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by Apes 8y ago
If banks are accumulating wealth, which may very well be our reality, then this wealth would be reflected in the equity value of the bank itself. Thus, this wealth would still be reflected in the wealth of private households who had ownersh
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by Apes 8y ago
Question: Is some group is accumulating so much money that the poorest have insufficient money remaining for their basic needs? Observations: - Aggregate total wealth of all private households in Great Britain was £11.1 trillion (in 2014) [
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by Apes 8y ago
But what company isn't these things to some degree? Even if there were somehow a theoretical Altruism Corp, then it wouldn't survive very long being a generous lossmonster, would it? It's about what shade of grey you want, no
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by Apes 8y ago
Slack has "threads" which are meant to separate discussions, but they're not really convenient to use and are frequently unused.
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by Apes 8y ago
The people who said it would be a massive boondoggle then went out of their way to make it a massive boondoggle. I guess the mistake California made was not realizing they weren't making a prediction, but a threat.
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by Apes 8y ago
Let's call it the monkey defense. If you don't like something the majority supports, scream and fling as much shit at it for as long as possible until no one is left that can bear the stench or the spectacle. Then claim you were r
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by Apes 8y ago
Not sure why all these people are saying it totally makes sense that technology can provide a magic 10x improvement in efficiency. If you want to go the same distance for 1/10th the cost, you need to use 1/10th the fuel, have 1&#x
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by Apes 9y ago
A country with a 3-4% growth rate is doubling its population about every 20 years. For that country's carbon footprint to just remain stable, they will have to halve the amount of carbon emissions per person every 20 years. This means
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by Apes 9y ago
I don't think Lowtax or SomethingAwful did much after Lowtax had his brains punched into mush by Uwe Boll.
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by Apes 9y ago
I mean, they just spent over $2 billion on what is likely to soon become the world's most expensive homeless shelter, so that's something at least.
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by Apes 9y ago
This doesn't sound very promising. There may be a niche of some kind here, but this is a very expensive, very short distance and very light weight alternative to diesel trucks. * 200-300 miles is around a 5 hour day when long haul truc
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by Apes 9y ago
There is no reason the officer should have drawn his firearm when pepperspray or a baton would have been sufficient in this situation. The tendency to automatically resort to their proverbial nuclear option is ridiculous. We should be train
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by Apes 9y ago
Where did you get this info? Every source I see shows China's Debt/GDP (42.90%) as much lower than the US (104.17%).
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by Apes 10y ago
The road congestion theory is a backwards rational -- someone was trying to come with reason for why medallions should still exist and came up with it. There's no way that anyone in 1937 had congestion in mind when they were creating t
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by Apes 10y ago
Or the person you are communicating to has a conflict of interest and has a strong incentive to feign ignorance. Usually referred to as being "corrupt" for short.
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by Apes 10y ago
Anyone have a professional accountant in San Francisco they would recommended for this sort of thing?
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by Apes 10y ago
San Francisco really doesn't have Earthquake safe housing. It's been over 100 years (1906) since the last major earthquake (7.0+), which ended up destroying most of the city. A large portion of the housing in San Francisco dates t
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by Apes 10y ago
I have heard before that the Z-buffer was not actually usable on the N64 due to a design flaw. I forget the details, but one of the wikipedia pages about the N64 mentions this: "The Z-buffer could not be used because it alone consumed
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by Apes 10y ago
I'm curious about the "buddy" and "data" container patterns -- I didn't see those in the documents you linked to. Why do you mention these as being best avoided?
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by Apes 10y ago
I definitely am interested in seeing this for different stock markets, and the global stock market.
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by Apes 10y ago
Hello, just put up this quick walkthrough on how to use a native library with Amazon Lambda. Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Using Native Python Libraries in Lambda(codrspace.com)
2 points by Apes 10y ago|1 comments
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by Apes 11y ago
Theoretically, but only over a very long period of many years. If it's a big enough overpay, then it's possible for it to take many decades. edit: Here's a VERY simplified overview: http://www.wikihow.com/Clai
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by Apes 11y ago
For anyone interested in more information on this topic, the book "Psychology Gone Wrong" by Tomasz Witkowski and Maciej Zatonski is a very in depth look into the problems in this field.
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by Apes 12y ago
I went into a Burger King and asked for a Burger. They generously provided said burger, but then asked that I provide them with money. I told them that I appreciated their burger, but that I would not be providing them with any money at thi
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by Apes 12y ago
Starting a Linux blog, Feedback would be appreciated!
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Switching to a Bonded Interface Without a Reboot – Feedback Appreciated(codrspace.com)
4 points by Apes 12y ago|1 comments
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by Apes 12y ago
It's partially due to the incorrect syntax, should be "Consumer Reports's"
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by Apes 12y ago
Looks like there is a mistake in the article. The new plane will "burn 70 percent less fuel than a Boeing 737", however, the numbers immediately below indicate that it will actually burn 70 percent of the fuel a Boeing 737 does -
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by Apes 13y ago
You can always add encryption on top of SMTP, as with GPG.

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