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by fatbird 9y ago
It's taken seriously because "code is law" is (was) the premise of Ethereum's value. The blockchain isn't about consensus, it's about the use of mathematical (rather than political) consensus to maintain imm
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by fatbird 9y ago
This is a great comment and I wish I saw more like it on HN, where such webs are frequently ignored when discussing the latest opportunity for disruption.
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by fatbird 9y ago
People should give up. People should leave the area. They should move where they can find a job and a cost of living that's reasonable. The fact that people don't give up is why landlords can afford to charge $2,800/mont
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by fatbird 9y ago
Thus proving that "code is law" is a meaningless slogan.
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by fatbird 9y ago
We (tech geeks) tend to think of situations like this as analogous to code, where the local declaration supercedes the global one. We see a specific investment platform with specific terms and rules and our gut says those override more gen
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by fatbird 9y ago
the parameters of justice are contained It just doesn't work like this.
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by fatbird 9y ago
You don't negotiate in a vacuum. If you participate in writing that algorithm that exerts downward pressure on salaries generally (because it's more efficient/effective, and it's applied at the level of a tech behemoth
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by fatbird 9y ago
Uber uses an algorithm to estimate the lowest possible compensation employees will take in order to keep labor costs down Of course they do. I'd like to blame Uber. I'd like to blame Kalanick. But I keep coming back to blaming
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by fatbird 9y ago
The NYT was one of the chief cheerleaders for the Iraq War, both through Judith Miller being an outright mouthpiece for Bush administration propaganda, and more generally through being a friendly media outlet of "balanced" thinkpi
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by fatbird 9y ago
You're missing the obvious point, which is that anything to do with federal legislation is likely already a newsworthy topic, moreso because of pending legislation to address it. Finding NYT stories preceding legislation passing is al
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by fatbird 9y ago
Ability to "rapidly scale" is an overrated virtue. Scaling is exactly when you should step back and reflect on your architecture, at which point you should understand that very few of your scaling concerns are at the framework le
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by fatbird 9y ago
Yes, that's what I mean.
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by fatbird 9y ago
Given the frequency with which VCs have gotten in trouble for this before this week, that doesn't seem like an important consideration.
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by fatbird 9y ago
You're assuming these guys see this as a problem. I suspect for most of them, the power issues are, erotically, the whole point. Why patronize a prostitute for make believe alpha male abuse of one's position when one has the rea
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by fatbird 9y ago
Get off your cross, we need to the wood. Lots of people, including in the tech industry, manage to interact with potential romantic partners both romantically and professionally, without triggering lawsuits or tearful Medium apologies. Th
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by fatbird 9y ago
Of course there is: "Hey, I'm interested in you. Would you like to go out on a date sometime?" If they say yes, great, plan a date. If they say no, respond with "Ok, that's cool." Then continue to act the s
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by fatbird 9y ago
It matters that you went public. It shouldn't require you to go public for it to matter, but it does, and so it does.
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by fatbird 9y ago
Yes, it's a deliberate lack of capacity for a common form of big ticket medicine, which reduces costs overall. If you have migraines in Canada, you'll likely end up getting an MRI at some point, and you might wait six months to g
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by fatbird 9y ago
Because Canada's approach to universal coverage is socialized insurance, it controls costs overall with price controls and with funding big ticket medicine carefully. MRIs are very expensive to buy and operate, comparatively, so for e
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by fatbird 9y ago
I live in Vancouver. BC #1? LOL. We're 9th in education spending in a country with 10 provinces.
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by fatbird 9y ago
Canada's health care system certainly isn't perfect and it's not comprehensive. I live in Vancouver near the Downtown Eastside. I'm very aware of how much it doesn't cover in this regard (although it does pay for
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by fatbird 9y ago
In Canada, health benefits take the form of a dental plan, massage, mental health services, and a lot of nice wellness treatments that are very welcome and useful, but not necessary. Calling it lifestyle care is quite apt.
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by fatbird 9y ago
The problem in the U.S. isn't that costs are hidden--in Canada, with fully socialized insurance, health care consumers are actually much less wasteful of resources because they pursue health care in the degree they feel they need it, i
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by fatbird 9y ago
That's too simple a summary. The bulk of his arguments are about eliminating perverse incentives, such as the one you propose: if a public developer takes a percentage of the savings, the easiest way to inflate that bonus is to inflat
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by fatbird 9y ago
Thank you. It wasn't severe abuse, it was just annoying sibling bullying. My point, made obliquely, is that the one's agency is independent of how others should behave. > Are the strong women you're thinking of incapable
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by fatbird 9y ago
When I was little and my brother was hitting me, I was always capable of moving away from him so he couldn't hit me. The right thing, though, was for him to stop hitting me.
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by fatbird 9y ago
You're doubling down on your quick definition by pushing a simpler, even broader definition that's more trivially satisfied. This isn't an issue of categories and word use, it's an issue of history and culture and every
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by fatbird 9y ago
"pulled a quick definition from the web" is virtually never a useful way to engage something like this. It's like quoting a statute from the law books and ignoring a long history of case law that defines how that law actuall
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by fatbird 9y ago
TFA starts by mentioning VW's origins in Hitler's creation of a group to create a "people's car", and cites a significant part of that as being an organization created and sheltered from outside influence, which app
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by fatbird 9y ago
In his talk at last year's pycon, Hastings said the three constraints GvR laid out are: 1. Can't degrade single-threaded performance 2. Can't break existing extensions 3. Can't make the implementation of cpython much mor

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