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by b1daly 7y ago
Ah, no. These people are shady AF. They intermingle funds and shuffle them around behind the scenes. This whole system is a black box surrounded a tower of cards. Not accesible, that’s a good one.
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by b1daly 7y ago
That’s one of the problems. Liquidating “crypto to fiat” is not that easy.
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by b1daly 8y ago
Damn bro, you are missing the point. As has been described, pure market mechanisms do not and cannot price externalities correctly. That’s why we have environmental regulation, as imperfect as it is. This implicitly means a society does mak
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by b1daly 8y ago
What’s weird to me though is because I browse the internet on my phone a lot, there are some sites that are terribly slow (and prone to those weird “you’ve won an iPad” hacks). The Huffington post is one. On an older phone or tablet, the si
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by b1daly 8y ago
The model makes sense within the limited domain of its assumptions. I find it weird though that it uses an example of autos, because of the hypothetical presence of asymmetric information, which doesn’t seem to describe the real world well
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by b1daly 8y ago
Apple devices do have relatively long useful life. My main workstation is a 2009 Mac Pro that I’ve maxed out, and it remains a highly performant machine. Our household has a long tail of Apple products, that get passed down, or put to diffe
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by b1daly 8y ago
I have a 6s plus, and had the battery replaced, and still drains the battery like that. I’ve tried all the obvious tricks. I’m befuddled by this, it’s the worst battery life of any phone I’ve had. I thought the bigger case would have helped
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by b1daly 8y ago
it seems inconceivable that large areas of cold climates will convert to electric heat in the near future, it doesn’t make sense to add the need for vast amounts of new electric capacity which will reach peak demand at night. The road to ze
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by b1daly 8y ago
Maybe nuclear waste should be deliberately stored near population centers, helpfully incentivizing the populace to maintain the safety and integrity of long term storage.
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by b1daly 8y ago
What? In the northern parts of of the US at least virtually nobody heats buildings with electric power. It’s gas or oil, which are not affected by the problems of maintaining capacity on the electric grid.
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by b1daly 8y ago
The costs of regulation, while perhaps not ideally efficient, are a real cost of nuclear power. They are the mechanism by which risks to the common environment are controlled. Currently, and increasingly in the future, there is this huge “e
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by b1daly 8y ago
The rise of ubiquitous networked social platforms is very new. In the earlier days of the internet, it simply did not have the reach it does today. It is the mass effects that are causing problems, especially since you can now purchase dire
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by b1daly 8y ago
Your response is inapt, because the comment about Gab’s users “blowing up synagogues “ is a rhetorical argument, not a literal one. Arguing that if Gab is punished collectively because the shooter posted there, then Twitter should be too, b
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by b1daly 8y ago
I’m responding to your comment more as a representative of a general sentiment. The implicit psychological construct behind this little “mini-panic” around fringe groups be “de-platformed” is a common one: something bad is happening, and we
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by b1daly 8y ago
It’s not even placebo...contextual stimuli actually will change how things sound. If you have decent speakers at your computer, listen to a passage with your monitor on, then the same passage with it off, it will sound quite different. Anot
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by b1daly 8y ago
Even in well treated environment , speaker placement is critical. I’ve been working in pro audio 30 years and still surprised at how much moving speakers affects their performance.
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by b1daly 8y ago
Discoverability is a very hard problem on the small screen. I’m amazed at how often I actually know a function exists, and I try every conceivable type of interaction I can think of to no success. Then I google it. Damn the little tip about
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by b1daly 8y ago
As a poster above alluded to, selling the status quo to people have suffered a loss of economic and social standing, is a losing political argument. Even though I think the Democrats have more to offer, say, the rural communities in WI, tha
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by b1daly 8y ago
As someone with a degree in Economics (from long ago) if I could do it over, I would definitely pick a STEM field. (Way more useful). I haven’t really bought the propaganda that the humanities provides unique value, beyond a general educati
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by b1daly 8y ago
We should genetically engineer this new breed of bacteria and seed the oceans. What could go wrong?
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by b1daly 8y ago
Or maybe truly reusable plastics could work? Some of the plastic bottles used for beverages seem remarkably strong for their weight.
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by b1daly 8y ago
So you have it all worked out then? What do you propose?
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by b1daly 8y ago
An essential aspect of an artistic work, whether it is structured from words, matter, sound, or behavior is that it has a human author who “intends” it to be art. An important part of this is that it has no other intended purpose. (This is
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by b1daly 8y ago
I agree on this prosaic point, people/entities should not be absolved of their dangerous lies. What I see as striking about the foundation of Qanon, is that their setup for the conspiracy theory, involves an almost leftist condemnation
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by b1daly 8y ago
Even though the weird Qanon movement is delusional on the particulars, when it comes to pointing out the obvious betrayal of regular folk by cabals of elites milking the system for their benefit is strikingly on point.
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by b1daly 8y ago
Musician Ben Sidran’s (mentioned in the article) record label is named Nardis. As I am not a jazzer, I had always assumed it was just his name spelled backwards. Learn something everyday.
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by b1daly 8y ago
I feel like I'm missing something. The innovation of Bitcoin, which I grant is interesting, was in solving the game theoretical aspects of maintaining a trust-less distributed public ledger. It could be relied upon and used by anyone,
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by b1daly 8y ago
As an aside, I think there has been some interesting trends in the playlists used in public businesses, and mostly for the better. For example, a few years ago I noticed that Walgreens would generally have pretty good pop music playing. But
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by b1daly 8y ago
Is that really the case? I’ve returned things to amazon for other reasons...
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by b1daly 8y ago
This is an unorthodox way of looking at this, and could only be persuasive with actual data. The economic argument for government providing public services is actually that for public goods, the incentives on the individual lead to sub-opti

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