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by natrius 11y ago
I switched from Python. They are very similar languages, but one works on the web. Django might pull me back in if I need a CRUD app, but otherwise, it's easier to build a one-language team.
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I hate tipping culture because as a minority, my actions are likely to feed common cognitive biases about group behavior. Uber is less stressful for me because I can pay the agreed upon price and we'll both be happy. I hope reputation
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What is a man?
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Totalitarian states do just fine as it is. They use money to maintain their power. This might make totalitarian states impossible.
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This seems to be a case of the "all lives matter" fallacy. It's true that the men-bad-women-good bias is harmful. It just doesn't strike me as worth spending much effort on compared to the biases that are making our indu
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There are plenty of things worth discussing that aren't falsifiable. There's also plenty of actual data related to those unfalsifiable anecdotes. Individual instances of biased decision-making are impossible to prove, but that doe
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Money is a claim on value, and fungibility forces everyone to honor all claims on value. An incorruptible record of the flow of trade through an economy allows you to eliminate fungibility. You can withdraw your consent for people to trade
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We're saying the same thing. I've found that it's harder to convince people when I talk about buildings and economics, so I talk about the families our laws prevent from living in our neighborhoods.
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I can afford to buy in central Austin. We should fight for those who can't. This is a battle that can be won, and if you're interested in helping, join Friends of Austin Neighborhoods, a group of individuals and neighborhood assoc
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I haven't found a citation on this, but I'm pretty confident that the folks who gave us explicit racial segregation said some pretty terrible things about poor people that I'll be able to cite. Unfortunately, the time I can s
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Zoning by use (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.) is just one of many land use tools. There are tons of rules in Houston about how much land you need for a building and what you can actually build, as well as restrictive covenants i
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This has been done before with cities who were more egregiously discriminatory with their zoning, as I mention in the long form of this argument[1]. I don't know what hurdles are in the way of using the courts to end this subtle segreg
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It's self-evident why the middle class can't outbid rich families for single family homes near employment centers: the rich have more money and they want to live there too. But for dilapidated homes that are ready to be torn down,
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Try it both ways. I used to agree with you until I tried squashing after code review.
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I think your first link should be squashed once the code has been reviewed. When looking back on history, commits are most useful when they're a list of behavior changes in the software. That pull request "exports meshes as OBJ.&q
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To clarify, pull requests shouldn't be squashed before review. They should be squashed when they get merged in, like this GitHub feature does. The granular commit history is useful during code review. It is not useful as a future devel
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I used to strongly believe what you do until my company started using Phabricator, which forces the squash workflow on you. It makes your history more useful, not less. The pull request is the appropriate unit of change for software. Make s
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"Liquid democracy" is very cool, and it seems strictly superior to our current system. However, it will still be captured by capitalism. The most popular representatives will attract the most funding, and their actions will be as
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If you go to a store and they reject your cash because it's too crumpled, you're probably going to start shopping somewhere else. Same logic applies here: cutting people off from your economy is bad for business. You only do it wh
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Capitalism makes centralized democracy untenable, and capitalism is here to stay. So much power is controlled by infrequent elections, so influencing those elections is always worthwhile. Capitalism is an evolutionary force that selects for
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by natrius 11y ago
Haha, you didn't even take the effort to look at my profile. I write code. Like many Ethereum developers, I own ether. My comments apply to any EVM-based blockchain, and there will be many.
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Gnosis runs on the Ethereum blockchain directly. The Gnosis team can't change the number of shares you own, for instance. Decentralized applications are safer for users. It was founded by the team that built Fairlay, a prediction marke
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Prediction markets are bets among arbitrary, dynamic sets of stakeholders. The price of a bet depends on the bets that have already been made. Both of these characteristics require state to be maintained across transactions in ways that Bit
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Gnosis is a prediction market platform that is live on Ethereum right now. http://groupgnosis.com/ There are a few ways to act as the oracle who indicates what the outcome of an event was. You can tell users to just trust y
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> the potential applications offered by its fancy scripting language are not actually that much stronger than what you can do with Bitcoin I disagree. When I learned about what can be built with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, I quit my
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With blockchains, only the user has write access to the database with their cryptographic identity. Users are in full control. Users can run a node of the peer-to-peer component if they want. Anyone can. They just don't have to.
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(Readers who have similar developer questions should check out the Ethereum Stack Exchange. It's really useful! https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/ ) Blockchains have to produce new blocks regularly to be useful. Think
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Rules in blockchain-based software cannot change ex post facto . The only decision involved is the user's choice to use the application in the first place. These are user-controlled applications. (I've tried explaining these as a
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The people overthrew kings, and they were up against the same imbalance of power. I think it's going to be even easier this time. Potential loyalists will be able to see those who would bribe them lose buying power as the people declar
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Arguing about which blockchain will be used for computation is like arguing about PowerPC outcompeting Intel chips: it only really matters to people with a financial stake in the outcome. Don't get so distracted by speculation that you

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