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by beefield 7y ago
I would think that setting a fast increasing tax (say doubling each year) on patents would solve lots of issues. Once you do not want to pay the tax, the patent moves to public domain. Same tax should apply also to copyrighted work.
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by beefield 7y ago
Not sure if it would be techically possible to have gaps in the platoon after every five cars, but at least it would be trivial to set max size of one platoon to something reasonable.
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by beefield 7y ago
This is why I wonder why platooning technology is so much less hyped. Give me a platooning hardware kit to my current car, enough users after which I can join on my longer trips and literally more than 95% of my self driving car needs are c
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by beefield 7y ago
And one zillion equals ten zillions...
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by beefield 7y ago
I'm quite curious to hear what these personal freedoms are you need to give away in the Nordic countries? Freedom to pay huge student debts maybe?
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by beefield 7y ago
> Edit: not anecdotal. I think that is pretty much anecdotal as per definition.
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by beefield 7y ago
Sorry, not answering all comments, but we do already have this kind of restricted Ministry of Truth. For example, there are libel laws and you may end up in jail for the content of your speech. And that is in my humble opinion a good thing
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by beefield 7y ago
Unfortunately looks to me that if you do not have a Ministry of Truth, you end up with a society where private actors pump people with soma[1]. Personally, I am willing to accept a restricted version of Ministry of Truth to avoid that outco
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by beefield 7y ago
Especially for rich people and for consumption (not investment) it looks obvious to me that they have negative time preference for consumption. Why? They could choose to consume all their money today to whatever they want (business jets
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by beefield 7y ago
> The debtor is also "free" to default and not give you back anything. The interest rate is supposed to reflect that risk. That is not the only thing interest rate is supposed to reflect. Interest rate is supposed to also refle
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by beefield 7y ago
Sounds good. At the minimun these tracker giants should be regulated to offer the option to use their services as a paying customer without tracking.
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by beefield 7y ago
There is also the possibility that it is simulated only to one person's sensory input, which reduces the computing power needed quite a lot. I mean, how are you supposed to prove that author of this comment is not just crappy AI homewo
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by beefield 7y ago
> What is the technology that we do have, but we refuse to use in order to solve the problem? Money, laws and maybe some coercion tools.
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by beefield 7y ago
> but rather these people and their ideologies. I think it is rather strong[1] implied assumption here that places like 8chan can't change peoples' ideologies. [1] If you ask me, the assumption is wrong.
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by beefield 7y ago
Does Experian response with an actual credit score as opposed to information whether you have defaulted some of your loans recently or not?
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by beefield 7y ago
I'd like to get some further sources. Below is what Wikipedia has to say about Danish credit scoring[1] (emphasis mine) I know there are databases the store your information if you have defaulted your loans, but that is (to me) very di
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by beefield 7y ago
Sorry, I am not that confident about that. I live in Europe, and to my knowledge we do not have that kind of credit score companies (there are databases about people who have defaulted their debts, though), and to my knowledge it is banks t
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by beefield 7y ago
> We’ve known this for over 100 years It looks to me like outside this we there is a significant bunch of people who do not know or accept this. Actually, at some point I was pondering whether the main distinction [1] between conservati
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by beefield 7y ago
> And can you show me euribor-based longe-term loan where the interest rate is negative? My old mortgage would have become technically negative a couple of years ago, but I was forced to prepay it due to selling my apartment before the r
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by beefield 7y ago
There are mortgages in Europe which are indexed to Euribors, which have been negative for a while, and you have been able to end up having a mortgage where index + margin is below zero. Obviously banks argue that actually mathematics is wro
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by beefield 7y ago
Paid subscriptions. Literally way more than 99% of "free" content is so bad that world would be better without that.
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by beefield 7y ago
Just give me platooning on highways and approximately 95% of my personal use cases for self driving cars are satisfactorily fulfilled. And the problem is vastly simpler to solve.
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by beefield 7y ago
Weird. One can hear arguments that it is the very fact that some people get paid lot as a proof that these people are more productive than others. But that argument seems to apply a bit selectively, and nurses and teachers somehow do not ge
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by beefield 7y ago
> In the US, when a wealthy person parks in front of a fire hydrant, we don't give them a $100,000 parking ticket; the fine is scaled to the offense, not the offender. Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebe
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by beefield 7y ago
> advanced user Yep, the problem is that I have this conspiracy theory that Microsoft has designed Excel to be the ultimate booster of Dunning-Krueger effect so that most people think they are advanced users [1] while they actually have
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by beefield 7y ago
I have quite actively tried to avoid excel lately (which means also avoiding to learn new tricks...), and I am not that familiar with tables. Do the tables: 1. Enforce same data type per column. I.e., if you have a number in C4, you can&#x2
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by beefield 7y ago
Of course, when I say liabilities, I mean non-equity.
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by beefield 7y ago
"Or less" Any bank with assets worth less than liabilities is bankrupt. You may not believe it, but regulators that allow bank to operate and any one holding bank equity with stock price above zero believes that bank's assets
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by beefield 7y ago
> The majority of markets don't care if it is 100% backed, like they don't care when their bank does fractional reserve Fractional reserve banks' deposits are backed more than 100% with more or less liquid assets. That&#

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