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by grandalf 9y ago
This is the right thing to be concerned about. It takes an incredible amount of chauvinism and arrogance to believe that the American people are too stupid to realize that perhaps a news source called "Russia Today" might publish
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by grandalf 9y ago
> I can't repeat this enough. How are they being short-changed? If someone makes $10 per hour some of the time, $8 on average, with some "hours" amounting to $1 per hour, why is that a) unfair or b) a problem, assuming th
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by grandalf 9y ago
Both are true.
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by grandalf 9y ago
The gig economy is always going to be more volatile than full-time work. This is why grocery stores had not already hired full time drivers to deliver groceries, and why there is demand for Instacart. It's the same with Uber. During a
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by grandalf 9y ago
Maybe the average pay is $15/hour. We are not given enough data to estimate whether striking is rational.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Hoping this was for reasons other than the embarrassing partisan convulsion experienced by some associated with YC.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Maybe. But I see lots of cases for sale w extra batteries, public charging stations, portable batteries, etc. I have to scramble to avoid a dead phone a few times per month, usually after not charging the night before.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Yet the US government's warnings also seem reasonable even given just the facts everyone agrees on. But somehow these warnings only became necessary in the past year or so, when the US has had ongoing conflict with Russia over the
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by grandalf 9y ago
> the US government allowed highly intrusive software from a non-allied country on government machines in the first place. This is the key point. Also, the US Government was recently found to have fake Kaspersky SSL certs.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Isn't the founder salary something that only the founder and those who bought a board seat should care about? If I'm an investor and the founder wants a 40% premium over what the algorithm recommends, I may or may not agree, but
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by grandalf 9y ago
OK so I was on my phone trying to hastily type out a comment and I got sloppy. I think the intent was still abundantly clear, even though the loss of precision in my choice of words is unfortunate.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Very true. It's interesting to think of what you describe as a side-effect of the design decision (by Satoshi) to "bootstrap" the currency by strongly incentivizing speculative mining.
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by grandalf 9y ago
To some extent, even stable currencies suffer from significant manipulation by governments. This is not a tinfoil hat idea, it's generally why non-corrupt central banking helps achieve social stability. But central banking is a large
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by grandalf 9y ago
> If you are talking about the ideal of free speech then call it that. Not the first amendment. I'll be more careful to avoid confusion in the future :) > I am idealizing a process in which social shaming encourages conformity. T
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by grandalf 9y ago
It's fascinating to read everyone's responses. Mine are: - mobile devices with extremely long battery life (weeks) - mobile devices that can be put into a dishwasher and do not need to be treated gently. - HashCash - non-ai person
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by grandalf 9y ago
> First off, the first amendment is specifically with respect to congress, and I don't understand why I have to say this so often. Obviously. I'm referring to the general values that led to the US having protections on free spe
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by grandalf 9y ago
Excellent point. Sadly this will likely not happen. Google and Facebook are gradually imposing a highly censored world view. We can’t effectively reason about social media censorship by analogizing it to meatspace. Just as virality mechanis
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by grandalf 9y ago
This looks like a superbly designed curriculum.
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by grandalf 9y ago
The situation I've encountered is a jerk who was actually fairly mediocre in his abilities but whose bully characteristics and brash confidence had led many of the non-technical people in the company to believe he was extremely skilled
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by grandalf 9y ago
Agreed, the tone was arrogant and annoying.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Those are less likely to be the high status, sexy startups. Surely there are lots of people getting wealthy via alternate paths. I think the startup ecosystem skews toward high status class members mainly because of the ease in obtaining be
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by grandalf 9y ago
While the headline is true, I think the important factors to consider are: - Doing something that has a high probability of failure is also likely something that is highly leveraged, meaning that if it does not fail the person doing it is m
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by grandalf 9y ago
Yes. Some firms like Amazon profit heavily from the sale of counterfeit products and low-quality junk products that are shipped directly from overseas and cannot be inspected. Most consumers won't realize that the USB charger they purc
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by grandalf 9y ago
Wow this comment is getting a lot of downvotes. I'm curious what I said that offended.
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by grandalf 9y ago
We do not have an adversarial press in the US anymore. There is virtually no investigative journalism from major outlets that threatens the status quo at all. BTW TFA caused my laptop to heat up with all the ads.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> that low cost components Do you mean devices with RFI-suppression components omitted to save cost? Those devices are subject to FCC part 15 rules just like devices manufactured domestically. > from off-brand vendors Again, who is
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by grandalf 9y ago
Exactly. In many devices, including switching supplies, a bit of attention (and a few very low-cost parts) will bring the devices into compliance. RFI suppression steps are in the data sheet / example circuit for nearly all components
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by grandalf 9y ago
It's great to see RFI problem that impact the profits of big firms. Most RFI is generated because firms cut corners and lazy/crony regulators fail to enforce FCC part 15 rules.
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by grandalf 9y ago
My terminal responds more quickly than it did in 1983. In every other way computers have subsumed televisions as entertainment devices, and have performance characteristics appropriate to their main uses. Because of Moore's law advanc
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by grandalf 9y ago
I don't disagree with your points; I am not quite that up-in-arms just yet.

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