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by kansface 12y ago
What would be the advantage of owing dollars over euros when they control neither and dollars are gaining value?
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by kansface 12y ago
Its really hard to imagine anyone giving Greece even more money after a default to the IMF.
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by kansface 12y ago
1. No. Businesses (by federal law), aren't even required to accept dollars now. 2. Yes, but would you use Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Dollars? 3. (Private) Ratings Agencies would rate currencies and maybe each other. The market
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by kansface 12y ago
I'm not sure you are correct - maintaining suburban infrastructure is a net drain on coffers. However, even if you are right, driverless cars would not do much to stem the new wave of urbanization.
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by kansface 12y ago
California, particularly the Bay Area, is quite different. 125K for a family is squarely middle class.
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by kansface 12y ago
I was under the impression that legal documents weren't subject to copyrights - or rather, they are, but are never enforced?
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by kansface 12y ago
Roads don't support an infinite density of traffic. You can build all the parking you want in SOMA, but driving there will remain soul crushing.
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by kansface 12y ago
This is basically impossible for two reasons: 1. The city is too expensive for a family. Practically no one can afford a 3 bedroom house or apartment (or one that will allow pets). Even if you can afford a house in the school district you
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by kansface 12y ago
Suburbs exist only because of government subsidies - they wouldn't be built in a free market because they are just too damn expensive. They require massive public funding for infrastructure - roads, water, sewage, side walks, etc, ove
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by kansface 12y ago
How is it that no one in the US market competes on price right now?
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by kansface 12y ago
The point is that home owners have the very strong and perverse incentive to stop all new construction under prop 13. Currently, their homes appreciate 15% each year while their taxes move less than 1%. They are minting money with no down
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by kansface 12y ago
The repeal of prop 13 is straightforward. Let property taxes rise more than inflation each year. It could be capped at 2x or 3x, etc. It would be slow enough to let people prepare, but fast enough to be painful.
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by kansface 12y ago
I don't think better trains would necessarily be the result of merging. There is a good chance we'd just expand the 101 and build new Interstates through neighborhoods.
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by kansface 12y ago
Some crops would take years to rebound, like nuts, which are both water intensive and take years to mature.
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by kansface 12y ago
Those older than 55 can also apply their previous tax to any home they buy of equal or lesser value when they move.
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by kansface 12y ago
Home owners have the perverse incentive to stop all new construction to the detriment of their community. Their net worth continually increases so long as the price of real estate increases. There is no downside! Furthermore, property tax
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by kansface 12y ago
edit: moved up a level
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by kansface 12y ago
Mountain View (all of Silicon Valley, really) has the bad habit of approving anything that brings in new jobs while simultaneously rejected housing commensurate to the number of jobs added. Many of the residents of the valley want their ci
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by kansface 12y ago
Atom already wraps jQuery - they wrote their own DSL for mutating the DOM called space-pen[1]. They tried to get rid of it later (and rightfully so), but its too late now. 1. https://github.com/atom/space-pen
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by kansface 12y ago
I don't agree with your assertion. Code reviews are not more "reflective" than pairing. PRs, as implemented by nearly everyone, are a failure. The only way to review a PR is to check out the branch and look at the entire co
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by kansface 12y ago
I know this was a joke, but depending on the time scale, 10 sigma isn't unexpected.
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by kansface 12y ago
HTML fragments are a (very) poor solution to real time websites. Applications that use streaming data sets tend to use the data for more than just presentation. Does the backend send both HTML and JSON? The backend can't send the ent
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by kansface 12y ago
More supply typically means lower prices.
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by kansface 12y ago
The investors don't get off scot-free; if the company tanks because of sexual harassment, their investment fails. For that matter, if consumers cared about the character of CEOs, this problem simply wouldn't exist.
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by kansface 12y ago
Women make up about 50% of undergrad chemistry degrees. On the other hand, they make less than 20% of physics/math degrees (engineering funnels). I don't have any real idea why women are so low in math and physics, but I suspect
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by kansface 12y ago
No, Vim is more or less incapable of dealing with JS because it lacks support for asynchronous processes with two way data flow.
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by kansface 12y ago
What a strange opinion you hold! | All currencies are backed by our willingness to accept them... This is true! | ... that is the only backing that any currency ever needs This is clearly false- just consider any currency that has experienc
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by kansface 12y ago
Your comment is both unfairly dismissive and wrong. | Learning to code is not hard. At all. This assertion is empirically untrue in the market for programmers (if nothing else). Why are programmers paid as skilled laborers? How many not
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by kansface 12y ago
Perhaps, but consider how much of the world still isn't digital (entire industries). Most business isn't - way more money flows through meatspace. I also think there is a good chance VR or AR will create another economic boon co
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by kansface 12y ago
It is rather large to be editing by hand.

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