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by jka 5y ago
> One thing I learned in a class on negotiation was that many people look at negotiation as a one-time thing. Examples like buying a car happen for most buyers once every 5 to 10 years. It is also a negotiation that most often happens w
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by jka 5y ago
In response to the first of your three questions: https://star-history.com/#chatwoot/chatwoot
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by jka 5y ago
I worry that if the majority of open source contributors professionalize, then we're left with something that resembles top-down directed corporate work (and an absence of a lot of the freedom that draws people towards developing free
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Vestd – The Share Scheme Platform(vestd.com)
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I think they're the old masters and they want to become the new ones over a larger landscape. They know the "limitations" of the existing model (the ways in which it is not centralized) -- as do many others -- but they want t
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by jka 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies and web3 demonstrate promise as ways to escape from the VC-funded walled gardens that are more typical of previous eras of the web. Ironically that means that excessive amounts of money are being thrown at them in order to
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by jka 5y ago
To continue the (potentially flawed) analogy with water, you could illustrate and chart the results of these flows for both liquid assets and illiquid assets (unrealized stock, for example).
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by jka 5y ago
Regardless: as a software employer, I'd currently treat any contributor device as loaded with malware, under surveillance, potentially hostile, and with the possibility that it will reside on competitor networks in future. Ultimately m
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by jka 5y ago
For outsiders, it's visible as an unintentional reverse-judgement by a jurisdiction upon itself. Each legal realm is free to interpret their own language in their own terms, and they do so on an ongoing basis.
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by jka 5y ago
How many people will the metaverse be ruled by?
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by jka 5y ago
Thanks - I did consider using that term too; perhaps I was led astray by the most recent Advent of Code challenges. They're similar, although I think there's a risk of confusion with regulatory capture -- maybe a justified risk -
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by jka 5y ago
Performing a DNS lookup on that same domain name, they seem to have claimed[1] in 2013 that the fair price of bitcoin is zero; that's certainly a valid opinion, although not one that appears to have stood the test of time. [1] - https
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by jka 5y ago
Agreed; it's not really a free market, in that sense. They share information among themselves and have common interests that they try to develop over time. It's all very shady.
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by jka 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Londongrad_(disam... (there is not yet a page entitled "Washingdon")
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by jka 5y ago
Here's hoping for more transparency and analytical rigour with regards to the volume and cost of prime real estate ownership within London (and other cities worldwide)
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by jka 5y ago
Increasingly, I'd guess that the equivalent of land is "pure mind-stuff", as someone whose name I forget described it. (and companies absolutely do not pay their taxes on that: quite the opposite, they pay exorbitant compensa
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by jka 5y ago
If, on aggregate, each person's financial inlay over life remains in balance with those increased costs of purchase: then what you say is fair.
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by jka 5y ago
Yep, that's exactly the kind of possible and believable explanation (not perfect of course, but a generalisation) that I think would be useful to examine and prove/disprove. (separately: perhaps Georgism would require some upgrade
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by jka 5y ago
Hey - thanks for responding. I think it was this HN discussion[1] of housing prices that led me to wonder about this; I considered commenting there but it could've seemed like an obscure tangent. It seems unsustainable societally for h
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by jka 5y ago
This reminds me of a microquest that I foolishly embarked on during COVID-19 lockdown: There's no standard, widely-accepted way to unambiguously serialize and deserialize nulls within querystrings. JavaScript is perhaps one of the mor
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Ask HN: Do 'economic drainage basins' exist?
18 points by jka 5y ago|24 comments
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by jka 5y ago
I'd welcome any feedback and criticism of https://www.reciperadar.com/ (commentary and review are valid forms of contribution).
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by jka 5y ago
Agricultural commodities include more than food exports. Fertilizer is an important factor to consider as well. Here's an example from 2021 where fertilizer shortages within North America caused an expectation of price increases: htt
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by jka 5y ago
Both seem fairly high quality to me, after reading the comments and viewing the pages from each site in comparison. I remember using w3schools to learn HTML probably about twenty years ago now, and the content hasn't changed much since
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The Queen of Basketball(nytimes.com)
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by jka 5y ago
What is the world's most durable item of historic corporate swag?
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Could it be a form of cargo culting[1]? You have a department that is tasked with promoting your organization at public events. They see that other organizations provide lots of wares with their logo emblazoned on them. Some of those othe
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by jka 5y ago
Thanks - that all makes sense, and I agree that generally it makes sense to navigate life with realistic expectations. Having optimism, and deciding to challenge existing limitations can both be useful too, though. > I have no expectatio
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People travel recreationally, for business, and sometimes out of necessity to places where they don't speak the local language - perhaps you, friends, or family have, or will in future, experience those kinds of travel. Medical emergen
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by jka 5y ago
Unless there's problematic material within the algorithms/models -- and there could be, in some cases -- I get the feeling that, longer-term, algorithmic transparency would be far more effective. It would help demonstrate what bia

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