davinic

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by davinic 7y ago
Luckily I learned from a young age. When I was 7 or 8 I was using the computer my dad used to run his company. It had dual 3.5" floppy drives, and a new (to me) hard drive. Needing to format a floppy, I opened the format utility and fo
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by davinic 7y ago
Since domain names are finite, like real estate, why not charge based on demand? In this scenario, in-demand domain names (mostly based on length) would have higher renewal fees than undesirable ones. Perhaps add an order of magnitude in pr
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by davinic 7y ago
You are correct, but our entire economy is setup to reward the exact land hoarding that against which you are arguing. OP is asking why domain name ownership would be treated differently.
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by davinic 7y ago
Sure, but many did, and many because they were in rooms with large numbers of people and they were depending on wifi and cell service, which often fails in those situations. Then throw in different phones, OSs, versions, etc. Word is that t
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by davinic 7y ago
There are apps and libraries that can simulate load.
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by davinic 7y ago
Mysterious startup? Seems identical to almost every small dev shop I've ever seen, complete with bizdev people who over-promise and clients who might not know better. My understanding is that they started development just 2 months ago
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by davinic 7y ago
But what's important is what that redistributed money is doing. It would flowing into local economies and getting spent many times over (until it gets back to the top and repeats the process). It would not be sitting in safe investment
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by davinic 7y ago
The data[0] show that there is an inverse correlation between performance and CEO compensation, so I'm not sure how you come to "that is what the job is worth". Let's not pretend that the CEO market is some idealistic pu
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by davinic 7y ago
You're cherry picking. What is the number if you redistribute all CEO pay over 100x the average employee for the Fortune 1000?
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by davinic 7y ago
Only because you're thinking as "self-hosting" to be setting up a server, etc. Before cloud-connected security cameras, every cam system owner was "self-hosting", even if that mean the cameras just recording to a lo
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by davinic 7y ago
Not to mention the negative impact on parallelization! Hundreds of paper ballot station can easily be setup in a room, but setting up an additional voting machine requires a ton of other things (budgets, purchasing, techs, etc).
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by davinic 7y ago
Think of it as first class seats giving the optionality to board at any time (not to mention those free drinks and snacks).
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by davinic 7y ago
I've wondered if Sony's music ownership interests played a large role in losing that market due to their fear of piracy.
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by davinic 7y ago
I would say that this is an example of the planning fallacy.
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by davinic 7y ago
I think that any minimum wage law should take into account the requirement of a college degree. If minimum wage were $15 nationally, then require at least a $20/hr or $25/hr minimum if the job posting requires a bachelor's de
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by davinic 7y ago
Why gender the showers in the first place? Seems like added complication for little to no benefit by splitting into separate queues.
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by davinic 7y ago
And for a reference, we spent around $30 billion in the US in 2016 for healthcare marketing and advertising. https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2019/01/08/medical-marketi...
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by davinic 7y ago
US healthcare spending represents $3.4 trillion[0]. $6.3 billion is only 0.18% of the total costs. Not to mention that malpractice claims paid has decreased substantially (55.7%) in the last 2 decades [1]. [0]: https://www.cms.go
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by davinic 7y ago
It's not about which specific categories of work are valuable, it's about treating labor in general as more valuable than capital. Currently in the US, income from capital is taxed at far lower rates than income from labor. Why?
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by davinic 7y ago
I think this is a result of looking at the mean vs. the median. While the average GDP continues to rise, the median remains stagnant -- only up 2.8% since 1999[0]! The saying "never cross a river that is 4 feet deep on average" is
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by davinic 7y ago
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by davinic 7y ago
Not to mention that since the placebo effect is so real, it can be unethical to explain that to someone. When my mother was going through chemo and radiation and started buying healing crystals as well, I supported her beliefs in that (she
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by davinic 7y ago
To me NLP always felt more like mysticism than science.
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by davinic 7y ago
But wouldn't POTS imply a far less noisy environment once filtered?
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by davinic 7y ago
I think this could be solved by disallowing targeted political ads at any micro level. Allow campaigns to target metro areas and very broad demo groups much like TV does.
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by davinic 7y ago
You're presenting a false dichotomy. Another solution would be to allow the ads but disallow personalized targeting.
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by davinic 7y ago
They may be marginal but at this level of competition the margins are where the differentiation lies.
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by davinic 7y ago
Of course not, but you still have to either be born as the type of person who would seek out and hone this skill, or have been born into a situation where someone showed you this and you were naturally receptive to it.
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by davinic 7y ago
Fortunately/unfortunately some of us live in Kansas City and have no choice in the matter.
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by davinic 7y ago
You've missed the point.

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