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by beiller 5y ago
Hot take: 2008 was caused by over regulation, resulting in broken incentives for rating agencies and preventing any real bad outcomes from them just rating everything as great.
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by beiller 5y ago
I think the harmful opoids were created due to heroin being illegal. The pharmaceutical version is purified and more potent in general, helping enshrine it as the go to for smuggling due to its smaller size/volume and then cut once it&
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by beiller 5y ago
I do agree with the broader point that they are not comparable, but one interesting caveat with Toronto is that come winter time, you're dead due to extreme cold and being homeless.
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by beiller 5y ago
Ya if astronomy was done by taking photos of the sky 30 years ago, erasing them, and only using their verbal descriptions after 30 years to draw a hypothesis.
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by beiller 5y ago
Reusable cups are still banned at my Starbucks due to covid which is a bit frustrating for me. I've been using my reusable cup for 5 years until covid. They used to sell a cup every year which gave free coffees for the month of January
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by beiller 5y ago
You have errors in you measurement, mostly in assuming employees only add a positive ROI when in fact their value can go negative. Thus doing the bare minimum is worth more than you think as long as the employee stays in the positive ROI (w
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by beiller 5y ago
I'm not understanding your argument. You are against anonymous money? You realize what the alternative is? Credit cards. Ie you can only transact with visas permission, also they skim some cents off each transaction inflating all price
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by beiller 5y ago
When we gonna get some hardware accelerated opengl running on the pi. Keep up the amazing work!
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by beiller 5y ago
I know that it is a different challenge reverse engineering a spa's APIs but you gotta admit, the existing system of XML / html parsing and websites making slight tweaks to their layout is the real nightmare.
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by beiller 5y ago
I wish we lived in a world where no one has to vouch; trustless. I know - not possible right? But in my opinion it's an instant fix to racial, sex, any other type of discrimination isn't it. It would close the gender pay gap. It w
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by beiller 5y ago
Don't spas make scrapers easier cause you can just call the APIs directly?
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by beiller 5y ago
How can we vote a certain way on fed policy? Voting has no impact on the fed. I thought the consensus was we need to allow companies to fail. The fed has absolutely manipulated what it means to have risk (making all investment zero risk) wh
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by beiller 5y ago
Awesome thanks for the paper!
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by beiller 5y ago
I am mostly on board with the vaccine, going to get my 2nd shot soon. But I do have a worry; This is setting a precedent where instead of treating disease now, we will preemptively vaccinate. It actually seems morally wrong to not take thes
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by beiller 5y ago
If the customer is willing to take the risk, and the repair shop takes on liability, why would Tesla care? Brand image? This is already negatively affecting their brand image (for me).
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by beiller 5y ago
They don't work below a certain temperature because condensation collects on the cool side, creating frost, and makes them less efficient than baseboard radiative heat. The lower boundary is about -10c. Not to mention gas is just way c
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by beiller 5y ago
Question is the hash symbol (#) 4 pixels wide possible? I saw it there but it seems to me it requires at least 5 pixels.
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by beiller 5y ago
How much polonium in cigarette smoke versus a campfire? It says polonium occurs naturally in the soil and air. How much polonium then is taken in as a baseline? Other commenters mention radiation is not the factor that causes cancer in smok
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by beiller 5y ago
That could work. Market forces will play it out, investors will get burned and be more hesitant to pour more gasoline on the fire. The business model as it stands appears to not work long term (maybe). What company has had long term success
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by beiller 5y ago
How is population growth a direct cause of climate change? Sure it may be very loosely correlated. But why even mention it? Further more the population is in decline in almost all developed countries is it not? If it really is political it&
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by beiller 5y ago
Could the opposite happen? Companies getting too large causing innovation to sag (I have no data) as we increasingly work towards rent seeking and no economic output? That seems like it would put us behind.
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by beiller 5y ago
Well at least we agree on one tiny part of the above. I guess I was a bit callous in my reply. This news has set of a somewhat violent chain reaction in Canada. I'm glad the news came out but lately I am disturbed how much "news&q
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by beiller 5y ago
The article doesn't mention when they died.
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by beiller 5y ago
I think China is just trying to take pot shots and their comments on the situation really just shows how their leadership appears to act like children. Yes the residential schools are an atrocity. The children were stolen from their parents
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by beiller 5y ago
We are venturing on my opinions now but yes, the ASIC development is important in my opinion. It really is exercising the "pipeline" for computer programs baked directly into chips. It is the direction the industry is moving and w
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by beiller 5y ago
Yeah I totally understand where you are coming from. But to be fair, there is a little uncertainty everywhere today wouldn't you say? Who is to say that the stock market / housing / bond market is the only "allowed inves
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by beiller 5y ago
How will they prevent transmitting it to brother Pichai in another country who can convert it to cash and send it back? Or how will they prevent exchanging it for goods, or even exchanging it directly for cash? They will have to ban cash.
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by beiller 5y ago
But what Im saying is the ASIC tech is applied to other chips not in the Bitcoin space making computing more efficient overall. This future savings dwarfs the current usage.
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by beiller 5y ago
He who wastes the most wins is not a description of the incentives in my opinion. Miners actually need to be efficient to win. It's why Bitcoin is driven by ASIC chips right now. They are on the cutting edge of computational efficiency
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by beiller 5y ago
Yeah. How can a country survive without unlimited QE? The poor residence will see their buying power constantly rise against all other currencies as the other countries of the world follow in USA's footsteps of unlimited manipulation.

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