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by km3r 4y ago
How is 'right to repair' in any way related to a bear market?
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by km3r 4y ago
Anyone can buy a TLD from ICANN for $185k https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...
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by km3r 4y ago
Fun story about a world with programmable magic: https://www.themagineer.com/
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by km3r 4y ago
As someone who only really uses google maps, what makes Waze so much better? (Specifically non car driving directions)
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by km3r 4y ago
Is there any research to back up that treating cattle better improves the nutrition of beef?
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by km3r 4y ago
Im exhausted about people complaining about. It's a fact that targeted ads pay a lot better. This enables better services that are free to the end user. Most people just don't want to pay for things. 99% of facebook users have nev
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by km3r 4y ago
They are rent-seeking with the information asymmetry created by the real estate cartel in this country. Many of the flippers do barely any 'fixing up' besides manipulative adds to increase the houses prices over the cost of the im
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by km3r 4y ago
> but IMO most of them have to do with "momentum". If you grow up in a wealthy family, you've got easy access to great education, mentors, role models, capital, etc. If you grow up in a poor family you have way less of all
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by km3r 4y ago
> We just need to let women do what they are good at and men what they are good at without any blame or shaming This would be great, but the question remains what to do if the jobs men prefer are being paid more than jobs women prefer. I
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by km3r 4y ago
SF incarcerates significantly less per capita than the rest of the country.
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by km3r 4y ago
And the current approach of leaving them to the streets is failing much much worse in practice. Of the politically and economically viable options, kicking them off the street and sending them to shelter (which they can refuse, but they can
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by km3r 4y ago
If moderates make up 40% of the voting block, but are split 20%/20% between the two parties, despite making up the larger voting block when combined, the extreme candidates will win each side's primary. They drop out often to prev
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by km3r 4y ago
> Additionally, if an L2 goes down there are escape hatches that allow users to pull money out onto L1. The same cannot be said for Venmo or Square Aren't venmo and cashapp FDIC insured?
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by km3r 4y ago
Accessibility, like globalization, expands your market, and should be part of a long term strategy. But when building out new projects, its severely slows down feature development. Both should be seen as tech debt, but tech debt is not evil
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by km3r 4y ago
You can absolutely write law that says "you can only sell to the Taiwan region of china". Not recognizing independence but still restricting sales to mainland china.
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by km3r 4y ago
Im hopefully for a rental class backlash. Hopefully enough people will vote for YIMBY policies and actually start building enough housing. I hope the backlash is strong enough that all the landlords squatting land and voting against housing
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by km3r 4y ago
That's entirely unfair. The ability to do most of these jobs remote wasn't even really possible until a decade ago, and interia of in office work kept it that way for most existing enterprises. Yet still, plenty of startups in 201
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by km3r 4y ago
Even if there is people who want that, that doesn't justify it. Privacy has limits, and there is some really bad people using crypto to transfer assets. Banks are required to report suspicious transactions, so working around banking la
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by km3r 4y ago
Honestly CA should propose replacing the mess that is property taxes, prop 13, and it's follow ups, with a LVT that is a net neutral revenue for the state. For 90% of people that would be a tax cut, for those who wish to underuse valua
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by km3r 4y ago
Could you add inputing multiple ZIP codes (or just a city)? The data for just one seems too noisy once you start playing with the slider.
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by km3r 4y ago
You can and should test any substance you acquire from an unregulated source.
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by km3r 4y ago
I don't think it was any one time, just a slow drift away from Moore's law physically while the marketing department followed it strictly (as well as defined the nodes before the processes were actually developed, so they were goi
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by km3r 4y ago
People often budget the size of their loan based on the monthly payments. When interest rates go up, payments go up, size of loan goes down. Smaller size loan effectively lowers demand. Lower demand, home prices fall (or just rise slower).
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by km3r 4y ago
We use an internal language at work thats a graph based language with first party GUI support. Some interesting info about it: * There is just a few primitive node types (Class, Method, Attribute, Relationship, GUI Bucket) with the rest of
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by km3r 4y ago
For many teams there is benefit of in person interactions beyond the social cost, but those benefits are limited if part of the team is still remote. A white-boarding and planning meeting with one or two key players on zoom will slow down t
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by km3r 4y ago
What topics has the US government banned discussion on?
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by km3r 4y ago
Not OP, but the processing of learning that being X isn't a joke in and of itself taught me respect for other groups. You compare the joke about being gay vs a joke that someone is gay. One is a funny commentary on the gay experience,
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by km3r 4y ago
Why do you draw the line at a mountain? We have the technology for outdoor lifts. In the end it's a trade off, and while we should have minimum standards of accessibility, after that point its a trade off between productivity, efficien
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by km3r 4y ago
> "according to these very clear numbers, our profitability as a business has suffered due to remote work" Seems like this has absolutely been the case. FAANG and the like aren't gonna to willingly lose 10-20% of their sta
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by km3r 4y ago
the idle/clicker genre is full of games that use ads, IAPs, and dark patterns. A curated list that avoids those would be nice, although they are a little more addicting and designed for longer play than the other games on your list.

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