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by hash872 4y ago
While I strongly agree with your broader point- payment processing is absolutely regulated at close to a utility-level. Congress sets the rates that Visa & Mastercard can charge for credit & debit cards via statute. That's gett
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by hash872 4y ago
My new anti-spam tactic is to duplicate Gmail's 'bounce/address not found' response and respond with that. Believing that your email address isn't valid, they'll stop spamming you (bounces affect deliverability
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by hash872 4y ago
Hmm, sorry if it didn't come across intended. I see it as related in that my idea is a solution to spam, including the specific issue in the Tell HN- you could replace whatever personal email you have in your Github profile with this n
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by hash872 4y ago
So, I'll use this to release my startup idea to solve spam. I am never going to build a startup at this point in my life, so I'm releasing this idea into the ether- maybe someone can make this happen :) It's an email service&
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by hash872 4y ago
Indeed has been doing some version of this since at least 2013, to my knowledge, and probably before. Google Jobs or whatever they're calling it does this exact thing as well (I mean I'm not defending the practice, simply noting t
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by hash872 4y ago
I have an extremely low opinion of blockchain/crypto, but in the interest of fairness, I did read an FT piece a few months ago about how banks are apparently actually using the blockchain for currency trading: "HSBC and Wells Farg
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by hash872 4y ago
I would love to do this, but the few times that I've tried to look up the company, there's no real evidence as to who it is. And I'm fairly sophisticated at that kind of research, I know most of the tricks- however, these com
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by hash872 4y ago
In the interests of trying to add something new to the conversation- I just finished a poly sci book called The Economic Effects of Constitutions, which argues that presidential systems in general are less regulated, have lower taxes, and h
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by hash872 4y ago
Can I ask two dumb questions though? If DataRobot is doing so poorly- why did investors want to purchase the executives' shares? Presumably they are sophisticated investors and had a look at the company books, etc. So let's say th
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by hash872 4y ago
How did you find the freelancer's other clients? Upwork keeps that pretty locked down so that they can serve as the middleman. (Maybe you have a hack?)
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by hash872 4y ago
1. 'The West' wasn't hubristic, Europe was. The US has been telling Europe to get off of Russian gas & oil for decades, under multiple administrations. Both parties have been extremely clear about this for over two decade
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by hash872 4y ago
Because I'm completely naive, it literally did not occur to me that this was illegal
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by hash872 4y ago
Marginally related but I've always wanted to discuss this- I met a guy whose small business (he claims) is purchasing networking equipment from the same Chinese factories that manufacture Cisco/other networking company products. H
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Ask HN: How can you tell if ad networks have compromised your Tor?
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by hash872 4y ago
I don't think that this is a correct model of how a high LVT would work. But more importantly, let's say it did- now you don't get any of the supposed 'efficiency' gains. I think LVTs are a great idea for a brand ne
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by hash872 4y ago
Like here, just to make the point, here is a quote I saved from a Scott Alexander Substack discussion of Georgism. I liked this so much I saved it in Notion, sorry I don't have the commenter's name. If you read a lot of Georgism s
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by hash872 4y ago
A very high LVT is a politically unserious proposition, because it would involve drastically raising taxes on the people who actually vote & hold political power in society- the middle class, upper middle class, and wealthy in suburbs a
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by hash872 4y ago
>It takes nearly half of the US budget with their military to secure the USD value The US spends a little less than 12% of its annual budget on its military https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57170
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by hash872 4y ago
In no way defending real estate agents, but people have been predicting that the Internet would obsolete their business model since the Clinton administration. It's yet to happen, and arguably they have more of a hold on real estate tr
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by hash872 4y ago
Lot/construction loans is a highly speculative business, especially as lots of builders are blue-collar guys with minimal assets who can simply close shop in a recession. Building homes is constrained by the wider economy and interest
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by hash872 4y ago
But how would you exit? VCs exit via an IPO or an acquisition. The whole point of the Mittelstand is that they do neither. Do you somehow force the owner to buy you out? What if they don't have the liquidity, how does this work? I very
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by hash872 4y ago
>Yeah, this is what liquid democracy solves Do you have any real-world examples of where this was implemented & provided better results than a normal, representative system? If not, this seems like an overly strong statement- history
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by hash872 4y ago
A few other things that weren't mentioned in the article: As others in the comments have noted, there's no barrier to relatively unskilled people calling themselves 'carpenters', which drives down wages. This is much les
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by hash872 4y ago
Seems like a non-sequitur in response to his specific statement- OP isn't endorsing naturopathy (nor am I), the discussion is about the specific efficacy of silexan. The linked article is a meta-analysis of silexan by a board-certified
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by hash872 4y ago
Random topical question I've been meaning to ask the HN community- has anyone gotten any solid value out of Google's Custom/Programmable Search Engines? They can supposedly be scripted to be much more precise or targeted. Cur
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by hash872 4y ago
The issue is that without the caps, the insurance companies would be much more motivated to deny lots & lots of claims. Imagine you're a regular person with a middle-class income, you urgently need treatment and the insurance compa
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by hash872 4y ago
I don't mean to be curt, but that's absurd. The whole purpose of having 3 separate branches of government is that they're not above the law. The legislature (or Congress, or the President) is constrained by the judiciary
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by hash872 5y ago
You're conflating a bunch of different phenomena together there (right to repair has no particular connection to monopoly, that's a non-sequitur). You're calling everything you don't like 'monopoly'. Also, if w
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by hash872 5y ago
Unpopular opinion- I don't want 'the people' to be 'in control of tech', or really anyone else's private property. That's just populism, and populism is usually bad. I would like to see more antitrust en
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by hash872 5y ago
Here's my dumb question that I always want to ask- why can't the people of Lebanon, or other residents of poor & unstable countries, just use digital dollars? (Or euros?) People in developing countries have access to payment t

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