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by wan23 8y ago
I'm not sure any of your "Fix the subway" suggestions does anything useful except the last one, which isn't as easy as it sounds.
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by wan23 8y ago
Google doesn't have a monopoly on email. Check your (personal) inbox - I'd bet the majority of emails on the first page are not from Gmail users but rather from various companies and organizations. Even among individuals, while ma
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by wan23 8y ago
Yeah, it's actually the other way around! If you had fecal matter on your face you would probably want to wash it off rather than just try to clean it up with paper. It's not like paper works any better down there...
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by wan23 8y ago
Splitting AWS out of Amazon isn't the thing that really matters though so much as preventing Amazon from operating a store AND a marketplace on the same site, not to mention having its own product lines. If you want to sell something o
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by wan23 8y ago
I have arguments against this coming from a few directions. 1) States have historically taken precedence over the federal government when it comes to taxes. It was explicitly written in the constitution that something like the federal incom
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by wan23 8y ago
Note that by "nobody" you mean actually mean a majority of New Yorkers, according to polling. Only 35% of New Yorkers were opposed to the plan.
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by wan23 8y ago
Rather than doing this on the individual company level, which leads to all kinds of problems that many other comments here have noted, it would make sense to do this on an industry-wide level. We should have something like a "Master En
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by wan23 8y ago
Are Facebook and Apple competitors?
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by wan23 8y ago
Self driving tanks don't seem particularly useful, but how about autonomous drones that swoop in to take out specific targets. Perhaps these targets are identified by running face recognition on a network of cameras that span a city. W
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by wan23 8y ago
There is a surprising amount of street traffic at night in much of the city.
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by wan23 8y ago
Cash has the same properties and people have been using it for millennia.
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by wan23 8y ago
It does hinder affordability for the people living in the apartment as well. It makes it look unreasonably expensive to move to anywhere else and incentivizes them to stay put, even if their heat doesn't work or if they are too old for
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by wan23 8y ago
> 1. BTC: OFAC has listed Bitcoin addresses that you cannot legally send money to. If you do, expect fines/jail/interrogation/etc. But can they stop you from sending money there? Can they reverse your transaction later? Th
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by wan23 8y ago
I think that in the case of software, a necessary requirement would be to have some work experience and to have someone who is also accredited to sign off on that experience BEFORE you get to take the test. It's not the same as a colle
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by wan23 8y ago
Some kind of accreditation for software would save our industry so much time. It's crazy how many hours we spend asking and answering the same basic questions over and over. Imagine if we could focus on the important stuff in interview
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by wan23 8y ago
It's basically "if it looks like boobs, you can't post it". But phrased a bit more delicately.
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by wan23 8y ago
This is purely speculation but: since it's on the Ethereum chain anyone can see the history of tokens on any account, and as long as the tokens only move between accounts that are known then that should be good enough. They could very
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by wan23 8y ago
When talking about gun safety you often hear "never point a gun at anything you do not want to shoot". Maybe pointing a loaded gun in people's faces is a good way to keep yourself safe, but it's also kind of dangerous fo
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by wan23 8y ago
When there is no reasonable result to return does it really matter what result is returned? 1 / 0 == 0 is about the same as 1 / 0 == 3. To avoid this just don't do 1 / 0 in your program.
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by wan23 8y ago
It's an efficient way to protect yourself from the regulation. You don't need to prevent Europeans from using your site, you just need to be able to say reasonably that you don't intend to operate in the EU.
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by wan23 8y ago
IMO the success of services like Grubhub/Seamless and Opentable show that people really don't want to pick up the phone and call someone if they don't have to.
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by wan23 8y ago
There's a difference between a spam robocall to your personal number and a robot calling a business line to inquire about legitimate business. I imagine if my job were answering phones I'd much prefer talking to a robot that speak
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by wan23 9y ago
In other professions like law or medicine there's a professional organization that requires members to take a difficult test to become certified to practice. In those fields nobody with 20 years of experience is asked if they can FizzB
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by wan23 9y ago
This pretty much affects every large site if they use tracking or advertising tools e.g. Google Analytics that collect certain kinds of data. Those tools' terms of service are being changed to require anyone who uses them to update the
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by wan23 9y ago
Smart contracts are usually not meant to be actual contracts between parties so much as something more like financial applications. For example, a common type of smart contract implements a new token type by providing an API for distributin
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by wan23 9y ago
I was really surprised to see the butter pies from A Tale of Time City as the first example here. I don't know anyone else besides my mom who has read that one, but I distinctly remember being envious of the children from the future wh
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by wan23 9y ago
There are a large number of people who... believe there was a conspiracy to produce a falsified birth certificate for the previous president of the United States. If it were on a system where the original record could be viewed in a transpa
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by wan23 9y ago
What's wrong with voat besides that it's a cesspool? It seems like it has all the technical features that make Reddit work, and the lack of moderation that makes it so disgusting is the result of not having speech clampdowns.
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by wan23 9y ago
The word censor comes from a Latin word for a government official who, well, censored things. In English the word has the implication of being action taken by someone who actually has the power to make moral decisions on behalf of society,
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by wan23 9y ago
Though getting the money for a down payment is a bigger problem. It takes a while to save up the $250K down + closing costs (let's not forget that 1% mansion tax) on a $1.2M one bedroom apartment.

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