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by mruts 8y ago
I agree that Sonic Youth sounds a little dated at this point. But a lot of classic rock (not all, but a lot) still sounds pretty revolutionary to me, The Doors in particular.
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by mruts 8y ago
The gig economy is exactly what the world needs: flexible, fungible work that provides opportunities to people who might not otherwise be able to get full-time jobs. College students, mothers, elderly, etc. Anyone who needs tremendous flexi
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by mruts 8y ago
What is a living wage? I live in Tanzania and people get by on $50/month and live in mud houses. All of these people are alive and have been for some time. Similarly, I know some bums in LA whos only expenses are $5/gram weed. The
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by mruts 8y ago
Look at Detroit, where the government was giving away houses for $50 (literally).
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The natural conclusion for that is that all punishment be that way. Or maybe we should give out fines based on expected life-time income. So if you're young, you'll get a huge fine. Or maybe we could also hand down prison sentence
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by mruts 8y ago
I think you are misunderstanding the point of tether. It’s not about paying out dollars, many companies have been paying out dollars from crypto long before tether existed. The point of tether and all stablecoins is to provide liquidity to
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by mruts 8y ago
What you’re talking about is FDIC insured accounts. But those only apply to savings and checking accounts (and only up to 250k like you said). Brokerage accounts where I think most Americans keep the vast bulk of their money are not insured
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by mruts 8y ago
Have you considered that no one wants to open a local shop in the first place? Chains are the only people in the position to take on the huge huge risk of opening a store. As a store owner, you have exposure to wage laws, property values, f
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by mruts 8y ago
That’s a pretty terrible idea. Sure, maybe in Manhattan where the economy is good that would work, but in less prospereous places that’s just regressive and will cause the economy to get into a death spiral. Here’s how that would work: 1. A
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by mruts 8y ago
I would say.. no? The optimal solution would be an exchange that provided order books with bid/asks for each passanger and driver. Alternatively you could have a real-time auction to make it easier for the passanger. The exchange could
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by mruts 8y ago
10 years is the definition of wrong.
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by mruts 8y ago
Poor people don’t pay any taxes in the first place. So the point is moot.
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Why do low income people need any software to file taxes in the first place? If you just make a wage taxes are trivial.
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by mruts 8y ago
The benefits of weightlidting are very marginal compared to cardio. There’s very little weifhtlifting does anything for your body besides getting stronger. Cardio on the other hand increases cognitive performance, life expectancy, decreases
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by mruts 8y ago
That’s not how public companies work. CEO compensation is determined by the board and the board is elected by the shareholders. If a CEO makes a lot of money, it’s because the owners of the company think it’s worth the money. I work in fina
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by mruts 8y ago
Professors at prestigious institutions generally make less, not more than less-prestigious ones.
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by mruts 8y ago
It’s more important than that: jewelry in Islam once given to a wife cannot br taken sway. i.e It become’s her property. Many women in the middle east carry their primary store of value on their body as gold for this reason. That is why gol
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by mruts 8y ago
Safi! Karibu tena! That’s great! Our school is in Arusha, Kijenge specifically. Would love to hear from you! sturm@cryptm.org
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by mruts 8y ago
Email me at sturm@cryptm.org. Unfortunately we aren’t a registered charity in the US (we are in Tanzania though) so you won’t get any tax breaks.
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by mruts 8y ago
My wife teaches english, but computers and internet are a big part of the reason that any kids are here in the first place. We aren't a licensed school (getting licensed requires bribes and a lot of bullshit) so we focus on pre-1st gra
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by mruts 8y ago
We have Khan academy and some other resources on a local server so we can minimize internet usage. Internet is expensive here, and every GB that we can save really counts. I don't like cloud apps (never really did, honestly), and being
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by mruts 8y ago
I live in Tanzania and a salary of 10-20k USD is a pretty lux life here. You could get a housekeeper, gardener, and a gated property and still have a lot left over. Moreover, no income tax! The problem is that imported goods have a 50% tax
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by mruts 8y ago
Maybe they're just better? I'm sure A16Z was aware of both and decided to fund only one. Money (especially smart money like A16Z) goes where it's treated best, and apparently some smart people think smartcar isn't going
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by mruts 8y ago
It's a little better than that: 1.57^52 - 1. R_n = (1 + R_0)(1 + R_1)...(1 + R_n) - 1 It's easier to just use log return: r_n = r_0 + r_1 ... r_n where r = log (1 + R) Anyhow, compounded returns aren't the best way to think a
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by mruts 8y ago
Sure, that's a pretty high interest rate. If you have the liquidity, you definitely should pay upfront. But it's conceivable that for some (small) segment of the population, that loan is worth it. Payday loans are a similar situat
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Or people could, like, not use TurboTax if they don’t like it. My tax returns are pretty simple (my only income source is my salary) and it’s trivial to just file them myself. People have some mental block about taxes even though that for 9
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by mruts 8y ago
I mean, that sounds like a pretty fair service to me: offering short-term credit while also streamlining the customer acquisition process.
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This has happened to me for many online purchases: Steam games, Amazon, GOG, etc. kind of useful, but also little confusing and a sketchy.
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It targets gameboys?
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by mruts 8y ago
I've (unfortunately?) never need to make code this fast, but it sounds like a lot of fun. Seems a little unnecessary (Intellij with Scala can find usages/implementations pretty quickly for even large codebases), but I appreciate t

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