conanbatt

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by conanbatt 5y ago
1. No 2. It has always worked the same: people arbitrage the subsidy by doing energy inefficient labor. Bitcoin mining is just a more efficient arbitrage mechanism.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
Voting is not a great way to give customer service feedback to your doctor
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by conanbatt 5y ago
But now it is tied to the government, which is way worse...You can't complain to the government.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
Unless it sucks, and then you just pay it twice.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
It would be better to give the money to the people and they can choose to spend it on electricity or something else. Subsidizing electricity is a distortion.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
You think mafias and thugs are reasons to crack down on miners?
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by conanbatt 5y ago
Gas fees on polygon, L2 and Solana is lower than credit card transaction fees.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
There are already many cross-game implementations: 1- Taking money 2- Having Achievements and API's on Steam 3- Accepting OAuth login 4- Supporting non-standard inputs like joysticks And interestingly you could implement 3/4 items
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by conanbatt 5y ago
> This idea doesn't work at all. For your dota skin to work in world of warcraft, the developers of WoW would have to acknowledge that 0x1fab... corresponds with $ITEM in $GAME and then spend the time actually implementing that item
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by conanbatt 5y ago
That you can have cross-game assets and universes between different games and developers. Your special Dota skin works as a skin World of warcraft (?) or it might work in ancillary services around the game: could be used as a feature unlock
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by conanbatt 5y ago
The burger did not come into existence because of the existence of the 5 dollar bill. If it were, you could print out burgers for cheap!
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by conanbatt 5y ago
When you find out that one of the biggest investors in tech is the CA teacher pension fund
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by conanbatt 5y ago
> It doesn’t take that long to pay back a million dollars of med school debt at a salary of 400k per year. It should be clear that in this relationship, the rent-seeker is the university education. Doctors and wanna-be doctors are victi
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by conanbatt 5y ago
Software engineer salaries in the US are also the result of government regulation, namely immigration. With an uncapped H1B for tech workers you would get millions of developers a year and depress this wages considerably.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
I would compare it to doctors in other countries as well. I don't think it is a suicide rate tied to the profession itself, but definitely on how it is practiced in the US. It is a gnarly profession though, and health care workers see
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by conanbatt 5y ago
You can only practice medicine if you studied in the US. No doctor in the world can practice medicine in the US without having to re-certify their knowledge. Also, education is closely tied with government funding, so it's impossible t
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by conanbatt 5y ago
The fact that the majority of hospitals are non-profit is part of the racket. The money goes to the hospital administration instead of stockholders. That doesn't make it any better.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
> Can you speak to the narrative of administrative bloat in US hospitals? Admin bloat is a consequence of having too few doctors, and also legal requirements on how visits have to be handled in the US. For each medical visit you get at l
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by conanbatt 5y ago
Skill markets are not very efficient: not all developers jump to blockchain or ML for example. Also there tends to be limits on how many slots for residences and practices there are for different specialties: the system is purposefully capp
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by conanbatt 5y ago
Hospitals are 40% of the NH spending so I would even not look at doctors that way. The market structure is such that there are very few doctors, so you need to do your operations in a way that doctors spend as little as possible with patien
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by conanbatt 5y ago
This point is repeated often, and the incentives for Amazon to downplay the actual downtime are definitely there. Wouldn't affected companies be incentivized to make a lawsuit about AMZ lying about status? It would be easy to prove and
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by conanbatt 5y ago
I don't think the URSS had a Customer XP department. Or the government in general for that matter.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
Im not so sure. Most countries do not ban foreign currencies.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
The main interest of governments to ban crypto currency is to levy taxes and have more information on citizenry.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
If you replace salaried with hourly, a change that is purely administrative, you increase your risk because your income is not pooled. Salary is mainly a way to pool lots of resources and insure them for sickness, rotation, leaves, etc. It
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by conanbatt 5y ago
> the hell that is the modern salaried work week. Salaried work is by far the most lenient way to make money. Any other venture: a small business, a startup, an executive position, etc is way harder and more demanding. In any case, what
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by conanbatt 5y ago
65% is not enough to justify a loss of sovereignty. Once many countries agree to a treaty like this one, some country wont and becomes a tax haven and suddenly the target of sanctions and political pressure. This is the case with the OCDE l
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by conanbatt 5y ago
Lobbying is a political act just like making a protest or making a news article. That is not monopoly power. But even if it were framed as monopoly power, the monopoly is from the government officials that sell their power.
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by conanbatt 5y ago
The monopoly is the government though, not Intuit...There is no way you can argue that Intuit has monopoly power over government!
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by conanbatt 5y ago
They wont be paid if he doesn't sell before 60. This will be completely untaxed. Thats the IRA abuse: its meant to be used tax deferred as a retirement scheme for a certain amount (6k a year) not for billions. But because of its mechan

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