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by chris_va 10y ago
Insurance is a field in need of some disruption, regardless. A few numbers, in case people find it interesting. The average insurance company only pays out about 50% of its income as loss (heavily dependent on sector, but for auto it's
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by chris_va 10y ago
Sarcasm aside, I think you missed the point of my statement. If you illegally take away income from a business, it can be classified as theft. If you do something else illegal that doesn't take away income, it would be hard to classify
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by chris_va 10y ago
> After I purchase something, am I not entitled to do what I wish with it, including giving it away? There is clear precedent that you are not. In this case, HBO is a business trying to make profit. It spends enormous amounts of money pr
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by chris_va 10y ago
What happens if the script dies after charging, before updating paid_through?
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by chris_va 10y ago
Hard problem with spaghetti code, but you can try something like: http://bl.ocks.org/shunpochang/66620bad0e6b201f261c
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by chris_va 10y ago
Nope, but mosts small satellites don't need to do much except keep pointing at the same ground angle.
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by chris_va 10y ago
For something like silver/gold, the scarcity is around labor to discover/mine/refine it. If it was free to mine silver, it would not be worth any money/obligation. You have to go one level deeper with something cloneable
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by chris_va 10y ago
For really small satellites, magnetorquers seem to be a better tradeoff.
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by chris_va 10y ago
Just don't turn on -funroll-loops.
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by chris_va 10y ago
Just to be picky, this is one of the weakest arguments of UBI. This gets into a "what is money" kind of discussion, but paying people because they are incapable of employment is not a good outcome. That money reprents scarcity, wh
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by chris_va 10y ago
What was that experience like?
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by chris_va 10y ago
At the moment. In a world with no demand for labor, there is an implication that the cost of goods would be dominated only by supply scarcity. For commodity goods, they would essentially be free. 200 years ago a real shirt would cost you ~$
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by chris_va 10y ago
Not necessarily wrong, but not a well thought out piece. I'm all for public transit, but this doesn't cover the issue in sufficient depth to actually be informative. Assuming $30/hour opportunity cost? Pulling 20 minutes a da
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by chris_va 10y ago
I worked with Andy for a while. He is one of the nicest people I know, and couldn't hurt a fly.
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by chris_va 10y ago
There isn't a distinction made here between product+technical diligence (e.g. is something possible to build given the funding sought) and execution+technical diligence (e.g. is the team building it the right way). I would argue that t
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by chris_va 10y ago
Well, in terms of energy density, you are alright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density ... but not in terms of power/weight for the motor (or fuel cell in this case): https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by chris_va 10y ago
Cost of living is actually not as important as local market rate. The two are correlated, but it's about 20% lower in London than SF, despite London being more expensive. There are places you can look up market rate. - Negotiate. That
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by chris_va 10y ago
iRefract (just kidding) Do you want "Fiber" in the name? "Web"? "Internet"? "Michigan"? (riffing off keane) - FiberStream - EchoLine - CloudLine
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by chris_va 10y ago
UI request Can you make the "flag | hide | past | web ..." buttons have consistent spacing from the left margin? I'd like to keep my mouse in the same position while I filter through the articles on /newest, rather than
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by chris_va 10y ago
"First let's agree….. worst name ever." ... At least they are consistent over time. Reminds me of this parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k I attempted to make a couple of tasks, so far it&#x27
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by chris_va 10y ago
If you want to really blow your mind with regards to time, look at QED. I highly recommend the Feynman lectures. The net result of quantum interference is that light tends to move at the speed of light, particles tend to move forward throug
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by chris_va 10y ago
Don't conflate political rhetoric with quality of life. Quality of life has never been higher for any social class, even with unfortunate income inequality.
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by chris_va 10y ago
400k isn't unusual about 6 years in.
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If I understand what you saying (apologies if not, it has been a while since I did modelling), that would only give a better fit if the level of segregation/crime was consistent between counties and not already taken into account by th
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by chris_va 10y ago
Finally, analysis of police shooting data as a function of county-level predictors suggests that racial bias in police shootings is most likely to emerge in police departments in larger metropolitan counties with low median incomes and a s
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by chris_va 10y ago
Except whatever TSA would catch has mostly been solved with armored cockpit doors. Security money doesn't seem rationally invested.
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by chris_va 10y ago
From what I understand, getting these treatments through the FDA was rather tricky. This paves the way for future treatments. The money quote: The company has built a microbiome library of 14,000 strains of human bacteria it hopes will hel
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by chris_va 10y ago
So impressive If you get a x86 hooked up, doing some software cleanup might make the video look much better. Some ideas that you'll probably come up with on your anyway: - Assign colors based on frequency clustering, rather than a heat
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by chris_va 10y ago
This will probably get buried deep in the thread, but... Lease to buy is a thing, more or less as you describe. However, it removes liquidity for both the buyer and seller (buyer cannot exit easily, seller cannot exit easily). As a result,
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by chris_va 10y ago
I see what you did there.

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