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by shuckles 3y ago
Unfortunate behavior in an apocalypse-proof distributed filesystem.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Not really: > Every time someone downloads a book from a shadow library like Library Genesis, it's through IPFS most of the time I would like to see evidence this is actually true. My theory is that IPFS's "success" i
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by shuckles 3y ago
I’ve recently observed that both IPFS and the Cloudflare gateways are extremely unreliable on Libgen.
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by shuckles 3y ago
In that data, India's agricultural TFP is higher than the United States.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Uber has been free cash flow positive in markets like San Francisco for years. "Shadowy cabal" to describe the taxi industry isn't speculation or fear mongering. It's more or less an accurate description of how that mark
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by shuckles 3y ago
It’s even worse as BART charges per rider while ride share surcharges are per vehicle. It’s often not even cost competitive to take transit if you’re a couple or family.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Really incredible stuff. Thank you for sharing. Reminds me to continue losing sleep at night over baseband software.
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by shuckles 3y ago
I think this is a legitimate question. There seems to be little public information about this board member, besides that they are married to a celebrity.
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by shuckles 3y ago
A project manager will do most of that without the unearned self-importance, minus the talking to customers part which should either be done by product marketing or design, depending on the specific business insight you seek.
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by shuckles 3y ago
If we are thinking about this as a dynamic system, then: many people who moved to the valley before 2010 got some sort of windfall, whether through home equity or participating in a notable period of wealth creation. Why didn’t that mint a
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by shuckles 3y ago
I am all for reducing rent seeking, including in this case literally. However, my point is that the hippies became squares in the same way the hackers became squares. It's not clear that housing costs are causal; they might just be inc
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by shuckles 3y ago
To be fair, the group also includes grandma's children who have a lot staked on inherited the $3m shack on a stepped-up basis.
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by shuckles 3y ago
It seems like there is a tendency to become occupied with obligations as you age, regardless of exactly how the discretionary time / money is eaten up.
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by shuckles 3y ago
The hippies suited up without expensive housing as a forcing factor. We may agree on what happened, but I disagree with you about why.
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by shuckles 3y ago
You sure it isn’t because they just grew up, like the hippies?
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by shuckles 3y ago
It's really surprising how people end up making absolutist claims about privacy while demonstrating very little understanding of the threat model posed by modern smartphones.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Apple confirmed they down scan iCloud for unwanted content, and it's pretty obvious doing that would be a huge privacy risk, and it's very debatable whether that actual risk is worse than the theoretical risk of scope creep in on-
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by shuckles 3y ago
The FED graph uses census vacancy data, which is what I’m assuming the original article does as well. So the metric is apples to apples.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Nothing is the best case (if they didn't exercise options). You're right: some lost money on the transaction if they did exercise, outside special consideration.
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by shuckles 3y ago
No major real estate investor has a thesis of pure speculation. That would be insane and banks would never underwrite it. (If anything, buying for speculation is almost entirely the business of individual households who get huge subsidies t
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by shuckles 3y ago
Utilities are paid for by use, so that's not really relevant to municipal finances. Even still, the power and water use of an unoccupied residence is obviously much lower than an occupied one. Property taxes pay for municipal services
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by shuckles 3y ago
The vacancy rate suggests most vacant units are in-between occupants, something you'd require for a healthy market. The vacancy rate should probably be double what it is -- it's probably at historic lows. Edit: Yep, vacant units p
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by shuckles 3y ago
I can't click through since your link 403s. Not sure what kind of meta review was occurring in your link, but there's lots of evidence that adding more police would reduced crime in US cities: https://direct.mit.edu&#x2
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by shuckles 3y ago
I understand how pre-trial negotiations work, and I am not an affluent tech bro. In fact, I spent some time consulting DA offices throughout the country on how to adopt best practices in criminal justice reform. Public defenders are not uni
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by shuckles 3y ago
But wouldn't a speculator buy and hold (i.e. not be active)?
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by shuckles 3y ago
This varies a lot by jurisdiction so it’s hard to determine aggregate impacts. For every anecdote of judges throwing the book at someone, I could probably offer one of judges letting off someone easy. The important point stands regardless:
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by shuckles 3y ago
Komali only claimed some percent are possession, not “lots”. And I’m going to disagree: overcharging is definitely a problem but there’s lots of pleading down as well. There are jurisdictions where you can plead down a violent crime to a dr
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by shuckles 3y ago
Outlier in what sense? Oregon is more of an outlier than Sweden. Let’s not even add East Asia to the spectrum of drug policy approaches.
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by shuckles 3y ago
It’d be hard to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that you intended to distribute beers from a 12 pack.
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by shuckles 3y ago
0.1% of federal prisoners in 2012 were in there with possession being the most serious charged crime: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/dofp12.pdf I would bet good money that rate is even lower now. Many st

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