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Unresolved markets transmit information too. A market doesn't need to resolve to transmit information.

I really like tiktok's solution to this problem. Every user page is prefixed with a @-sign. tiktok.com/@about vs tiktok.com/about

Will the company survive long enough to produce a postmortem?

Aren't you just creating another contract? Users might write code that depends on it being random.

I wonder if we will ever reach a point where implementing a land value tax will be politically feasible. All other solutions look like bandaids to me.

It’s a question on the DS-160, IIRC.

> The point is that they pay such low wages that their workers are still eligible for welfare when working there (despite being hugely profitable) I'm not contesting this. This is …

Doesn't Amazon have to compete with welfare for workers, instead of benefiting from it? The more welfare pays, the worse a job at Amazon is in comparison, is it not? How does Amazo…

As someone who lives in a country where pickpocketing and theft are really common: agreed. If making an iCloud-locked iPhone and all of its parts useless is what it takes to make p…

I've seen a 418 response on a production system once... on a simple request that took 5 seconds to be fullfiled. Building integrations for duct-taped legacy systems in finance is f…

I live in São Paulo (the city mentioned in the article) and I always find it amusing how you can tell exactly where São Paulo ends and the neighboring city (Guarulhos) begins just …

I'm working my way through this[1] operating systems book and a few of the exercises[2] require customizing and compiling Xv6. It's so cool to code your own scheduler or syscall an…

I'm a brazilian living in Brazil and I can't overstate how much of a game changer Pix is. The Brazilian Central Bank did an outstanding job. Instant transactions, zero fees, availa…