Denzel

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by Denzel 9y ago
You didn't exactly answer my question. Show me the data on the real prosperity you're talking about. I'm asking for it.
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by Denzel 9y ago
I'm sorry, I should've been more specific. It's $10/day for me because I'm building muscle and eating 3,600 calories a day. If necessary, like when you're in a maintenance phase, you could get it to $5/day
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by Denzel 9y ago
> Its also probably true that you don't need as much variation and nutritionists say Yeah, I've felt the same, and that's why I put it to the test. I can't necessarily extrapolate. All I can say is for the better part
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by Denzel 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand your distinction between feeling of prosperity and actual prosperity. What do you consider actual prosperity? And my claim requires an imperfect broad brush because nothing in this world will ever reach pe
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by Denzel 9y ago
> I know if you grow up poor you just can't afford to buy healthy foods b/c they're too expensive I feel that's a common misconception. Sure, you can't buy fresh, organic foods but I'm able to build muscle o
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by Denzel 9y ago
That's the beautiful thing about depreciation, it doesn't really matter. Depreciation is just a way to see how costs are being allocated over time, more realistically. It allows you to predict how much you have left to recoup on c
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by Denzel 9y ago
Is that a rhetorical question with a foregone conclusion? As an average American, whether prosperity increased or decreased, I feel grateful and prosperous every day. I can walk outside without fear of bombs dropping from overhead; I can ru
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by Denzel 9y ago
Except it makes more sense to depreciate over the useful life of the building (standard: 50 years) which brings you to a more reasonable ~$8k/year/employee cost of building use.
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by Denzel 9y ago
That's the problem. Humans don't respond to logic, they respond to emotion. And every time you try to argue logically, it comes across as tone deaf. I have a personal interest in GC, however, in my previous day jobs I've ship
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by Denzel 9y ago
This is a central point of Michael Gerber's book The E-Myth (E stands for entrepreneur). You must work on your business as much as you work in it from day 1.
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by Denzel 9y ago
What you said and what I said are in agreeement, so I'm not sure I follow. "Program stored in memory in the same form in which the user enters it" makes it isomorphic. Which was exactly the point I was trying to make in respo
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by Denzel 9y ago
No, this is incorrect. The syntax and the AST must be isomorphic for a language to be homoiconic. It's not enough to expose the compiler/AST as a first-class library. Wikipedia has a nice entry on this. In short, "homoiconici
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by Denzel 9y ago
Those two arguments are not mutually exclusive.
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by Denzel 9y ago
My argument is that you shouldn't access other people's content without respecting their wishes. Simple as that. Yes, you can do whatever you want to your property. But you can't do whatever you want to other people's pr
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by Denzel 9y ago
No, it's not. My argument is simple: if you're going to install an ad-blocker, then go one step further and install a content-blocker instead for any websites that serve the ads you're blocking. I don't want people to un
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by Denzel 9y ago
You're misunderstanding what it means to own vs. to license... the latter being dictated by a contract known as ToS (terms of service) which you implicitly agree to when using a website.
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by Denzel 9y ago
> Can you explain? Sure. Imagine for a second that all the copper in the world has been unearthed. There's a finite supply, i.e., it's a scare resource. So if we want to produce more iPhones with this copper, then there's
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by Denzel 9y ago
> If they aren't, than the whole system becomes a zero sum game Careful. You need to be more specific. The ad industry itself is a zero-sum market for the market participants (i.e. advertising mediums), correct. However, the ad indu
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by Denzel 9y ago
Aren't we all trying to influence others' decisions every day?
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by Denzel 9y ago
I can't take your ad-hominem attack on good faith.
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by Denzel 9y ago
To use your analogy then I should just install a gym-membership blocker, stroll in every morning, and use their workout machines without paying. That's absurd. My argument has always been: if you want to use an ad-blocker, be my guest,
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by Denzel 9y ago
I feel differently. [1] And that's exactly why a debate is logical. One useful thing you can do to enter the debate... define what you believe an ad is and why. Oh and remember, when you're driving past those big ol' strip ma
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by Denzel 9y ago
Maybe this will do it for you: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-03/advertisi... . Ad spend as a % of U.S. GDP remains relatively constant since the 1920s.
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by Denzel 9y ago
You're correct, the ad industry is zero-sum. The end goal is as simple as it looks: support a new medium. First it was newspapers and magazines and mail, then the radio, next television, and finally we've landed on the web. And in
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by Denzel 9y ago
In what ways does Illustrator kill Inkscape? Asking as a person who's never done "real" editing work, but has dabbled here and there and finds Inkscape to be one of the more pleasant OSS projects. I wholeheartedly agree that
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by Denzel 9y ago
Everything is zero-sum at an instant of time... I figured that was obvious enough that I didn't have to say it. If you want to approximate it as zero-sum, be my guest. It's a functionally useless approximation.
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by Denzel 9y ago
The VC market expands and contracts like any other following the principles of economics. Therefore, the fact that the production possibilities frontier (is there a better term for a money market?) can move outward shows it is not zero-sum.
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by Denzel 9y ago
Where have you been exactly? He receives the hype precisely because he has delivered after people insisted he couldn't. He and his companies have delivered the Falcon, Model S, Modex X, and a concept Model 3 set to be delivered soon,
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by Denzel 9y ago
Amdahl's law applies to relationships, e.g., a process/program is a grouping of related components. By definition, if there are no relationships between components, then Amdahl's law does not apply (or rather there's 0%
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by Denzel 9y ago
So you're telling me that Uber isn't selling their services at a loss on a unit economics scale in the majority of their markets? What percentage of their markets have positive unit economics? This is news to me, and I'm open

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