drewgross · HackerTrans

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

It doesn't provide 100% privacy from everyone, but it does provide privacy from the web service: A worker at a physical store checks your ID, and if it says you are 18, they hand you a token with a unique key on it, which they have a stack of behind the counter. You put the unique key into the web service. It's not necessarily one time use, but if you don't want to risk correlation, you can use each one only once. It's just like alcohol sales, and has all the same failure modes as alcohol sales, but if it's good enough for alcohol sales it's good enough for web services.

drewgross

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

The problem with insider trading in prediction markets isn't the "prediction" part, it's the "markets" part. Once there is real money changing hands, then the purpose of the prediction market stops being "surface information" and starts being "make money" (POSIWID sense of purpose). Since the money changing hands is a necessary incentive for the insiders to provide the information, the parts cannot be disentangled and the problem is fundamental.

Note also that prediction markets can't be too different from financial markets because prediction markets are in some sense a generalization of financial markets e.g. you can make a prediction market that predicts the price of some stock on some day.

drewgross

il y a 5 moisdiscuss

If 20 people take advantage of your buffer, then you are delayed by a distance of 20 vehicle-lengths + 20 follow-distances. This is about 1000 meters, a distance which you can travel in about 45 seconds. So the net effect of all 20 people merging in front of you is less than a minute delay on your trip. Unless there is an almost constant stream of people merging in front of you, this isn't adding up to more than a percentage point of two of your whole trip.

drewgross

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

My reading is that this was included in point #7, i.e. access to the customer service is conditional on identity verification.

drewgross

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

On the contrary, sticking strictly to the lane markers when everyone else is blindly straddling lanes seems the worst of all worlds.

drewgross

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

If you want to talk about bad faith arguments, calling the AI a "hellsystem" is showing your bias just a bit.

drewgross

il y a 4 ansdiscuss

Hackers deliberately create strange circumstances, it's the primary way to find exploits. Any code that relies on a lack of strange circumstances is a time-bomb.

drewgross

il y a 4 ansdiscuss

0.1-1% hire rate based on applicants, or based on candidates interviewed? 0.1% hire rate of candidates interviewed doesn't seem compatible with your described growth rate, even if you very conservatively assumes you spend 1 hour interviewing each candidate, thats 25 weeks of straight interviewing per candidate hired. And thats 1 hour of time across the whole company, if you have 2 interviewers spend an hour each, thats now 50 employee-weeks, or an entire year. To double the company size in 5 years, you would have needed to spend 1/5th of your entire tenure interviewing. If you go up to 10 total hours spent per candidate (including all interviewers, recruiters, and time spend in discussion and negotiation) it becomes straight up impossible.

drewgross

il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Most people don't start shopping at grey/black markets in order to avoid paying sales tax. Most people don't pay their employees under the table to avoid paying income tax. Most people don't move or de-value their own homes in order to avoid paying income tax. Those taxes make up most tax revenue, and wouldn't get caught in that definition.

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