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by rlanday 9y ago
Obviously there's no "right" for a kid to get into one of those high demand schools though. Otherwise we're already violating the rights of everyone who doesn't get a spot (and/or their parents, if you believe
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by rlanday 9y ago
Is having high taxes an inherently good thing we want to create incentives to encourage? In private industry, governments try to break up cartels because they're thought to be bad for consumers (residents of the cities in this case).
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by rlanday 9y ago
You're saying two entirely conflicting things here. You're saying "cities in the U.S., with respect to each other, are in a race to the bottom" (not that being well-run and having low taxes is a bad thing in my opinion..
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by rlanday 9y ago
Homes that are cheap because there’s an airport nearby probably wouldn’t be so cheap if there weren’t an airport nearby.
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by rlanday 9y ago
Because there’d be more competition for W-2 jobs? Any situation where the average business owner can make more money by becoming a W-2 worker at someone else‘s business is not a stable equilibrium.
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by rlanday 9y ago
I agree that that’s what people seem to think. But if the corporate taxes get too high, wouldn’t you think that at some point, business owners start saying “screw it, I want to be a W-2 worker,” which obviously would put downward pressure o
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by rlanday 9y ago
I think people like corporate taxes because people only have a vague idea of where the incidence actually falls. Clearly, at the end of the day, corporate taxes take money out of the pockets of business owners/shareholders, employees,
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by rlanday 9y ago
Ah, this is exactly the same reason no corporation can stay in business! (Since consumers can just buy from the one that has the lowest prices) For this reason, we should encourage corporations to form cartels to avoid getting taken advanta
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by rlanday 9y ago
> The company plans to establish an Apple campus in a new location, which will initially house technical support for customers. Key word being "initially."
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by rlanday 9y ago
ICAN got nuclear weapons banned? I.e. they got a bunch of non-nuclear states to sign an agreement about nuclear weapons? Maybe they’d be getting more funding if they weren’t so damn worthless.
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by rlanday 9y ago
What is “trivial encryption”? This is something that keeps out “bad guys” but not “good guys”? Pretty sure that doesn’t exist.
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by rlanday 9y ago
Come on, software engineers love writing crypto software to hide information from the government…
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by rlanday 9y ago
I’m not convinced that a software update slowing down your phone or computer a few percent while performing certain operations should automatically qualify you for a refund. It’s widely understood that keeping your computer secure requires
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by rlanday 9y ago
I guess it depends if everyone agrees on whether or not the product performs "as advertised" as not. If you have a defect that affects e.g. 1% of your users, but the government forces you to compensate 100% of your customers, that
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by rlanday 9y ago
At equilibrium, yes. Bitcoin's value seems to be changing faster than miners can acquire and set up new hardware. Also, it's probably not rational to buy hardware right up until the point the marginal gain becomes 0 if you expect
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by rlanday 9y ago
Any sufficiently complex CPU surely contains some number of defects, perhaps even serious security defects, just as any sufficiently complex piece of software contains bugs and security holes. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries t
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by rlanday 9y ago
A miner that successfully mines a block collects all the transaction fees for transactions in the block. They are high right now because many people want to send transactions, but blocks are capped at 1 MB, limiting the number of transactio
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by rlanday 9y ago
> Can't we just educate people about things and use some self control to tackle these kind of issues How has that been working out so far?
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by rlanday 9y ago
The Apollo Program set a clear goal (“landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth”) and a clear timeline (“before this decade is out”). The US was strongly motivated to execute on this since it was losing the Space Race
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by rlanday 9y ago
Who are you to say that a person eating poop doesn't create $20k of value? Someone did, after all, pay them $20k to do it...
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by rlanday 9y ago
> even though millions of similar batteries in Android phones apparently didn't require a similar secret performance degradation You know for sure how the power-management code works in every Android device ever produced?
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by rlanday 9y ago
iOS 11 had some stability issues on my 6s. It got a lot better when I installed 11.1.
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by rlanday 9y ago
It might interest you that most Linux development is, in fact, done by corporations, and not by broke-ass developers funded by donations.
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by rlanday 9y ago
Car insurance doesn't cover oil changes though.
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by rlanday 9y ago
Whether or not to remove a web platform feature from a browser basically comes down to how many people are using it vs. what is the maintenance cost. I suspect that browsers continue to support <marquee> so they can continue to render
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by rlanday 9y ago
Why would I want to invest in BobCoin with all its associated trust issues when I can just buy Bitcoin and keep doubling my money every few weeks, forever?
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by rlanday 9y ago
I don't understand your point of view. You work in tech, right? Do you want tech companies to pay their employees less?
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by rlanday 9y ago
Did I say that? No interview process is perfect, but here's what would happen if e.g. Google attempted to use your strategy of "make the interviews easier and pay people less": Many candidates would interview at both Google a
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by rlanday 9y ago
It’s not that “no one else” could do their job, but there’s not an unlimited supply of people who can meet the hiring bar at Google/Facebook/Microsoft, and there are a number of employers with deep pockets trying to hire them. Goo
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by rlanday 9y ago
Do you think Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft aren’t doing any “real development”? Did you miss all the stuff about Firefox Quantum? Or Microsoft Edge being released for the first time only a few years ago?

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