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by mgraczyk 4y ago
My personal experience with Amazon in particular has been the opposite of yours. Amazon has completely refunded every defective or damaged products I have ever received. I've done two returns of $100+ items in the past month, in one ca
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
And capital gains taxes in particular massively distort incentives. But in that case it's intentional
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This doesn't work online, and is the opposite of how fraud works in practice though. Larger sellers have a reputation that they care about and invest in. Small sellers with 10 sales don't care at all, they will make 10 good sales
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Very different structurally. Tax brackets almost always apply _marginally_. The higher tax bracket only applies to income made above the higher bracket level. Behavior that applies marginally avoids most "discontinuity" and distor
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Surprised I couldn't find a single example related to cryptocurrencies. Surely there is a strong incentive for vandalism there?
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
So what was the argument? I am quoting it directly so having difficulty understanding the discrepancy. > It's a cultural thing that most Americans simply don't identify with or think about history prior to British/American
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I think I replied pretty directly. The central claim of the comment is that Americans think about old buildings differently because they don't identify with pre-colonial culture. I'm saying that actually there are essentially no b
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The facts are: In the US, most Americans, including indigenous people, go their entire lives without seeing a single structure built before 1500. You can't see one without driving several hours from any population center, and several d
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It's possible there are a handful of houses at one site with some structural walls built around 1400 that are currently inhabited. There's no direct evidence for that claim except oral tradition and reports from 140 years later. C
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
My building was built before the earthquake and fires
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I don't really agree with this. I think immigrants to the US integrate surprisingly well in all the ways that matter. Nearly all invasions of my personal space that happen in San Francisco are from people who are clearly not immigrants
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Seems pretty tenuous, and I don't see any radiocarbon dating or high quality archeology. It's not surprised this doesn't "occupy anyone's mindspace". I think the claim "There are still people living in med
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The photo and initial description are more dystopian than reality. I found this video showing the screen at the airport. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ECXBi2w9kZU People who are concerned about things like privacy sho
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I would Pueblo Bonito a "ruin", not a "structure" that somebody could live in. The Taos Pueblo structures were built ~1400. Can you give an example of a "medieval-era structure" that somebody is living in toda
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Can you give me an example of a "structure" in the present day US that was built prior to 1000 AD? I'm not talking about a pit underground, which is not a "structure". Can you give me an example of a "medieval-
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Hopefully this is a joke? There are no structures in the US built prior to 1000ad, and the oldest structures built by indigenous people were abandoned long before European contact, because of deforestation.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
> Steven Preister's house in Washington, D.C. is a piece of American history, a gorgeous 110-year-old colonial with wooden columns and a front porch, perfect for relaxing in the summer. Unrelated to the article, but I thought this w
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Idk after a few near death experiences with people racing by me in SF, I'm cool with kids finding fun in other places. I did a lot of dangerous stupid shit with my car as a teenager. Some of my friends were seriously injured doing simi
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This is not really true. You can pop up surveys in the app or on the site. They can be super non-intrusive. For small effects and large user bases, you simply cannot get useful information from UX studies.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
totally agree, but it sounds like you're paying way less in taxes than you would be paying in Europe.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
News to me, I spent less than 50% of my income last year on everything. Not just taxes, everything. And I'm in roughly the highest tax bracket in the US and have roughly the highest state and local taxes. I would guess my effective tax
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The reason both sides are correct in their conclusion is precisely because there is a "Chinese version of hacker news"
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It's different in that it is not a single virus, but a collection of proteins from multiple viruses. It can be engineered to illicit better immune response much more easily than a virus.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I disagree, there are not cheaper or more convenient ways. There is overwhelming evidence that building highly standardized financial infrastructure is much cheaper and easier with blockchains than doing it without blockchains. You can argu
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
What does that even mean? Plenty of people have profited off of bitcoin.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It doesn't have to be that way though. There's nothing inherent about the timescale of 2-5 days that prevents the same level of security and reversibility with shorter transactions. The problem is the lack of coherence, lack of in
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Technology from the cryptocurrency world can be used to force banks to do that. RSA alone isn't enough. How do you use RSA to build this? You can do auditable sums (prove that private balances sum to a public total), but I can't t
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This has already happened 3 times, and it will keep happening. The dynamic is more complicated than what you're describing. Crypto isn't a big MLM. Crypto is a family of technologies that make it possible to easily build MLMs. The
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The hard part isn't tracking balances. It's reporting, auditing, and security/privacy. We need laws and procedures, but the barrier to getting operationally intensive things shipped becomes lower with better technology and pa
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Yeah that's the point. But this is sort of like saying Moderna has it easy because they punted the hard part of deploying an mRNA vaccine to global shipping and distribution chains that they did not build.

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