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How is a large insurance company refusing to pay on a legitimate claim any less of a scam?

I don’t think cryptocurrency is near mature enough to replace traditional contracts, but technology changes a lot in 5-10 years.

True, also add extra time on your hands. Poverty + boredom.

If schemes were regulated out of existence, then eventually there would be a huge population of gullible suckers who won’t recognize a Ponzi scheme.

Much like how most American don’t barter anymore for little things so they’re easy pickings at a car dealership. Or if everybody quits drinking alcohol, you’ll know less people who’ve had liver failure, causing next generation to not know the risks, etc

You’re being pedantic about the poetic usage of the word “worship”.

“inflammatory” is an opinion

> the web makes it far easier to invade privacy and deploy dark patterns, while that behavior typically is checked by the app store

Disagree. One reason sites want me to use their app is because I can’t block trackers. I wont use native apps if there is a web alternative BECAUSE i value privacy.

> the only two logical outcomes are to either go bust, or to be acquired by a major cloud provider

Or acquired by a chip maker, like Intel.

> every building project should include parking

How much would it cost to add parking under each building?

Could that money be used toward light rails or bullet trains.

Yes created by an act of Congress but is not under the jurisdiction of congress or the president, apart from appointments.

Although I think there’s some merit to your comment, I don’t think it’s racial, I think it’s cultural or classist.

A black English actor (like Idris Elba) would be “overstaying his visa” as would a wealthy Indian tech CEO.

People coming from another country in the anglosphere are viewed differently because there is a shared culture. There’s a huge venn overlap in race between these countries but that’s because they were English colonies.

All-in-all your comment seems a little hostile. We’re all learning. Even you don’t have all the answers, surely.

> low speed combined with short drives (it was a smallish island) was bad for the engine

Low speed or low RPM?

That concept is from the book “the design of everyday things” by Dan Norman. A Seminal book in UX psychology.

No he’s right. This is vital for a growing company who is vacuuming up market share. It’s not necessary for big corps who just throw more people at a product or use their economies of scale to stay ahead.

The nasty truth is that every big Corp had a phase where it counted on key people being completely plugged in. If that was never you, then you either joined a company late or weren’t one of the key people.

When I was learning F# I felt the biggest barrier was lack of good documentation. I’m used to languages like node.js, ruby, and elixir where APIs/guides are straightforward.

programming language maintainers need to think about UX.

I’ve started building a web server library[1] in F# to address this. Other libraries took for granted that I had no knowledge of .Net and required lots of .Net boilerplate.

[1]: https://wiz.run

Minutes? Now way! I have a Crystal code base with 10s of thousands of lines and it takes like 10-30 seconds.

The solution is to start breaking up the monolith so you only compile sections at a time.

> Federation implies decentralization.

No it doesn’t. Gmail is a centralized instance of a federated network.

You can have a federated node that becomes so popular that it’s basically centralized.

This federated/decentralized distinction is pretty common.

You’re dwelling on literal definitions but there are more semantic differences those words have picked up in the communities involved.

> Mastodon is great as a decentralized Twitter

Federated, not decentralized. Decentralized is peer2peer like torrents. Federated is like email where there are little fiefdoms like Gmail, yahoo, or self-hosted.

It’s my primary editor. It’s a better text editor than VsCode, but VsCode is a better IDE.

I think it’s mostly that they are on a dark background honestly.

Imagine what a non programmer thinks when they see a programmers dark text editor. Thats the same feeling most people get when they see data viz on a dark BG since it’s so uncommon.

Yeah but you can multi-task with audio. I can wash dishes and listen.

I think you could have both, one national network and another global network.

I was thinking “yo mama”

would rather have mixed zoning, resulting in more distributed "city centers". I don't like big cities, but would love a more connected small town.

politics is governing. most people don't govern. We have other jobs and roles.

My influence on politics is insignificant vs my influence on other things that will impact my quality of life and those around me. In fact, politics and political news are a huge time suck for lots of people. Might as well be playing video games or watching sports.

i'd say political tribes are taking over the role of the church or spiritual leaders. Work is taking over the role of the family.

Would revamping zoning laws to be more mixed (residential + commercial) like japan provide more local commerce and more local tax opportunities?

creator of TS was a maintainer of F# at microsoft when he created it. I see lots of parallels in the type systems.

IMO its in the public's interest to not suffocate startups. different story now that they've IPO'd.

Eh, Sony probably wouldn’t have hustled like CR did and grown it as well as it did. This was in 2013.

They easily could have suffocated it in the last 7 years.

This is modern book burning.

To combat establishment elites in either side we need more freedom, not less.