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by dools 3y ago
I ran a team of 26 people who worked together to produce software according to a set of procedures. There were clear instructions about accountability, moving stuck tasks, when/how work should be moved from one person to another, how t
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by dools 3y ago
How is a sell down letter not prosecutable as price fixing cartel behaviour?
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by dools 3y ago
Yep it’s just another means tested transfer payment. When you drill into it basic income advocates are just pushing for less punitive welfare. It’s a noble goal but not especially novel. What we need is a job guarantee: http://ww
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by dools 3y ago
Work is what we do for others, hobbies are what we do for ourselves. In some cases, those 2 things align but that's a happy coincidence and is often not sustained. If you focus instead on whether or not you're actually creating va
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by dools 3y ago
This is pretty similar to how I approach building software: 0) Sketch on paper 1) Clickable, static prototype that looks as if it works but actually does nothing, but is genuinely running on all target platforms (installed app or real URLs)
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by dools 3y ago
Yes, that's not electronic.
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by dools 3y ago
No the overarching point was stated pretty clearly as: > ... a government supplied electronic payment system would make no difference to the ability of a government to engage in anything more or less nefarious than they can already do
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by dools 3y ago
> In a cashless society, the government has a near-absolute power to shut down or penalize any economic activity it deems undesirable - whether that activity is criminal or not. Evidently it can do so in a society with cash also, eg. Ope
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by dools 3y ago
Isn't FedNow more like the NPP in Australia that enables things like Osko and PayID? It's not quite the same as a postal savings system because the customer still holds their primary transaction account with a private bank. If, in
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by dools 3y ago
Note that I'm not suggesting we eliminate private credit creation or that the government issue loans, what I'm advocating is a government supplied and run electronic payment system. They already supply a payment system (cash), it&
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by dools 3y ago
Operation Choke Point was run by the government within the framework of the existing banking sector. It was enacted by DoJ (one part of the government) then: "In August 2014, U.S. Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer introduced a bill tha
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by dools 3y ago
Yes a postal savings system would be a way to provide a government run electronic payments system. The point is that there are many benefits for businesses to not accepting cash payments, especially if they're maintaining the service f
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by dools 3y ago
Instead of banning cashless businesses because it's discriminatory to the unbanked perhaps they should focus on reducing discrimination in the banking sector and providing a publicly run electronic payment system.
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by dools 3y ago
So THAT'S why they all say not to use phones while filling up ...
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by dools 3y ago
"It was never clear who the $10,000 to $17,000 18-karat gold Apple Watch was for, beyond celebrities and the ultrarich" Ummm I think it was for celebrities and the ultrarich.
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by dools 3y ago
Yeah fraudulent ads are a huge issue for scams, I had my entire family install ad blockers not to stop advertising but to stop scams!
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by dools 3y ago
It's not, it's an illustration of the variability faced riding "electric scooters etc." versus controlling a space shuttle: > People riding electric scooters and etc will run into more variability each day than NASA w
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by dools 3y ago
That’s for AC thought right? Ultra high voltage direct current is pretty efficient for transmission I thought
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by dools 3y ago
I think what IS unique to Europeans is: 1) Colonised the globe 2) Started a system of global resource extraction and slavery 3) Built an entire system of economic development based on this extraction which vastly enriched said Europeans a
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by dools 3y ago
Hey look at that you can even see the patent online! https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/23/09/13/1877d77... And they misspelled my name as Lain :(
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by dools 3y ago
You guys might be interested in this company: https://leveltwo.com.au My buddies and I did a project for them a few years back working on a song discovery mechanism (which they patented) for use when finding songs to pitch for t
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by dools 3y ago
It turns out the real songs being traded were the songs uploaded to Bandcamp along the way
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by dools 3y ago
@pdrmnvd quote tweets his own 2023 tweet about Google "filtering b2b emails", saying he "nailed it", with a screenshot of an email about increasing search volume in 2019 ... How is this on the front page of HN? Flagged.
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by dools 3y ago
Based on how agressively I was downvoted for my comment I think you have a tough row to hoe getting it adopted ;)
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by dools 3y ago
It's also how blockchains work: "A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.[1][2][3][4] Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the p
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by dools 3y ago
At the start of the article: - all functions go into a global (searchable) Key-value database ... - there are no "open source projects" - only "the open source Key-Value database of all functions"
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by dools 3y ago
I think this is the only time I've read the word "database" and thought "blockchain might be a superior solution". One could imagine replacing proof of work or whatever the "confirmation" process is with s
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by dools 3y ago
I'm always surprised that when I see people talk about queues I never see anyone mention beanstalkd. I've been using it for basically everything for 10 years and it's solid as a rock, incredibly simple and requires basically
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by dools 3y ago
It's like a floating Rat King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king
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by dools 3y ago
> There are probably a bit too few customer and worker protections, but on the whole, airline deregulation shows just how bad command economies are at planning and allocating resources. I would say that it demonstrates that, where compet

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