plutaniano
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Comment · 5 months ago
Unresolved markets transmit information too. A market doesn't need to resolve to transmit information.
Comment · 8 months ago
I really like tiktok's solution to this problem. Every user page is prefixed with a @-sign.
tiktok.com/@about
vs
tiktok.com/about
Comment · 1 year ago
Will the company survive long enough to produce a postmortem?
Comment · 1 year ago
Aren't you just creating another contract? Users might write code that depends on it being random.
Comment · 2 years ago
I wonder if we will ever reach a point where implementing a land value tax will be politically feasible. All other solutions look like bandaids to me.
Comment · 2 years ago
It’s a question on the DS-160, IIRC.
Comment · 2 years ago
> The point is that they pay such low wages that their workers are still eligible for welfare when working there (despite being hugely profitable)
I'm not contesting this. This is a valid point.
> This essentially means that tax dollars are subsidizing their profits.
I don't see how this would be the case.
Two scenarios:
1:
- Welfare is now $0/month
- Some people that could get by with welfare now can't. They start looking for jobs.
- Increase in the supply of workers.
- Decrease in wages. (good for amazon)
2:
- Welfare is now $3k/month
- Some people decide that it's no longer worth it to work. They'd rather just live off of welfare.
- Decrease in the supply of workers.
- Increase in wages. (bad for amazon)
Comment · 2 years ago
Doesn't Amazon have to compete with welfare for workers, instead of benefiting from it?
The more welfare pays, the worse a job at Amazon is in comparison, is it not? How does Amazon benefit from this?
Comment · 3 years ago
As someone who lives in a country where pickpocketing and theft are really common: agreed.
If making an iCloud-locked iPhone and all of its parts useless is what it takes to make pickpocketing not worth it, i'm all for it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've seen a 418 response on a production system once... on a simple request that took 5 seconds to be fullfiled.
Building integrations for duct-taped legacy systems in finance is fun.
Comment · 4 years ago
I live in São Paulo (the city mentioned in the article) and I always find it amusing how you can tell exactly where São Paulo ends and the neighboring city (Guarulhos) begins just by the billboards.
Here’s São Paulo’s welcome sign coming from Guarulhos. There are lot of billboards before it, but exactly none after.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm working my way through this[1] operating systems book and a few of the exercises[2] require customizing and compiling Xv6. It's so cool to code your own scheduler or syscall and see it working on a actual OS.
[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ [2] https://github.com/remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-projects
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm a brazilian living in Brazil and I can't overstate how much of a game changer Pix is. The Brazilian Central Bank did an outstanding job.
Instant transactions, zero fees, available to anyone with a bank account.