kmkemp

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by kmkemp 8mo ago
It's all a policy choice, though. The USA could, for example, increase property taxes on non-primary homes and offset investor losses by adding an incentive to sell non-primary residences for some length of time (say, 2 years). The pro
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by kmkemp 3y ago
That seems to be the sentiment based on our founding origins or if you talk to an individual, but the fact is that we imprison more people per capita than anyone else. It's hard for me to believe that all of the criminals just live in
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by kmkemp 3y ago
Generally speaking, low unemployment leads to the Fed raising rates, the anticipation of which, hurts stock prices.
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by kmkemp 3y ago
Similar story here. I've been remote for 9 years. I don't live that far from a minor tech hub, but it would still be an hour commute each way. Housing here is below the national average, so there is a huge savings there. I&#x27
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by kmkemp 3y ago
I think the experience just isn't mainstream enough. I think there are a lot of people that would drop $200-$300 to get a beat sabre experience if they were aware of the option. Is there any reason it should be less compelling than t
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by kmkemp 4y ago
Any solution here is just an arms race. The better AI's get at generating text, the more impossible the job of identifying if an AI was responsible for writing a given text sample.
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by kmkemp 4y ago
Yes.
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by kmkemp 4y ago
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by kmkemp 4y ago
Paylocity | Remote in USA | Full Time | www.paylocity.com Hiring: Senior Software Engineer + others We're looking to add an SSE to our team whose focus is adding features to our Benefits product. Besides working with talented individu
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by kmkemp 5y ago
I put a 20% downpayment on my house and it involved a wire transfer that was scheduled for days in the future that required my physical presence at a centralized authority (bank). With Bitcoin, that process takes less than an hour, with ve
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by kmkemp 5y ago
It would mostly be for primaries, where the field is wider, but don't discount how ranked choice voting could lead to more than 2 viable parties.
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by kmkemp 6y ago
If the government wanted to help people do taxes more easily, they would just simplify taxes. Lobbies (from TurbTax and competitors) are standing in the way.
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by kmkemp 6y ago
It seems likely to me that the cap will just be expanded at some point, but that is likely tens of years away and its expansion will likely be equal to or less than the replacement value of lost coins.
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by kmkemp 6y ago
The reduction of a technical problem to a word problem is the application of years of accumulated knowledge, including, in many cases, Computer Science concepts.
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by kmkemp 6y ago
I understand the attitude that this isn't a new phenomenon, but degrees can't be ignored. The labor force participation rate has been consistently falling for a long time (at least 20 years) in the USA ( https://trading
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by kmkemp 6y ago
Opting out would then require trusting an organization who is incentivized to collect data to not collect it. That can't be the solution.
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by kmkemp 6y ago
Idea: since abstractions like functions exist in order to help you prevent bugs in sufficiently complex systems being manipulated iteratively, is the problem not that testing for correctness is bad form, but that the assignment wasn't
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by kmkemp 7y ago
"seeking political power through control of institutions" seems entirely subjective. Why is someone on the far left running for office doing this moreso than a libertarian?
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by kmkemp 7y ago
Odd, that's not my impression. Seems like the center (on both sides) and non-libertarian right want to see him in jail.
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Chrome's primary competition wasn't FireFox as they've never been anything close to a market leader. My post was about what features led to Chrome gaining such high market share, and their default privacy settings were super
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by kmkemp 8y ago
That's fine also, but I don't think they're mutually exclusive. If lax laws have allowed monopolies to take hold, then the job of the government is to protect consumers by creating a free market - and that may mean breaking
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by kmkemp 8y ago
For non-technical users: faster pages, account syncing, google name recognition and default searching. For technical users: V8, dev tools, better privacy, evergreen, frequent updates, tabs as processes, fast implementations of new specific
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Making anonymous trades is a legitimate use case, even if we understand that it would be an attractive option for black markets.
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by kmkemp 8y ago
A correction - bitcoin is not anonymous enough to enable any of the use cases you mentioned. But that misses the points - tools can't be blamed for secondary use cases - do you blame physical dollars for enabling child porn? As far as
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Why do you believe that corporations employ lobbyists? Why do you believe that corporations make campaign contributions? We can imagine that Congress could be composed of members spanning the normal human gamut of morality and then adjust
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Corporations write trade deals. Corporations literally write laws (by proxy) in many cases. Corporations control the media. Corporations pay trusted 3rd parties to promote whatever agenda helps their bottom line. Corporations aren'
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by kmkemp 8y ago
1. Corporations typically "invest" in multiple candidates - I wouldn't be surprised if they funded both Clinton and Trump. 2. Amazon owns a major publication that directly influences voters. 3. Amazon employs lobbyists who ac
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Sure, but internet is a basic necessity at this point regardless of if you choose to stream content.
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by kmkemp 8y ago
While I get that that's more money than a lot of people have to spend, all of those combined are cheaper than a typical non-basic cable or satellite plan even today - after they know they need to compete with streaming services. It&#x
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Unfortunately, the "new" keyword can override functionality.

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