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by krrrh 9y ago
It is amazing. The only tradeoff is that German strangers tend to get upset if you try to pet their dogs or get their attention.
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by krrrh 9y ago
You can actually recover heat from sewers which can heat water or space in nearby buildings. The first example of this (in North America at least) went online in Vancouver around 2010[1]. > Similar to a geo-exchange (or geothermal) syste
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by krrrh 9y ago
> batteries (both as scalable consumers and suppliers); widespread electric car usage might accidentally help her I've been in a some jurisdictions that have periods of low water supply where you can't water your lawn or garden
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by krrrh 9y ago
In Germany private insurance is the only option for self-employed. It is precisely a mandated requirement for basic coverage. The two "public options" are not available to freelancers, and anyway the public options are more akin t
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by krrrh 9y ago
You're right, China too. I should have said asynchronous messaging rather than text messaging. Whether short voice, text, gif, or emoji messages, the synchronous phone call is increasingly secondary.
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by krrrh 9y ago
In terms of Airbnb socializing costs, it's not the flat owner who is taking on some costs and some profit, but their neighbours, who bear the costs of noise and reduced security and community.
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by krrrh 9y ago
The other significant feature added was voice chats. The fact that it's easy to forget or not notice is a strong indicator of how much humanity has adopted text chatting as the primary mode of remote communication.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Yes, and in a city such as Berlin where the taxi supply is not artificially restricted through a mediallion system, and sensible safety and labour laws prevail to the extent that Uber is not even able to operate, an app like MyTaxi function
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by krrrh 9y ago
Most people I know with juicers also like the fact that they can save money by throwing in fruit or veg before it goes bad. It makes it easier to capture the shopping surplus that otherwise ends up in the trash. The QR-code scanning Juicero
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by krrrh 9y ago
> It's espresso, not expresso. Nitpick on your nitpick. While the word originated in Italy as espresso and that is mostly what we use in the English-speaking world, expresso is not totally uncommon and it's not necessarily a mi
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by krrrh 9y ago
The reason people are shocked isn't that VCs are willing to take a risk on an idea that appears ridiculous at first blanche, it's that Juicero had 4 rounds of investment before they launched, which amounted to $118.5M. That includ
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by krrrh 9y ago
This is a crucial point. Another way to look at the viability of these casual labor startups is to what degree is the service dependent on trust, and how generic is the delivery? For the most part, a car driver is the same as any other car
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by krrrh 9y ago
I'm often an Uber critic, can't see how their valuation is justified, appalled by their lack of ethics, etc., however I think your analysis sells them short. Hailing or waiting for a taxi was a horrible experience in most cities.
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by krrrh 9y ago
If the alternative is waiting over a month for a service appointment I think a lot of people would be willing do do a home repair.
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by krrrh 9y ago
winmail.dat [1] [1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/technology/personaltec...
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Leaving the coins on the exchange for that long requires an exchange-hack-or-failure cost averaging analysis to balance things out.
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by krrrh 9y ago
As another followup, how does the valuation compare to a company like mytaxi.com? App and service seem functionally equivalent, except that pricing is done by in-taxi meter. Lots of Berlin cabs run both MyTaxi and UberTaxi. Another point of
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by krrrh 9y ago
GP was saying that sexuality as in actual sex is repressed, and speculating that pornography was widespread as a result.
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iirc, they actually contacted Max Howell (creator of homebrew) and got his input on how to make command line tools work better for developers and homebrew specifically.
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On the other hand, the Wired article also cherry-picks quotes from Mr. Schmitt, whose comments are more fully elucidated in articles he wrote at Psychology Today[1] and Quillette[2] [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog&#
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by krrrh 9y ago
Sure, but it's kind of like saying that FTP looked like it would be a useful protocol in 1985, and an early draft of RFC 959 should have been adequate to raise gobs of money. In the end FTP added a lot of value to the internet, but it
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by krrrh 9y ago
Paper currency is backed by the presumed continued existence and effective taxing and police power of the issuing state. It might seem theoretical, but if you benefit from the existence of the state, generate value, and don't pay your
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Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke Debate – The Science of Gender and Science(youtube.com)
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Another video worth watching on this subject is the debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke on The Science of Gender & Science[1] which was held in the wake of the Larry Summers controversy at Harvard in 2005. They both make m
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by krrrh 9y ago
You're discounting the other uses that money could have had if it wasn't taken from taxpayers and given to the favoured company. How many small businesses were pushed over the margin by the taxes that were necessary to raise enoug
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Corporate welfare has existed in every "stage" of capitalism, and the justifications suit the political moods of the day (jobs for one polity, greentech for another). This isn't anything new, and capitalism would be better of
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There is essentially no difference between giving a company money and not collecting money from them that they would otherwise pay. Economists call these sorts of things tax expenditures . It amounts to taking money from some people and co
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The fact that those 200 years were post-Gutenberg has probably helped as well.
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There are a lot of reasons that bearer bonds are no longer issued in most jurisdictions. This is one of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond
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by krrrh 9y ago
I lived and worked downtown in the late 90s/early 00s, and going back recently, I have to say that it is a lot better than it used to be. There is an incredible amount of investment in the core, and the whole ice district area on 104th

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