mchusma

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by mchusma 5y ago
+1 Using UBI to eliminating minimum wage, government unemployment insurance, and other problematic/expensive programs is one of my favorite parts of UBI.
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by mchusma 5y ago
The Visa/MasterCard/Amex tax is real, and large. Hopefully we can find a way to end it soon. Payment transfers really should be nearly free. But deals like this are not the way to get it done, they just make it less competitive fo
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by mchusma 5y ago
I having full-time dedicated pricing experts on payroll makes sense as a rare thing. (1) When pricing is hidden, this means in practice you have every sales rep trying to maximize pricing for the individual person. Meaning there are in fact
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by mchusma 5y ago
The author missed one point about the 'vaxxed and done'... some actively WANT the virus to spread at this point. If everyone is going to get it, then there is an argument to be made to just "get it over with". There are
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by mchusma 5y ago
Stripe charges the same for reminds as regular charges, so approximately 3%.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Stripe also bears some responsibility here, as they don't support production testing, so it's impossible to have a test suite checking for charge related behaviors in production. If you use stripe, please contact them and request
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by mchusma 5y ago
But big data and AI have real usecases. For example AlphaGo, GPT, protein folding, better photography, etc.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Omicron doesn't change fundamentally where we were with Delta. Its infection enough that everyone will get it. Vaccines protect you (they are banned for kids under 5). Pfizer's treatment (Paxlovid) is a very effective cure (curren
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by mchusma 5y ago
Hmmm...so you are an anarchist (so don't want government) but also think profit seeking is unethical? I'm genuinely curious what mechanism you would like society to function under? Like why would people...do stuff if not for value
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by mchusma 5y ago
I generally like this, but think it can be bought for 5 years at a time. Yearly stuff is annoying for everyone. Agree copyright as written is maybe ok for a ten-ish year period. Maybe 5.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Prediction markets expect transmission to be about the same as Delta, with lethality less than delta. I was worried myself last week but this week it seems to be maybe an improvement over Delta? If you don't want a vaccine, you were al
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by mchusma 5y ago
Fossil fuel will die only when the alternatives are better. Focusing positively there is where the effort should be. So reduce environmental review for solar, massively reduce red tape for fission, invest in fusion, and invest in carbon cap
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't know that it is optimal, but our team generally batches PRs once per day, to avoid interrupting them. So typically it's going to take about a half day for a review. As different people end their day at different times. Exc
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by mchusma 5y ago
Is it accurate to say the primary use of this is likely to design further quantum computers?
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by mchusma 5y ago
It's highly likely that carbon removal follows similar economies of scale as solar too, so the costs are likely to continue a rapid decline.
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by mchusma 5y ago
The term "surveillance state" can't apply if it isn't the state (with it's monopoly on violence).
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by mchusma 5y ago
It's a win for me both as a consumer and as a business owner. Saying it's a win for nobody is not accurate.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I have lots of data on home services, and can say with confidence they average a 20-40% increase since 2019 (they were pretty stable the prior 10 years). Housing is 20-50% more expensive since the same period. Labor costs have increased a t
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by mchusma 5y ago
Anecdotally, hearing from doctors working in COVID wards, they consist almost entirely of anti-vaxxers who are now seeking (and receiving) treatments only recently approved. So while not everyone will take this, I think probably many would
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by mchusma 5y ago
Agree as well. I loved the premise of the books, but I just couldn't find myself to care about any of the actual characters. I think the same story, but where at least some of the characters are truly immortal (reasonable for far futur
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't understand not prosecuting theft at all. There are like 2 things which are super clearly bad and the government should stop (1) theft and (2) violence. People shouldn't get life sentences for petty theft, but they should g
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by mchusma 5y ago
Not sure what to make of this. Patents should be much more expensive. They are government granted monopolies. Most patents are also not really original too, so I'd expect the world would be better off with 1/10th the number of pat
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by mchusma 5y ago
This is not really related to what this author means as "good" at chess. But I found spending about 8 hours working through lessons and chess.com and Magnus Carlsen's app (I preferred the chess.com one personally), and maybe
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by mchusma 5y ago
This +1. Housing I the US is broken in a fundamental way, it needs to be seen as a bad investment to get better. If we targeted say 2% annual price decreases in housing, the world would be better off.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I love this building concept. Affordable housing is critical, and the structure of grouping the rooms together is a great fit for the college lifestyle. Having your own room is pretty awesome versus bunk beds (my college experience). There
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't know, I use the video tag for videos served from an S3 bucket with great performance. Way better than YouTube for videos under 5 min. Seems to be pretty easy. Maybe the author's issues are more for long videos?
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by mchusma 5y ago
I love being able to collaborate with the police with video footage. Package theft is a huge drain on society and needs to be faught.
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by mchusma 5y ago
No business owner could be in office? Like someone who owned stock for 20 years with no plans to sell couldn't run? Seems harsh. I think limited trading is what you mean (buying and selling). Insiders at companies have limited windows
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by mchusma 5y ago
I have and like the 5A. Great phone of you want a headphone jack.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Their number of users was down considerably, listed in non-GAAP metrics. They have a reasonable claim to blame COVID, but their story is basically one of successfully increasing price.

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