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by alexmat 10y ago
Synthetic USD/CNY/JPY bonds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehDfHTa8Sg This stuff is brilliant.
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by alexmat 10y ago
How does this work with same sex roommates in states that allow same sex marriage? Or even simpler, what if a male and female live together as roommates?
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by alexmat 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poverty_of_Historicism
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by alexmat 10y ago
Couldn't that be simulated to fool people into thinking the same thing about autonomous vehicles?
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by alexmat 10y ago
To be fair, BTC transfers cost a couple cents at most. If we're going to compare apples to apples. If you do an international wire and change currencies you'll pay much more than $35.
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by alexmat 10y ago
Taken in the broadest sense of the term, insurance could be long term food reserves or a contract with a neighboring village for assistance in times of need in exchange for premiums.
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by alexmat 10y ago
The new cast feature in recent builds of chromium is not working for me. It fails to find any devices. Looking at the debug output it says: "media router not defined." After a bit of googling I found you can revert back to using t
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by alexmat 10y ago
Holy generalizations Batman! Edit: This meme may be dated, context: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy%20X%2C%2... !
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by alexmat 10y ago
Well, the minuscule group they just shat on is the same group of people who make purchasing decisions and recommendations for a ton of consumers. Even if someone doesn't run Linux, laptops that support it have often proven to be more r
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by alexmat 10y ago
As long as government spending and subsides are able to sustain them.
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by alexmat 10y ago
Obviously this will be a problem for massive lecture classes, maybe those should be graded heavily on attendance with mandatory id inspection. But you're right, in the conditions you describe, this problem is not solvable.
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by alexmat 10y ago
I put it in my syllabus and run it by the department head before each quarter that anyone caught cheating in any way will immediately fail the class and be reported to the administration. I also emphasize it to the students at the start of
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by alexmat 10y ago
Seems like teachers aren't spending enough quality time going over the assignments with students. When I was teaching a Java class last year at a community college, I had students present their homework in front of the class. It was ve
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by alexmat 10y ago
For 1,000 years, parents have bought B.A. degrees for their kids as positional goods: "My son, the college man." But a B.A. no longer provides positional status. There are too many people who possess one. Certification protects ma
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by alexmat 10y ago
How about a 50% salary cut for a marginal improvement? Just curious at what point you care more about your own well being versus the well being of others.
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by alexmat 10y ago
The claim here is a naive realization of existentialism. I'm not sure how much value examining the self in terms of social media adds to the discussion other than the parlance of our times. I don't think people do anything on Face
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by alexmat 10y ago
Thanks for the link, that's exactly what I had in mind!
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by alexmat 10y ago
Just as a fun thought experiment, let's say we price all the service workers at current income levels out of the market so they all move away. At some point, people will be willing to pay more for service work due to a strong demand fo
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by alexmat 11y ago
People are also being added to the pool, probably at a faster rate since marriages are happening later and the human population is expanding.
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by alexmat 11y ago
"She also publishes and distributes a print edition once a month, with paid mail subscriptions for $10 a year." Doesn't say how many subscriptions, but it wouldn't take too many for her to contribute to rent. Impressive
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by alexmat 11y ago
Basically a toned down corporate version of China's social credit: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
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by alexmat 11y ago
We don't know what effect basic income would have on GDP, only that it would affect distribution of wealth. Income equality might rise while GDP falls in a re-distributive system. High GDP does not imply high income equality. That grap
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by alexmat 11y ago
Food and shelter are limited resources which cannot be given freely. If the cost is not remunerated to the provider (in this case government) it imposes an unsustainable burden on the provider to find new resources. There are only so many h
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by alexmat 11y ago
There is a high social status associated with his job. If he were a janitor with the same wealth, I doubt he'd be rushing in to scrub toilets all day.
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by alexmat 11y ago
It's not a counterpoint. For a rich person, each additional dollar is worth less than it is for a poor person.
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by alexmat 11y ago
You're observation is rational, but hard to connect with emotionally. Which is why these self defeating feel good efforts will persist.
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by alexmat 11y ago
> Why is this a problem? It incentivizes breeding. The more resources are freely available the more our population will grow until we reach equilibrium. Although we usually overshoot and end up with a Malthusian outcome. "Yet in all
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by alexmat 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility At $1 the second dollar is useful, at $50,000, I'm good for the year and will not pursue additional dollars. Replace $50,000 with whatever amount you need to feel con
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by alexmat 11y ago
You don't need "social awareness" to explain any of your observations: 1) Low income inequality / strong welfare system 2) This is actually a counter example. Nothing more socially offensive than second hand smoke. 3) T
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by alexmat 11y ago
Spent four years in Japan. Got stopped on a regular basis by cops in Tokyo to be inspected for drugs and weapons. Even twice within the span of a kilometer once. Anecdotal, but there you go.

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