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by solveit 5y ago
More to the point, the parents will win. They'll send their children somewhere else.
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by solveit 5y ago
And nature has a long, clumsy, cruel tradition of killing literally everyone in various unpleasant ways, usually before their time. There is a tradeoff and "optimize for making sure we never ever ever repeat the thalidomide fiasco agai
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by solveit 5y ago
No way to credibly signal that while decisionmakers can be voted out.
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by solveit 5y ago
Well.. it would get you to fire yourself, I guess
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by solveit 5y ago
Even small errors in measurement will greatly change the location of the projected plateau so this is not usually useful in practice.
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by solveit 5y ago
The CTO who used to be a dev. More generally anyone in management with a technical background. They may not exist in some companies, but that's not because it's "a major unsolved problem in the structure and organization of w
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by solveit 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies[1] are trying to be decentralized and free of regulation. But it turns out the world is run by people who like regulation. [1]: There are so many people in crypto with such diverse views that it doesn't really make s
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by solveit 5y ago
I would not mind a culture of people dunking on the submitter rather than the article. (Of course, it would be best if we didn't dunk at all, but that doesn't seem to be happening...)
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by solveit 5y ago
This is snark that does not contribute to the discussion and I would like to see less of this on HN. There is a difference between an investment doomed to failure and a scam that was never meant to even try to succeed. Regardless of your vi
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by solveit 5y ago
This comment is reasonable but the discussion lower in the thread devolved to something insane and infantilising.
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by solveit 5y ago
Turns out trustlessness wasn't just aspirational
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by solveit 5y ago
It's true as long as you personally are not particularly suited to widen the bottleneck. Which is most of the time. In this particular case, it's very unlikely a typical dev would contribute more by taking a few years off to learn
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by solveit 5y ago
Competitive advantage says that in the vast majority of cases you should do more or less what you're doing now, perhaps adjust your behaviour to optimise for compensation, and spend/donate money to have more biologists work on thi
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by solveit 5y ago
In fact postal services in many countries do function as banks. When I was a primary school student in South Korea, we all made a savings account at the local post office and learned about how banks work and the importance of saving money
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by solveit 5y ago
Who is "We" and how do they coordinate this? Poverty traps are emergent phenomena, not a conspiracy (Usually. Occasionally governments intentionally wage "war" on a group of people, but this is not the typical case.).
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by solveit 5y ago
This is a bug and we should fix how the news works.
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by solveit 5y ago
Does that mean artificial tsunamis are on the table?
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by solveit 5y ago
> they eventually grew so much, became so successful, accumulated huge piles of cash bigger than they could possibly spend, that they had to start paying a dividend. What mechanism forces this?
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by solveit 5y ago
The previous poster is just grandstanding here. There clearly exist people who have killed multiple times for much less money. Maybe the first time they didn't know what they were getting into, but that can't apply to later killin
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by solveit 5y ago
I understand that you have justified complaints, but saying stupid things (government should not go after retail and supply chain theft) in order to take potshots against "capital" does not make a good conversation and I would rat
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by solveit 5y ago
Enforcement of property rights is basically the textbook example of a government function. Or do you want logistics companies to hire private armies?
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by solveit 5y ago
That's more than 15k per person per year. When your homelessness program is spending close to what a basic income for said people would cost without making a dent, you start wondering if your institutions are broken.
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by solveit 5y ago
Does 'capitalism' even mean anything any more? No self-respecting capitalist would allow theft in broad daylight.
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by solveit 5y ago
No no, I mean that if someone offers $100 million to kill the CEO of Lufthansa, that CEO is going to end up dead regardless of how hard evil we proclaim the killer to be. Much better to go after the guy offering $100mm. Similarly, saying th
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by solveit 5y ago
I'm not sure it's acceptance as opposed to resignation (I know, potato potato). "People will follow incentives" might as well be a law of physics, and not accepting it is like not accepting the inverse-square law for gra
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by solveit 5y ago
I won't speak to how the previous poster intended the phrase, but the correct takeaway from "just responding to incentives" isn't that it morally justifies anything, it's closer to "what the hell did you expect
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by solveit 5y ago
I imagine at least the later ones did well enough to give Griffith some confidence in his methods.
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by solveit 5y ago
It probably helps that the US spent half a century fighting a propaganda war against the Soviet Union.
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by solveit 5y ago
Neither of those pertains to pyramid schemes. You want to say that Bitcoin is useless so you should say that . Words mean things and Bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme.
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by solveit 5y ago
"Why don't you do it?" is not a put-down I like very much, but when you say stuff like this >yeaahhhh sorrrryyyy, i just see basically zero attempts to build systems that do better. there's a vast lack of trying in my

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