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by avn2109 11y ago
Good point. If you read the Harper's article [0] about the Joan Ginther, the "luckiest woman on earth" mentioned in this thread's top comment, she seems to have gamed the system basically by having an inside man or two (
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by avn2109 11y ago
Yeah this is super annoying. I am Chrome/OSX and scrolling is awful :(
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by avn2109 11y ago
For me, the general PITA and loud departure/security announcements of airports is a huuuge fixed cost. Train stations just feel much more civilized.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I have always wondered why the government is involved with marriage at all. Seems like it would be simpler if we set it up like this: Everyone pays the same taxes no matter what, and you better write an explicit will and testament to contro
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by avn2109 11y ago
It really does seem like a total design-hipster move to build a silly rollover-centric UX without an obvious way to just get the pdf.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Yeah, from a purely non-political, engineering-only perspective, nuclear power and desalination seem like a match made in heaven: No carbon; steady, predictable power loads; near-limitless demand for agricultural freshwater in CA; near-guar
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by avn2109 11y ago
The company town idea is the most plausible one yet. Seems like it's either that or a publicity stunt.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Not the OP, but in the golden age of Valley tech, say when Hewlett and Packard were still building great O-scopes full time, the dominant business model was "let's build this really useful apparatus and then sell it." Today,
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by avn2109 11y ago
They tried this in Afghanistan [0], and (spoiler alert) it didn't work. [0] http://www.thenation.com/article/how-us-funds-taliban
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by avn2109 11y ago
The moral hazard you've described is definitely a thing, and it would be silly to expect 0 slippage in the labor market after BI introduction, but I guess the claim is that we already spend so much on inefficient social welfare program
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by avn2109 11y ago
Huge policy and economic backend difference, definitely. But for propaganda/marketing purposes, to the common man these are the same program. It's the government giving you free money and that's all that should ever be in the
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "Call it a "Citizen's Dividend..." This definitely needs to be called the "America Permanent Fund," and be explicitly marketed as a scaled-up Alaska Permanent Fund[0], which is a hilariously popular ba
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "there is nothing at all you can do with 2.3 billion that you cannot do equally with 2 billion." What about threshold effects in large scale philanthropy, where you could eradicate malaria in country X if only you could b
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by avn2109 11y ago
I would have run my operation from Russia or China, and made sure to never traffic anything illegal in my host country.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I don't deny that Putin (like most state actors) has an army of commenters trying to shape discourse online, but I would be impressed if they were idiomatic and sophisticated enough to come up with a username like "murica_sux.&quo
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by avn2109 11y ago
You have suggested so many wins here. Gallons of win.
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by avn2109 11y ago
"90 days of weights and times ought to be enough for anybody."
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by avn2109 11y ago
Honestly I thought Apple bought Beats because they wanted Dr. Dre for future marketing purposes. Is that not the case?
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by avn2109 11y ago
9AM L train is pretty bad nowadays.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> '...dense urban areas that are not conducive to cars are not "convenient'." I'm carless here in the city, and my very heavy groceries from two different stores are about to be delivered by Instacart. I&#x27
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by avn2109 12y ago
When one company in the world makes pants that fit me (Bonobos), I call that useful if not technologically innovative. Though I admit that I may well be in the large-butted minority here, and the slick user experience of their conversion fu
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by avn2109 12y ago
This is not even close to never-work-again money unless you want to live Cambodia or something. There is no portfolio in the world that gives a >75% chance of a safe, comfortable lifetime of first world retirement with that amount of pre
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by avn2109 12y ago
But this isn't a publicly traded market, in fact it's just the opposite. And the definition of "money off the table" is "keep it if things head south," so it's pretty hard to begrudge them for obeying th
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by avn2109 12y ago
Point taken, the Nazis had hilariously bad taste in art. But what about Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and the rest of the great Soviet dissident literary canon?
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by avn2109 12y ago
I always think we're at the bottom now, but then next week they sink even lower.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Yeah, I'm a Ting customer for 7 months now, and honestly it's been a dream. I haven't had to interact with their support because everything has just worked, for less than half of Verizon's price.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Presumably FireEye boxes and related flavors of security sandboxes go to great lengths to camouflage their VM-ness.
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by avn2109 12y ago
All of these things are different from communism because there are examples of success. e.g. there are plenty of good democracies/republics (Denmark/Finland/Sweden/Japan) and plenty of good nuclear plants (all the French
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by avn2109 12y ago
Amen. Also, zooming on the "about" page is super broken on desktop Chrome, the text does not reflow after zooming in.
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by avn2109 12y ago
An economist would call this "efficiency wages."

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