dcdanko

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1. 31.▲
   by dcdanko 9y ago

   Agreed. This article makes it sound like you can get a mortgage practically for free. The couple of proposals to get rid of it still leave the MID in place up to $500,000 though which roughly matches what you found.
2. 32.▲
   by dcdanko 9y ago

   Komodo dragons have a relatively small population which researchers wouldn't want to disrupt on a large scale. Not that researchers collect their mice from the wild...
3. 33.▲
   by dcdanko 9y ago

   Phage would be useful but bacteria are likely to be able to resist engineered phage as well. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23819105
4. 34.▲
   by dcdanko 10y ago

   So the article is a moral tirade against all night pizza delivery?
5. 35.▲
   by dcdanko 10y ago

   He makes some good points about how certain jobs are more wasteful in a pure economic sense but he jumps to quickly to denigrating a large swath of modern jobs. 'It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity