Veelox

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by Veelox 9y ago
>He's likely the most "blessed" individual to walk the Earth to this point, given what he has access to in the modern age. He has been through three divorces. If I was going to pick the most wonderful life in existence it
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by Veelox 9y ago
There is currently a restriction for selling handguns to people under 21. >German statistics say otherwise. I completely believe that the totality of German gun laws help reduce gun deaths. What I am specifically unsure of is how police
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by Veelox 9y ago
>universal background checks This would be worth doing. >stricter controls on what can disqualify some people from owning a gun Possible but it would depend on what you wanted to disqualify people for. >mandatory training and licen
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by Veelox 9y ago
I would be for (and think it could pass) psych evals for those under 25 if we paired it with allowing anyone over 18 who passed to buy guns. We could do better on background checks but the devil is in the details. There is no way police che
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by Veelox 9y ago
Not German, can you explain what Germany's laws are and how it makes them safer than the USA?
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by Veelox 9y ago
I think that would be a great first step. For it to be acceptable it will need to be very careful to ensure the privacy of gun owners.
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by Veelox 9y ago
> if so many gun owners really do support sensible gun control laws Would you be willing to outline what you count as sensible gun control laws and what you hope to accomplish with these gun laws?
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by Veelox 9y ago
It is because Amazon purposefully depressing the earnings part of P/E by outlaying massive amounts into capex and R&D. They have a gross profit of ~$66b but a operating income of ~$4b. If they halved their operating expenses that ~
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by Veelox 9y ago
I think you raise a good parallel with Earth but I don't think it applies directly to the possibilities for a multiverse because we cannot see other universes but we can see other planets. Imagine if our solar system was inside a nebul
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by Veelox 9y ago
My understanding of the Everettian interpretation is that all worlds that are possible in QM exist and we exist in one of them, the wiki article for this is called many-worlds. I may be being obtuse but this seems like a fundamentally diffe
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by Veelox 9y ago
I been to the wiki page before. If anything my question is common enough it is discussed in the wiki page which contains this quote. >Indeed, invoking an infinity of unseen universes to explain the unusual features of the one we do see i
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by Veelox 9y ago
>The basic idea is that most multiverse notions arise naturally out of lower level mechanisms. I think this is the part I don't understand. I have heard no evidence-based explanation for what lower level mechanisms cause our univers
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by Veelox 9y ago
I am going to assume you are a theist, at least in the US, theists have a reputation for being ignorant, self-righteous, and hypocritical (in the sense they talk about love but don't act on it). If you care about improving the general
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by Veelox 9y ago
>the current models that are the basis for the multiverse, i.e. those within quantum theory and cosmology. The root of my question is I am uninformed of anything with quantum theory or cosmology that makes a multiverse more likely than d
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by Veelox 9y ago
>2) You might want to go look up biblical archaeology. Quite a lot of the history in the Bible has been disproven. I often hear something to this affect, would you be willing to provide 3 specific claims/events documented in the Bib
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by Veelox 9y ago
>If theories are going to be useful, they'll have to predict something which can be confirmed with follow-up observations. If you can name something that the multiverse predicts that could be confirmed with observations (possible ob
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by Veelox 9y ago
>the multiverse emerges as a natural extension of many existing physical theories (string theory, inflation, many-worlds, etc). I might have looked in the wrong places but I have looked a little why the multiverse is a good explanation b
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by Veelox 9y ago
Question, if assuming a multiverse to explain the exactness of the cosmological constant is a defensible position, is there any reason not to consider the deist view and say the universe was created with the cosmological constant needed for
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by Veelox 9y ago
>mortgage or high rent Find a cheaper place to live. >a medical problem This is the one I have the most sympathy for, US healthcare is broken, people shouldn't have to go bankrupt to pay for life saving care. >kids 1) Wait unt
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by Veelox 9y ago
> >saving 10% of your salary >impossible for most people Part of me is tempted to look up statistics to make the point but if you are making more than 150% of the poverty line in the US, you can save 10% of your income, it is a cho
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by Veelox 9y ago
If you start at 25, saving 10% of your salary into a 401k and never get divorced, spend <30% of your gross income on housing, and don't borrow to spend more than you make 90% of the time you will come out alright. > If successful
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by Veelox 9y ago
You are right, I don't but since they are commenting on hacker news I give it a >90% that if they are willing to change their lifestyle than they can become less stressed about money.
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by Veelox 9y ago
> there's no way I'm going to have saved enough money to live off of It is possible. It will take work and change on your part. The first step is to track your spending. The easiest way to do this is get an account with mint, y
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by Veelox 9y ago
I love seeing patent trolls taken down.
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by Veelox 9y ago
I agree with you that the cost of TPU development probably out ways the number of dollars that Google will earn renting TPUs. The thing is, no one else has a TPU but Google. That doesn't look like it will change any time soon. That mea
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by Veelox 9y ago
Yes but you can deduct up to 10k, you probably won't be above that if you are in a truely rural area. Unless you are a business owner but then we are back to being rich.
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by Veelox 9y ago
I agree but if you live in a rural area in one of those than the change to SALT matters much less to you.
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by Veelox 9y ago
If the ambulance is ran by the county and there is only one or two and you are 4th in line for pickup it could happen.
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by Veelox 9y ago
>homeowner in NY or CA >deserves to be screwed to benefit rich folks Hate to break it to you but if you own a home in NY or CA your probably one of the rich folks.
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by Veelox 9y ago
I think part of the problem with the memo is that it was written for an audience that was unbiased, not for a hostile audience. This means that when you read it after here how bad it was, you brain is primed to pick up on the phrases that a

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