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> People also like stability People liking something isn't how we should determine our incentive structure. People like gambling and smoking, but that doesn't mean they're good! If something is a drain on productivity, we
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> There's not much wrong with moving for retirement. We don't like to do it, and residential property owners should to some extent (for a number of years) be exempt from land value tax, but the alternative (hoarding valuable la
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> Tragically this would cause most land in the US to have zero or negative market value, leading to massive distortions and trillions of dollars of wealth destruction Would it though? Nothing is actually destroyed. The land is still ther
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by adverbly 1y ago
Personally I have been using em dash(or some other kind of dash) for everything these days. I know it's probably wrong, but I got the feeling that people won't roast me over a fire if I use it incorrectly.
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but: 1. It would be easier to use than a pin because it's connected to your hand. You can press it without anyone knowing that you are pressing it. You can presse it with a single
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> 5. … like a clip. Something that attaches to clothes. I feel like the most natural thing would be basically push-to-talk-to-AI: 1. Some sort of mic + earpiece that you can wear comfortably(e.g. airpods) 2. A wireless button that you ca
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by adverbly 1y ago
Price point here is a bit too high... They have bundled so many things together into this that the sticker shock on the price is too much. I get what they're trying to do but if they were serious about this they would include some othe
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by adverbly 1y ago
Life is just applied category theory
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by adverbly 1y ago
> that could lower the debt that would result in little to no austerity. I like your ideas, but I'm not sure this is possible without austerity or major tax reform. The deficit is massive. If I was King, I'd choose tax reform
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by adverbly 1y ago
Isn't it to be expected that anyone with more free time is more likely to have time to start a business? Working from home means you don't have to commute which saves you hours a week. Of course it will increase the chance that yo
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by adverbly 1y ago
+1 This is great, but what about the rich people who don't give? Won't they just continue to get more and more power? The scales are tipped and this is not sustainable. Gary Stevenson is a bit extreme, but he's not wrong abou
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by adverbly 1y ago
Who manages that trust? There is not shortage of short term needs, and short term value added can compound over time. I think this is a fine approach. He's Bill Gates - his legacy is ensured regardless.
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Amazing to see how much wealth he was still gaining these past years. This giving will have a huge impact. It sure is needed at the moment!
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by adverbly 1y ago
Google totally crushing it and stock is down 8% today :| Is it just me or is the market just absolutely terrible at understanding the implications and speed of progress behind what's happening right now in the walls of big G?
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by adverbly 1y ago
This is flying car thinking IMO. You're entirely ignoring data ownership and privacy/security, energy/compute efficiency demands, latency.
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by adverbly 1y ago
Is this just smartphones they are banning? Can kids still use oldschool Nokia phones?
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by adverbly 1y ago
I wasn't trying to be witty at all. I was legitimately curious. I didn't know teachers needed to use their smartphones for work. What do they need their phones for? Do they have landlines in each classroom to call parents or the o
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by adverbly 1y ago
If prices go down, doesn't that mean GDP also goes down assuming that that the quantity of items purchased doesn't change?
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by adverbly 1y ago
So wait did they ban it for teachers and staff as well?
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Did you read the article? The author speaks to this directly: > Now, you might be thinking: that’s all well and good, but I’ve got a full-time job, two kids and a mortgage. I’m happy to recycle and eat some tofu now and then, but a “fund
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by adverbly 1y ago
Incredibly well written. Do yourself a favour and actually read the article this time. It is very convincing for me personally, and it's got me considering making some big changes.
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by adverbly 1y ago
Or maybe have cameras set up recording the test taking with some AI analysis to detect cheating.
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You are correct that most consumption taxes are intrinsically regressive, but you can turn pretty much any consumption tax into a progressive one by simply taking the money and redistributing it at a flat amount per person. I believe this w
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by adverbly 1y ago
Does this confirm at least part of the dead internet theory?
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by adverbly 2y ago
> everyone agrees that it's good for a country to export lots of stuff Not if you want to avoid escalation of a trade war. If you know that the US is pissed off because you're hoarding dollars because its the reserve currency a
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by adverbly 2y ago
If this was the real reason then wouldn't we see countries matching import tariffs with export tariffs? Sharing revenues on a percentage of the flow of goods into the US 50/50 would at least be a more sustainable geopolitically. I
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Not all I suppose - but it is the default.
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Just got back from a trip to Spain and Portugal. Basically had culture shock driving down a wide north american road. It's not just the colors. It's the emptiness. The clearance of everything in north america is insane. It's
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by adverbly 2y ago
Amazing I left almost this exact question as a comment a couple weeks ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427615
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This does look like a large relative increase in score, but it seems like it comes from getting zero correct out of 6 to getting 1 and 1/2 correct. I think it's fair to say the sample size here is relatively small. Still, a record

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