JDDunn9

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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Houston has no zoning and it's none the more interesting for it.
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Housing prices are often a related to geography. Manhatten is an island, SF and Boston are peninsulas. You could have a high density city that didn't have a high cost of living.
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Many of the benefits you listed are good examples of how people are actually pretty bad at predicting what will make them happier. We have a lot of data on the subject. - People think that living in a larger home will make them happier than
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Actually, we are seeing a return towards urbanisation globally, which is a positive trends, since it's a vital component for curbing global warming. Residents of NYC use 1/3 as much electricity as their suburban counterparts, use
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This topic is discussed at length in the book, "Green Metropolis". It's part of a bigger issue of always putting cars first. You can't build a large building without first doing a traffic study. If you bring too much tra
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Get LastPass Everywhere: Multi-Device Access Is Now Free(blog.lastpass.com)
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Meet the Inventors and Robots Powering Japan's New Tech Movement(youtube.com)
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Cat Dozers Working Autonomously(caterpillar.com)
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Not likely. Mice have accuracy of 400-1200 dots per inch (DPI). A motor's shaft is a small fraction of an inch, and mice can lose track on occasion.
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I think the biggest potential threat here is the rising skill requirements. AI / robots are eliminating the least skilled jobs, and creating highly skilled jobs. Out of work truck drivers aren't going to get jobs working at Google
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
The only time you should use NoSQL is when you have no other choice. For example, if your database is too big to fit on one server, or you need a massive number of writes per second. Otherwise SQL will give you better performance, much more
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
If those countries were so business friendly, why aren't companies started there? Where is the Silicon Valley of Ireland or Singapore? Those businesses were built and grew because of the quality of infrastructure and supports provided
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Your hypothesis seems to be that companies in low-tax countries have a higher growth rate than higher-tax countries in the same industries. If that were true, then companies in those countries would eventually dominate the world's mark
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Small city-states can use strategies that don't scale. Being a tax haven essentially leeches businesses from neighboring countries, but if everyone was a tax haven, then no-one would be. Economies based on tourism or oil also are not d
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
You can exclude the first ~$100k of your income when working abroad. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
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You also have accounts receivable financing and square capital ( https://squareup.com/capital ) as alternatives to asset-based loans if they fit your business model.
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Who said 30% interest rate? If banks are lending at 6%, than a 30% higher interest rate would be 7.8%.
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
He got the economics all wrong. There's no shortage of people that can play sports well (at a comparable level to the average teacher or firefighter). It's more about the network effect of fans and the marginal value added (think
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
You have it backwards. It's activist investors (a.k.a. corporate raiders) that push for short-term improvements in the stock market. Investing in long term growth has been a common reason companies went private. While flipping under-va
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
How about a more general no first strike policy? If you are willing to pre-strike a country, logically they should be willing to pre-pre-strike you. A no first strike policy allows for us to reach a Nash equilibrium.
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Singapore to begin testing on-demand robot taxis(robohub.org)
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It might not be a civilization-ending threat, but it affects several outliers. - If you live on less than $1 a day, rising food/water costs is a big deal. - If you are in a land-locked country, desalination isn't an option. - Desa
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Mercedes-Benz Launches World’s First Self-Driving Public Bus(architecturaldigest.com)
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Russia Jumps into the Race to Build a Hyperloop(bloomberg.com)
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Hubless and Foldable Bike(sadabike.it)
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Prada Robot Collection(prada.com)
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Boston Dynamics' Latest Robot Is Stymied by a Banana Skin(pcworld.com)
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by JDDunn9 10y ago
Commissions don't align interests very well (real estate, cars, etc.) because you have a much greater incentive to increase your turnover and number of clients than to get a slightly higher price for one sale. Investment banks often ha
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First Electric Road in Sweden Inaugurated(trafikverket.se)
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Siemens Can Power Unlimited-Range Electric Trucks Using a 150-year-old Tech(qz.com)
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