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by ralmeida 10y ago
One should definetely consider the opportunity cost of taking matters into their own hands. However, I think the example is way over-the-top because of some reasons (most already stated by sibling comments): * Not sure how many programming
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Don't think so, they may be referring to the fact that since the UBI is a fixed value, then the increase for the lower income percentiles is percent-wise higher w.r.t the current income.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Not if you assume a fairly free market (not many cartels, etc). If you could buy bread for $10, and now earn 50% more, a merchant could raise the price to $15 to try to grab the 'newly found money'. But they would be just raising
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by ralmeida 10y ago
That's true, but most vary fluctuate wildly with respect to the USD, not in their purchasing power within their country of origin, even less so in the span of weeks or days. For example, if I was paid the equivalent of a 50 USD ride in
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by ralmeida 10y ago
How does cash vary in value? If you have a $50 bill, you can expect to buy a very predictable amount of food (for example) next week, regardless of what happens. Not so much if you have 0.0521 BTC.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Or it's the most popular field among the StackShare users, which is likely.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Not parent, but chiming in: I am in Brazil, and the Headspace app is available here, despite having only English content. As of today, both the current version and all versions have a 5-star rating - the current one with 121 ratings, and 34
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by ralmeida 10y ago
That's great to hear, I hope the best for the project! I meant 'scheduling' in the cluster management sense (which containers run in which nodes), though.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
As far as I understand, this is 'only' a UI layer on top of Docker and Docker Swarm. So this doesn't tackle any of the problems which Kubernetes (or Docker Swarm, for that matter) would, like scheduling and service discovery.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
To be fair, 'sequestros relâmpagos' (lightining kidnappings) were around long before biometric security in ATMs, and are still used today even with non-biometric security (PINs).
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by ralmeida 10y ago
What happens if you're incapacitated somehow (say - car accident and coma for a few days, or worse)?
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I took that point too, and there's also another point... there's software that's on my list for a while (JetBrains and Hazel come to mind, in particular), but since the exchange rate for me is bad, a sale might tip me over th
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Unlikely, since in soccer the sentence "I will run X yards" doesn't fit.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I'm not sure who would be in such a position, but - to be fair, Snopes has indeed been for many years in the 'business' of observing and understanding how misinformation spreads. So, to some extent, they do have some authorit
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I believe 'they' in the sentence refers to the media. As in, info from Wikileaks suggests that "[the media] is in bed with the Clinton campaign".
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by ralmeida 10y ago
The votes in the tested ballots are not counted in the election itself. A member of the public can secretly vote for their preferred candidate, and vote for an entirely different candidate in the auditing.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
As a sibling comment mentioned, the mere potential for auditing increases the cost for a malicious actor to perform manipulations, since the chance of getting caught is higher, and the penalty for getting caught is potentially disastrous.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
One method of avoiding fraud in electronic voting systems is double-voting. It goes as follows: - Wait until all electronic ballots are set up in their zones in election day. - Randomly (this can be even done in a public, audited draw) sele
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I can only presume, but I believe they meant they graduated with a 'main' major (possibly something technical, like engineering or CS, since we're in HN), but also double majored (i.e. also majored) in music.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Depending on what they mean by "Customized Experience", and what data does this allow access to, it may mean better integration with a number of consumer finance apps, such as Mint, YNAB, etc. Doesn't seem like it from the de
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by ralmeida 10y ago
We chose it mostly because at the time, it looked like it had more active maintenance from the people at Mapbox, and it eventually looked like it was going to pass Leaflet. I wouldn't say it's more complex. mapbox-gl favors a more
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by ralmeida 10y ago
It does support raster tiles, using them in production here.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
To be fair, this is an ambitious goal, and the project is not that old.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
The impact of such an initiative may not be big, or even disruptive, but I'd say it at least adds cost to keep the impunity status up. Also, given a project like this has significant findings and gets picked up by traditional or social
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by ralmeida 10y ago
If elkos doesn't answer, according to some research I did, 'reaction wheels' are mostly used for changing attitude, and attitude is measured using either star tracking or sunray angle measurement. One source: http:/&#x2
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Hello, and congrats on the project. Could you provide a brief overview as to how does one actually launch the satellite into space? Is there a company that does this, what kind of permits/certifications/etc are needed, etc?
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I would love to know this too. Also, in general, could you talk a bit about other possible 'avionic' systems in the satellite?
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I'm not particularly familiar with the relative costs of native vs Electron, but it should be noted that: a) many DAWs are single-platform; b) DAWs don't have backends, which is at least a significant portion (if not the majority)
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by ralmeida 10y ago
As noted in a sibling thread, other Electron apps such as Spotify and Slack do suffer from performance issues, and the general notion is that Electron apps are "slow by default" - that is, slow unless you take explicit effort to m
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by ralmeida 10y ago
There's no doubt both of them are not resource-effective at all, especially compared to other apps made in other tech stacks. However, both are pretty successful services, and since the parent comment expressed concern if an Electron a

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