maehwasu

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by maehwasu 7y ago
The consequences of not exposing healthcare and education to cost pressure have already been catastrophic for consumers of both, so I'm not quite sure where you're going with this one.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
This is one of those ideas that sounds really sophisticated, but is just wrong. The fact is that there a tons of people out there representing themselves as programmers who actually can’t perform basic tasks. The HN population massively sel
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Having a way that coders can avoid doing these types of coding problems over and over seems like a positive. Companies that aren’t interested in the approach could not use it. Most companies today are already using a version of this that is
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by maehwasu 7y ago
I have had similar experiences as an interviewer. It’s one of those things that you really have to see to believe, but it’s definitely a real thing.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
I agree that the comment is humorous, but I think by “simple” the author means “that is mostly the full set of things that is happening” rather than “easy to grok”.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
It's difficult to participate in an economy like the US where the prices of home purchases (and, by extension, rents), are driven up by competing buyers who have access to copious amounts of cheap credit.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
shrug People freak out about national id numbers, even though SSNs are already that. I don’t know why Americans react worse to certain things, but they clearly do, even in the face of lots of education.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Agree—it’s perfectly reasonable for them to do this, and likely the only way the system could function at good cost and without abuse. However, the problem in an American context is that people would likely see this as invasive. They’d dema
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by maehwasu 7y ago
This seems intuitively obvious, and I say this as a former business owner. However, the causality is backwards (as I’d expect from economists). If things are going well, it usually means you have a monopoly of some kind, which means high ma
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by maehwasu 7y ago
I agree that gold and fiat money are both faith-based, and I want to emphasize that I am not a gold-bug--almost all my assets are in revenue-producing real estate. There is, however, a massive qualitative difference between gold and fiat:
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by maehwasu 7y ago
I don't mean this at all in a morbid way, but I've long suspected that our lifetimes are slightly too long for our current environment. If you're a smart autodidact, you can get really far, really fast, to the point where m
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Anytime you give a person group the ability to distribute necessary goods, you will organically create a patronage system. That patronage system will out-compete other, non-patronage systems, because it will have a stronger internal power b
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by maehwasu 7y ago
What incentive mechanism are you proposing? (Real question, not rhetorical) Generally, when people ask for an economic solution, they’re looking for a proposal to change behavioral incentives, rather than proclamation of the desirability of
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by maehwasu 7y ago
He'd likely argue that, despite the prior regimes' professed love of Science!, the same trends were present before. I.e. the podcast's content wouldn't have changed at all in 2016 vs 2019. Short-term control of the execu
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by maehwasu 7y ago
The bot could likely just be trained on the 4 or so different games. You’re likely increasing the complexity by a constant factor, nothing exponential here.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
“Value betting” and “bluffing” are human heuristics to simplify complicated situations. The bot doesn’t “know” whether it’s value betting or bluffing—it’s not a relevant question. The relevant question is whether to bet, and what amount, in
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by maehwasu 7y ago
You quite literally just independently re-derived the concept of "border" in the same sentence that you rejected it.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Having other people “celebrate” your moving to retirement is a far cry from having meaningful purpose. I am not suggesting that purpose is only found in work, only that getting others to pat you on the back for being retired doesn’t help
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by maehwasu 7y ago
You clearly evaluate doctors and treatments based on multiple variables, depending on the situation. Many people, perhaps not you, but many, would like price to be able to be one of those variables, as it is with nearly everything else in o
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by maehwasu 7y ago
The “should we use the judicial branch to legislate” ship sailed a long time ago, and it’s not coming back to the harbor. For better or worse, the judiciary as legislators is our system now, may as well acknowledge it.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
“Corporations” are useful abstractions, but leaky. Google exists as a collection of people, most of whom are shielded from the profit motive. It’s also not terribly controversial to note that, on average, Google employees don’t like that o
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by maehwasu 7y ago
It makes it a lot easier for the Russian gov to sell "control over the internet" to the public.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
The fact that Dropbox has access to your files is a nightmare waiting to happen. Yes, I know they currently don’t use them for anything bad. No one ever does, until they do. I’m out.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
If you were relying on HN as a place to build your own brand, and maybe a business, in a way that was not robust to the future whims of HN's operators...then no, you should not post here. If you're like me and just want to fuck ar
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Everyone (or at least most people here) knows that Google has all those advantages. The issue is that we keep falling back on those advantages, rather than doing the work necessary to make owning your own platform realistic. I also laughed
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Your entire life is open to Google if you use Gmail. Google has demonstrated a willingness to run algorithms to analyze that life. Google can, at any time, for any reason, ban you from its platform. If something in your life runs afoul of
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Yup, this was the wake-up call for me. I know everyone here is like "duh of course they look at everything," but sometimes it takes a concrete case to really feel what that means. I switched to Protonmail soon after that, and hone
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by maehwasu 7y ago
The easy solution to this is to create a culture of using powerful tools, but requiring REALLY good reasons to go far to their edges in terms of metaprogramming. It's not that much harder to enforce than it is to enforce conventions
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Yeah, this is the most apt comparison, and is barely even a metaphor. Shocking that it's not applied to FB.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
It's not a non-sequitur if you follow his chain of logic, which is focused on improving outcomes, and not simply on expanding voting for its own sake: 1. Are voting rights missing? (Gather information) 2. If they are missing, would add

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