mihaic

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by mihaic 3y ago
Induced demand leads often also to a race-to-the-bottom in pricing. Almost everyone is just using a few basic apps, going against the consumer train is very hard, and only companies are spending money on software.
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by mihaic 3y ago
While I admire the can-do attitude and independent mindset, stories like this strike me primarily as how unscalable doing something like this is. I mean, it only works because not more then 1-2% of developers even try to do something like t
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by mihaic 3y ago
I wasn't denying that a lot of money is being spent, it's how it's spent. What I meant was that subsidies for producing various crops/animal products dwarf all the other spending on rural programs, and not a lot of effor
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by mihaic 3y ago
Farmers seem underrepresented in general economic planning, except when handing out subsidies to keep their votes. I've for instance thought that UBI would be unavoidable in a few decades, but how would we keep farmers to grow food? Th
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by mihaic 3y ago
I agree that the parent is a beneficiary of the education, but my argument is with the fact that "customer" involves one beneficiary. By your logic for instance anyone that's childless shouldn't pay taxes for education,
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by mihaic 3y ago
I've admired Ron's designs for a long time, especially his Conan and Alien work, and have to thank you for confirming what I sort-of wondered about. Designing an object in a fantasy world does seem to resemble building a great cha
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by mihaic 3y ago
I'm trying to see both sides, but how is the parent the customer here? I think you're mixing an opinion on high taxation in general (which you might be right about), versus how big metropolises enjoy labor that was raised somewher
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by mihaic 3y ago
I can't imagine Voltaire claiming any right to be able to delete a pamflet. I think we need to have forgiveness baked into our social layer more, so that forgetting isn't the default.
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by mihaic 3y ago
And the "this is free for 24h" is just a red herring, to make it legitimate for people to speculate? Still crazy that such a semi-anonymous scam got 700k, sounds like there's still a lot of money in crypto ready to gamble.
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by mihaic 3y ago
How exactly does a scam like this work? Access to someone's Twitter account only means that you can just post a link. People seem to have connected their wallet, but they still would need to sign a transaction after that. Did the users
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by mihaic 3y ago
So FF just needs to tighten their Tab UI and allow custom keys. Not sure why there isn't a fork of FF that just looks as much as (legally) possible like Chrome.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Why do you consider a Chromium-based browser from another for-profit company that has done some morally debatable things as an alternative?
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by mihaic 3y ago
Yes, but many of these have one form or another of "take from the middle class and give to everyone else". I wasn't arguing that governments don't do anything, it's that they don't do enough to limit the size i
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by mihaic 3y ago
It might have brought joy to millions of people?
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by mihaic 3y ago
This does seem like one of those rules that would be independently developed by many experienced developers, so neither is hard to believe.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Only very few people are asking for a completely different system, they usually demand fine-tuning the system so that it improves median life quality. It used to be that the philosophy before was to have the least amount of intervention on
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by mihaic 3y ago
The same is actually true of plants. My grandparents ate many different aromatic plants, and even had many different grains they planted like buckwheat or millet.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Thanks for finding the perfect quote for what my thoughts were as well. I'll also add that simplicity also comes from a lot of experience, since the most dangerous developers now seem to be the ones with minimal skill, that don't
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by mihaic 3y ago
Great exposition of the situation! I was in the no-GIL camp until a few years ago, until I started thinking of all the implications: I have tons of code that modifies global maps from all over the place, and I feel relieved to not manage th
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by mihaic 3y ago
What themes and addons do you use? I never changed more than the stock color scheme.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Honestly, for me Firefox is a second choice until their debugging tools match Chrome's and they tighten up their tab UI just a bit. I really want use firefox daily it's just that I do feel a development speed hit when using it.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Why risk lying about something like this? It makes no business sense, and I can't imagine the Facebook employees being so loyal as not to spill the beans here.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Honestly, that's the sort of terror that keeps me still using GMail, but at the same time at least my email is on a domain I control, and worst case I'd just need to hard migrate to another provider while keeping the address.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Sure, but then why not first make sure that the prison reform happens before sending people to the torture place?
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by mihaic 3y ago
> Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) defined as: Any substance that contains at least one fully fluorinated methyl (CF3-) or methylene (-CF2-) carbon atom (without any H/Cl/Br/I attached to it). It sounds at least
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by mihaic 3y ago
Could you elaborate with a verb? I'm not sure what you mean.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Google keeps asking for my age to "verify that I'm over 18" on an account that at this point is over 19 years old, all just to get more data on me. Maybe we'll all just have everyone login with a few accredited providers
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by mihaic 3y ago
By actual activity, it seems to me like anything besides maybe ETH is actually a security. I can't find a reason to single out BTC here, other than it being the oldest and by far more well known.
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by mihaic 3y ago
What if people have always been complaining about this because it was always a problem that popped up and neede to be handled. Maybe any change in society meant parents can't use the same techniques to raise their children, and neede t
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by mihaic 3y ago
It doesn't seem to be working though when breaks are given so broadly.

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