natrius

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by natrius 10y ago
It is unreasonable for the government to limit housing. It directly causes economic segregation. Only the wealthiest get the homes allowed by law while everyone else gets pushed further out. The market does not do this. Our segregation laws
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The recommendations at the end of the article sound pretty reasonable. Choice is great, but the switching costs are pretty high when schools mistreat students and parents. Transparent representation for students and parents seems required f
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What would a rough sketch of async/await syntax sugar look like implemented with Rust macros?
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An ad that's relevant to your interests is fine, but that's the best case scenario. How many people's lives were improved by clicking on "one weird trick" ads? Those ads sucked money out of people's pockets for
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by natrius 10y ago
Facebook's profitability is not your problem. It's their job to figure out how to get paid. It's your job to protect your mind. Targeted ads are worse than gambling. We made sure everyone's aware of the dangers of gambli
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When you allow targeted ads into your life, you're putting changes in your behavior on the market each time you touch a device. Those behavior changes are intended to make you give the buyer more money than they paid. The market will f
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I am saying the exact opposite. Our governments are segregating people by law. We should stop doing that.
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These laws weren't created because urban infrastructure is hard. Urban infrastructure is easier than suburban infrastructure. These laws were created to exclude people back when excluding people was fashionable. There is no excuse to k
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by natrius 10y ago
> Any given neighborhood has limited space to build things. That's fine. A neighborhood full of high rises that no one wants to pay to knock down to build taller is naturally full. The government hasn't declared it to be full t
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by natrius 10y ago
In a housing shortage, you don't have to build a nice building to make money. If people are stretching to find a place in a neighborhood they want, you can't charge higher rent for a nicer building. Our priority in boomtowns has b
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That's reasonable enough. I think when there are contracts people actually want to use, no one will be turned away by the small chance that the entire ecosystem will maliciously alter that contract.
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by natrius 10y ago
Blockchains require the will of the people. You can't force people to acknowledge numbers just because they're written down somewhere unless you point a gun at them. If the people you want to interact with start looking at a diffe
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by natrius 10y ago
Blockchains fork constantly. Most forks aren't ever treated as a source of truth by anyone, but there's always the freedom to do so. We've created these fancy spools of receipt paper and we're all just trying to decide w
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by natrius 10y ago
I agree with Walker's criticism of the transit service Musk describes, and his conclusion: "...[Take] frequent fixed-route bus service seriously. If you don’t do that in your land use planning, you’re going to end up building a c
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by natrius 10y ago
This exact argument seemed compelling when the internet was rolling out. Private networks were fine and even more useful—who would send financial information over a public network? It turns out that technologies that unlock permissionless i
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by natrius 10y ago
Stop investing in cryptocurrencies. Ethereum is a platform that gives developers incredible power to facilitate social and economic coordination. It's not about providing a better currency.
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by natrius 10y ago
Property taxes don't affect your rent by forcing your landlord to increase prices. Your landlord can only increase prices if someone is willing to pay that increased price. Property tax rates don't affect people's ability to
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by natrius 10y ago
Rent is not a guaranteed loss every time. There are tradeoffs that most people never calculate. Just use a calculator. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calc...
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Just try using it already. Or any virtual DOM library. You have cosmetic complaints about things that no one who uses this stuff is bothered by.
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by natrius 10y ago
Depends on what you're looking for. I live in Austin and I love it. There are plenty of interesting companies to work for, and you'll live in a better home in a better neighborhood for your budget. Austinites are generally fantast
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by natrius 10y ago
You're thinking about the old kind of war. If China wanted the US to suffer, they'd just create versions of ISIS for each minority group—persuasive ideologies that present violence as the only option—and watch as the country tears
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by natrius 10y ago
While the nationalism wave is terrifying, telling people that war is coming only speeds up the wave.
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Buying lots of stuff from one person is cheaper than buying some stuff from lots of people. This difference is caused by transaction costs—the effort required to go from desire to purchased solution—and it's core to the theory of why f
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by natrius 10y ago
Code is not law. Code will never be law. No one is going to pay attention to records in a database that say something different from what everyone wants it to say. Despite this, blockchains are an incredibly powerful platform for social and
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I'm with you: let's build better transportation infrastructure. But we can't keep using our laws to segregate by income. Some income segregation is inevitable, but we shouldn't encourage it by making the good life scarce
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by natrius 10y ago
Shipping people in from economically segregated exurbs is not a solution to a segregation problem. We could just repeal the laws that are hurting families with less wealth. The controversy on this issue should be a huge red flag: we've
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Look at the great discussion you started! Thanks for taking the risk of being imprecise to share your thoughts.
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It's basically a set of rules that forces you to buy a big piece of land and only build one home on it. There are many cities where entire neighborhoods have no apartments or row homes because they're illegal to build. We've
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I'm not asking anyone to undo the injustices that have walled off generations of black families from wealth. I mean, you should, but I don't think y'all are up for it. What I'm asking is that you not pile injustices on t
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by natrius 10y ago
How many unarmed black people have to be gunned down by their own government before skin color makes a difference? I am beyond despair. A society that systematically oppresses black people still thinks skin color is irrelevant. There is no

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