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by natrius 11y ago
Austin is a great city to write software in, and the salaries are fine. I lived in the best possible location in the city and still saved money. If you're looking for startups, there are plenty. If you have broad interests, you'll
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by natrius 11y ago
Blockchains are a liberating technology, and I want liberty for the people. I want the network effect of decentralized identities to suck in as many applications as possible and liberate their users. My goal is mass adoption. Money is inher
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That's exactly what I do, and that's what I'm suggesting. Developers should read the docs, spin up a chain on their laptops, and build cool stuff.
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I think it has pretty good solutions for those, but that's not the point. Blockchains are viewed as a way to make money from speculation, which is why the Bitcoin community is freaking out. Blockchains are actually a revolutionary tech
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Ignoring the companies that onboard almost all new users and process transactions for most merchants sounds like a bad idea. But whatever, it's clear at this point that Ethereum will be how most people interact with blockchains for the
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by natrius 11y ago
We agree! Our productivity statistics don't seem to be measuring what we think of as productivity. We're getting better at producing things, but since it's not making us more profitable, we can't see it in numbers.
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Productivity is roughly customer payments divided by the costs of doing business. If prices drop, Uber and drivers can collect the same amount of payments with the same costs of doing business. Fewer drivers could be used, but that won&#x27
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by natrius 11y ago
I don't think idle driver time shows up much in productivity statistics. The productivity per car increases, but I don't think we collect enough data to be able to amortize those existing limos over the time that UberBlack has exi
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by natrius 11y ago
The Uber example is a great one. From 2009 to 2015, Uber didn't do much to increase the amount of value a driver could create per dollar spent. It did somewhat: Uber drivers can charge less than taxi drivers due to higher utilization a
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by natrius 11y ago
This is a cool direction. Other than previous Scala knowledge, what are some advantages of using some sort of scala-native over Rust? I've used Scala and I always imagined that I'd use Rust if I wanted something similar without th
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We Must Repeal Our Segregation Laws(medium.com)
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> The abruptness of Austin’s success ... is causing a whole range of problems, unfolding in fast-forward — water supplies, electric supplies, gentrification. We have to stop calling what's happening in Austin "gentrification.
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by natrius 11y ago
In addition to widespread tech worker antipathy, people expect history to rhyme. People know what a tech bubble story sounds like, and they'll buy tickets for the sequel. Eventually everyone will realize that it's not a tech bubbl
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by natrius 11y ago
Searching public data is already decentralized: anyone can run a web crawler and search engine. Search engines, recommendation systems, and AI assistants that use private data are harder to decentralize, but they're also where all the
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by natrius 11y ago
Let's separate the use cases: we want a permanent, public web, and we want applications that don't die when servers get shut down. IPFS clearly solves the first use case, so let's talk about the second. In this context, IPFS
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by natrius 11y ago
Reddit only succeeded because Digg wasn't good enough: it changed in undesirable ways, so users left. How are you going to convince enough redditors that Reddit isn't good enough that a critical mass moves to your platform? I thin
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by natrius 11y ago
Most of my development experience is in Python, and Clojure's what excites me the most these days. I've had to write a lot of Javascript for work, and it turns out that there's a large community of Javascript developers who w
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by natrius 11y ago
As the world changes, strategies for making money change. Uber isn't an individual attractive business, it's an exemplar of how putting internet-connected sensors in every pocket allows new and improved marketplaces to be created,
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This entire comment is an ad hominem argument. This sort of thing hurts the quality of discussion here.
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No, only the average American programmer. Most others wouldn't know what UTC is and haven't had to think about GMT since elementary school.
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Ah, I was really convinced by the article but I completely forgot about days. That really makes it a nonstarter.
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Agreed. This movement should be replaced with a movement for remote teams to use UTC as their reference time. Right now, we use headquarters time, but less than a third of the company works there, and no one in the other 2/3rds of the
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by natrius 11y ago
https://www.narrativescience.com/
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Your dichotomy is a false one. Do you really think anyone's trying to keep frail old people alive just to count off more days? It seems clear that the goal is to eliminate diseases and decline, which would increase everyone's qual
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Blockchains can be tampered with, but they're tamper-evident. Sure, a government can 51% attack Bitcoin and lower its value. The value of Bitcoin doesn't matter. What matters is the ability to reach consensus on a sequence of even
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by natrius 11y ago
Blockchains don't need independence from governments. Blockchains are independence from governments. Blockchains allow individuals to enforce rules on their governments without needing to navigate bureaucracies and legislatures that
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by natrius 11y ago
The Python community just doesn't have good tools to type dictionaries. In JavaScript, you can use a tool like tcomb[1] that lets you specify the structure of your data and add functionality onto that data. Throwing raw dictionaries ar
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by natrius 11y ago
I agree that conservatism has virtues. Change does introduce unknown unknowns. I think there's a good strategy for handling them: when people do undesirable things, sanction them. Change is inevitable. Zcash is here, so regulation is d
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It's strictly opt-in, but you won't be able to buy anything if everyone else requires auditable money and you don't want to opt-in. The more people who adopt it, the less tenable it is to stay out. Governments are people. Peo
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> We believe that privacy strengthens social ties and social institutions, protects societies against their enemies, and helps societies to be more peaceful and more prosperous. It's time to have a serious conversation about wheth

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