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by vec 9y ago
Asking to get paid in Bitcoin is already a stiff barrier to entry for most users, so probably not. $300 feels close to the upper threshold where people who already care enough to not balk at the Bitcoin requirement also won't balk at
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by vec 9y ago
So when might I prefer this over YAML or TOML?
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by vec 9y ago
> I'm not making an argument about market mechanics. No, but I am :-D. Pretty obviously the motive for these cost savings is _cost savings_. But that extra profit has to go somewhere. Sometimes it'll go into lining the pockets
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by vec 9y ago
If some mad gazillionaire decided to start paying people to hit their own thumbs with hammers, I'm sure she could find a price point where a lot of people decided they wanted to do that. If she kept doing it for long enough, self-hamme
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by vec 9y ago
> How much of that cost reduction goes into building new stores? Probably almost none of it, at least not directly. > How many new stores in any case are going to food deserts rather than places more profitable for the retailer? Proba
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by vec 9y ago
I think these exist entirely to squeeze labor costs, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing. First, allowing grocery stores to operate with smaller staffs means we get more grocery stores. The small, cramped grocery store that recen
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by vec 9y ago
I dunno, a reference to the mentally challenged that is more than a little obscene in some circles seems to really capture the essence of MongoDB.
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by vec 9y ago
Well, yeah. Point being that if I'm used to working with .doc and .xls files there's next to zero new skills I have to learn and nothing that really pulls me out of my comfort zone. I just have to install a text editor ("lik
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by vec 9y ago
> in your terminal You just lost a nontrivial percentage of PHP developers. Far and away the most compelling feature of PHP for a lot of their target audience is that the deploy model is "unzip this file in that folder". If I
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by vec 10y ago
As always, there is an XKCD that sends up this phenomenon: https://xkcd.com/1138/ .
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by vec 10y ago
Disclaimer: I am not an audiologist, but I am married to one :-). Because of the way your ears function, the vast majority of people who have hearing impairments have them at specific frequency ranges. Hearing aids do amplify sound somewha
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by vec 10y ago
My guess (and this is only a guess) is that this is the power of anecdote. Within certain communities, everyone knows someone who lost their job or had their business close due to direct competition with someone being paid under the table
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by vec 10y ago
> Economically, sure, that's true. The immigrants take jobs from the labor supply. That's not actually true, though. Every immigrant who comes here and becomes employed is, of course, filling a slot that is no longer available
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by vec 10y ago
Writing something new and cool gets me out of bed in the morning. Writing tests for my code lets me sleep peacefully at night. Can't have one without the other.
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by vec 10y ago
This solves one incentive problem, but not (in my opinion) the main one. The people responsible for security (i.e. corporate IT departments) are quite often not the same people who would suffer in the event of one (i.e. customers). Theref
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by vec 10y ago
Hey! That's our company's flagship laptop in the wild! https://system76.com/laptops/bonobo
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by vec 10y ago
# In Defense of Markdown Consider the alternatives: 1. Plain text only interfaces aren't feasible in a lot of contexts. Rich text formatting and/or hyperlinking is far too useful, if not actually mandatory, in most contexts. 2. R
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by vec 10y ago
I can't help but enjoy a little schadenfreude here. It sucks that largely innocent investors are going to get shafted, but if you create an entire alternate currency ecosystem specifically to escape regulation, central control, and th
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by vec 10y ago
First, your described software still has versions. Each daily snapshot or git commit or whatever is a new version. There's no reason you can't put an auto-incrementing version number on each release and call that your version nu
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by vec 10y ago
To expand on your point, calling Mississippi circa 1950 "democratic" is, while not technically wrong, extremely misleading. Systematically denying the less privileged half the population access to the vote, both by legal means an
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by vec 10y ago
Yes, the framers did debate whether to include the Bill of Rights, but my understanding is that their fear was that by enumerating some rights it would delegitimize those that were not enumerated. That's why we have a (mostly ignored)
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by vec 10y ago
Speaking as a progressive, that's because most of us consider the US Constitution to be a means, rather than an end unto itself. We tend to make a strong distinction between Natural and Legal Rights[1] and to group the Constitution in
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by vec 10y ago
Long, straight lines for borders usually imply that the territory through which they are drawn was neither well explored nor terribly important to the people drawing them. Sometimes that's because the territory is mostly uninhabited a
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by vec 10y ago
So I agree with most of what you're saying. I turned a state-funded boarding school education into a scholarship to an engineering university, and I'm acutely aware of how much luck is involved in that story, and of how much woul
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by vec 10y ago
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." - John Maynard Keynes Over the very long run, this _will_ self-correct. That fact is cold comfort to someone trying to get hired today.
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by vec 10y ago
> Something the author hints at is that the big discrepancy is geographic in nature, not racial. It's not an either/or proposition; it's both/and. According to the article, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are all ~2% b
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by vec 10y ago
There are actually two slightly different ideas that are called UBI. The libertarian variant is a relatively small guaranteed income (usually roughly the current minimum wage), is usually paid for with a VAT or sales tax, and replaces most
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by vec 10y ago
Blocking remittances is probably impossible. Even if you could shut down all the direct channels for money to flow from US nationals to Mexican nationals, which you can't, it's trivial to either send easily resellable goods like
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by vec 10y ago
> Is that an actual proposal of his? Sadly, yes. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/pay-for-the-wall
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by vec 10y ago
Partly, but partly its just that all regulatory frameworks naturally tend toward complexity. First, the legislature often decides that raising or lowering specific taxes is a good way to encourage some behavior or other (i.e. mortgage tax d

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