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by nybble41 4y ago
> This is where you need data. More specifically, this is where you need data which does not and cannot exist. Specifically, an objective scale which would allow you to compare the cost or benefit of policy to the platform and the seller
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> I would also argue that the minimal amount of consumption (let's say, you keep yourself alive, just barely), and maximizing your investment amount, is the best outcome for your future, and is the most efficient allocation of resou
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The difference is that a storage facility is holding property which belongs to its customers, while Coinbase merely owes its customers a service—there is no property involved, as the assets are all virtual. Banks are somewhere in between; t
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> So you’ll have to provide additional information about who the funds come from to the receiving exchange yourself. It's your wallet, so the funds come from you. You may need to sign a message to prove that. The exchange already ha
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> and any consumption->investment switch is good Not always: It is possible to over -invest and under -consume. Don't forget that the purpose of investment in the present is to enable consumption in the future. In the extreme c
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> So.. sell or lower your rent? Say you're already charging the lowest rent that makes economic sense (i.e. at cost) and you still can't get tenants? What then? It's not like anyone is going to want to buy the place from y
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> So on a practical level if you actually want to stop this becoming policy, it would be much more effective to actually to find different solutions. There is no solution to the "problem" of some people sharing photos or other
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The examples are interesting, and there are certainly some (well-known) pitfalls to keep in mind when writing code for a lazy-by-default language, but I find the author's conclusions a bit bizarre in light of the overall article. In pa
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You can certainly cut down on the number of items to scan through by simply cutting off most of it, but then you'll miss some things you would have been interested in. Even worse, making it difficult to follow a wide variety of sources
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Having this as an option might be nice, though it's more likely to be useless at scale. Having it as the only option sounds like a nightmare: Blink and you'll miss the content you're interested in, with no easy way to get
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Devices you can't control are also a problem, but the endpoints are still the right places to implement filtering. You can't guarantee access to the data anyway, as they can always encrypt the content independently of TLS. Though
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> Can you name any candidate that wouldn't harm any group? No, I can't. That's the problem with voting for representatives or officials—you inevitably end up voting for a politician. The candidate pool is made up of people
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The dubious part isn't the 28+28 year copyright term for new works, but rather the part where they penalize a single organization (not named, but the criteria only includes Disney) by shortening only its copyright terms for existing
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> A nuanced view of the actual debate is that one side believes the second amendment is absolute and the other believes that it allows for some restrictions similar to the free speech / "fire in a theater" situation. You p
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> So you expect roughly 50% of people to hate you, and for you to hate about 50% of people? You don't have to vote either Republican or Democrat. Third-parties, write-ins, and simply abstaining in protest are all perfectly valid alt
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> then monitoring and filtering will simply move to the endpoint Good. That's where it belongs.
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My reading is that the new 28-year copyright term with one 28-year renewal option with registration would apply to everyone going forward. Only the "retroactive effect" is narrowly constructed to apply only to Disney. This seems a
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> However, most exchanges have transfer fees, on top of whatever costs are incurred on the network by the transfer. Most might, but Coinbase does not. Outgoing transfers are free—they even cover the network fee. For incoming transfers th
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When you get right down to it, as a purely virtual asset the crypto isn't anyone's property. Coinbase holds some keys which give it the ability to sign transactions on the blockchain, a service which has value. They owe their
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> Tesla sells solar roofs and power walls accessible to every person in US. Is it an evidence electrical grid is not a natural monopoly? No it is not. Unlike competing video hosting platforms, solar roofs and PowerWalls are not the same
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YouTube is not a natural monopoly, as evidenced by the fact that there are other video hosting services (e.g. Vimeo, Facebook, PeerTube). The network effect is real, to be sure, but it isn't absolute, and anyone can start a competing s
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You're either trolling or completely clueless. I suspect the former is more likely but I'll try to give you the benefit of the doubt. > You'd be dead in a social society because as a lone, greedy individual … You're o
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The ads you're complaining about are not Google's ads. When you pay for YT Premium you don't see ads from Google on YouTube. End of story. Other people can still show you ads, even in videos they upload to YouTube. That'
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> It kinda is voluntary. If you don't like it, you can leave the country which wants you to pay. Voluntary would be staying where you are and still not being forced to pay. When a mugger presents their victim with a choice like &q
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Yes, because age (like smoking) is one of the few factors ACA Marketplace plans can take into consideration. But healthy older people pay the same premiums as unhealthy older people, which means one of these two groups is being overchar
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> The same way responsible drivers should not pay for reckless ones? Or responsible homeowners shouldn't pay for reckless ones? Yes, exactly. Reckless drivers and reckless homeowners should pay higher premiums, as their insurance co
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Google is delivering their service ad-free. It's not their fault you choose to use their ad-free hosting and distribution service to view third-party videos which contain ads.
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Google's product here is the hosting and distribution service. If you pay for YT Premium then Google doesn't place any ads in their product. The content of the videos—including any "native" ads inserted by the video cr
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Much of that trading will happen off-chain using local accounts on some exchange and thus not contribute to the transaction count. Only the deposits and withdrawals require on-chain transactions.
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It technically isn't, as economic value is subjective and has no limiting constraints. We can't magically create more resources, but we can use the ones we have ever more efficiently.

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