beguiledfoil

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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
Do we have a name for tech that encourages compulsive use over any kind of deeper value? Candy tech? Sugar tech?
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
>Cheaper rent Rent is not cheaper in Seattle. Salary will make up for it if you are a programmer, though.
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with PC and has a lot to do with being C. There's a lot of bravado among older programmers that carries over from a time when they really could do whatever they wanted because stuff needed to ge
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
Cryptography doesn't solve social problems. Cryptography doesn't solve political problems. Cryptography solves communication problems. That's. It.
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
This is a stronger endorsement of COBOL than it is of blockchain...
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
>The entire economy of the world is a time bomb since it is predicated on exponential growth continuing indefinitely into the future. Adding zeros is not that hard. Munis have actual tax bases and actual obligations and those seem out of
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
Or rely on transfers from the federal government.. As most already do.. Munis are a timebomb, imho.
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
It's just a data point...
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
If you want something this simple just use sway...
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
Overfitting.
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
Mega cap tech companies need subsidies?
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
The whole healthcare provider<->insurer interface is hugely expensive. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literatu...
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
They also don't want to be "forced" to buy insurance.
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by beguiledfoil 8y ago
>how do we signal the extra mile except for tips? I mean in the case of Lyft I give them money. Why should another adult care how I "rate" them?
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
>Doesn't that imply that there is a shortage? A shortage of housing? A shortage of ways to launder money? A shortage of safe assets that beat inflation? A shortage of network connected land? Emulate Tokyo is good advice, but not eas
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
Americans hate small streets. It's a dumb opinion, but it's widely held.
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
How is this gaslighting? Transportation costs have done a reasonable job of not growing faster than inflation...
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
So closed borders, closed trade? Is that your ambition? You sound like a lover of discipline, why don't you just tell me and the other posters what you want? Why attack what you oppose rather than striking out in the direction you inte
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
The contrarian right has no answers, only cynical observations. If they were more transparent about this they would be dismissed as sadists but they keep their cards close to their chest and allow for the occasional sympathetic portrait to
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
The risk is systemic either way. Those in this thread feel good about themselves for contributing more than others, but long run they're in the same boat as those 'others'. You never escape systemic risk. The reality is that
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
Do you index or do you actively manage your 401k?
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
>Your 401k is 100% yours. There is no risk of your 401k account "going bankrupt" because too much of it was given to others. Systemic risk is present either way. You're just playing category theory sleight of hand and draw
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
>Demand for "personalized" transport is here to stay. For those that can afford it.
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
Even Seattle is seeing per capita transit ridership drops, odd considering expansion of rail lines. In an urban environment the car is what turns transportation into a game of the prisoner's dilemma. From this point of view ride shares
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
What's unsustainable about cheap bikes?
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
>If we unclog our infrastructure we can spread out to more of the state and increase the supply of developable land. Really amazing to read that people that live in low density clusterfuck think that the solution is to expand the low den
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by beguiledfoil 9y ago
>"For evil to triumph, all that is required is for good men to respond rationally to incentives." Words to live by if you've never encountered a problem you can't solve with A*...
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by beguiledfoil 10y ago
>The way this ends is either with a) starving drivers or b) unaffordable transport for those below average income. It ends with Uber running out of money. Higher interest rates would end Uber very quickly, unless it has some very wealthy
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by beguiledfoil 10y ago
>Uber is footing an addiction to cheap transport nobody knows how to satiate. Just ride a bike. Not an option in the burbs, for sure, but taking an uber is not an efficiency gain the way public transit or bicycles are. IMHO low density c
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by beguiledfoil 10y ago
>Maybe I'm giving too much credit to the ghost of Steve Jobs. You certainly are. Apple (well, NeXT) took Unix, slapped on a nice hardware accelerated graphics layer, and then made sure it worked (on the web, in the office suite, in

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