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by kyshoc 7y ago
IndieWeb calls this "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere"[0]. [0]: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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by kyshoc 7y ago
You're imagining this to be more friendly than it is -- "can't pay for emergency medical care" in the US is a euphemism for "got a bill from the hospital, couldn't pay it, so the hospital sold the debt to a col
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by kyshoc 7y ago
This is why my hair stands up every time we have the "backdoored encryption" discussion -- we had, and probably still have, people in positions of power that think of encryption as something that should be regulated on the order t
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by kyshoc 7y ago
sounds like Amazon Locker
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by kyshoc 7y ago
> A free market does not require any of this. In theory, no, but in practice market failure is usually due to information asymmetry and consolidation. The real world is, unfortunately, not full of that economists call "perfect compe
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by kyshoc 7y ago
You're not wrong, but here's the problem: government can become autocratic, and private companies will become autocratic. At least with a government you have a shot at being ruled by something other than a private entity'
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by kyshoc 7y ago
In the case of insulin, I think it has more to do with the FDA's processes than corruption. It would be very difficult to make a profit on generic insulin because it's a biologic drug, which means a generic manufacturer wouldn&#x2
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by kyshoc 7y ago
The main challenge is reliably localizing callers to the right 911 dispatch... without allowing anyone to spoof their origin, and without inadvertently allowing location data to leak out to non-emergency calls (or texts, or tweets, or whate
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by kyshoc 7y ago
I've gotten all three on Vodafone NL, but I'm roaming -- my home carrier is Verizon US.
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by kyshoc 7y ago
Full price, really, is what's left over after tax avoidance. Paying more than you're legally required to is simply paying extra.
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by kyshoc 7y ago
Indeed. The YC application has a question along the lines of "why is the thing you're building so compelling that customers will tolerate a buggy product?"
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by kyshoc 7y ago
> posting a site to something like HN or Slashdot and effectively getting it DDoS'd I imagine there's some reading of the CFAA that could theoretically land you in hot water for this, but this is silly. Intent is very importa
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Circular Altruism (2008)(lesswrong.com)
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by kyshoc 7y ago
why would the other city ever agree to this? we have instances of cities facing outcry from residents for simply building homeless shelters within their own limits[0][1]. I imagine the outcry for a city "shipping out" their homele
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by kyshoc 7y ago
where? "Family sues Tesla after accident" is a fact.