bitcoin balance as it's understood by everyone else on the public blockchain;
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by bhupy 6y ago
If it is, then that means Coinbase can create new "Bitcoin" on demand; which we both know that it cannot do. In your own source, the banks ability to increase money supply through the multiplier effect is capped by the capital ade
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by bhupy 6y ago
Yes, but that's only possible because of the underlying monetary policy, which is controlled by the Fed. In contrast, there is no way you can do this with (most) cryptocurrencies. The monetary policy of Bitcoin is dictated by the physi
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by bhupy 6y ago
> I like my fiat and central banks, thank you very much. I do too! But some people don't. And it appears that there are now options for everyone, which seems...good?
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by bhupy 6y ago
This conflates "Central Banks" with ordinary "banks" that hold assets in vaults. The two are comparable in the same way that Java is comparable to JavaScript. The steel-man argument is that the monetary policy of central
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by bhupy 6y ago
Sure, but that's besides the point. It's sort of like that meme about "The World If <my pet policy was implemented>" (example: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/39
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by bhupy 6y ago
I don't know if the law has any POV on the speed of delivery, but what I do know is that the law prohibits private carriers from touching your post box (under any circumstance), so they can only deliver letters if they're shipped

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