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>> "I have found him to be contrarian and rude..." There is a vital difference between "contrarian and rude" and "contrarian, rude, and right." The latter doesn't erase the two former, but his code c
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by avn2109 12y ago
Harvard (and most of its peer institutions) give ~free education to anyone who can get in and comes from the ~middle class.
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>> "...a massive blackmail operation against elected officials." This is my pet hypothesis too, and it's rarely mentioned. Most governments whose inner workings have been exposed to the Western public (Khmer Rouge, Nazi
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>> "I like diesels, but they are absolutely non sensical in the US." Here's a counterpoint: In my hometown, by far the best-selling passenger vehicles are the Dodge Ram diesels. And having driven a couple of them, they
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by avn2109 12y ago
That's exactly what I mean by "relatively more difficult." There is no premium if you buy and hold, in fact that's the baseline situation from which the premium is calculated. And buy-and-hold works for arbitrary timesca
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by avn2109 12y ago
It's almost as if the markets are intentionally structured such that it's easy to place a long-term bet that asset prices will rise, but relatively more difficult to bet the converse :0
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too... meta... does not compute
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Do you really want to spend 5-10 years learning enough to check one of these proofs?" The other replies here all seem to be "Pssh, I can already read math, and I'm a layman." As a counterpoint, I often try
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by avn2109 12y ago
Oops accidentally upvoted you. As somebody else mentioned above, Best Buy competes just fine with Apple while buying their products. So it's not impossible/unfair.
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by avn2109 12y ago
This seems to me very implausible, because our panem et circenses are too good today. People will be too busy with their comfy couches and Netflix, their NFL, their darknet hashish, and their Instagram to revolt. Also, the system is tuned
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For me, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that both you and the parent are right.
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>> "...assuming no secret deals..." You're totally right on the merits, but it's worth noting that the big record labels are composed entirely of and built their empire solely upon unjust-seeming secret deals, and
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by avn2109 12y ago
We need a free-body diagram here, talking about the balance of forces in English is madness.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the market value is ~0 when compared to what you paid for it.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "This is probably due to a shortage of parking spots." Yes, that's the point. This is called modal shift and it is how you incentivize people to stop driving.
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I have always thought that the West Village is so gentrified today because it's essentially one-of-a-kind. I.e. Jane Jacobs' ideas were (almost) not implemented completely in any other neighborhood in America, so everyone in the c
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by avn2109 12y ago
In other news, applying SI prefixes to atypical units is really fun. It reminds me of how civil engineers use kilo-pounds aka "kips."
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Maybe we simply come up with better ways to build and design cities..." Reading that, I can't help but think that the canonically best methods for how to "build and design cities" have been pretty well und
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* somebody who knew what he was talking about.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Agreed, the trick is to ban parking and narrow the roadways a lot. A few months ago this [0] was on HN and I was very convinced by its arguments pertaining to automobiles and urbanization. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by avn2109 12y ago
Sure thing: Hezbollah in Lebanon [0], Hamas in Palestine [1], the Taliban in Afghanistan [2], the Islamic State and related factions in various fluid-bordered Middle Eastern regions [3], several Mexican drug cartels (with the notable except
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by avn2109 12y ago
Agreed. A government is fundamentally just an organized gang that defends by force the right to tax some population, and I don't see anything wrong with such gangs formalizing the procedure by which one comes under their jurisdiction.
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by avn2109 12y ago
In Williamsburg or Bushwick this would be the ultimate social status indicator and it would probably get your band signed to an indy label immediately.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Am I the only one to whom it is obvious that the EpicScale "bitcoin miner" is not in fact a bitcoin miner at all? For the profitability reasons enumerated in the parent, the only possible explanation is that they're doing som
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by avn2109 12y ago
Good point about the "significance" thing. However, the word "exercise" probably covers many different regimes here. If you take a pair of twins, put one on the couch for 3 years, and give me the other to train for 3 yea
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@interpol_p: As a thought experiment, what if the joke had been, "Where does the king keep his armies? Up his sleevies!" ie. entirely innocuous and commonly told in third grade classrooms. If all parties had behaved identically an
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by avn2109 12y ago
Genuine question, what are those "much better investment options?" I have long suspected that super rich people are doing different things with their money than I am, but I have never figured out exactly what.
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I thought this too, since as far back as the 1940's the Nazis could put the necessary radio triangulating hardware in a van. But then I realized that the people tasked with doing the finding are on the payroll of the Cartels, and will
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Me too. Which is a shame because the watch looks nice (for a smart watch). It seems like something that an adult could intentionally wear in public, unlike many of these gadgets.
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Yup, Hamilton Heights in fact. Price per square foot as a function of latitude is a pretty flat curve for a long distance north of 125th, so there's no reason to go into the extra deep boonies to save money. I was on 139th on the West

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