harryh

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811.
by harryh 7y ago
Annual donations to charity per year in the US are in excess of 400 Billion (so about 1000x more than your off the cuff estimate). Rather than being a rounding error in the military budget, this is about 2/3rds of total.
812.
by harryh 7y ago
That is a fine answer to mieseratte's question but I feel compelled to mention that the propublica article you link to is...pretty bad. Here's a pretty good summary of why: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2
813.
by harryh 7y ago
Read about disparate impact and you will see that it is possible to break the law without taking race, sex, national origin, etc as an input. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
814.
by harryh 7y ago
They probably have to report on loan approval rates by race to demonstrate a lack of bias in their underwriting.
815.
by harryh 7y ago
I have a vague hope that the city governments in question will, at some point, stop being awful. I am willing to admit that this hope might be irrational and wishful thinking.
816.
by harryh 7y ago
Are houses increasing the cost due to increases in features? Yes. http://www.aei.org/publication/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...
817.
by harryh 7y ago
Ah yes, I agree with that. The cities (and to some degree the states with initiatives like SB-50) need to work this out.
818.
by harryh 7y ago
While I agree with you that housing shortages affect a minority of the US population in a handful of cities, I think that just looking at the population of these cities as a percent of whole understates the impact of the problem. The cities
819.
by harryh 7y ago
There's certainly a good argument to be made that the fine should have been bigger, but statements like this misstate the facts: "Here’s another way to say it: the biggest FTC fine in United States history increased Mark Zuckerbe
820.
by harryh 7y ago
I know you probably picked "$50 billion in stock" at random, but for the record there are only ~10 people in the US with that kind of money. If they're the only people you are counting as "rich" you have defined the
821.
by harryh 7y ago
A family of 4 making 60k a year that has to carefully budget all expenditures should VERY CLEARLY not be lumped together with a single dude in his 20s pulling in 200k a year at a tech job. That guy might not have quite the fancy apartment h
822.
by harryh 7y ago
Really? A guy working at McDonalds for 10 bucks an hour is no different from a software engineer pulling down hundreds of dollars an hour? Please.
823.
by harryh 7y ago
WhatsApp got such a good deal because there was a bidding war between Facebook and Google. It had very little to do with their profitability.
824.
by harryh 7y ago
Yes, the march of human progress can be measured in the decrease in prices of all of the things we produce.
825.
by harryh 7y ago
"just for some stupid trading" is one of the underlying forces beneath the success of all modern economies. Without it almost everything you buy would be more expensive.
826.
by harryh 7y ago
This is a good idea.
827.
by harryh 7y ago
I pretty much agree with you. However, given that I'm extremely doubtful that SuperHuman will remove the feature completely, I'm going for what I consider a minimum standard of decency: disclosure and the ability for recipients to
828.
by harryh 7y ago
Ya, that makes my proposal imperfect, however I contend that it would be a huge improvement over the status quo.
829.
by harryh 7y ago
IANAL but this discussion of the topic seems to indicate that you are correct if any SuperHuman users send emails with invisible tracking pixels to anyone in the EU. https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/email-tracking&#x2F
830.
by harryh 7y ago
"Recipients of emails cannot opt out....I would love to find better technology to solve this problem." How about...put a notification of tracking in emails that contain it rather than making it invisible and then include an opt
831.
by harryh 7y ago
Which of these two items are you not convinced of? 1) It's getting warmer because of higher concentrations of greenhouse gasses (primarily CO2) in the atmosphere. 2) Humans are releasing large amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmo
832.
by harryh 7y ago
It's both. If someone breaks into my house because my door lock is broken then I should definitely fix the lock. But the criminal shouldn't have broken in anyways.
833.
by harryh 7y ago
Go find a non technical person and ask them these two questions: "Do you care if your ex-girl/boyfriend can tell every time you read an old email s/he sent you?" "Have you disabled loading images by default in your
834.
by harryh 7y ago
It's pretty easy for people who care to "turn off read receipts" by disabling images or blocking it through proxy/vpn/whatever. What about non technical people who have no way of learning that they are being spied
835.
by harryh 7y ago
Because more and more emails are HTML and not text and loading the images is critical to make the emails actually readable.
836.
by harryh 7y ago
This is not correct, and there is even a section in the post rebutting this point (did you read it?). See "Email clients have done this for years. Even Apple does this with iMessage"
837.
by harryh 7y ago
There are definitely some outliers, particularly in urban centers (primarily due to overly restrictive zoning codes). I was speaking about averages.
838.
by harryh 7y ago
Housing costs are only going up because people are buying/renting bigger houses (despite the fact that mean houshold size has decreased by almost a full person in 50 years). On a per square foot basis, you don't really see an incr
839.
by harryh 7y ago
Benford's concerns the first digit, not the last digit.
840.
by harryh 7y ago
"Ask another person for a random number"

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