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841.
by VMG 10y ago
> The article seems very anti-socialist: Is that bad?
842.
by VMG 10y ago
Contrast the sale of a car to the sale of a bomb: in the first case, both parties are clearly better off. In the second case, some people would argue that the commons is better off by funding a public good (national defense). If the sold we
843.
by VMG 10y ago
This childish understanding of economy and prosperity would be funnier if authoritarian regimes wouldn't try them on a regular basis. They find out that cash holders don't use it to fill their bathtub but run their business.
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by VMG 10y ago
It would remain theft. But since you asked for numbers: http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/feed-your-famil...
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by VMG 10y ago
What's the opportunity cost of the defense budget?
846.
by VMG 10y ago
> It is almost universally true that violence has been necessary to ensure the redistribution of wealth at any point in time Strictly speaking, you don't need to redistribute wealth to lower inequality. Destroying wealth is sufficie
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by VMG 10y ago
> Is the electricity subsidized enough to justify all the other headaches associates with running an operation out of there? Yes, it is. Mining cost is overwhelmingly dictated by energy cost. And once you have a small farm running, it sh
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by VMG 10y ago
does it mirror issues, PRs, wiki pages etc?
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by VMG 10y ago
Aaaand github unicorns..
850.
by VMG 10y ago
Well the first attribute can at least be measured independently.
851.
by VMG 10y ago
My guess is people will change their expectations of what they can do with a car. Maybe it will not work on unusual terrain anymore. Maintenance procedures might also change and involve remote controls or other specialized types of control.
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by VMG 10y ago
> Do they not bother to learn their tools, and set up simple mail filters? You know the answer. They don't, because they have actual work to do.
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by VMG 10y ago
Simple, just add a singleton: https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine/blob/master/ivote-serve...
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by VMG 10y ago
or the feed goes black
855.
by VMG 10y ago
powerline is an option as well
856.
by VMG 10y ago
Over at /r/bitcoin https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5e3y7b/goldman_sac...
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by VMG 10y ago
"Neat, Sparkasse now even has a colored domain name! Now where did I put my TAN device again?" - Average User
858.
by VMG 10y ago
Quite the opposite: the pseudonymous coin changes everything. We already know that Bitcoin's pseudonymity is good enough to avoid persecution (dark markets, ransomware, etc) Now it can be also used by loan sharks to make these loans wh
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by VMG 10y ago
I'm actually serious, I can imagine a bitcoin loan market here.
860.
by VMG 10y ago
This is good for bitcoin.
861.
by VMG 10y ago
The rabbit hole goes deeper: how do you price in externalities like pollution for fuel? Or for an automatic transmission?
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by VMG 10y ago
I was referring to the misinformation about higher fuel efficiency of manual compared to automatic. I heard it too in driving school.
863.
by VMG 10y ago
Very similar situation in Germany. I think the misinformation could be an historical artifact from times when automatic transmission technology was in early stages.
864.
by VMG 10y ago
don't forget to use the HN "web" link in the second line if you hit the paywall
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by VMG 10y ago
Betting markets did not prove themselves however. Just like with Brexit, they were in line with the polls and only reverse at the last minute: https://i.imgur.com/tEDdMpT.png (from https://electionbettingodds.com
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by VMG 10y ago
Is there any open source framework that has an excel-like GUI and good integration with standard coding tools?
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by VMG 10y ago
thanks!
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by VMG 10y ago
I'd rather have onboard wifi than onboard ethernet...
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by VMG 10y ago
> it incentivizes hoarding over spending, especially in the face of an expanding economy. That kind of macroeconomic analysis assumes that everybody already owns some amount of the currency. However in the new currency markets that are d
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by VMG 10y ago
Maybe not, but I haven't seen confirmations one way or another. I don't know about wireless standards to say whether or not it's possible to selectively disable regions or devices.

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