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by rosndo 5y ago
Ethereum isn’t “ready”, so obviously they need to fairly regularly perform hard forks in order to implement new features. But I suppose you aren’t actually talking about that, but are referring to hard forks to roll back smart contract hack
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by rosndo 5y ago
You don’t have to colo locally.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> South was doing the same claiming that their slaves have better and they educate the savages through work and lords word. But the South took away their freedom, it’s really incomparable with what is going on in UAE and Qatar. Those mig
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by rosndo 5y ago
What you see here is a difference in doctrine, not better or worse systems. US has heavily invested in their second strike capabilities, and is far ahead of Russia on that. US has largely viewed investment in first strike capabilities as a
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by rosndo 5y ago
The problem is that some countries offer vastly better ROI on taxes than others. Taxes aren’t a problem, shit ROI on taxes is.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> That's outright not true, they will not take ALL of the immigrants. No, it’s just impossible to get a regular EU or US work visa as an unskilled laborer from some Indian village. There are some seasonal worker visas available whic
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by rosndo 5y ago
This sounds so unlikely, unless they already had a huge set of corpse photos for another purpose. It’s easier to find live people that’ll let you photograph them than corpses.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Hmm. Western countries will not take these kinds of immigrants at all. Qatar will take these immigrants, offer them significantly better pay and quality of life than what they had at home. Qatar is bad? Perhaps the heavy restrictions Wester
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by rosndo 5y ago
Can you provide some evidence that it doesn’t actually work like this? My UAE based lawyer is certainly convinced that MOHRE enforcement is very strict.
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by rosndo 5y ago
If your employer confiscates your passport in the UAE, you just have to call 80060 and you’ll have the police bringing it back to you real soon. It is illegal for employers to do that, and enforcement is swift. All low-skill immigrant worke
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by rosndo 5y ago
Do you think those people (and their families!) would have been better off if they stayed in Kerala? I’ve lived in the UAE too, and actually had conversations with many of these people. Many of them missed home, but it was all worth it for
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by rosndo 5y ago
> So have I made a mistake, or is this article really about the fact that being a near-slave in Qatar cuts your risk of death by 91%? No, you haven’t made a mistake. The issue here is that the average HN user has absolutely no idea how r
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by rosndo 5y ago
Yes we do. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-all-cause-mo... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26595089/ Same statistics are available in the UK, although immigrant-specific numbe
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by rosndo 5y ago
The title is still a straight up lie.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Did you read the article or just the headline? It doesn’t suggest that Netflix should show you ads.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Disincentivise the pursuit of constant growth, and the world would be a lot less evil. Not only that, but perhaps the world would be a lot less.
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by rosndo 5y ago
There really isn’t a coherent logic here as far as I can tell. Netflix already collects a huge amount of user data. Do they sell it now? I don’t know, maybe. If Netflix launched an ad-supported subscription plan, why would that make them mo
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Why would netflix not sell your interests in movies and habits to allow better targeting in their platform? Why would they need to sell that data to allow better targeting? Doesn’t make sense. > That is, if they go down the ad road.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Spotify seems to have been successfully doing it as described for many years now, no?
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by rosndo 5y ago
This article does not suggest that Netflix should ever show ads to you , an existing customer. It suggests that Netflix should offer an ad-supported plan for people unwilling to pay current prices.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Perhaps we should be looking at the strongest possible version of Stratechery’s argument (which also seems to be the one they presented). Stratechery suggests that: > markets like India have more room to grow, but much lower household in
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by rosndo 5y ago
> including for other users because it creates a perverse incentive to collect user data and sell anyways Huh? I don’t see Facebook or Google going around selling user data, it’s secret sauce they want to protect. Why would netflix sell
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by rosndo 5y ago
But that’s clearly not what’s happening here, even if you disagree with the idea. The title is consistent with the contents of the article. The contents of the article are not deliberately terrible, in fact they’re not terrible at all.
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by rosndo 5y ago
On HN we normally try to avoid such shallow dismissals. Can you explain why his opinion sucks?
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Ok, and you're doing this why? To "save" the rest of us from being corrupted by this bad man? I’m not doing that. I’m just explaining why it’s okay and perfectly on-topic. > No. You're doing this purely to redire
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by rosndo 5y ago
> What is with this compulsion some people have to categorize people based on their political leanings? This isn’t “people”, but a politician. If him being a politician isn’t important, why is “Congressman” the first word in the title? T
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by rosndo 5y ago
The title is “ Congressman Massie’s homebrew powerewall built from a wrecked Model S”, not “Homebrew powerwall built from a wrecked Model S”. Given that, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to discuss his politics?
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by rosndo 5y ago
> (1) insightful that upon terminating a subscription the data is no longer accessible This doesn’t seem to be true. > (2) that $9/month could be seen as a lot to many people This is a fairly worthless piece of information in thi
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by rosndo 5y ago
How is this even vaguely relevant to this conversation?
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by rosndo 5y ago
What about small businesses then? Should they bankrupt themselves in these situations?

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