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by arzt 10y ago
If this goes to a jury, could the damages shut uber down?
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by arzt 10y ago
If these guys were knowingly creating massive externalities, and they are blamed and penalized for it, how do you put a price on the damage without putting a stop to modern civilization? State AGs are now taking these companies to task much
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by arzt 10y ago
What's up with the massive negative gross margins? Will wall street glance over those? Is there any precedent for a company going public with such upside down financials (putting growth aside)?
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by arzt 10y ago
I can't reiterate the incentive vs caring point he makes enough. Agencies exist to satisfy a requirement, collect a check, and run. Engage them warily for dev/design.
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by arzt 10y ago
For any constitutional law experts: have there been any efforts to amend the 4th amendment to explicitly take into consideration private information held by third parties (ie abrogate FISA)?
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by arzt 10y ago
This book chronicles Arthur's struggle pushing his theories through mainstream academia and how that ultimately led to the creation of the Sante Fe Institute. It's a narrative mixed with an overview of the creation of complexity t
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by arzt 10y ago
Speaking as some who has only read the Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon, there are definitely sections of Stephenson's books that are a slog, but I generally find finishing them is rewarding.
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by arzt 10y ago
"Everyone, shockingly, wants convenience. And as a result, it's our job to find the ways to fulfill that." - said every consumer internet company ever. Demand does not beget a sensical business model.
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by arzt 10y ago
This article references deforestation whose root cause is a desire to to create land for grazing, so in this case it seems to be.
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by arzt 10y ago
Swept under the rug because there hasn't been a proven viable alternative that creates enough food to support modern human organization. Growth is the be all, end all of capitalism and agriculture is the 10,000 year old basis for it&#x
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by arzt 10y ago
What sort of insurance would you buy and where would you recommend buying it?
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by arzt 10y ago
The tariff stuff freaks me out - it's a total idealogical paradigm shift. Re the point of reducing regulation, Larry page actually recommended a variation of this to the president of South Korea to reduce legal complexity of its govern
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Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf](assets.donaldjtrump.com)
784 points by arzt 10y ago|1281 comments
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by arzt 10y ago
Is their a historical precedent for something like this? (ie sitting president pardons incoming president?)
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by arzt 10y ago
I would agree it is more a matter of reflexivity - personalization increases and feeds on personal bias. Embodied here: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/16/on-research/
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by arzt 10y ago
He's quoted as saying we should move all heavy industry off of earth and turn it into a park for the sake of its own existence.[1] [1] http://www.recode.net/2016/6/1/11826514/jeff-bezos-space-sav...
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by arzt 10y ago
How is water lower margin than a sugar drink that has ingredients and is partly water? At my corner bodega they charge $2 for a 20oz Dasani (which is the same price as a comparably sized gatorade).
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Big data, Google and the end of free will(ft.com)
1 points by arzt 10y ago|0 comments
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by arzt 10y ago
Isn't the war between AWS, Google, and Azure etc just a race to the bottom? Won't these businesses just be complete commodities in the near future?
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by arzt 10y ago
Great question. It's the quintessential platform tradeoff. You pay in the short term to utilize their free tools (backtesting, data sets etc). The potential opportunity cost could be pretty steep if you create the next Renaissance and
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Chinese Scientists Plan First Human Test with Gene Editing Tool(bloomberg.com)
2 points by arzt 10y ago|0 comments
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by arzt 10y ago
This is what America's softly regulated human driving crisis looks like: "38,300 people were killed on U.S. roads, and 4.4 million were seriously injured, meaning 2015 likely was the deadliest driving year since 2008." http:
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by arzt 10y ago
Where does Uber rank historically in terms of private capital raised by a pre-ipo tech company? I would imagine very close to #1?
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by arzt 10y ago
Total aside, but now that they are encroaching on Google's territory in video, I would hope they move to create a free mapping service for AWS users. Startups that try to generate revenue are so hamstrung by the baseline $10,000 maps f
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by arzt 10y ago
Bezos - hands down, similar degree of ruthlessness in controlling all markets he touches. An anecdote from the "The Everything Store" which sheds more light below: “Bezos kept pushing for more. He asked Blake to exact better terms
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Stent-electrode for high-fidelity recordings of cortical neural activity(nature.com)
1 points by arzt 11y ago|0 comments
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by arzt 11y ago
Right, it would help to put $ directly into consumers hands versus buy bonds and putting it back on to bank balance sheets who will not necessarily lend it back out.
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Human Drone(tetongravity.com)
1 points by arzt 11y ago|0 comments
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by arzt 11y ago
Does this history have anything to do with Neal Stephenson's inspiration for Qwghlm?