tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 5y ago
That depends if you believe Spotify users will switch to Apple just for that feature... if they won't, Spotify can likely still charge extra for it. Folks are pretty tied in to ecosystems at this point: if you've bought audio hard
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by tomkarlo 5y ago
Spotify hi-fi was announced a few months ago and is launching soon.
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by tomkarlo 7y ago
The EU (and Japan and Australia) has a range of rules now for increasing pedestrian safety, including softer materials on the front bumper, hoods that give so that they cushion the impact if a pedestrian is hit, and limiteing sharp protrusi
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Yes, I completly disagree with your sweeping characterizations of entire genders, on both sides of that discussion. A key part of the problem is that society often propogates such sweeping generalizations to children, reinforcing existing b
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
" It is a very feminine point of view to believe that one has intrinsic, objective value." I think you need to take a while and consider why you believe that statement is true, and how it might be impacting the rest of your view o
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Medical bills are (according to some studies [0]) the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US. So not only do you have to recover from a serious accident or illness, and maybe the loss of work time associated with it, you also are left with e
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
You don't need to fork it, or mine it. You just use a smaller amount. My point was that other traditional "store of values" have inherent value based on their utility per amount, which means that the finite supply has implica
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Yes, but people argue that the finite supply of Bitcoin is a fundamental advantage vs. currencies. The supply of a currency isn't really infinite, but it's quite flexible when you consider that giving credit effectively "crea
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
What he said above: unless you have a long or short position, you don't care whether you get a full unit or some fraction thereof. There are some elements of behavior economics that counter this - people like to buy lower-priced coins
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
There's an infinite supply, but there's non-zero cost associated with accessing incremental units in that supply. (And some would say diamonds are an artificially constrained market anyway.) With crypto, there's arguably an u
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Obviously, nobody can predict the future, but the whole point of talking about what's likely to happen is to make reasoned guesses based on the best available data and economic models. The nature of a hedge, in particular, is that you
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
The problem isn't that it's unpopular, it doesn't seem (from the post) like you have some kind of underlying economic or financial principle supporting your argument. * why would it have an inverse relationship with other ass
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
It's an interesting question, but rationally it seems like BTC should decline during a market crash / recession. It's arguably a way to store value as other assets decline, but given that it has no yield, the rational thing t
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Is the supply really "limited"? Sure, there's finite number of "coins" that can be generated. But unlike physical objects, there's not really any special property of that unit. Also, you can just generate a new
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Interchange rates on Visa are >2%, and there's definitely cards that offer 2% cash back on everything, with the exception they generally bar "cash-like" items like cash withdrawals and t-bill purchases, to avoid holders ju
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
I suspect this is less about the credit risk of the cardholders than the risk of unrecoverable fraud, although there's also the theoretical risk of some kind of fraudulent conveyance by the card holder. Fraud: I steal someone's cr
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Fair enough, but honestly this seems like far less of a problem than the large fraction of drivers who don't know how to turn properly in the first place, and just make that right turn without having merged into the bike lane. I commut
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
I ride both ebikes and scooters, and while the ebikes are a better way to get somewhere fast (and I think, overall, safer) the scooters are generally a much more pleasant ride - you're standing up, you just kind of surf along, and you
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
At least in SF, they protect the bike lanes sometimes - no right on red, at least, when there's a protected bike lane. Re filtering, is that technically against the rules? It's a single lane at that point, but in CA it's lega
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
This is a bit of a stretch. There was a lot of work done on improving tablet support in K, L and M, including work to specifically support the Nexus 9 and Pixel C. There was also the addition of multi-window, etc.
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
"Looking out the window" and "steering the car" is pretty much exactly what current year cruise control systems do. Just go look at the Subaru Eyesight systems, which depend on cameras that face out the upper part of the
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Both adaptive cruise controls and human drivers do this by default. If you're doing 60 MPH on a highway and something pops into the periphery of your vision that you don't recognize, do you slam on the brakes? No.
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Not as many since they banned them here, but it used to be quite common given the combination between the fact it's pretty windy here in SF every afternoon, and there's lots of trash / debris around. It's still pretty co
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Sure, but if you were on a highway, would you slam on the brakes? I hope not. There's a calculation here of balancing the perceived risk of an obstruction with the consequences of avoiding it or braking in time. Drivers have to make th
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Is this necessarily different from a car placed in normal cruise control (automatic throttle, no braking), where the driver is under the obligation to managing braking in an emergency? It seems like the human driver here was still under tha
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
I'd guess that "unknown objects" happen all the time - it seems like that's the default until something is classified, so tire scrap or plastic bag would also fall into that category. If the car slowed down every time it
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
That doesn't help with the problem that the companies are trying to address, which is that their own employees and hires are having trouble finding housing.
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
That's really the problem, at least here in SF. The tech industry needs highly skilled employees, rather than local residents. So wherever they land, they bring in a bunch of new people who also need housing (and have high incomes.) I
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Maybe to not the same degree, but the same issues - NIMBYism, a focus on SFH, a sense that established residents are pursuing housing policy that punishes younger / newer residents. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01&
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Let's play this out. You create a city of say, 100K, composed of employees from Google, FB, Salesforce, etc. Where do they eat? How much will housing cost given your average income will be several times that of a "normal" cit

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