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by clavalle 11y ago
> What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone? One thing I've been kicking around, though I am not sure yet how it would work, is measuring potential demand for a traditional good or service -- a type of sentiment analy
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by clavalle 11y ago
> The problem with basic income is that people need purpose, not charity. > I think we need to figure out how to empower people. I don't think anything you've said is incompatible with something like basic income. What could
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by clavalle 11y ago
So, they ended up not selling their time for less than it was worth in order to survive and, instead, added value to their lives.
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by clavalle 11y ago
The alternative simulation model would allow transactions to create wealth or destroy wealth. Wealth is correlated with power but that power is not necessarily only directed against other rational actors but the environment and circumstance
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by clavalle 11y ago
Wealth is so dependent on circumstance that I don't think it makes sense to say there is a cohesive body of wealth to make up 100%. It is like saying you have 100% of the talent.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Transactions cannot be zero sum. What would the point be? In the common case: Two people come together and trade because each feels they get more value after the transaction than before the transaction. Positive sum. In a less common case:
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by clavalle 11y ago
How do you reckon? Wealth can be created or destroyed. Relative wealth has to operate in a sea of transactions that can either create wealth, destroy wealth, or, very rarely, maintain wealth. In such a frothy environment how does the wealt
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by clavalle 11y ago
It is hard to say who gains more in a transaction. What can be said is that in most transactions both parties walk away with more value. It is guaranteed to be a positive sum game -- value is guaranteed to be created. The violation of this
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by clavalle 11y ago
>There are some questions that do not have a satisfactory answer no matter how long you keep looking. This is true, but in my view, the act of looking has value in and of itself. It opens at least the opportunity for learning something
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by clavalle 11y ago
Somewhere, though, in those religions is the answer 'Because, God wills it so or says it so.' Everywhere that happens is a dead question.
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by clavalle 11y ago
To be fair, it also creates a great deal of value. Comfort, community, scholarship, good works. It could be argued that these things can be created outside of a religion and they'd be right but religions have created organizational f
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by clavalle 11y ago
>Ultimately, secular thought (agnosticism and atheism included) is just an inferior product compared to religions. It doesn't provide out-of-the-box answers to these really hard questions and as a result can be a very scary and lone
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by clavalle 11y ago
Wow. A Nemesis star or Nibiru planet possibly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm It would be exciting to have large bodies o
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by clavalle 11y ago
Plus, a starship is already strapped to a huge energy source so the additional risk is probably minimal.
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by clavalle 11y ago
1 lb of food would take about 10 megatons of TNT of energy. I'm not sure you'd want whatever that device is sitting on everyone's kitchen counter.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Sure, but if you have a general graph (network) of more than a few nodes all trying to communicate meaningfully with each other you quickly run out of bandwidth.
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by clavalle 11y ago
> it becomes much quicker to simply query the information instantaneously yourself rather than having to go through a third party. But we are still going through a third party to make that query. We are not doing it ourselves. Informat
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by clavalle 11y ago
Information flows are information flows whatever the medium. Hierarchies are efficient, that is why they exist. If we want to know what branch of a tree structure to find information we examine a node after gathering info on how that data s
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by clavalle 11y ago
>flat hierarchies become the most effective organizational form Luckily, as folks with an understanding of data structures we can see this is a very naive approach. 'Electric services' must have seemed very new and frightening
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by clavalle 11y ago
Your comment is a perfect example of what they mean by 'Far-right' beyond just anti-immigration policies. Libertarianism is a far right ideology.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Yahoo is the Motorola of the Internet Sector. Always playing catch up in an industry that is lead or die. Good to great engineers with failed leadership trying to coast on past success then, when the stuff hits the fan, trying to effect a
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by clavalle 11y ago
SF runs the gamut. I enjoy the hardest of the hard science fiction a'la the Martian but I like a good space opera, too. Like the author said at the beginning of the article, a lot of SF is about character (first) and metaphor. If an
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by clavalle 11y ago
>the court will decide whether the government can freeze all of a defendant’s assets before trial, even those the government itself concedes aren’t tainted by any connection to criminality, thus effectively preventing that defendant from
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by clavalle 11y ago
That's terrible but it seems to me that you accept a certain amount of risk using airbnb. How could any set of regulations cover things like swings tied to a tree?
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by clavalle 11y ago
Spent on development. They'll probably need about $40m more. Funny thing is that I know of at least one guy they fired for telling them they'd need $100m to release a product anything like Roberts vision. I hope they send him an
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by clavalle 11y ago
Yes, and one of the secret ingredients to the success of the US. But as decades pass, people seem to want to skip those first steps and jump right to the Federal level and refuse to budge if they cannot get the entire nation to make some le
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by clavalle 11y ago
I guess I'm not understanding...at what point would we be penalizing already-cooperative behavior? I can't think of many instances where someone would be paid enough to not raise their child, for example. And if you could pay some
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by clavalle 11y ago
Time to reevaluate the goals, then, eh?
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by clavalle 11y ago
Thank von Neumann...it's his. He did a lot of work about what it means for a market to be efficient. People forget the axioms that lead to market efficiency -- convexity being one of them.
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by clavalle 11y ago
The problem with a job guarantee is that you're forcing people to sell their time in order to live. This is nearly the definition of an exploitative economic relationship and borders on state run slavery.

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