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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Virtually no municipalities in America are approving new trailer parks.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I agree that most of higher education is wasteful signaling. But in my (admittedly limited) experience, the typical American high school dropout lacks functional literacy, numeracy and basic factual knowledge. I don’t think trigonometry or
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I'm guessing because you're not really making "15 million of something". The process is more like making one or two (or ten) batches, which is then sub-divided into 15 million doses. It'd be like the difference betw
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I would honestly love to read a write up from somebody closer to the source, what the hell do all these companies do? I’ve been in tech and tech-adjacent companies for over a decade. And not once have I or anyone around me ever thought “w
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> I've been able to always have work on my desk because I'm always moving and talking with people in the industry There were a lot of good suggestions from others. But just from this, it sounds like your true skill is sales. Ju
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> New York is still a cultural center. People will want to live there. New Orleans is also a major cultural center. Some people will pay up to live around culture. But the vast majority of people paying NYC prices are doing so because of
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Obviously religious people remain the vast majority and being a good person or not is largely disconnected from religiousness. Religiosity is highly inversely correlated with criminality amount Americans.[1] Religious people also donat
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Except, mainline Protestants are shrinking at a much faster rate than evangelicals. If church attrition was driven by a rejection of fundamentalism we wouldn't expect Unitarians and Episcopalians to be losing members faster than Baptis
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Okay. Let me draw an analogy. Say you're in occupied Hungary circa 1956. Whenever you hear anybody walk by speaking Russian, you clam up for fear that they might be Soviet secret police. Would you describe this person as "racist&q
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
One thing that’s not really appreciated is that the US has a very progressive income tax. In aggregate the top 10% account for 70% of federal income tax receipts at an average effective rate of 22%. The bottom 50% of households account for
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I’m sorry, but this rant does not make any sense. How is building housing a “bullshit job” that doesn’t “create value”. Housing is pretty much the definition of a valuable good. If your point is that short-lived housing is “cheating” becaus
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
The economy grows at a per capita rate of about 2% per annum. The average citizen in 200 years will be approximately 50 times wealthier than we are today. It makes little sense for the comparatively poor consumers of the 21st century to pay
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Even this methodology doesn't add up. About one third of American households are in the 50 largest metro areas. If income-pegged rents increased in that group by 175%, but only 17% nationally, then that would imply that rents outside t
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
This data is not congruous with the national household expenditure survey. In 2019, the average American household earned $71 thousand after taxes. Of that 17% in aggregate was spent on shelter, and 6.2% on rent (this is a little complex be
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Just like you shouldn’t have the right to take my property to create additional housing That's fair enough. But the federal government provides a ton of incentives to promote home ownership. If a local community doesn't want
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
The creator could transfer the copyright to an irrevocable trust with the mandate of distributing royalties to the NFT smart contract.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
My question, for those who know more about this domain than me, is this a problem that enough money could fix? If the governments of the world wrote a $1 trillion blank check, would that be enough to get the ship out in the next 24 hours? O
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
At the very least, why aren't they using helicopters to take the containers off one-by-one. That would reduce the overall weight, and it'd be easier to move an empty ship than one weighed down by cargo.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
NYC has spent decades bribing its homeless residents to relocate to other states[1]. Not every city has a giant tax base of hedge fund managers and Goldman Sachs executives that gives them the luxury of simply paying to have their homeless
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
A similar approach might be pretty useful for C++ template errors and other notoriously complex compiler errors that you tend to get with higher-order type systems.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Surely the best way to examine the true impact of COVID is to understand the raw death figures Is it though? As an example motor vehicle fatalities went up sharply in 2020. Is this due to the pandemic? If anything the pandemic should h
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Just collect data on the rate of infections of the members of the households of those in the study. Run an IV regression on the results. Since a significant fraction of transmission comes from those sharing a household, protection against a
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
When understanding any sort of genetically determined trait, it's important to remember that there are often two orthogonal forces at work. One is the overall concentration of rare mutations. The vast majority of mutations have a negat
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
This has been proposed quite a few times, but the problem comes down to that it requires letting a single participant "lock down" the entire liquidity pair. For the above scheme to work, Alice's reveal would have to occur at
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
This is a misunderstanding. You don't need to be a miner to front-run transactions. You simply need to run a full node, with visibility into the P2P network. It's true that miners always have "right of first refusal", in
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
L2 really has nothing to do with Uniswap V2 vs. V3. As long as the L2 protocol is byte code compatible with the EVM, any contract that runs on main net can be ported to L2.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I predict this winds up as a giant gift to the arbitrage bots. Right now, the only real way to front run is to take liquidity ahead of a large order. Since swapping costs fees, this restricts front running to trades larger than 0.3% of the
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
The smart contracts live entirely on the blockchain, and therefore cannot be shut down absent shutting down or hard forking the entire Ethereum network. However 99% of Defi users interact with these smart contracts through web-based front e
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
This is a pretty interesting hypothesis. Maybe there’s nothing really special about SARS type coronaviruses besides their novelty. Is it possible that all coronaviruses, including the ones that cause a common cold, have a similar morbidity
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Things you're much more likely to get in a new house: * Central A/C * Fire safety (can't put a price on your family's safety) * Attached garages * High ceilings * High capacity electrical circuits (Victorian homes weren&

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