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by _rpd 9y ago
Formally declaring a profit just results in a higher tax bill. Better to reinvest in R&D if you can keep the growth rate up. AMZN was < $40 in 2008, now it is pushing $1000. That's why shareholders are happy to let Bezos keep
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by _rpd 9y ago
In the "real world", payday loans type operations will be the only beneficiaries of UBI. Simply handing out money will not change the structure of society.
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by _rpd 9y ago
Well said. Of course, the goal should be to instruct the student as they would have wished from the perspective of their older selves. A damnably hard goal set to estimate. To enable fluid interaction with the bulk of society, however, my
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by _rpd 9y ago
> home school seems like the the only real solution Many parents/guardians are not suited to teaching a modern curriculum, or their talents are best employed in other areas. There are good schools, but they are rare and often expen
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by _rpd 9y ago
A damages award could be large enough to change the economics of Uber's project.
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by _rpd 9y ago
> The way you state that one wonders why we haven't already achieved superhuman, general AI. Brain emulation is still expensive ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_brain#/media/File:E... It&#
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by _rpd 9y ago
> I just doubt whether it's physically possible. Biological brains achieve their ends with relatively low speeds and energies. Even simplistic substitution with equivalent electronic components would be hundreds of times faster, an
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by _rpd 9y ago
> And whether or not I can imagine experiencing time 1000x slower than everyone else, has no bearing on whether or not that's a realistic scenario. It is a staple of AGI speculation that a computer program with even near-human IQ wo
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by _rpd 9y ago
I agree about focusing on the proton-boron reaction. I meant to refer to other fusion technologies that can sustain the reaction. As well as dense plasma focus (the Lawrenceville group that you linked), there is Polywell, Tri Alpha, the Z
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by _rpd 9y ago
There are a whole bunch of options for aneutronic fusion ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
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by _rpd 9y ago
This project will hire journalists who will write full time. The crowd is basically supposed to keep them honest - fact checking, criticizing tone, pointing out bias.
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by _rpd 9y ago
I am a sheep owner. I like sheep. However, sheep are, in fact, the dumbest mammal I have ever encountered.
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by _rpd 10y ago
> The idea of goods having singular prices, determined by the market My impression is that anyone in business who is more than a couple of years out of college understands that market prices are a spread around a moving average.
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by _rpd 10y ago
https://www.google.com/shopping is adequate for most items.
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by _rpd 10y ago
> Our ability to know the price of anything, anytime, anywhere, has given us, the consumers, so much power that retailers—in a desperate effort to regain the upper hand, or at least avoid extinction—are now staring back through the scree
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by _rpd 10y ago
Americans spend $10+ billion per year on homeopathy. I don't think this product is targeted to people who value substance over style.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Lots of people buy expensive juicers with the idea that they will drink more delicious healthy fresh juice. But then they never use them because it is a hassle. This way they can pretend that they are getting fresh juicer-style juice. &gt
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by _rpd 10y ago
They are just trying to copy the coffee pod people. It could still become a thing.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Agreed. And the same is true of college courses. $120k in debt with a degree in Art History is digging your own financial grave.
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by _rpd 10y ago
> and it is quite practical. It would be brutal. Very few would be able to get credit, and those that could would come under constant pressure to liquidate assets. > land is pooled and redivided If the government tried to seize and r
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by _rpd 10y ago
It's heartbreaking. > “He just saw his life as not what he wanted it to be, and he didn’t know how to get it there” I think though, that this is a near universal aspect of the human condition.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Previous discussion ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093860 From the top comment ... > The headline is deeply misleading. > This article is not about classical negative mass or exotic matter – which would be
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by _rpd 10y ago
The laws are byzantine, and often vague. Eligibility decisions have significant effects on people's lives. For comparison, there are 665k certified practicing accountants in the US.
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by _rpd 10y ago
I believe it is the number, in thousands, of US persons aged 25 and over having an 8th grade education or higher. As scraped from this web site ... https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_104.
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by _rpd 10y ago
References a Science article titled "With this new system, scientists never have to write a grant application again" ... > In Bollen’s system, scientists no longer have to apply; instead, they all receive an equal share of the
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by _rpd 10y ago
Here's the paper mentioned in the article ... Cassini finds molecular hydrogen in the Enceladus plume: Evidence for hydrothermal processes > Saturn's moon Enceladus has a subsurface ocean covered by a layer of ice. Some liquid
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by _rpd 10y ago
Seems a natural investment for Amazon.
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by _rpd 10y ago
The press release linked by the article has an image of the production facility ... Norsk Titanium to Deliver the World’s First FAA-Approved, 3D-Printed, Structural Titanium Components to Boeing http://www.norsktitanium.com/
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by _rpd 10y ago
Gwern also single-handedly carries several machine learning related subreddits ... https://www.reddit.com/user/gwern/submitted/
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by _rpd 10y ago
And just like that, a new generation of hackers was born.

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