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Do we have a name for tech that encourages compulsive use over any kind of deeper value? Candy tech? Sugar tech?

>Cheaper rent Rent is not cheaper in Seattle. Salary will make up for it if you are a programmer, though.

I don't think it has anything to do with PC and has a lot to do with being C. There's a lot of bravado among older programmers that carries over from a time when they really could …

Cryptography doesn't solve social problems. Cryptography doesn't solve political problems. Cryptography solves communication problems. That's. It.

This is a stronger endorsement of COBOL than it is of blockchain...

>The entire economy of the world is a time bomb since it is predicated on exponential growth continuing indefinitely into the future. Adding zeros is not that hard. Munis have actu…

Or rely on transfers from the federal government.. As most already do.. Munis are a timebomb, imho.

It's just a data point...

If you want something this simple just use sway...

Overfitting.

Mega cap tech companies need subsidies?

The whole healthcare provider insurer interface is hugely expensive. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literatu...

They also don't want to be "forced" to buy insurance.

>how do we signal the extra mile except for tips? I mean in the case of Lyft I give them money. Why should another adult care how I "rate" them?

>Doesn't that imply that there is a shortage? A shortage of housing? A shortage of ways to launder money? A shortage of safe assets that beat inflation? A shortage of network conne…

Americans hate small streets. It's a dumb opinion, but it's widely held.

How is this gaslighting? Transportation costs have done a reasonable job of not growing faster than inflation...

So closed borders, closed trade? Is that your ambition? You sound like a lover of discipline, why don't you just tell me and the other posters what you want? Why attack what you op…

The contrarian right has no answers, only cynical observations. If they were more transparent about this they would be dismissed as sadists but they keep their cards close to their…

The risk is systemic either way. Those in this thread feel good about themselves for contributing more than others, but long run they're in the same boat as those 'others'. You nev…

Do you index or do you actively manage your 401k?

>Your 401k is 100% yours. There is no risk of your 401k account "going bankrupt" because too much of it was given to others. Systemic risk is present either way. You're just playin…

>Demand for "personalized" transport is here to stay. For those that can afford it.

Even Seattle is seeing per capita transit ridership drops, odd considering expansion of rail lines. In an urban environment the car is what turns transportation into a game of the …

What's unsustainable about cheap bikes?