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by lucozade 8y ago
OK I'll bite. So basically you're guessing that an ignorant Indian got suckered into giving up this prized possession to a murderous/exploiting white man? Had it ever occurred to you that what actually happened was an incredu
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by lucozade 8y ago
I can’t say for sure but it’s possibly related to [0] and [1]. It appears that Aylin has a passion for fostering leadership in women. Can’t think of any reason not to take this at face value. [0] https://stripe.com/blog&#x2F
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by lucozade 8y ago
Those could be the reasons but it's probably more likely that it's just a tie-in to the events Stripe just had for female founders. I guess it would be a bit less confusing if they'd just made the offer to folks that attended
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by lucozade 8y ago
When we were children, my aunt used to take us to a trout farm to get dinner. The farm owner taught us to tickle and the trout we took home were always caught that way by us. It was a lot easier than tickling in a trout stream, they were in
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by lucozade 8y ago
Children are quite resourceful when it comes to play. My eldest son had no interest in toy cars when he was small. One time we went to friends who pretty much only had toy vehicles. Our son was a bit hesitant to play at first but then becam
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by lucozade 8y ago
Indeed. The same article gives a height of 30m for the wave.
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by lucozade 8y ago
> and it shows stuff on screen... And it has complex, undocumented connections to north of a hundred other systems. Screwing up any one of which could have hugely impactful effects on the business (or not, who knows?). So you're goi
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by lucozade 8y ago
> 99.9% of modern poetry sucks I don't believe that that's what's going on here. The majority of all poetry sucks. As does the majority of all music, novels, paintings etc. But the ones that don't suck persist. That
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by lucozade 8y ago
There's a link on that site [0]. Essentially they want just the central bank to be the source of money supply. [0] https://www.vollgeld-initiative.ch/fa/img/English/2015_10_22...
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by lucozade 9y ago
The relevant part of that license is > A Compilation Process is "Eligible" if it is done using GCC, alone or with other GPL-compatible software, or if it is done without using any work based on GCC. I'm going to hazard a g
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by lucozade 9y ago
> More farmland is lost to desert than gained to warmth Would you be able to explain why that is, or link to something that can? It's not immediately obvious to me why that would be.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Well yes, but Finland wasn't experimenting with basic income for philosophical reasons. They were experimenting because they have high unemployment and a complex, and expensive, welfare system. So what they wanted to understand was the
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by lucozade 9y ago
I'm in two minds here. On one hand, it's a bit of a shame that the article focuses on "no code". What the linked applications all seem to do is a pretty standard package of workflow tooling, reporting generation and data
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by lucozade 9y ago
> That's a little harsh, no? I don't think it's harsh. If anything it's falling for the author's narrative. The author was clearly there solely to write a hatchet job on the SV startup culture. The stuff about ge
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by lucozade 9y ago
> It benefits only consumers, while costing the banks and payment providers Hogwash. Yes I know all bankers live in extinct volcanoes but one thing they know a lot about is money. It is ridiculously expensive to support the US's con
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by lucozade 9y ago
> French was the global language It wasn't, it was just the primary language for diplomacy. Other languages were the de facto standard for other things e.g. English for maritime usage, German for science and maths. What's unusu
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by lucozade 9y ago
As "market cadence" doesn't mean anything but sort of sounds like it does, you can just define your delivery schedule as being on the market cadence and you are now a delivering team. When it all goes to shit, the person brou
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by lucozade 9y ago
> I really don't understand why Goldman should get a pass like this. They didn't. They cancelled a lot of the trades before they were hit and a whole bunch were filtered out at the exchange end because they were way off market.
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by lucozade 9y ago
I'm guessing that the downvotes are because people consider the stated reason to be a terrible one. Your point, which is that other people may use the same justification, doesn't validate the point. It just means that there may be
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by lucozade 9y ago
> But this is not what should be measured It's a perfectly reasonable thing to measure as long as it's not being used as a proxy for equal pay (which it explicitly isn't in this case). What it can show is systemic bias. No
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by lucozade 9y ago
I don’t think I’d characterise the discussions around the technology as hate. Maybe with the exception of the environmental cost of Proof of Work. Where most of the heat comes from, in my opinion, is the religion that’s grown around it. Fun
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by lucozade 9y ago
10s of millions per year per bank. More for the really big banks. Thay have large totem poles. Edit. That’s not including the op risk of screwing up. That has costs too and can easily reach millions
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by lucozade 9y ago
There’s probably not a lot of interest for retail use for the reasons you state. Outside of wealth management that is more about the cryptocurrencies than the tech. But there is still interest in peer to peer usage. When each bank keeps the
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by lucozade 9y ago
A local maxima perhaps. It’s quite typically Guardian in that it manages to combine preachy, pseudo-scholarly, smug and wrong. But it’s way down the scale on hypocritical outrage to be a global maxima.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Asset ownership, actual ownership, is very inefficient. It's not obvious to me why a subscription is inherently worse than an interest bearing loan, hardly a modern invention, which is the traditional means to reduce the inefficiency.
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by lucozade 9y ago
I know. Sucks to be them, right? Helping other people realise their dreams and only making 8/9 figures in the bargain. Can't imagine why they would bother.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Having just read the Population Bomb Revisited (linked in the article), I think I'm a bit shocked. The Population Bomb was a political call to arms that used science to give it credence. It turns out that much of the science was really
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by lucozade 9y ago
Precisely. There are countries, working under very similar constraints to modern day US, that are trying, and succeeding, with other arrangements. This should be the focus of the compare and contrast because it's a valuable comparison.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Right. So that'll be the vast amounts of unpaid vacation that they were all enjoying. And I'm sure they were enjoying the extended vacations because of the strong contractual obligations that the landowners had to their serfs.
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by lucozade 9y ago
That’s fair. It’s the narrative that counts. If you look like you’re a good investment then you might be asked to explain but, at least, you’ll probably have the opportunity. If your history says risk then you need something special to coun

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