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by curuinor 7y ago
If you read the papers on palatants and food processes destined for animals, they'll increase consumption by 20, 30% easily. Check out this patent for a horse nugget, for example: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com&
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by curuinor 7y ago
we have the building restrictions because prop 13 incentivizes homeowners to fight hard for them, though
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So it's the trauma that does it? Where's the biochemical basis of trauma? I mean, when you get hit by a car and you get shock from blood loss, you die of shock from blood loss but you also die from the car. You could solve the pro
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by curuinor 7y ago
If it is a chemical imbalance only, why are there large differences in rate in different time periods in the same culture, with suicide rates hand in hand ( https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/9/e023144 )? Why do
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by curuinor 7y ago
Lots of things that look like hierarchies are more like stuff distributed ~ power law. Certainly wealth, but I think actual needs are pretty distributed ~ power law. Breathing looks hierarchically more important than self-actualization but
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by curuinor 7y ago
It's not, it's just how my blogging thing works, I don't care much about SEO
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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit(howonlee.github.io)
1564 points by curuinor 7y ago|437 comments
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by curuinor 7y ago
If you shoot all the cops (and probably the army), then you have conquered the land, congratulations. You are now the state. Probably have to go and make your own cops now.
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Georgism is also compatible with a system where land is auctioned, it's just that the proceeds of the auction go to the state instead of the owner of the land. So you could do auctions and market stuff. Without the possibility of profi
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by curuinor 7y ago
In a Georgist system, they would throw up their hands and immediately sell. But the developer isn't selling it because the land is appreciating...
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by curuinor 7y ago
Land value tax isn't property tax. Despite my use of the word "expropriation", what George specifically suggested was that people would be able to own land, they just wouldn't benefit any from improvements in land value
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by curuinor 7y ago
Georgism had far too much popularity in its day to be a specialty economic point of view, although it is nowadays. Two years after its publication, _Progress and Poverty_ was the second most bought book in the US, after the Bible.
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by curuinor 7y ago
Basically, the social value of land is 100% socially constructed, but under a system of landownership, it's 100% privately held and all the profit goes to private hands. There are multiple empty lots very close to downtown SF which are
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Tolstoy was a Georgist, and this is basically a little Georgist short story. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3487337 The basic point of Georgism is that landownership is the root of most of the economic evil in the world
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Show HN: Trashcan Gourmand(github.com)
2 points by curuinor 7y ago|0 comments
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Searching in a heap is NP-complete(howonlee.github.io)
2 points by curuinor 7y ago|0 comments
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by curuinor 7y ago
Toyota, as a manufacturing organization, makes some of the best cars in the world. Toyota, as a software writing organization, fucks it up so bad that people die. There was a single procedure in their ETCS system that was 1300 lines of C wi
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by curuinor 7y ago
Parkinson also expanded it into a very short book.
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Americans, Japanese and Korean people tend to do that sort of thing because the work weeks are punishingly difficult. If you worked part-time for a period and put serious effort into thinking about something to do, this question would mostl
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by curuinor 7y ago
Number partition, if you present it to someone who isn't familiar with it, is probably the easiest sounding NP-complete problem. In practice, it's definitely one of the easiest ones for practical applications. There' a paper
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by curuinor 7y ago
Absolutely no use that I've found so far
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Show HN: Listen to an NP-Complete Problem(github.com)
39 points by curuinor 7y ago|9 comments
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Or Politico, or Slate. When I hear "leftmost" I'm thinking like, Jacobin or Chapo
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by curuinor 7y ago
Don't be in the bay area, that's how. That's why they pay bay area peeps the big bucks: the standard of skill is higher here, because of the community and other factors.
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os.system2('curl -s -L -o "$out" "$url"') is not an acceptable thing to do.
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How many of Dodrill's problems have they solved so far? https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23
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Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little(howonlee.github.io)
184 points by curuinor 7y ago|63 comments
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An Algorithmic Approach to Alienation(howonlee.github.io)
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The problem is density. The hawker stalls in Singapore are exactly this (pojangmachas and cafeteria dealios in Seoul, hawkers in Hong Kong), but they get to have it and your suburb doesn't because they have enough soulless 50 story apa
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Employee-Driven Learning(datagrail.io)
3 points by curuinor 7y ago|1 comments

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