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by aeternus 7y ago
It benefits those with lots of debt but really hurts those that have worked hard to build up savings, or are on fixed income.
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by aeternus 7y ago
It is being addressed. Not at the level of governmental cooperation, but some of the things that really matter are being done in spite of that. Solar cell prices have decreased by 300x over the last 40 years and continue to do so. Similar
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by aeternus 7y ago
No, because rent-control disincentives new development.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Education is more accessible now than ever. It's amazing that anyone anywhere in the world can watch Feynmann and Leonard Susskind's lectures on General Relativity without giving a penny to CalTech/Stanford. There is also p
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by aeternus 7y ago
An IC can definitely have and maintain more control than managers, they just need to produce visible value to the company. I've seen multiple ICs with more power than their direct manager. They are basically immune to being fired beca
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by aeternus 7y ago
Is housing "going wrong" simply because it is expensive? Maybe it is overall a good thing that tech companies are now expanding into cities outside the bay area due to high housing costs. At least housing prices are transparent t
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by aeternus 7y ago
There are multiple launch systems that will have the payload capacity to go straight to the moon within the next few years. Why not just use those? No one will care about a Lunar space station, it's not enough of a step forward to cap
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by aeternus 7y ago
Which Netflix shows would you say match the quality and viewership of GoT, Breaking Bad, Westworld? Maybe only House of Cards. HBO just has Netflix beat in terms of content over the last couple years especially.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Most of the larger charities simply spend more of their budget on marketing. Is that desirable, and should the charity leadership be compensated handsomly for that? It's a tough question as they may just be redirecting money away from
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by aeternus 7y ago
It's not magical thinking, landfill mining has been in-use since the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining If certain resources do get more sparse, it will easily become economically viable to expan
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by aeternus 7y ago
Pretty much all paper manufacturers are now require to plant more trees than they cut down. Burying old newspapers in the ground is a form of carbon sequestration. Really it comes down to what takes less energy: cutting down the trees, or
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by aeternus 7y ago
Yes, I think a better analogy would be an antivirus program that simply deletes any file (or more accurately parts of a file) it thinks is suspicious. .. by no means an optimal antivirus program, but in a sense, it is effective.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Right, very little content. Also Graphene batteries are already out and unfortunately they perform about the same as regular lithium batteries.
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by aeternus 7y ago
People said the same thing about both horses and cars around cities. If we can replace some of the cars with scooters it should be a net gain for citizens.
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by aeternus 7y ago
This assumes everyone wants to get better. As demonstrated here, not everyone does: https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw?t=913 What do you do in cases like that if prison is off the table?
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by aeternus 7y ago
Look closely at the questions those surveys are asking. "Where were you living at the time you most recently became homeless" isn't the right question as there are temporary housing options (crashing with a friend, living in
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by aeternus 7y ago
What industry to you work in, and how large of a company is it? Sounds like a great opportunity for a more efficient competitor to undercut this company :D
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by aeternus 7y ago
The tax should come first. Price incentives are strong, they will drive consumer behavior which will drive business behavior.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Interestingly, this is the mechanism by which the Astroid may actually make all of us richer. It will require inventions and new technologies to successfully mine the asteroid, and those will give society access to vast new resources.
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by aeternus 7y ago
It would probably be better to address the root problem. Unfortunately replacing governments has a long history of being a very violent and bloody ordeal.
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by aeternus 7y ago
True there is a lot of speculation today, and transaction fees are much too high to use for everyday expenses. I would say store-of-value is a valid use-case though. The ability of an individual to store wealth in their brain is a useful
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by aeternus 7y ago
Very valid criticisms, but they do not apply in all cases. In terms of reducing governmental control, sure this isn't much of a problem if your government is altruistic. Governments do not have a great long-term track record here. In
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by aeternus 7y ago
Paper books can however be "shut off" by a fire, by being misplaced, by a flood, by theft, by a mischievous child or pet. In contrast, an e-book linked to a user account is immune to all of those. If the idea of losing access to
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by aeternus 7y ago
Draining the bay is probably too extreme, but much of SF is already built on reclaimed land. All of Embarcadero, Mission Bay, Southbeach, even parts of Rincon Hill were underwater in the 1800s: https://upload.wikimedia.org/
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by aeternus 7y ago
Unfortunately it's not practical because the test matrix explodes. They would have to develop and test every security update on every previous version which is quite costly, especially if the codebase has diverged. The best strategy i
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by aeternus 7y ago
Quite a few, anchoring is pretty interesting and can often be completely subconscious.
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by aeternus 7y ago
The problem is that word processors and word wrap make it too easy to move text, destroying the absolute and sometimes even relative position. Much of human memory evolved to remember locations, and almost all of the top memory competitors
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by aeternus 7y ago
The idea that a rocket sitting on top of a column of thrust is significantly different than a rocket suspended underneath a column of thrust is actually a common fallacy, known as the pendulum rocket fallacy: https://en.wikipedia
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by aeternus 7y ago
They are definitely tracking suppliers, but it is not as easy as you make it seem. Suppliers may not be using 100% fakes, making them much harder to catch. Customers may also be a significant part of the problem, due to Amazon's retur
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by aeternus 7y ago
Bye Aerospace also has a pretty cool all-electric trainer aircraft that looks quite promising, and close to certification: https://byeaerospace.com/

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