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by natchy 5y ago
How is a large insurance company refusing to pay on a legitimate claim any less of a scam? I don’t think cryptocurrency is near mature enough to replace traditional contracts, but technology changes a lot in 5-10 years.
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by natchy 5y ago
True, also add extra time on your hands. Poverty + boredom.
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by natchy 5y ago
If schemes were regulated out of existence, then eventually there would be a huge population of gullible suckers who won’t recognize a Ponzi scheme. Much like how most American don’t barter anymore for little things so they’re easy pickings
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by natchy 6y ago
You’re being pedantic about the poetic usage of the word “worship”.
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by natchy 6y ago
“inflammatory” is an opinion
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by natchy 6y ago
> the web makes it far easier to invade privacy and deploy dark patterns, while that behavior typically is checked by the app store Disagree. One reason sites want me to use their app is because I can’t block trackers. I wont use native
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by natchy 6y ago
> the only two logical outcomes are to either go bust, or to be acquired by a major cloud provider Or acquired by a chip maker, like Intel.
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by natchy 6y ago
> every building project should include parking How much would it cost to add parking under each building? Could that money be used toward light rails or bullet trains.
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by natchy 6y ago
Yes created by an act of Congress but is not under the jurisdiction of congress or the president, apart from appointments.
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by natchy 6y ago
Although I think there’s some merit to your comment, I don’t think it’s racial, I think it’s cultural or classist. A black English actor (like Idris Elba) would be “overstaying his visa” as would a wealthy Indian tech CEO. People coming fro
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by natchy 6y ago
> low speed combined with short drives (it was a smallish island) was bad for the engine Low speed or low RPM?
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by natchy 6y ago
That concept is from the book “the design of everyday things” by Dan Norman. A Seminal book in UX psychology.
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by natchy 6y ago
No he’s right. This is vital for a growing company who is vacuuming up market share. It’s not necessary for big corps who just throw more people at a product or use their economies of scale to stay ahead. The nasty truth is that every big C
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by natchy 6y ago
When I was learning F# I felt the biggest barrier was lack of good documentation. I’m used to languages like node.js, ruby, and elixir where APIs/guides are straightforward. programming language maintainers need to think about UX. I’ve
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by natchy 6y ago
Minutes? Now way! I have a Crystal code base with 10s of thousands of lines and it takes like 10-30 seconds. The solution is to start breaking up the monolith so you only compile sections at a time.
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by natchy 6y ago
> Federation implies decentralization. No it doesn’t. Gmail is a centralized instance of a federated network. You can have a federated node that becomes so popular that it’s basically centralized. This federated/decentralized distin
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by natchy 6y ago
> Mastodon is great as a decentralized Twitter Federated, not decentralized. Decentralized is peer2peer like torrents. Federated is like email where there are little fiefdoms like Gmail, yahoo, or self-hosted.
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by natchy 6y ago
It’s my primary editor. It’s a better text editor than VsCode, but VsCode is a better IDE.
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by natchy 6y ago
I think it’s mostly that they are on a dark background honestly. Imagine what a non programmer thinks when they see a programmers dark text editor. Thats the same feeling most people get when they see data viz on a dark BG since it’s so unc
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by natchy 6y ago
Yeah but you can multi-task with audio. I can wash dishes and listen.
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by natchy 6y ago
I think you could have both, one national network and another global network.
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by natchy 6y ago
I was thinking “yo mama”
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by natchy 6y ago
would rather have mixed zoning, resulting in more distributed "city centers". I don't like big cities, but would love a more connected small town.
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by natchy 6y ago
politics is governing. most people don't govern. We have other jobs and roles. My influence on politics is insignificant vs my influence on other things that will impact my quality of life and those around me. In fact, politics and pol
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by natchy 6y ago
i'd say political tribes are taking over the role of the church or spiritual leaders. Work is taking over the role of the family.
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by natchy 6y ago
Would revamping zoning laws to be more mixed (residential + commercial) like japan provide more local commerce and more local tax opportunities?
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by natchy 6y ago
creator of TS was a maintainer of F# at microsoft when he created it. I see lots of parallels in the type systems.
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by natchy 6y ago
IMO its in the public's interest to not suffocate startups. different story now that they've IPO'd.
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by natchy 6y ago
Eh, Sony probably wouldn’t have hustled like CR did and grown it as well as it did. This was in 2013. They easily could have suffocated it in the last 7 years.
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by natchy 6y ago
This is modern book burning. To combat establishment elites in either side we need more freedom, not less.

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