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somebodythere··on FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers
Not really. You only have to believe that there are some complex actions which, if taken on an individual level, benefit society. For example, starting a business, or skilling into a highly demanded field such as medicine. Doing these things can be highly financially rewarding, and that means that people are more likely to attempt them than they would be otherwise.

You don't have to believe the "luck begets luck", and there is certainly injustice in the way wealth lands around society, but not allowing people to become rich by taking socially-positive risks removes the marginal incentive to do so. That is, I believe, GP means by "the whole doesn't progress".

somebodythere··on FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers
Taking the choice away is mostly about preventing a race to the bottom, especially in professions where the workers don't have the bargaining power to demand respectful working conditions. This is why we have minimum wage laws, working hour limits, workplace safety laws etc.
somebodythere··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
Adobe posted earnings today.
somebodythere··on The Ethereum merge is done
I don't see how it is beneficial to anyone (other than ASIC developers and energy companies) to build a tax paid to ASIC developers and energy companies into the protocol.
somebodythere··on IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system
Unfortunately if I underpay my taxes I don't get to pick whether it comes out of the "social programs and infrastructure" bucket or the "blow up children in the Middle East" bucket.
somebodythere··on An odd discovery on Spotify
Virtual restaurants don't have the reputation to burn like a brick-and-mortar with a well-known brand does. Normally if a restaurant presents itself as primarily selling one menu item (common examples: pizza, wings, milkshakes) you expect them do do it really well. But with virtual restaurants there's no need to build up a good reputation by serving quality food since your strategy is to drown out competitors by putting up dozens of fake brands, each with a supposed "specialty". If one of your identities is tarnished it is trivial to spin up a new one.

I remember the first time I got caught by this, I excitedly ordered from a "Korean fried chicken" place on Uber eats, and when the food arrived it was heat-from-frozen chicken tenders drowned in unappetizing sauce. I felt scammed, and the food was so bad, I didn't even manage to finish what I had ordered. Later I looked up the restaurant and discovered it shared an address with an unremarkable local burger chain. I had a similar experience with another virtual restaurant and at this point I always check if it's a VR before ordering delivery from an app and treat it as a strong negative signal to the quality of food.

This is obviously a lot different from your hotel example because the hotel restaurant's reputation is inextricable from the hotel itself; not only do patrons always know where their room service is coming from, bad food/service reflects poorly on the hotel as well. The hotel has a lot more to lose than the virtual restaurant.

somebodythere··on Stable Diffusion Public Release
GPU market conditions are different compared to the 3000 series release
somebodythere··on Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
Imagining that we evolve cooling fins on our head for better heat dissipation. We already have the fluid circulation system after all.
somebodythere··on Do you regret deleting FB or IG or any social media?
I deleted Facebook several years ago, a year or so after me and my school friends went off to college, and I feel like it hurt my ability to remain close to people I was good friends with in school and overall weakened my social circle as an adult.
somebodythere··on Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
I would hope that Google can afford a few game licenses in order to keep their customers from feeling robbed.
somebodythere··on Has the world become less colourful?
No, I think people in the past probably just had a weaker preference for designs that go together in color and style.
somebodythere··on Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up
I would rather have severance + sign on bonus than only sign on bonus!
somebodythere··on Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game
Yeah, I liked the idea of the game and played it for a bit when I realized that the idea of "don't trust anyone ever" was exhausting for me.
somebodythere··on Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
What would be an easy way to solve that?
somebodythere··on Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
Because social consensus can be achieved on which Ethereum fork to use but not on every transaction that fork processes.
somebodythere··on Where are all the crypto use cases?
A blockchain also allows software programs to interact with each other in an uncensorable way, and ensures that those programs operate the way their source code says it does. It may be a niche technology, but I think these properties are useful for a bunch of types of apps.
somebodythere··on Where are all the crypto use cases?
Zero-knowledge cryptography allows you to post opaque data to the blockchain and selectively reveal properties of it to chosen people and applications.

For example, a zero-knowledge DID can generate a proof to an age-restricted application that you are over 18, without necessarily revealing your birthdate or any other information about yourself.

somebodythere··on Price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life
It's not "putting up with". What are they going to do otherwise, not take insulin?
somebodythere··on Google Interview Warmup
Make something up. Piece together the various details of different bugs you solved in your career or that you were vaguely involved in the solution to something reasonably impressive and coherent. If you are a skilled developer you will be able to make the story convincing. Unless you happened to rehearse your answer to that specific question beforehand, there is no way to reliably deliver a good performance on questions like these. You always have the plausible deniability of "oh, this stuff happened years ago, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details."
somebodythere··on Elon Musk Tesla email: Remote work is no longer acceptable
Surprise deadlines coming from your CEO's Twitter page wasn't enough to convince you?
somebodythere··on How This Ends
It's not in contrast. They are saying bonds will be wrecked (prices go down, yields go up), causing them to become a good deal in the future.
somebodythere··on Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse
That's correct, but under US tax law, in certain cases you are able to realize the loss on the BTC to offset the gains you made earlier (tax-loss harvesting)
somebodythere··on Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse
You are right. When you trade crypto->crypto, the IRS views it as if you traded crypto->USD then USD->crypto.
somebodythere··on Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse
Doubtful, Dai is automatically destroyed as the value of its collateral falls via the mechanisms of liquidations and loan paybacks.
somebodythere··on Kinopio
Specifically, for a note-taking app, a subscription model is discouraging. I don't want access to the history of my thoughts tied to a recurring payment. On the other hand, if I stopped paying for IntelliJ, I can open my code with any variety of free or paid IDEs (ignoring the fact that I can use a 12-month old version of IntelliJ indefinitely).
somebodythere··on My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
You should be able to finetune on a dataset that has captions of human faces.
somebodythere··on Intel can’t grow profits in a global chip shortage
There is a fab space shortage. The cost to manufacture goes up and so only the highest volume, highest margin chips get made.
somebodythere··on Coinbase announces it will slow down hiring
If hedge funds can't reliably predict a market crash, why do you think a team of accountants at an Amazon office can? And if they could, why don't they exit their core business and get into trading stocks?
somebodythere··on Show HN: Find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correlations to any stock
You long an asset because you expect to sell it at a higher price (or because it hedges against some other asset in your portfolio). You short an asset because you expect to buy it back at a lower price. Not every strategy has a strong opinion on the fundamental value of an asset (none of the strategies I run do), and even those that do, might place an offer higher than their fundamental value because they know that the other side of the market is willing to pay that higher price. Similarly, one might sell an asset below their fundamental value because they believe the price will continue to move against them in the short term.

A strategy that indiscriminately buys more of an asset as the asset price goes down only works with an infinite bankroll. Such a strategy run with a finite bankroll will necessarily blow up eventually. Rigid stop losses mostly just increase the volatility of a strategy though (which also contributes to portfolio drag). A sustainable strategy harvests volatility of the underlying (mean reversion) and/or dynamically deleverages (momentum) as the price moves against the entry.

somebodythere··on Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from
For the people who haven't looked it up yet, or for the people who move every three months.
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