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by lend000 9y ago
If you're in the business of collecting HN upvotes, you had best subscribe to the hive-mind. The very existence of this article and its prominence on a news aggregator site refutes it.
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by lend000 9y ago
Pretty tough to clear out dead wood when the institutions of relevance are more or less locked into their positions through heavy-handed regulation. The most glaring examples of this are the credit reporting agencies, who are defined by nam
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by lend000 9y ago
A society isn't free (and neither are its markets) if there isn't a strong rule of law preventing aggression. Polluting non-localized/public resources aggresses against others and therefore reduces net freedom if there are no
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by lend000 9y ago
Seems like Robinhood has some scaling issues. Anyone who is serious about investing wants access to a web client or an official API... how long has it been now? Still on the waiting list for Robinhood Web. Ended up transferring all my money
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by lend000 9y ago
> On the contrary, there is plenty of evidence on the diminishing marginal utility of wealth. For the average person, but who are you to decide? He clearly already spends his money productively by largely self-funding ambitious projects,
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by lend000 9y ago
Just because evolution is governed by randomness doesn't mean you can't make educated predictions about how an organism will evolve (at least given a set of otherwise constant environmental pressures, which is far from assured in
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Japanese Flu Treatment Cures Flu Symptoms in One Day(wsj.com)
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by lend000 9y ago
The grass is always greener on the other side. Goes both ways, but I think the data is stacked against you. Plenty of people just don't fit the college mold and should go work or study in a different way (vocational school, certificati
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by lend000 9y ago
I think you have effectively come to the same conclusion, but without the abstract idea to back it up.
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by lend000 9y ago
Fascinating discussion by both of you that expanded my depth on the issue. Perhaps the shortcomings can be solved (at least for reasonable numbers of candidates) by "Approval/Disapproval/Neutral" Voting.
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by lend000 9y ago
It comes down to the size of the country, combined with a political voting system that favors incumbents and naturally organizes into a duopoly: First Past the Post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_vot
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by lend000 9y ago
> They set back browser technology many years. > They write majorily closed source software. > using dark patterns Sounds like you have some personal bones to pick with companies YOU dislike, and yet the average consumer/compa
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by lend000 9y ago
> Easy to pass any legislation that changes voting and threatens all the incumbents? Not without a HUGE push, which I don't see happening anytime soon but why not try? Agreed. Open to ideas.
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by lend000 9y ago
Numbers 1, 2, and 3 can all be fixed, and fixing those fix number 4. For gerrymandering, there are plenty of proposals around requiring districts conform to some set of geometric rules. The electoral college issue gets a lot of attention, b
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by lend000 9y ago
While I agree this is horrible, mandatory ethics would have zero effect because: 1. Some people will need jobs. 2. Ethics are subjective. 3. Some people won't care. The correct solution would be in trying to vote in less authoritarian
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by lend000 9y ago
The opposite is also victim bias. The only way to calculate risk for sure without any emotional bias is to get some solid numbers per 'risky thing to do.'
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by lend000 9y ago
Perhaps this will be interesting to you: http://www.aei.org/publication/charts-of-the-day-creative-de... Dominant players get displaced all the time. Famous examples you've likely heard of include Kodak, Yahoo, an
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by lend000 9y ago
Malevolence as would be described by the CONSUMER (low quality and/or high prices). Something like Comcast, a successful business whose customers typically hate it, and which is deeply entrenched as a 'utility' due to its foo
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by lend000 9y ago
Have any substance to add? You're wrong, by the way; I actually refuted the previous poster, who was trying to use an example from 150 years ago to prove a point.
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by lend000 9y ago
"Standard's actions and secret[14] transport deals helped its kerosene price to drop from 58 to 26 cents from 1865 to 1870. Competitors disliked the company's business practices, but consumers liked the lower prices." -
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by lend000 9y ago
How so? Not a malevolent monopoly in any sense. I still do not understand the antitrust case to be some sort of proof of monopoly -- the court settled for them making public the implementation of certain API's, and allowed them to cont
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by lend000 9y ago
I have yet to hear of a natural, malevolent monopoly that formed without some kind of government protection to keep out competition (a.k.a. rent seeking), in the forms of direct government contracts, complex startup-averse regulations, gove
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by lend000 9y ago
Do people who didn't make any money off of crypto just upvote any crap Bitcoin article that has a negative connotation in the title? Fact: There are pros and cons to decentralizing a system. Some alleged pros to the centralized system
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by lend000 9y ago
I think a major security improvement for npm and other package managers using almost exclusively open-source/ non-compiled code is to require the source code be linked from a popular open-source platform like Github and then to take th
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by lend000 9y ago
It says 'highly experimental.' Is it ready for prime-time, given the situation?
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by lend000 9y ago
This is very cool -- does anyone have experience with the company or product? This looks like something I want for my home lab.
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by lend000 9y ago
The SWAT team should never be the first line of defense, unless pre-authorized by a warrant. They should only be involved after escalation from a normal police patrol, and should never be involved due to an anonymous tip.
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by lend000 9y ago
Lots of articles make this mistake -- they use the distribution of Bitcoin in wallets to determine the wealth distribution. This is extremely flawed not only because many miners hold their coins over multiple wallets (e.g. Satoshi) but more
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by lend000 9y ago
The 'bankers' most responsible are Greenspan and Bernanke. Everyone loves a witch hunt, but blaming the financial crisis on private bankers for legally following misaligned incentives created by the government is ridiculous (and t
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by lend000 9y ago
"Fatal units" might be more useful.

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