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by darawk 6y ago
The problem is that far fewer people will donate without something like this. If you want to use a traditional cash back credit card and donate the rewards directly to something, the existence of this card does not stop you from doing that.
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by darawk 6y ago
How exactly would a card that leaks crude oil be more effective? Leaking crude oil is terrible for the environment. Planting trees is good for it.
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by darawk 6y ago
The first hunter gatherers didn't have those resources either. They didn't even have wikipedia. If you're motivated, you can figure it out.
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by darawk 6y ago
Right, but arbitrarily declaring that a specific wage level is the true one does not make something a cost to the business. We, collectively, decide that people should not make less than X. That does not make each person's labor worth
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by darawk 6y ago
Highest authority means actual physical control. When your money is in a bank, the highest authority is the bank. Not you. This is the literal definition of sovereignty, and it's used in many digital contexts, not just crypto. E.g. &#x
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by darawk 6y ago
What is the exploitation exactly?
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by darawk 6y ago
No it isn't. I am not arguing that the price going up makes it good. That would be silly. I am merely disputing the characterization of the prior comment as 'cherry picking'.
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by darawk 6y ago
I mean sovereignty in the sense of actual control. When you put your money in a bank account, you give up control of it to that bank. The money may legally be yours, but they physically possess it, and can keep you from transacting with it
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by darawk 6y ago
> It's not that the structures are inherently bad, it's that such structures are, philosophically, the exact sorts of things that many early (and current) proponents of crypto wanted to avoid. In that sense bitcoin hasn't
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by darawk 6y ago
This is a pretty silly comment. It's you that's cherry picking. The overall trend of Bitcoin over its lifetime has been up. Any complete analysis of its time series would tell you that. Buying at any point in its history would hav
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by darawk 6y ago
This isn't a very good criticism. Lots of new things recapitulate the structures they are replacing in many ways, while improving on them in just one or a few areas. The fact that ground is being retread is not itself a criticism or a
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by darawk 6y ago
Ya, I know that argument. But it's not an accurate description of the world in which we actually live. There's tons of places, even in developed countries like the US where its extremely cheap to buy fertile land that you could li
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by darawk 6y ago
> Do you have anything to back up this wrong claim? It very much seems like this is a matter of perspective. It's pretty straightforward economics, and the rest of my comment explains it, I think. > Again this seems like perspect
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by darawk 6y ago
> Companies that employ workers below subsistence wages are actually being indirectly subsidized collectively by every single taxpayer. This is a very common and very wrong interpretation. Taxpayers aren't subsidizing the company. T
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by darawk 6y ago
> This is not an excuse for one cohort of poverty to subjugate the other by way of Silicon Valley. If public transportation is not reliable, make it reliable. If people aren't paid enough, improve wage and labor requirements. Many c
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by darawk 6y ago
This is a list of people who successfully carried out attacks, it looks like. Not people who's attacks were foiled.
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by darawk 6y ago
There are tons of prosecutions of this sort. Consider the recent plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer as just one example among dozens.
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by darawk 6y ago
It is important to keep in mind that when security is working, you don't see any evidence of it. We don't actually know how many terrorist attacks have been stopped by this surveillance. It may well be a lot. It wouldn't surp
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by darawk 6y ago
> That sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy: If a lot of investors and angels want them succeed, they will succeed. This is nonsense. VCs do not have that kind of power to will something into existence. They can pour money into it, but
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by darawk 6y ago
It sounds like what you actually mean is that there is not enough housing supply to meet the demand. Demand which has been augmented by AirBnB. This is a zoning and infrastructure problem, and it was not created by them, nor can it be fixed
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by darawk 6y ago
Ya, and to add to that, it's often difficult to define what exactly the 'field' is. Is the field biology? Is it statistics? Risk? The anthropology of terrorism? Answering a complex question like "will there be a bioterro
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by darawk 6y ago
Whether or not you agree with the judge's reasoning: > "By failing to weigh the benefits of an outdoor dining restriction against its costs, the County acted arbitrarily and its decision lacks a rational relationship to a legit
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by darawk 6y ago
Why? The purpose of those subsidies is to benefit all of us. Not to benefit Elon Musk. He's just the only one who stepped up to solve the problems for us.
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by darawk 6y ago
I totally agree, although I would expand the LVT to tax on all non-commodity property (e.g. intellectual property, like patents, copyrights, domain names, etc.). I think LVT is the biggest and most important of these types of taxes, but tax
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by darawk 6y ago
I think the solution here is likely to pass extra-onerous taxes on imports, and then tell the host countries "If you don't like it, apply the tax yourselves, and then we'll remove ours once we deem yours satisfactory".
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by darawk 6y ago
These points are...almost uniformly terrible. > Training large AI models consumes a lot of computer processing power, and hence a lot of electricity. Gebru and her coauthors refer to a 2019 paper from Emma Strubell and her collaborators
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by darawk 6y ago
> She didn’t “refuse to fix it when asked”. She agreed with the proviso that she could have a meeting to figure out what she was and was not permitted to publish. I think that is in dispute. Jeff Dean claims she did refuse to fix it. &gt
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by darawk 6y ago
> So you are averaging amounts of money, so you are averaging things that can be added and you are not averaging interest rates. So you're not doing what you think you were doing and everything is good. (1.2+1.5)/2 doesn't
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by darawk 6y ago
In your specific example, the company is very interested in the ensemble average of their products growth rates, because that represents their rolled up revenue growth rate at a point in time (weighted by sales of each, of course). An alter
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by darawk 6y ago
There is no legal risk for fast tracking exceptional people.

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