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by mseebach 8y ago
They're not creating money from nothing , hence fractional . And to the extent they don't have anything at stake, it's because they get bailed out, which is a different concern altogether.
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by mseebach 8y ago
As human civilization progresses, we're trying to move the goal-posts up a bit from "survive".
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by mseebach 8y ago
GDP might be a flawed measurement for the reasons you mention, but it's worth keeping in mind that for all it's flaws it has a very high correlation with "general goodness", almost regardless of which measure you choose.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Oh, it has plenty of predictive power, it's just not evenly distributed. When economists weigh in on contemporary politics, there are usually a lot of assumptions that doesn't quite make it into the soundbyte (and I don't wan
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by mseebach 8y ago
Well, if you bought something that says on the box that it doesn't do X, you generally don't get to send it back because it doesn't do X. Some consumer outlets may let you do this as a courtesy, but it's not ubiquitous a
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by mseebach 8y ago
Works != supports
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by mseebach 8y ago
> I should be able to walk at my own pace Yet, in doing so inconsiderately, you're denying others the right to do the exact same thing. > I do get aggressive and I punched somebody once. Ah, so the problem is you, thanks for co
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by mseebach 8y ago
Why? That seems terribly complicated for very limited benefit. (And it takes a lot more than that to start a cult)
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by mseebach 8y ago
It could be fun PR stunt for an anniversary or whatever if they started to hand out bars of soap with sticks of gum...
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by mseebach 8y ago
In the very limited definition of war that is taking territory from another country (which that country then looses), and where the deaths of soldiers and destruction of property can be discounted, war can be considered zero-sum. But obvi
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by mseebach 8y ago
When it comes to considering the working environment, I think it's informative to consider investment banking: a field infamous for pretty much all sorts of toxicity. Yet, it doesn't suffer from any particular gender diversity pro
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by mseebach 8y ago
Military in the sense that it deters attack can be massively positive-sum, depending on how you account for the value of not being attacked and maintaining national sovereignty. Military in the sense of, let's say, the Iraq invasion tu
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by mseebach 8y ago
I was with you until the end, but none of those functions are inherently zero-sum. Perhaps it's mostly a nit-pick, but zero-sum has a very specific meaning, and it isn't "stuff we wish we didn't have to do", which s
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by mseebach 8y ago
Hence, my sympathy for the idea that the real fix lies upstream: in order to get more women and minorities into tech, more members of these groups need to choose to study the relevant degrees in college. There are reasonable points to be ma
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by mseebach 8y ago
Because "society" is made up of (among others) companies, and Google is a large company. The way things change in a society is when the members of society start to change them. If a company with the weight and power of Google feel
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by mseebach 8y ago
No, but refraining from taking an action that's well within your power to take, possibly with minimal consequences, and which you have a strong incentive to take, is sign of integrity. I don't know if that's "getting cre
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by mseebach 8y ago
The user sounds like he was a regular on the IRC channel. Did they perhaps add particular logging on the IP/port combo when asked to, rather than having always logged, and lied about it? I mean, it's still not consistent with &quo
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by mseebach 8y ago
You're asserting a kind of direct malicious intent that I don't think is fair. Certainly, remote work puts some demands on the manager that a bad manager won't be able to handle. If anything, it's an unwillingness to con
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by mseebach 8y ago
The main bit of process missing here seems to be the requirement that the developer of a given feature is at work (or at least on call) when it's deployed and has it's first full day of usage (or whatever makes sense for the parti
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by mseebach 8y ago
More pertinently, a good deal of these seems to to driver error , specifically missing signals. If there's anything automatic drivers are good at, it's not missing signals.
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Uber's self-driving car also has an operator "twiddling their thumbs most of the times", but I wouldn't want to eliminate the operator. Eliminating the driver is literally the whole point of self driving car researc
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by mseebach 8y ago
Both of those things can be true simultaneously. Anyone insisting on a single, isolated cause of badness in such a complex system is pushing an agenda.
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by mseebach 8y ago
The writing is abysmal. "[...] or they can try and get into the building, which seems like it’s probably super dangerous". O RLY? "[...] a single segment in a robot that can be extended to an arbitrary length by just adding o
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by mseebach 8y ago
I'd love for both Android and iOS to find a way to be smart about audible notifications. Low-hanging fruit seems to be to disable, or drastically reduce notification volume when the device is held in a hand and the screen is on. I get
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by mseebach 8y ago
Can you possibly share a bit about what makes an accountant right or wrong for you, please?
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by mseebach 8y ago
I've heard of this in the context of shortcutting regulatory stuff - if you want a banking license, find a small bank in some backwater and "merge" with them, if you want to list on a stock exchange, find a small, cheap liste
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by mseebach 8y ago
If everybody in the UK moved to where houses had average cost, everybody would be able to afford a place to live. If they could get a job, which they can't, which is (a large part of) why they don't do that. That's the proble
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by mseebach 8y ago
First, as pointed out elsewhere, the Apple/Facebooks of the world already aren't putting their private repos on any external service (perhaps they rent iron on a cloud, but certainly not SaaS). Second, this is the same business
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Recently (just as most of the world has apparently moved on from desktop computing, haha) Linux is pretty much fine for the traditional desktop computing. It's exactly because the world has moved away from desktop computing that
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by mseebach 8y ago
I'm with you so far, but the bit I don't understand is that for bitcoin to be said to support fractional reserve, don't you need to have the balance of your loan issued in bitcoin as well, so that you can pay other people for

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