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by merrywhether 5y ago
The easiest argument against current property taxes is that they have completely failed to prevent the current situation. They do not properly incentive the efficient use of land, so mini-kings get to sit in their mini-castles and argue aga
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by merrywhether 5y ago
If only the younger generations had more political power, there’d be no government intervention in the event of a crash. The older generations that bought houses and then pulled ladders up in order to politically engineer constant wealth gr
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by merrywhether 5y ago
High mortgage rates mean that is only more expensive for “poor” people, while the wealthy will continue on their merry way. The US desperately needs a land-value tax as a step towards making home ownership costly and depreciating, removing
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by merrywhether 5y ago
Fraud is a huge problem in current mainstream finance and government money programs, so why would crypto be any different? The US’ Payroll Protection Program covid response paid out tons of money to fake businesses because a similar “proof
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by merrywhether 5y ago
There are alt stores on Android though, it just seemingly doesn’t matter. The root problem is that consumers don’t care about this problem and voted with their wallets for the current situation. That’s not necessarily surprising: most peopl
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by merrywhether 5y ago
I’m often curious about situations like this, as I had similar thoughts while reading. Assuming the bird was truly abandoned, is it better to imperfectly raise them yourself or to leave them to die? Not everyone is going to want or be able
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by merrywhether 5y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if the response was a Chrome-esque “drown the competition in feature velocity” approach. iMessage could add new features (with totally necessary payload shape updates) fast enough to prevent any integrations from wor
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by merrywhether 5y ago
I like the idealism of your arguments, but tech idealism doesn’t matter without users. And the majority of users have repeatedly chosen proprietary UX innovations over things like standards and interoperability. And many of these things are
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by merrywhether 5y ago
So company is making mice in bad place X, mice break after update, tech sleuths inevitably link mouse problem to protestware, people start asking questions about company? Isn’t that potentially causing change? Doesn’t that specifically rely
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by merrywhether 5y ago
That Golang project also likely isn’t trying to be a highly interactive UI running on thousands of different runtime configurations.
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by merrywhether 5y ago
A lot of protest is more about emotion than logic. Most individual actions of protest are not logical, like each of the individual protesting Russians who know they are likely to go to jail. But when enough “illogical” people do enough “ill
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by merrywhether 5y ago
Maybe this is a legitimately cool feature, and you’re just used to it by now from other ecosystems and products. Then both your and the author’s reactions can valid.
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by merrywhether 5y ago
You mean features like Portal and FLoC?
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by merrywhether 5y ago
In case anyone else was left wondering about the outcome of the race, Schultz got the silver, not to Vos (who finished 4th) but to Canadian Tyler Turner. Turner had won the most recent world championships, so he wasn't exactly a dark h
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by merrywhether 5y ago
I’m guessing that if you are a US-based site then you are exempt and it’s only if you start an EU presence that you would need to worry about this?
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by merrywhether 5y ago
At least in this hypothetical, that’s at least partly because Google owns the primary store on Android. It’s easy to envision them making Google Play for iOS and moving all of their apps exclusively into that and generating quite the beachh
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by merrywhether 5y ago
A great heuristic would just be only granting notification prompt permission after you’ve installed the PWA to your Home Screen. That shows clear interest by the user in a longer-term relationship with the app, and they could grant other ex
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by merrywhether 5y ago
It’s been kind-boggling to me that we haven’t been continuously updating the vaccines. Low turnaround time is one of the great benefits of mRNA vaccine technology and yet here we are crossing our fingers that evolutionary pressure doesn’t d
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by merrywhether 5y ago
I was remote before the pandemic, and I really enjoyed that my company had an office and vibe, as you say. I went there almost monthly and internalized the culture myself. I think a lot of people actually want to work from an office (if it
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by merrywhether 5y ago
VCs have to put their monthly influx of FedBux somewhere! Less sarcastically: cheap money effectively lowers the cost of risk, thus increasing the number of risky investments made. And Axie seems like less of a risky investment than Yo was,
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by merrywhether 5y ago
"What's fair is whatever both parties mutually agreed to" You could argue there's an important caveat of symmetric information around this interaction if you want to talk about fairness. Asymmetric information is frequen
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by merrywhether 5y ago
> You're paid based on supply and demand and your negotiating skills Your ability to negotiate your own salary is pretty orthogonal to your ability to do most jobs. Some jobs definitely require the ability to negotiate in the form o
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by merrywhether 5y ago
> The constant underhanded tactics They are also the reason many corporations are immoral. Or: most unions are legitimately just trying to improve the situation for their workers, and many business owners have a conscience and weigh more
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by merrywhether 5y ago
Pedantically, basing your stance purely on being tired of being told what to do _isn’t_ an intelligent strategy. Not saying that’s your entire stance, but emotional contrarianism is not a good reason to update your priors.
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by merrywhether 5y ago
Either you’re using the medical definition of mild (didn’t require hospitalization) or you haven’t gotten a true influenza infection in a long time. So many people call strong colds a “flu”, which creates confusion around its severity and c
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by merrywhether 5y ago
My biggest gripe with inferred types is that you wind up with errors at random usage sites instead of at where the actual type “error” is. For example, with inferred return types you can wind up returning `a | b` when you thought you were r
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by merrywhether 5y ago
Your 1) only matters if transmission is related to symptoms. If the virus is transmissible for a while before the symptoms like Covid, symptom severity matters less (pre-symptom R-value gains outweigh post-symptom R-value losses). Reductive
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by merrywhether 5y ago
Their north star should be taking market share back from Google, not getting sidetracked with these piddling income schemes or anything else. It is worth so much more to them in the long run to break Chrome’s monopoly than anything in my sh
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by merrywhether 5y ago
But how much money can they possibly be making from a deal like this? It surely is a blip on MS’ radar. That’s what so confusing about dumb moves like this while Edge is still trying to gain market share.
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by merrywhether 5y ago
> No ads and random anti-patterns I don't want in the interface This is slightly ironic, since Chrome exists solely so that Google can more effectively sell ads on every page you visit and track everything you do. I guess sites the

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