RubberbandSoul

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by RubberbandSoul 7y ago
That's on the condition that they can keep up with demand or even keep their existing infrastructure running. If the electronics supply chain starts breaking down they can't just throw new hardware at an increasing workload. O
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by RubberbandSoul 7y ago
It's a tautology. Open societies that handle their openness well are successful. There are plenty of counterexamples; China is doing well despite not being open for immigration and repressing its minorities. Singapore is hardly open.
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by RubberbandSoul 7y ago
I don't think that the aboriginal peoples of those countries agree.
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by RubberbandSoul 7y ago
I think they usually use twin studies to try to compensate for heritability but I couldn't find any mention of it in the article.
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by RubberbandSoul 7y ago
It could also be that candidates are getting better and better at playing the system. Why aim for the popular vote when it's the electoral vote that counts? If the popular vote would count the candidates would change their campaign st
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by RubberbandSoul 7y ago
BitChute?
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by RubberbandSoul 7y ago
I think you answered your own question. YouTube is running the risk of turning into a sterile, corporate mall. Soon enough an edgier, more tolerant alternative will pop up and start attracting eyeballs.
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by RubberbandSoul 7y ago
I wonder if automation actually distorts the recruitment market? As the initial cost of recruitment goes down, thanks to automation, more recruiters gets involved because it's cheaper to enter the market. As more recruiters offers thei
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by RubberbandSoul 8y ago
> because we're out of land. This argument is profoundly weird. There are more people living on Manhattan than in Montana.
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by RubberbandSoul 8y ago
I think they run a real risk of diminishing returns. To use a car analogy; first they were the BMW of phones, then the Ferrari and maybe soon the Bugatti. Along the way consumers will start to tap out and leave Apple's ecosystem altoge
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by RubberbandSoul 8y ago
That's a dangerous strategy considering that an iPhone is the "window" to their ecosystem: App store, Apple Pay, the iOS UX experience, etc. I know many people who love Apple's ecosystem but who won't pay through th
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by RubberbandSoul 8y ago
It's a kind of extortion on a national or even global scale. "Nice economy you have there. Shame if anything would happen to it." Nassim Taleb's suggestion is to simply deny institutions the option of growing large enoug
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by RubberbandSoul 8y ago
I have this growing conviction that some of the people working in financial markets are something akin to black hat hackers. They continuously probe the system for bugs and weaknesses and then exploit them for profit. This "collate
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by RubberbandSoul 8y ago
A weird metric. Did anyone call today? No? I guess everything is fine then. They voted for TRUMP?? Why the h-ll didn't they call first?