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by jdoliner 8y ago
Maybe I'm just heartless but having to "go get a job writing CRUD apps somewhere" to make ends meet doesn't exactly trigger my sympathy response. If that's your backup option you're doing better than 99% of the
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Would a union make life better for the starry-eyed people entering the industry. The only parallel I can really draw is the movie industry, which also has lots of starry-eyed people entering it and has a union. I'm not sure it's
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These are both bad, but 20 years from now I think we'll look back on the NFL's refusal to play Sweet Victory as their real undoing.
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You'd value the property based on the max offer the person had gotten, not the minimum. This gives the person you don't like the option to take your ridiculous offer and stick you with the absurd taxes. Sure they have to move, but
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I completely agree, I would love to see a monopoly based tax system. I consider property ownership just a special case of a monopoly, since you have a monopoly on that plot of land. The one question you didn't broach here though is how
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by jdoliner 8y ago
What if it's two sheep and a wolf voting on what's for dinner? Does it then suddenly become Democracy? How do you distinguish wolf from sheep in the real world where everyone's actually a human?
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Does anyone actually still believe that these debts will all someday be repayed? Does anyone even believe that the amount of debt will go down, rather than up, over the course of any length of time? Even a day? I don't, which raises th
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There's no such thing as a replication crisis in science, that's just a conflict-averse way of saying that some "scientists" aren't actually doing science. It's not limited to Psychology and this type of confli
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If Google does this it may be the thing that finally convinces me to move my messaging and phone away from their ecosystem. Hangouts has kinda been the thing holding my experience together as I adopted Google voice early and a lot of people
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Knowing Google it'll be 8 new, competing messaging products called: H, A, N, G, O, U, T and S. Each capturing one aspect of the essence of hangouts and building an entire chat experience around it that will be the future of chat.
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This is lovely, thank you.
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Hi, Pachyderm CEO here. We have been discussing this comment internally for the last 15 minutes and still don't understand it. But we really enjoy it. Would you mind explaining a bit more what you are saying?
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The article is very disingenuous about this being a "cost" to tax payers. It's a tax break, it's not extra money that's going to be added to NY's tax bill, it's taxes that Amazon theoretically would have h
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How much does this depend on the data type? I.e. do you need people to specify: this is an image, this is a resume, this is an English resume, etc. Could you ever get to a point where you can just feed it general data, not knowing more than
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Thanks for the quick answer, this all makes sense. Does this get limiting at all, in terms of wanting to mint new coins and not having the capital to do so?
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Does Circle keep enough dollars on hand to buy back every USDC? Or do you run a fractional reserve? How much money is that total? What do you do if you have as many USDCs in circulation as you have dollars? Stop issuing them?
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by jdoliner 8y ago
I'm pretty confident you'll find plenty of both and lots of stuff that's ambiguously in between. I'm sure you'll also get different answers about which stuff is "left" and which stuff is "right"
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Not calling this app Covfefe Meets Bagel seems like a bit of a missed opportunity to me. Not making the Firebase instance private seems like a bigger missed opportunity though.
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It's interesting that you say this would be unthinkable a couple decades ago when it seems, on the face of it, that it's pretty similar to the Clarence Thomas confirmation process in 1991. Do you see them as distinctly different?
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It seems to say 40 million in the header. Edit: 20 mil for Musk, 20 mil for Tesla.
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Which the supreme court overturned, ruling it unconstitutional.
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Neither were the gay couple that were refused the wedding cake (in the instance of the wedding cake), that's why the supreme court ruled against them.
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Nothing is wrong with what you designed. It's simple, it does exactly what you want it to do and best of all: you understand it end to end. However, if you're asking why people spend so much time writing Key-Value stores, the answ
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I wonder how this is going to work for say, The International 9, which is going to be in China. Is the government really going to block streaming of an event that so many of their citizens will have national pride riding on. Just hosting th
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What's inaccurate about the headline? > the existing algorithm was inappropriately prioritising prejudiced results, and discussed tweaking the algorithm accordingly This, to me, is perfectly described by the headline. The only diffe
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> Anyhow, the point of this is that by imposing tariffs on American agriculture (thus reducing Chinese demand) you stand to force this system to respond very visible ways, such as for instance by increasing the number of farmers being pa
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Something I've been wondering about this. China is retaliating with tariffs against, for example: Sinograin [1]. What exactly is the point of this tariff when the company being taxed is, like many big companies in China, state owned? A
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Reminds me a little bit of this: http://www.povray.org/posters/
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There are a few things in this diagram that always drive me a little crazy. Why is it that 1,000ns ≈ 1μs while 1,000,000ns = 1ms (almost equals vs. regular equals). It kinda makes sense to use almost equals for some of the real values, but
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by jdoliner 8y ago
> The structural change needed in our industry is for labor (or, to use a term we're apparently more comfortable with, "talent") to reassert itself, and for tech giants to reconcile themselves to the fact that they're

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