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by nwah1 3y ago
Whether that is what GP was saying or not, I don't know. But everyone receiving a basic income guarantee, with no other economic changes, would mean that the amount that landlords and other rent-seekers could expect to charge would dra
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by nwah1 3y ago
Very likely you are in a bubble, because "poly" is a signifier of a tiny subset of youth who have adopted a dubious trend from certain elite circles. And "hustle" culture is also a very particular trend from a small grou
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by nwah1 4y ago
I can only speak for myself. But I was aware of the ideology and technological background from the very early days. I understand precisely what the original movement was trying to achieve, and do not respect it on an ideological level. I fi
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by nwah1 4y ago
This was a thorough explanation. Thank you. It does sound like the history of corruption from 2013 means they have to stay alert to this problem. And it also sounds like the revolving door of government has allowed a lot of the former inves
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by nwah1 4y ago
So, one agent was caught and convicted of theft, on an unrelated matter, and this is evidence of corruption? Wouldn't that, in fact, be evidence of a system that is successfully punishing corruption? And since the transaction history i
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by nwah1 4y ago
On what basis do you make this statement?
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by nwah1 4y ago
Standard fraud at standard banks is about as easy to trace, or easier, and there is no underlying utility to these crypto scam protocols. So touting the traceability is a red herring.
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by nwah1 4y ago
The article about the oil business specifically mentions the JFK assassination conspiracy theory, and links to evidence of why it is false. http://jfkfacts.org/about-that-lame-bush-conspiracy-theory/
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by nwah1 4y ago
Teams works in the browser, but MAUI doesn't. Also, MAUI didn't exist when Teams was invented, and they had only just acquired the Xamarin company. MAUI is great, and they should invest more in it. WebView2 and MAUI work together
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by nwah1 4y ago
A rewrite would be very expensive, and this already works. Microsoft also invented TypeScript and WebView2. They are eating their own dogfood.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Some of the revelations indicate it may be much worse.
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by nwah1 4y ago
More likely, the answer is that a lot of Windows users want a hassle-free experience. DIY edition of this would have no Windows tax, if you are a linux user.
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by nwah1 4y ago
UWP is deprecated. WinUI version 3 is now recommended. At least with the .NET API, file saving now works like a normal Win32 app from a programmer's perspective. Not sure if it is different under the hood.
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by nwah1 4y ago
That's true, and beyond the simple observation that the two options (mortgages and renting) will maintain a kind of general equilibrium, there is a more complicated issue called the Law of Rent which shows that land value is based on t
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by nwah1 4y ago
You are thinking in the short run. Rental contracts and mortgage contracts are difficult to extricate yourself from, and make prices "sticky." Demand cannot immediately respond to market changes. But in the long run, it is based
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by nwah1 4y ago
I didn't say machine learning is useless. I said most products claiming to have AI secret sauce have no secret sauce. Big difference.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Not that much different. 9/10 uses of the term are still complete bullshit. The other 1/10 are still mostly bullshit as well.
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by nwah1 4y ago
There's a difference between finance and economics. Economists would be the experts at the macro level. Of course, experts aren't so great at analyzing a system as complex as the economy. But at least that is what they are attempt
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by nwah1 4y ago
Bitcoin regularly dives by orders of magnitude worse than the 2008 financial crisis. Angsty posting like this probably sounded really cool to people in high school, but I'm not sure why we should be impressed with your fact-free faux-r
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by nwah1 4y ago
Launching from lunar orbit would obviate EMP and terrestrial radiation concerns. But those are the least of the concerns.
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by nwah1 4y ago
You are on your own mostly. That's part of the problem. I am right there with you in my lack of understood in how best to get started. The most trendy language on HN (Rust) has an initiative called Prusti, and a working group. Most of
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by nwah1 4y ago
There is a small community of people interested in formal verification. Unfortunately, it is mostly confined to the academic and research communities, rather than regular software engineers. In part because the tools they use do not have th
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by nwah1 4y ago
Most of these are kind of bad because they get organized around the aesthetics of a particular person or small clique. Just like how science only progresses one funeral at a time, it is probably the same for software. That said, I do like s
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by nwah1 4y ago
Face detection is the kind of thing I'm talking about, but to me Google Photos is the gold standard right now. It can automatically figure out that certain groups of photos constitute a particular trip to a particular destination. It c
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by nwah1 4y ago
It feels like machine learning is replacing a lot of need to manually manage data. Programs like DigiKam would need to interoperate with machine learning models to stay relevant.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Mint Mobile is a service that offers cheap phone plans but doesn't have their own telecommunications stack. It is just enabling a lower tier of customer to operate on the same stack as everyone else. This is vertical integration, not h
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by nwah1 4y ago
Another problem with monopolies is that they atrophy so much that they can fail to even maximize their own profit. And I didn't say you would get a great deal from a rational monopolist. I said that you would get tiered services that k
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by nwah1 4y ago
Product differentiation for various markets and price discrimination are both common techniques that even a monopoly can use to extract more profit. They know that not everyone would be able to afford the top tier of service. If Toyota were
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by nwah1 4y ago
Charisma, humor, and religious-like ideological framing that can acquire true believers who believe they are saving the world.
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by nwah1 4y ago
This is self-interested scaremongering. The public does not owe a bailout to depositors who made bad loans to banks. Regardless of whether they thought it was a loan or not. Bank runs are adequately avoided with a lot of the existing safegu

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