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bitJericho··on How the Australian government plans to access encrypted messages
If you don't want guns, maybe you should repeal the second amendment instead of ignoring it. Same goes for the first.
bitJericho··on Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse
https://www.law360.com/articles/807776/uber-insurer-reach-se...
bitJericho··on Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse
VCs wont pay for rides forever.
bitJericho··on Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse
You should probably read some news stories about that...
bitJericho··on Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse
They do regulate. Uber/Lyft flout the regulations...
bitJericho··on Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse
In a taxi your ride was insured if the driver got in an accident. Your cabbie is certified, and less likely to be crazy. Also half your lyft/uber ride is paid by a VC.
bitJericho··on Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse
We'll see what you think of the cab industry when uber raises their prices by 3 times in order to become profitable, after the cabbies all gone.
bitJericho··on Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys
No doubt. You can store them as INTs! Tho it does get a little hairy dealing with the conversion with MySQL.
bitJericho··on Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys
You'd be insane to put the primary key in a varchar. Mysql is much faster with static width tables. Your main user table should be static width for all the fields.
bitJericho··on Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin
What? No! Bitcoins Exchange. Can't you read??
bitJericho··on Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin
Might I recommend my alternative bitcoin exchange? http://bitcoinsexchange.itmustbetrue.com
bitJericho··on Living in 80 square feet (2010)
It's also boring. Part of being a good writer is being not boring.
bitJericho··on A therapy chatbot for depression
Why not develop like... a chatroom...

Reminds me of the story about robots in old folks homes. Why not just have people to keep people company.

bitJericho··on Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
Dale Carnegie wrote about doing just this in How to Win Friends and Influence People. This is very common among successful people, and shows an astonishing level of caring imo.
bitJericho··on Dark Futures: What happens when literary novelists experiment with Sci-Fi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick_Doctrine
bitJericho··on ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
That's what every American says.
bitJericho··on How to lose $8k worth of Bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com
Low fees!
bitJericho··on How to lose $8k worth of Bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com
Might I humbly recommend my own exchange? http://bitcoinsexchange.itmustbetrue.com
bitJericho··on Uber Posts $708M Loss as Finance Head Leaves
I buy gas from across the street for 3 dollars a gallon. I sell it for 2. I sell 1.5 million dollars an hour. My business is doing great.
bitJericho··on Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
You can say no and still help with a solution.
bitJericho··on The largest Git repo
What are my requirements such that this wouldn't work for me?
bitJericho··on The largest Git repo
This just blew my mind. I'm gonna go home and see about combining all my projects. That seems very useful!
bitJericho··on Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt
Income based repayment can be way too high. Think two or three hundred when you are already living paycheck to paycheck.
bitJericho··on Let them paste passwords
I don't think an @domain is required if it's an email address on the same mail server.
bitJericho··on Guaranteed Minimum What?
The mechanism is open competition. Right now hospitals and clinics don't have to give you a price for their services, and you have to pay them whatever they ask for. It should work just like a mechanic or a lawyer, you are told the fee, you pay it, you get service. Don't like the price up front? Shop around.
bitJericho··on Guaranteed Minimum What?
Nobody is haggling the prices down. Prices are skyrocketing.
bitJericho··on Guaranteed Minimum What?
Who haggles for anything besides cars in the us? Publish pricing and give estimates, shop around.
bitJericho··on Guaranteed Minimum What?
Trivial. Tax the top 1 percent at least 75 percent for about 2 trillian or more once you close off loopholes, ban insurance companies altogether and make hospitals publish their prices, and require estimates for any work to be done, and you suddenly have a balanced budget.
bitJericho··on Guaranteed Minimum What?
Ubi goes hand in hand with taxing the rich
bitJericho··on Guaranteed Minimum What?
Ubi does fix that. If ubi isn't enough to cover those then it's not high enough.
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