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by cryptoz 7y ago
> Assuming that Uber has a competitive advantage because of their brand Woah - I see Lyft as the one with the competitive advantage due to Uber's brand. Uber is toxic while Lyft is seen as friendly.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I don't agree. We know that people are not 'rational actors' that maximize personal profit at every turn, and we should not base our economics around that known false idea. I think it is wise to produce better models with new
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I think your illustration has failed, though, because I would very much choose b). I consider a) as an evil in the world and would avoid participating in that if at all possible. b) sounds like a really good choice for long-term investment
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I still don't understand this. Most people are motivated by a lot more than the desire to pay less rent. Jobs change, people move, they go upward in their careers, etc. Is there any evidence to suggest that rent prices are actually &qu
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by cryptoz 7y ago
This phrase is repeated frequently throughout these comments but never with an explanation. I think the opposite of that phrase is true; that in these circumstances, rent control is part of what will enable an increase in the supply of ho
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I was under the impression that some rents can be increased during the lease. I do not think it is only a renewal event, by law. > Rent control deters the creation of new housing. I keep seeing this repeated but I don't understand.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Not all regulations are equal. Merely because some past law was bad does not mean all future laws will be bad. Saying that rent control is bad because past zoning (or other law) was bad doesn't make sense.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
The market is not working when actors frequently intentionally cause trauma and unexpected financial and life emergencies to tenets. The 'market' is not some divine thing that cannot go wrong; rather, trying to make the 'ma
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Can you explain what you mean? I don't follow. Rent control is a bandaid that provides a level of stability to the lower classes. They can live without daily anxiety of being rudely defacto 'evicted' by radical, surprise rent
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Lots of discussion on the possibility of going or communicating, but for me the excitement is the narrowing of uncertainties in the Drake equation and the focusing of discovery of alien life, intelligent or otherwise. Discoveries like this
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I don't think it's amazing to reach large local maxima for production efficiency when the major risks are ignored and we know about problems piling up that could dramatically reduce that efficiency in the future. I think targeting
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> It pretty clearly means that the amount of food produced every day is the amount of food that 9B people consume every day. I don't think that's all very clear to start with, but if that's what it means then I still don&#
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> iirc we have enough now for 9 billion people I just don't know what this means. Do we have enough food to feed 9B people for one day? For their whole lifetimes? I think the statistic is too vague to mean anything. I maintain that
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> The environmental consequences of such high-intensity farming is another issue, of course. It's not another issue, it's the same issue. We're in this mess in the first place because nobody cares to price in the costs of
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by cryptoz 7y ago
The title indicates ~4B more people than are alive today. Also, there is not enough food in the world to sustainably feed everyone. Current average diets for wealthy countries are driving climate change that is reducing the ability of less-
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Has this changed on Android in recent years? I remember building a Camera app with a smaller-than-fullscreen viewfinder. I believe I got to set the dimensions of the viewfinder myself, making it as arbitrarily small as I wanted (or even opt
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I assume this is advantageous because then they can unfurl the loops and parallelize instructions across loop 'boundaries'? I wonder if there are other advantages.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
It seems to me the author is arguing against a point nobody is making, and conflating numbers that are not the concern. I've never heard the arguments that the author is trying to refute, and I consider myself at least mildly educated
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SpaceX begins hunt for Starship landing sites on Mars(behindtheblack.com)
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by cryptoz 7y ago
This is cool! I will download. I also have a Dorian-related Android app to share. I use the barometers in phones to measure surface pressure with All Clear: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allcle
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by cryptoz 7y ago
It's also worth mentioning that the Raptor engine is meant to use fuel made in ISRU systems on Mars. Most (nearly all?) components of Methane fuel for the Raptor can be extracted from the Martian soil, rocks, atmosphere, etc. A primary
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Super interesting info. Sorry for my annoying questions. Does modern GNSS receive that level of accuracy in cities among buildings, or is that an ideal case like what SpaceX has, being outside? Also, how expensive is a modern GNSS receiver
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Yes I think that radar idea is quite correct. I now recall Elon/SpaceX explaining that this rocket (BFR or whatever) should be able to land on any solid body in the solar system. This would eliminate barometers and GPS for long-term so
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I'm no rocket expert, but I have some ideas about altitude. > 1 - how do they measure altitude? GPS is notoriously poor at this. GPS is indeed notoriously terrible. They might have better luck with it though, given they can buy high
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by cryptoz 7y ago
This is the best prototyping I've ever seen. Small, 1 of 31 engines in the final config, water-tower contract, built in the open fields in south Texas, the whole thing. The end game of this line of rockets is hundreds of Mars trips lau
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Flutter/Dart, ML with python, general software architecture. Coming from a career in Android/Java/Kotlin. The new planned skills are to enable completion of projects I have in mind.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
The way it is presented on HN is active disinformation. The headline is simply false.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
[My comments are not welcome here, I get it. I have been banned from continuing to post here so I will remove these offending posts to prevent further perceived degradation to the discussion.]
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by cryptoz 7y ago
[My comments are not welcome here, I get it. I have been banned from continuing to post here so I will remove these offending posts to prevent further perceived degradation to the discussion.]
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I think these posts are the #1 encouraged kind of item to submit to HN when you read the newsguidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html So I think it is your expectation with HN that may need to change, as

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