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bulletsvshumans
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bulletsvshumans
2y ago
Setting aside the shrimp, are you denying that any humans, including yourself, experience suffering?
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bulletsvshumans
2y ago
Perhaps those who aren’t the investors benefit by being invested in, indirectly. They are benefitting from a government running on money from bonds, and possibly employed by a business fueled by some form of debt.
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bulletsvshumans
2y ago
Oligopoly is a close word.
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bulletsvshumans
2y ago
I wouldn’t expect more than 10%
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bulletsvshumans
2y ago
Unless they own any defense stocks.
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bulletsvshumans
2y ago
Everything you mention is correct, I just wanted to add that holding bonds directly makes sense in the case when you have a date in mind for when you will need the invested money. So for instance if you plan to buy a car in 2 years buying b
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bulletsvshumans
3y ago
Me i
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bulletsvshumans
3y ago
The theory isn’t that completion makes things better for the competitors, it makes things better for the consumer they are competing over.
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bulletsvshumans
3y ago
I’m sure the problems are real, but we do ultimately have to make some kind of grand calculus about whether the net effect is worth it. I’m willing to take into account ideas to mitigate damage or find other even more remote, even lower uti
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bulletsvshumans
3y ago
Seems like the kind of thing that has perhaps been witnessed, but no one has yet lived to tell the tale.
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bulletsvshumans
3y ago
Really illustrates the potential benefits of offshore wind farms. It seems like there's a large overall difference between wind speeds on the land and in the water, especially far off coast.
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
Nice work! Would be cool to see stats on which fonts were winning in general.
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
What about an authority that could price negative externalities into the goods as they were discovered? I think there are extremely high challenges around enforcing this globally, and resisting the pressure from industries that are impacted
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
For manufacturing, a large portion of existing supply chains already exist within China, so even if it's not the cheapest, it's practical to set up your factory closer to where all your input components are manufactured.
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
Tried hard to get into it, but the whole thing just kept feeling like it was put together with bubble gum and string, even as I got deeper in. Any tips on how best to approach it?
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
"I'm only going 20 miles an hour", said the teenager slamming on the gas.
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
When you only have 10 users, the easiest ways to please all your users is to do things by hand that make the experience of those users excellent, rather than worrying about creating systems that will only pay off when you have 100,000 users
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
> There is no "fashion cabal" where designers get together for drinks and to anoint "cerulean blue" as the color of 2023 and then pull their customers by the nose ring into purchasing. "Twice a year Pantone hosts
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
Advertise a higher than expected wage, and you will see more people coming out of the woodwork.
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
What about specifically applying increased scrutiny to institutions/countries/other identifiable cohorts? Is it too impolitic?
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
Links please?
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
And unfortunately millions of years in human eye blinks.
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
On second pass, you're right. They're the same.
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bulletsvshumans
5y ago
"At least" means more than or equal to. In other words, the 'least' it can be is 100 characters, with no upper bound.
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5y ago
In the case of Cambodia, I think the connection being suggested is that the genocide targeted "professionals and intellectuals"[0], essentially the bourgeoisie, or the wealthy (it was a communist revolution). So criticizing inequa
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bulletsvshumans
6y ago
Title should probably remove the editorialization "to prevent kids from coding." It's not clear that that's the intent behind the blocking.
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bulletsvshumans
6y ago
In the U.S., dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate if you’ve held the stock for a year or more. They are taxed as income only if youv’ve held the stock for less than a year.
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bulletsvshumans
6y ago
There's probably a better way, but I bought a pedal that was for transcriptionists, which came with software that allowed you to bind it to a keypress. Then I made sure that key was mapped to push-to-talk on a per app basis.
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6y ago
I set up a footpad for push-to-talk while gaming. Surprised more people don't do it, especially in a high performance context.
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bulletsvshumans
6y ago
I think it's clear that they are out of control, from the examples you list among others. The harder argument is that they're not doing it in our best interest. Without good visibility into their activities (which could very well
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