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by natrius 13y ago
Surge pricing lures more drivers to the road because of the extra profit. More passengers are moved with surge pricing than without it. You're saying that it's more "fair" for fewer people to get the rides they want? Law
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by natrius 13y ago
You don't have to trace all the money. You can mark all wallets that receive money from mixers as suspect, and disincentivize accepting suspect bitcoins. Imagine someone's wallet gets compromised, and all the funds are transferred
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by natrius 13y ago
It's hard to pinpoint the causes of trends across an index, but it's easy to pinpoint the cause of a commodity's price changing.
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by natrius 13y ago
This isn't true. If it becomes easier to spend bitcoins than dollars, why wouldn't you just spend bitcoins and convert your earnings to bitcoins as they come in? The problem with Bitcoin isn't so much the price volatility. It
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by natrius 13y ago
Other than Google search and maps, Facebook is the most useful service I use on the web.
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by natrius 13y ago
Agreed. The bitcoin ecosystem will need traditional banks, credit cards, and the rest of the financial services industry. Prices that involve transfers will just be lower, and interest rates on deposits will have to factor in expected defla
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by natrius 13y ago
The purpose of deposit insurance is to prevent runs on banks that make loans and don't have as much money in their vaults as the total of their customers' balances. Coinbase does not make loans. As far as I can tell, it's a s
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by natrius 13y ago
You refer to the costs of living on the coasts as just the cost of living. Most of America can't make salaries to get by in the Bay Area, so they live elsewhere. That makes living in the Bay Area a luxury good. Affluence is about how m
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by natrius 13y ago
It's illustrative of the wealth divide in our society that engineers think 96th percentile wages are middle class.
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by natrius 13y ago
Isolating an entire environment is a better idea than isolating a python environment, but isolating a language's environment is an easier problem to solve, so the tools for it are currently better. I doubt we'll all be doing it th
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by natrius 13y ago
You should probably go back and read his commit message before making assumptions.
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by natrius 13y ago
This seems to be going over people's heads, so I'll leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing
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by natrius 13y ago
To quote myself: "If merit correlates with the ability to make money and merit is heritable, you'd expect those with merit to come from families with money." Is my logic incorrect? Does merit not correlate with the ability to
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by natrius 13y ago
Your claim that it isn't true is nice and all, but actual evidence that it isn't true would be better.
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by natrius 13y ago
If merit correlates with the ability to make money and merit is heritable, you'd expect those with merit to come from families with money. Top schools and our industry are probably far from pure meritocracies, but that data doesn'
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by natrius 13y ago
To use bookmarks, I have to convince the whole team to use bookmarks. Why not convince them to switch to git instead? I use Mercurial plugins to give me commands that make my life better, like `pull --rebase`, `shelve` and `strip`, but gett
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by natrius 13y ago
Code is read more than it is written. Version control systems provide tools to make it simpler to read code and understand why it was written. Version control systems also define how you branch and merge, which are are hugely important conc
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by natrius 13y ago
Or, you know, pay for the product. I don't understand the logic behind complaining about paying $3.75 a week for a product that you use so frequently. It should be embarrassing.
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by natrius 13y ago
PayPal-style sending money to an email address can easily work with Bitcoin the same way it does with bank accounts, though sending payments would presumably require that web service to manage a Bitcoin wallet for you. Receiving should be e
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by natrius 13y ago
Can you give an example of the Python you're writing that requires assertions to be functional? My guess is that you're using assertions where raising and catching exceptions would be more appropriate.
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by natrius 13y ago
I get my groceries on my bike that has baskets on the back rack. Two reusable bags hold lots of stuff, and I bring a backpack for when I go over. I drive when I need larger things, like toilet paper every two months. Palo Alto taught me tha
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by natrius 13y ago
Python is more dogmatic than Ruby. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ Choosing a minimalistic web framework like Flask or Sinatra makes sense if you're experienced enough to know what choices Djang
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by natrius 13y ago
Isn't a system specified by legislation fundamentally at odds with an agile process? Neither the requirements nor the dates could change without an act of Congress (or in some cases, the President).
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by natrius 13y ago
The vast majority of economics is about how to avoid past mistakes, not necessarily how to avoid making new ones. This doesn't mean the science isn't valuable. There are plenty of terrible mistakes I hope we never make again.
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by natrius 13y ago
Some people have hobbies that require other people nearby who share those hobbies to work. I like improv and various other kinds of comedy. You can do that in LA, SF, NY, Chicago, and Austin (where I live). You can't do that as well in
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by natrius 13y ago
Which states provide data on how someone voted? Whether you voted in an election is normally provided, which provides party affiliation data for primary voters, but I'm not aware of any state that has done away with the private ballo
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by natrius 13y ago
My hunch is that there's no law that makes such a distinction.
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by natrius 13y ago
Google makes a good point: if it's illegal to scan emails to serve ads, doesn't that mean it's also illegal to scan emails to filter spam and prioritize email?
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by natrius 13y ago
This is probably psychosomatic. Python GUI libraries are usually a thin layer on top of C/C++ libraries like GTK and Qt, so the drawing and input handling is all happening quickly.
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by natrius 13y ago
Displacement isn't inherently immoral in my opinion, but using those people's government to exacerbate the process is.

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