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by beisner 9y ago
While you’re technically correct about the government leasing property, in practice buying the rights to land for residential use is in practice effectively the same as buying the land. There are a lot of things like that in China, where th
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The United States was once seen as uncultured, unrefined, and frankly quite weak by most of Western Europe until the late 1800's. And in many respects it was. Now the US is the richest country in the world, and is where wealthy non-Ame
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I agree this is pretty ridiculous. It does make me wonder though, what is the appropriate way to bring people on when you can’t pay them? I.e. you have no money and are just starting out (1-2ppl), and need someone to help? Do you just make
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by beisner 9y ago
I think he was referring to the fact that the name might make people think the planes explode.
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There absolutely are grounds to hold the manufacturer accountable. As the article mentions, the company marketed OxyContin as a medication supposed to be used for all kinds of ailments, almost casually. Purdue Pharmaceuticals advertised to
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Functional languages force you to be more correct, more often. Eliminates a bunch of classes of bugs which are anathema to scientific computing, and are generally so high level that compilers can optimize extremely aggressively. Also, scien
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The bounty could be for all drugs, some drugs, or just the super important ones. Scale the system to however much socialized medicine you can take.
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by beisner 9y ago
I 100% support a drug bounty program, where the government puts up a huge bounty (I.e. $1-3bn) for diseases where cures/treatments are needed, and pharma companies compete for those bounties. Victors would get the full bounty, and the
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by beisner 9y ago
It’s not due to cost of living, most of the software engineers straight out of school (in my cohort, at least) want to be in NYC or SF. Amazon does the bulk of their recruiting from new grads, so a large contingent of their workforce is dis
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It's not necessarily a concept relegated to the publishers. Just a potential revenue model for replication.
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I am very much in favor of open access, but there is one service that these publishers could definitely provide that would definitely be a value-add: replication. I can imagine a prestigious journal or publisher using the money they've
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There could be a hash collision, which might be enough to provide reasonable doubt for a jury.
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A research paper published by Apple? About Siri?! Unheard of! Last time I was at an NLP conference wth Apple employees they wouldn't say anything about how Siri speech worked, despite being very inquisitive about everyone else's p
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The reality of the situation is that waiting tables is generally not a minimum wage job in the US, because of tips. Sure, a restaurant might be required to make up the difference between earned income and minimum wage on a slow day (althoug
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They had different notions about equality. I'm not sure about the mongols, but many civilizations believed that their king was chosen by God, and his moral directive was to conquer all the earth.
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It's funny because they're duplicate mentions of the same idea, in a discussion of duplicated housing.
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Something like a Patreon for music, with a model more customized to the SoundCloud community and use case. Direct crowdfunding for music, but also as a platform for discovery and consumption.
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Meant the part of North Jersey that is affluent, not that all of North Jersey is affluent.
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New Jersey is a very, very diverse place. Things may not be as spaced out as they are in the Midwest, but culturally the New Jersey countryside is very very different from the sections on the Shore, on the Northeast Corridor, and in the aff
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But technically he /she is the chief technology officer
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Although in this day and age it seems to be one of the very few ways one individual can make a difference. It saddens me, but probably easier for a man to take advantage of the system and become absurdly wealthy in order to do good for the
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by beisner 9y ago
The problem isn't that everyone's jobs will be replaced in the short term. The problem is that enough people's jobs will be replaced that the negotiating power of workers in more and more labor markets will be broken. This ha
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It's not all transactions, just social ones. People share their personal information on social media all the time, particularly information that relates to a social interaction. Since money is often a component of social interactions,
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Cost overruns might be high right now, but I prefer that to a system that disproportionately forces the poor and people of color to be removed from society for (often) years at a time awaiting trial, whether or not they or guilty.
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by beisner 9y ago
It is exponentially easier to practice good security hygiene for exactly one password than it is for the 200 or so passwords/sensitive numbers I keep track of in my password manager. Maybe you are extremely disciplined and can remember
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I'm pretty sure you'd still be able to recognize structures/logic, even if you weren't able to exactly identify all the gory parts of a transistor.
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I'm not so sure about that. There are a lot of domains where actual experiences are impossible. Think re-living an important moment in history, exploring the world with a hawks-eye view, or interacting in 3 dimensions with someone half
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I've heard about some hedge fund trying to work on something along these lines. I don't know enough about the program to discuss its technical merit, but it's broad goal is to systematize management, and build really detailed
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Lander aside, the biggest limiting factor is getting astronauts back from Mars! We already know how to get things there, and I think the lander issue is relatively easy to solve, but getting all the equipment and -- most importantly -- fuel
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by beisner 9y ago
I just spent the last 6 weeks in Beijing and Shanghai (currently in Shanghai) and I have run into several places that don't even accept cash anymore, and only accept WeChat Pay or Alipay.

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