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A vehicle is driven on public roads and can kill people, that’s why licenses are required. Outlawing certain kinds of math is a level of totalitarianism we should never accept unde…

> For this argument to work you have to believe that decreasing the price of service delivery wouldn't decrease the price of health insurance. I think we are talking past each othe…

I think you’re still missing the point - it’s NOT classic supply and demand because the mechanism by which that works is prices, and in many healthcare markets including the US — t…

I 100% agree! It's almost like income stability is valuable!

Hmm if this is true why is it so rare that software devs quit their jobs and make more money freelancing or starting their own companies?

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Note this is hosted on gh so you can open a pr to add yours: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.... I’m on mobile at the moment otherwise I’d do it myself

This list is hosted on github, contributions are welcome: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github....

My point is that carrier locking is about managing credit risk and fraud, not an evil plot to trap customers, and not a mechanism for discouraging street theft. It’s only complicat…

It’s not speculation - this is literally why cell phone locking was invented. The imei blacklists were created much later specifically for theft, not to manage credit risk of custo…

This is incorrect. You can pay off a phone early and simply ask that it be unlocked - the carrier will happily comply because you are no longer a credit risk. You can also just pur…

It’s impractical to “repossess” phones so in practice the carriers wouldn’t be able to stop people from deliberately defaulting on the contract with no repercussions (they can brin…

It is 100% an anti theft mechanism - it prevents people from stealing phones from carriers. The scam is: - get a new iphone from tmobile that costs $30 over 2 years. - don’t pay th…

I never understood the argument that “locking in your losses is actually a form of tax evasion” - or am I misunderstanding what you are trying to say?

Actually caffeine is a well known and widely studied performance enhancing drug, for example in endurance sports

> Even in those larger numbers, sponsors are flighty and often unappreciative. Can you elaborate on what you mean? In my experience running meetups, sponsoring is an expensive and …

TCP solves for “when i send a message i want the other side to actually receive it” which is…fairly common

I think this is conceptually wrong from a layering perspective because youre punching through the abstraction and making it leaky on purpose. This just moves the problem down one l…

Have you considered not speeding

I understand where you’re coming from but the thing to understand is: most startups are incredibly marginal to begin with. If you tilt the field such that the entire distribution i…

This is wrong because you are speaking on an accrual basis but you have to consider cash. The cash (salaries and taxes) is paid out in year 1 regardless of what year you try to boo…

imagine in year 1 you grossed 100k, spent 200k on salaries, but the new irs rules say you owe taxes on 60k of profits. To slightly simplify: it forces startups to pay taxes on prof…

sorry that happened to you. most likely they had a candidate deep in the pipeline with an offer out, and they were hedging their bets in case they declined. this is surprisingly co…

one seldom-mentioned reason employers ghost candidates deep in the process SEEMS silly, but is selfishly rational: they are hedging their bets. you came in second place, and they a…