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by bko 1y ago
> What Match Group is doing probably isn’t illegal, but I think it probably should be. What should be illegal? Withholding matches when you're paid to keep you single but showing you more attractive matches after you unsubscribe? Li
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by bko 1y ago
San Francisco has a system for reporting parking violations. Residents can report illegal parking such as blocked driveways, sidewalk obstructions, double parking, and abandoned vehicles through the city’s SF311 platform. You can make a rep
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H-1B, medical residencies and artificial scarcity(mleverything.substack.com)
3 points by bko 1y ago|0 comments
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by bko 1y ago
Yes it happens on the margin and once you have roots, it's unlikely you'll leave. But these kinds of things happen all at once and it's hard to reverse. If you look at Detroit which was a manufacturing hub for a long time, it
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by bko 1y ago
Sure! Here's a source from Adam Smith institute that shows UK millionaires / billionaires decreased during that time period and high taxes are partly to blame https://www.adamsmith.org/millionaire-tracker2024
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by bko 1y ago
> The Tax Justice Network’s review – co-published with Patriotic Millionaires UK and Tax Justice UK – of the Henley report finds that the number of millionaires claimed by Henley & Partners to be leaving countries in “exodus” in 2024
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by bko 1y ago
If you flag the dozen or so people that come in to your business once a week to steal, you don't have to have as much surveillance in the store otherwise. Just check them out when they enter, very simple. For instance, Costco has a muc
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by bko 1y ago
I heard stories about how super advanced invasive surveillance let's people like Target know that you're pregnant before you actually know yourself. But I just don't buy it. I get insane advertisements, even from places like
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by bko 1y ago
I noticed that as well, it's a bit frustrating. I personally think if you're allowed to do something legally, you should be allowed to do it using technology. It's seems silly to me that you can have a human being eyeball som
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by bko 1y ago
Regulation is constantly at risk of having unintended consequences and preventing new entrants and innovation. We shouldn't create regulations to deal with problems that are being solved by the market
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It's ironic that you call for regulation to address a concern as a comment to a free product that addresses this exact concern. What's the problem with people building tooling around it?
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by bko 1y ago
> All of those would keep on existing if Meta died today, so who cares Try second order thinking or thinking into the future. This company that built much of the modern web and created trillions in value. It's like the communists th
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by bko 1y ago
Billions of people voluntarily Meta products every month. They invented React, React Native, PyTorch, GraphQL, Cassandra, Presto, and RocksDB just to name a few. HN reader: the world would be a better place if they didn't exist Peak Ha
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by bko 1y ago
I don't think you have to be an evangelical Christian to belief that Israel should exist. I think a lot of people not heavily invested in politics or world affairs simply see Israel as more of a Western country aligned with their value
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How does removing competition and choice reduce costs?
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by bko 1y ago
> The US spends more per capita than any other developed nation and is not even capable of providing health care to all of its citizens. US has medicare and medicaid. It actually spends more than most other countries. I guess they need t
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by bko 1y ago
If you think health insurance is expensive now, wait until it's free! In all seriousness, if a private business with all the incentive in the world can't figure out how to lower healthcare costs, I don't see how punting to th
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by bko 1y ago
I think it's naive to think that management would push something so unpopular and expensive just because some kind of emotional attachment or to help some other unrelated commercial property owners. I think a more reasonable answer is
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by bko 1y ago
Now why would a giant well funded AI company be in favor of the government imposing strict requirements on all AI companies that would increase the cost of operating their business. Quite the mystery
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by bko 1y ago
> that the children who thrive most in daycares tend to come from the least advantaged backgrounds. So the children that do well in daycare comes from poor homes? So kids from rich home don't do well in daycare? Every interaction I&
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by bko 1y ago
> Working extreme hours is a betrayal of your fellow workers with families who are put in the impossible position of having to choose between competing against such people or spending time with their family. Wow, this is a cartoon level
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by bko 1y ago
Yeah, you're right. I think every job should be available to every person regardless of the things required from the job, personal circumstance, skillset or anything else. If some job requires more than strictly 9-5 and cannot be done
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by bko 1y ago
>If someone wants extraordinary hours they need to be providing extraordinary compensation. That's a naive approach. If you're in a place where people are fanatically devoted to the mission, it's a benefit in it of itself.
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by bko 1y ago
Forget efficiency. I want someone to pick up my phone call and pay my bill online. These guys leave a ton of money on the table. They can also better compete when the other guys are clowns
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by bko 1y ago
> Limited liability was an amazing invention. But it’s not appropriate for healthcare. If you want to make these services more expensive and produce shortages, this is how you would do it. Why would anyone invest or want to work in these
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by bko 1y ago
> Certainly if we ever ask a hallucination engine for a numeric answer, we should ask it at least three times, so we get some sense of the variation. This works on people as well! Cops do this when interrogating. You tell the same story
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Woodcoin: The First Physical Crypto Currency(woodcoincrypto.com)
4 points by bko 1y ago|1 comments
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by bko 1y ago
Who defines our culture today? Large media corporations. It's a bit frustrating at times. Sometimes when I read the news or try to find something on Google, I can sense an editorial bias or narrative. A lot of times it's subtle, l
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Programmable Web Apps(mleverything.substack.com)
2 points by bko 1y ago|0 comments
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by bko 1y ago
Sorry but allowing you to side load apps for a product like Apple makes it shittier. If helps companies that don't want to pay the Apple tax, but that's a bit funny considering that Apple essentially made this ecosystem and now th

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