dnomad

43 ms·

271.
by dnomad 8y ago
> To every example of a low-tax low-growth economy is a counter example of high-tax still low-growth economy. Despite decades of evidence demonstrating how government spending can produce enormous growth (see eg. the lil' ol'
272.
by dnomad 8y ago
> Given the massive waste and inefficiency in most government programs, very little of our taxes actually go to anything useful. There is very convincing evidence that higher taxes and greater government spending do lead to long term eco
273.
by dnomad 8y ago
Do you have any evidence for these simplistic Econ101 theories? The funny thing is that if an any economist did prove a link between tax cuts and long term economic growth he wouldn't just win a Nobel, they'd knock down the Statue
274.
by dnomad 8y ago
No, not at all. There is no evidence that tax cuts lead to higher wages or economic growth. It's been studied and debunked to death but it never dies.
275.
by dnomad 8y ago
What you don't realize is that the lawlessness around user data hurts big corporations too. If you're a big corporation collecting significant data than you've taken on a significant liability but the nature of this liability
276.
by dnomad 8y ago
A "one way" product owner is useless. Backlog grooming is a thing [1]. In fact, I'd say after the Increment, it might be the most important thing. If developers and all the owners are not continually reviewing the items in
277.
by dnomad 8y ago
The letters aren't even smart FUD. This sort of stuff gets made up by dumb people to validate the fears of other dumb people. It's a kind of self-propaganda. The idea that rando customers can ask for arbitrary information like bac
278.
by dnomad 8y ago
The problem is that deanonymization [1] is a thing. It's quite likely that that the Microsoft dataset is itself is anonymous but when it's correlated with other datasets it becomes possible to surveil people. The danger here is th
279.
by dnomad 8y ago
It boggles the mind that a bunch of very smart people at Microsoft thought this was a good idea. Say what you will about Oracle but Java has never been malware that continuously spies on users. Unfortunately the GDPR explicitly allows this
280.
by dnomad 8y ago
The economy is a "forward-oriented enterprise." What matters is not so much where we are but where we are going. To that end it's important to understand that homeownership rates are falling fast [1], birth rate is falling [2
281.
by dnomad 8y ago
> For example I think the world would be a better place if we had put into place laws early on in capitalism that would limit how many employees a company could have to some smallish amount like 25 - 100 Most likely you'd see a very
282.
by dnomad 8y ago
I got to say... that looks pretty hopeless. Complementary currencies [0] are not new and they have limited utility -- especially since the currency takers still have to pay taxes in fiat. It's very easy to design systems where a sing
283.
by dnomad 8y ago
BTW, contrary to other comments this has nothing to do with the binary nature of serialization. The problem is that serialized "data" are programs. They're code. For some really scary stuff see the XMLDecoder [0] API which is
284.
by dnomad 8y ago
There's really no such thing as a "binary object graph format." Objects are not data. Code is not data. It's why serializing objects is so very complicated and dangerous. Serialized "data" is a program that c
285.
by dnomad 8y ago
People like to make a big deal of France's employment laws like there are some extraordinary overwhelming problem that businesses must struggle to overcome. This is silly. France is the 5th largest economy in the world. Finding highly
286.
by dnomad 8y ago
There's no reason to choose. This is the logical conclusion of runaway inequality: less consumption and oversupply of capital (aka financialization). In real terms, outside of the big three (education, real estate, and healthcare) we&#
287.
by dnomad 8y ago
This is exactly what the JVM does. See [0]. [0] https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2012/04/invoke-inte...
288.
by dnomad 8y ago
I think the Visitor pattern is an antipattern. I've never seen a non-trivial application that didn't become a huge mess. It fundamentally violates the basic OO principle of encapsulating state and behavior. Anything else -- reifyi
289.
by dnomad 8y ago
How can the regulation already be ineffective? It's literally been in effect for one day. You'll have to refine the standard anti-regulatory tropes in this case. Get this: not everybody is consumed by paranoid fantasies concerning
290.
by dnomad 8y ago
The entire adtech business is due for correction. It's strange that you think the business models are going to fly in Asia. China and many Asian countries are laying out privacy regimes that are even more strict than the GDPR. Take a l
291.
by dnomad 8y ago
Yes, none of this is new or surprising. The irony here is that American users are so used to being endlessly surveiled without consequence that they are genuinely shocked that the rest of the world refuses to put up with this bullshit. This
292.
by dnomad 8y ago
People who go on and on about the Google and Amazon "monopolies" -- which only benefit consumers with low prices and expansive services -- this is what actual monopolistic behavior looks like. Apple controls access to a signifi
293.
by dnomad 8y ago
Actually I suspect that this is what it's changed. It's likely that Netflix has abandoned the long tail. They are now focusing on shows that have immediate, short term mass appeal. Previously Netflix was able to invest in "qu
294.
by dnomad 8y ago
There are several coins that have been using PoS for years without known incident. I'm not sure where this idea that PoS is unproven or insecure comes from but it appears to be FUD. The facts on the ground indicate that PoS does work
295.
by dnomad 8y ago
It's important to understand that a "51% attack" isn't an attack at all. No algorithm or protocol has been compromised. The system is working exactly as it should. This is a fundamental aspect of all distributed system
296.
by dnomad 8y ago
> No they didn't. Yes, it's all the Iraqis fault. And I'm sure you sincerely believe that despite it being utterly insane. > Are you suggesting the media, hollywood, and universities aren't left-leaning? Ironically
297.
by dnomad 8y ago
You have to understand the true nature of American power. America invades Iraq, slaughters a million people, fundamentally destabilizes the ME leading to the rise of ISIS, and then caps this off by dumping billions of dollars of advanced we
298.
by dnomad 8y ago
> Amazon or Microsoft would never do this to you if you were using one of their services. And if, for some reason they had to, you could talk to them about it. Do you seriously believe this? You understand people get locked out of the c
299.
by dnomad 8y ago
It's not just an unfair reading it's a laughably short-sighted reading. These loans are ultimately guaranteed by State and Federal governments (meaning the banks take zero risk beyond servicing costs) and yet they magically genera
300.
by dnomad 8y ago
Eh. This is not a mystery. Banks have tremendous lock-in and inertia working for them. The only way to fix the industry is complete account portability. Anybody should be able to wander into any competitor to their existing bank and initiat

More ›