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dwg465on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars

I mean it’s a “CNN Travel” article…of course it’s going to focus on Paris as a travel destination.

dwg465on Cryptocurrencies – An Assessment by Reserve Bank of India

It's not deflationary though.

dwg465on Words known better by males than females, and vice versa

seems like some sampling bias. you're telling me 80% of men in the U.S. know's what a `parsec` is? seems high

dwg465on Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k

Amazon also has this trick where they quote your total compensation with the built in assumption that $AMZN will appreciate by 15% per year.

When I went through the process, it was pretty confusing to understand but the gist is that they try to hit a total compensation of whatever your target is. And when they quote the total compensation of your salary 3 or 4 years in, they assume that the stock has appreciated by 15% per year. So 15% of your potential gains (compounding per year) of getting RSUs and exposure to Amazon stock is removed.

dwg465on 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)

Anyone have a good summarization of the piece? I am not looking to get 28 pages deep into the argument

dwg465on “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?

> If you accept the term "location based pay"

When did we ever get the choice?

dwg465on Ask HN: How can a hacker buy 25,000 IP addresses?

No, they are not consecutive. Possibly a botnet, but the IPs are pretty well geographically distributed

dwg465on The Loneliness Epidemic

I just graduated college and am having similar thoughts (but think Bay Area instead of LA). It seems like a great idea but I know of few examples besides full-on communes. Do you know of any examples of living communities or living styles that fall somewhere between living on your own and living on a commune?