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by hiou 10y ago
In this case we really aren't talking about a cut and dry example of putting workers over shareholders. The company has seen significant increases in value over time. It's a pretty difficult sell to say a CEO is hurting the compan
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by hiou 10y ago
With firebase you can just write a front-end single page app and never think about servers or anything like that. It takes seconds to start using and very little knowledge about how it works.
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by hiou 10y ago
So one of the most famous HFTs is now going to offer a way to block the damage done by HFTs? Despite the hilarity of such a thing, is this a sign that HFT is not nearly as profitable as it once was?
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by hiou 10y ago
Exactly. And this is why defaulting is so dangerous. To lose access to that foreign investment in the future would be disastrous for that plan.
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by hiou 10y ago
Not sure what part of this is warrants down voting? There are valid points even if they might be a a little off the mark Venezuela is very dependent on financing for its oil exploration and infrastructure. The reality is that they simply ne
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by hiou 10y ago
Its definitely slowing down a bit, but the other side is that the talent pool is growing significantly. This doesn't mean there is nothing out there. That said, it is getting much closer to looking for any typical professional job if y
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by hiou 10y ago
The reality is that most mid to long term homeless are 100% unemployable. There is no solution for most of these people in our current system. This is not a San Francisco problem but a national problem as it is a direct side effect of our c
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by hiou 10y ago
CSS animations and behaviors can be rendered outside the main JavaScript thread whereas JavaScript based animations cannot.
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by hiou 10y ago
Could I enquire why you find it difficult to believe that empathy can be a common driver of behavior?
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by hiou 10y ago
> if we could economically rearrange society Maslow's Hammer rears its head https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
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by hiou 10y ago
You punish the family when you send a parent to prison.
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by hiou 10y ago
I have and have seen it done often. Even a fair amount of sculpture photography. It isn't that difficult.
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by hiou 10y ago
> Preparing a halfway decent digital image requires a great deal of skill, in the same way that a decent transcription of a written text requires a great deal of skill. No it does not at all and as said already it needs to be a creativ
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by hiou 10y ago
So your argument against tracking and enforcing money laundering laws is that laws in general are silly because not everyone agrees with them?
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by hiou 10y ago
And if you figure in the 10-25% of business they do laundering money you find where the rest of the margins are made up. How is something this naive in WSJ?
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by hiou 10y ago
That robotic arm is the salary of a dominos employee for 10+ years.
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by hiou 10y ago
This isn't actually an academic experiment. It's a group of very rich people using lesser off people as entertainment. Not too terribly far off from this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure
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by hiou 10y ago
But does that change if the fake is $3 and the real one is $15? I think a lot of people in the front end of these startups trying to create almost identical to meat and dairy products are looking at that possibility in the not so far future
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by hiou 10y ago
You do as least recognize that under our current system land ownership is a long way away from being a free market path? The government subsidizes and insures a large portion of lending for home ownership. Also large tax breaks are typicall
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by hiou 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
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by hiou 10y ago
I'm surprised no one around here talks about AI replacing software programming jobs.
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by hiou 10y ago
But they can still compete on price. Migrant farm labor does that successfully in the present.
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by hiou 10y ago
Docker is the first project I can remember using that has actually underdelivered features to the point I'm using it less and less. I would definitely not follow their model of open source development as they are an example of the oppo
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by hiou 10y ago
I imagine it involves people doing some sort of task we don't normally consider work but kind of is. Watching ads or maybe being part of a reality TV show. But I could certainly be wrong and would very curious as well
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by hiou 10y ago
This is clearly unethical and I hope illegal so that it is prevented from happening. Experiments on people like this will absolutely have dramatic changes that will last their entire lives. It's bad enough we have television shows ruin
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by hiou 10y ago
Just so you know, in the past I used to actually bother to jump through the hoops like a trained circus performer for the apparent gift of employment from some place that actually needed me a lot more than I needed them. Then I would get al
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by hiou 10y ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by hiou 10y ago
Data certainly shows that oversupply of housing is almost always correlated with crime. Whether or not that is the cause is certainly up for debate but I am very curious about what the argument is that oversupply does not result in staging
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by hiou 10y ago
Because a service and investment economy is based on proximity to those with money as opposed to proximity to factories or resources.
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by hiou 10y ago
I'm curious what all of these increase housing supply fanatics think about cities in the rust belt(Cleveland, St Louis etc) with an oversupply of housing which makes them a hotbed of crime and gang activity?

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