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511.
by solveit 6y ago
If only we could tax carbon...
512.
by solveit 6y ago
Will the new people spend their money at my restaurant?
513.
by solveit 6y ago
> Pushing troublesome kids out isn't gaming the system in the same sense that fudging exam results is, because it makes the school better for all the remaining kids. (I think "gaming the system" should be reserved for thin
514.
by solveit 6y ago
I think the one thing both sides can agree on is that there should be whistleblower protections enshrined in law for people reporting ethics breaches. (I'm not going to try and suggest how it should be implemented, that's legitima
515.
by solveit 6y ago
If the US sends an army to China in order to seize their mining rigs, then Bitcoin is the least of our problems.
516.
by solveit 6y ago
Crypto understandably leans libertarian, which is increasingly becoming orthogonal to the right-left axis of American politics.
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by solveit 6y ago
Check out Polymarket, much smoother UX than Augur (at the cost of being more centralized, as I'm sure you guessed).
518.
by solveit 6y ago
Yes, just like you can short Tesla and assassinate Musk. This is ridiculous, regulate prediction markets like any other financial market (in particular, your identity should be traceable) and then all your clever plan does is get your funds
519.
by solveit 6y ago
We used to download almost every program on their own website until just a couple of years ago. It'll be fine.
520.
by solveit 6y ago
PG doesn't need skills, he needs to be fulfilled.
521.
by solveit 6y ago
That would make it profitable to become an outlaw miner who doesn't care where the transactions are coming from. Then they will outcompete the above-board miners, because they will be able to spend more money to buy ASICs while remaini
522.
by solveit 6y ago
In general yes, but I think Musk's inability to sell Teslas is going to be a major problem for the particular person deciding whether Tesla buys BTC or not.
523.
by solveit 6y ago
A bit of both surely. There's going to be a lot of selection bias, but you should always be asking yourself "is this the kind of thing that might connect with other things in the future?". tl;dr When in doubt, study maths.
524.
by solveit 6y ago
Why do you spend time imagining how straw men think?
525.
by solveit 6y ago
I find this comment ironic
526.
by solveit 6y ago
How do you mandate good customer support?
527.
by solveit 6y ago
Sure, but how often is string formatting the bottleneck on performance?
528.
by solveit 6y ago
Not OP but I guess that's another colloquialism I shouldn't use around non-native speakers.
529.
by solveit 6y ago
>what is the point ? I can see an in-house style guide strongly recommending f-strings over % formatting
530.
by solveit 6y ago
I think I speak for many, many people when I say that I am done trying to understand Elon Musk.
531.
by solveit 6y ago
Founded in 1636! That's a lot older than I had thought!
532.
by solveit 6y ago
While your argument is hard to prove wrong because the US ranks third in population as a single nation, I am skeptical that there is somehow a market population threshold that allows Silicon Valley in a country of 3X10^9 but not, say, 1.2X1
533.
by solveit 6y ago
If I am willing to buy 100 shares at $100, I may be willing to buy 300 shares at $60. So just because my bid got filled doesn't mean I won't be buying more.
534.
by solveit 6y ago
He actually decided to drop his pseudonymity a few months back, but it took time to get himself in a position where he could do that responsibly.
535.
by solveit 6y ago
I mean, econ 101 says rent control (along with blocking new construction) will hinder people who can produce more (economic) value from moving in and replacing their less productive counterparts. Econ 101 is often naive and wrong, but it sh
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by solveit 6y ago
> It's not obvious to me why that has to be so. Because ceteris is never paribus. The comparison is with the counterfactual world in which SF wasn't rent-controlled. Now, we can never know what would have happened, but I thin
537.
by solveit 6y ago
You don't need armed enforcement to get people to scan a QR code, you just need an employee to ask politely.
538.
by solveit 6y ago
That's insane. Here in Korea you're required to scan the code (or write your contact info on paper) in order to enter the premises.
539.
by solveit 6y ago
Any different group with a semi-competent lord will absolutely destroy you and take your resources. You'll soon send around resumes begging for a lord to take you.
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by solveit 6y ago
The problem is that law enforcement is incompetent. They are provocative against the peaceful and ineffective against the violent. Pretty much the worst of both worlds.

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