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10081.
by api 8y ago
There was a scifi flick a while back about aliens from a hot world infiltrating government and industry to push policies that maximize carbon emissions. Forget the title.
10082.
by api 8y ago
The allure of gambling is powerful. Everyone can estimate ROI on a planned community. Nobody can estimate ROI on hot air, so it "could" be "the next" whatever-the-last-thing-was. Nobody wants to be the one who passed on
10083.
by api 8y ago
I'm not sure I'd put it that strongly, but it is quite clear that Shotwell has been a huge factor in SpaceX and the absence of someone like her is part of why Tesla is comparatively less healthy. She deserves a lot more credit.
10084.
by api 8y ago
With a basic income you could make it variable and raise or lower the nominal basic income payment to vary the rate of money supply growth. This could run alongside the regular interest rate system. If inflation got too high you could raise
10085.
by api 8y ago
As I said I'm more on the Keynesian/Monetarist side, but you do have a valid point about how new money is introduced. Current central banks introduce new money in ways that disproportionately benefit banks, the rich, and of cour
10086.
by api 8y ago
This is really the fundamental disagreement: what is money? Is it a store of value or a medium of exchange? Until or unless agreement is reached on that, debating other points is kind of a waste of time. You're not going to agree if
10087.
by api 8y ago
A lot of programming is more linguistic than mathematical. If you stay away from hard core algorithms, graphics, scientific computing, AI, and similar things, you're likely to be able to get by with high school math and algebra. One bi
10088.
by api 8y ago
One alternative would be an economy that spends surplus on large goals: infrastructure mega-projects, big science, interplanetary colonization, technological moon shots, etc. That would "soak up" a lot of employment, especially at
10089.
by api 8y ago
Interesting... here in the US public/social housing has a really horrible reputation because many of those projects turned into crime-ridden slums. The term "the projects" is literally synonymous with crime infested war-zone.
10090.
by api 8y ago
It's extremely common across all segments of society. Someone who isn't really that good at anything gets randomly successful, develops a strong case of narcissism fueled by confirmation and survivorship bias, and then proceeds to
10091.
by api 8y ago
If you drop the pejorative classist connotations of "blue collar," it always has been in the sense that programming is a craft . Some "blue collar" people make great money too. There are numerous skills in high demand i
10092.
by api 8y ago
UBeam is a really bad idea too. It "works" under controlled conditions, but it's horribly inefficient and would not be practical under regular conditions. It's more like Juicero than Theranos.
10093.
by api 8y ago
Was "wokeness" a factor in Juicero? Clinkle? There are dozens of these. The common denominator is charisma and hubris on the part of the founder(s). Lots of investors go for that. I'd put the blame on the cult of the charisma
10094.
by api 8y ago
Dont worry. There are plenty of scammy vaporware startups founded by men. Just look at pretty much the whole cryptocurrency field for starters.
10095.
by api 8y ago
It has nothing to do with racism. If this were a flood of German or British money distorting the market it would be the same.
10096.
by api 8y ago
Non-local residential property should be taxed at a significantly higher rate than owner occupied or locally owned properties. That would both solve the problem and provide much needed revenue.
10097.
by api 8y ago
It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it completely breaks all of modern finance.
10098.
by api 8y ago
It's another slow gradual step toward total lockdown. I feel like eventually I'll have to abandon Mac, but for what? Linux is still flaky and Windows adware unless you spring for Enterprise. I would pay for a commercial Linux as p
10099.
by api 8y ago
This is especially true when there are no obvious and politically viable good alternatives. In the US everyone outside the center-left or center-right seems to be an absolute lunatic of one sort or another, and even if that weren't the
10100.
by api 8y ago
The Chinese are nationalists. Xi Jinpeng is more nationalistic than Trump. They're not globalists. They've been pretending to play the globalist game to build their economy. You can't really blame them for it, but the rest of
10101.
by api 8y ago
I dunno... some of the pump and dump scams are freaking hilarious: https://cy.bonehi.com/?page=2
10102.
by api 8y ago
Was the partner a Shiba Inu?
10103.
by api 8y ago
Not sure what was wrong, but that doesn't happen on any Linux system I have ever used. Then again I've never been an Ubuntu fan. Maybe they had some incredibly bizarre settings. Also seems like it could have been a driver problem.
10104.
by api 8y ago
http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.... I have been saying for many years that overengineering is the plague of modern software. Almost everything seems far more complex than it needs to be.
10105.
by api 8y ago
They're arguing it's a risk factor. Smoking greatly increases your risk of lung cancer, but non-smokers can get lung cancer.
10106.
by api 8y ago
Disk "thrashiness" been a problem with Windows for a long time. Back in the 90s and early 2000s when slower mechanical hard drives with access lights made HDD seeking and thrashing very noticeable, I always noticed that Windows
10107.
by api 8y ago
Old MathCAD in the Windows 95 era was an amazing intuitive visual math program. Helped me learn and I miss it whenever I have to delve into heavy math of any kind. Modern tools have regressed a lot UI wise. I feel like excluding easy but sh
10108.
by api 8y ago
Once again: if the product is free it usually means you are the product.
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by api 8y ago
You're right in that racism and sexism also exist alongside classism, nepotism, cronyism, religious and cultural bigotry, "place-ism," favoritism toward people who attended certain schools, and so on. They're all problem
10110.
by api 8y ago
> "Oh, you're way too hot to be a startup founder, what are you doing here?" People who are having trouble understanding why this kind of thing is harassment should try changing gender to something else. For example, imagi

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