defertoreptar

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by defertoreptar 9y ago
That's a good argument, and to many it's an argument for wealth redistribution. I prefer to look at it instead as an argument for limiting the powers of government in order to limit its susceptibility to corruption.
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You're missing a glaringly obvious difference. In the west, your credit isn't used by the government to influence your political affiliation so directly.
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> find that in areas where there are fewer employers in an industry, workers in that industry earn lower wages. > [...] > Together with the evidence on minimum wage, this new evidence suggests that the competitive supply-and-demand
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
I think about this whenever I hear, "teachers don't get paid enough." It's a noble profession, and there's no doubt about the importance of educating our nation's children... but have you ever heard of a thing
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All the time, but to be honest, it's mainly side by side when I do. This is useful when building one function that acts on some other part of the code and I don't want to scroll / swap files back and forth. I more meant it in
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
Let's say we can see 30 lines on our screen and the average function takes 5 lines with OTBS. That means we can see 6 functions at once with OTBS and 5 with Allman. That makes a difference at least in my case.
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> To achieve this utopia, we need to invest in much better education for everyone, and we need to do it 30 years ago at least. An unskilled labourer made unemployed at 40 or 50 has nowhere to go. In the general sense, this might not work
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
Don't forget that huge pile of deposits sitting in user accounts. Banks at least pay interest for those deposits. To be fair, the other brokerages probably do the same exact thing and get $7 on trades.
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
It's funny you should ask. Buffett has actually said that if a company is not able to find good ways to reinvest their earnings, then it should be issued to owners as dividends. Buffett is actually breaking that rule right now by Berks
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
Seconded. Been using it for years. So long as you avoid the granny variation, it will not come undone.
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If they sold used cars to support their "abhorrent lifestyle," would that then make used cars sales as horrible as prostitution?
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His cardinal sin was saying that men and women are biologically different. He could've said a lot, but as soon as he tried to give a biological explanation for why girls prefer Barbies and boys prefer toy cars, he entered taboo territo
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Is it worthwhile when the tech could save tens of thousands of lives altogether?
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Yeah that's a good point. You can look at where a company is incorporated, but they still may do R&D in different parts of the world. Could be resolved by taking the "new technologies output" of a company, but then dividi
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Imo focus on output of new technologies.
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Who's saying anything about "fixing" a price or diluting shares? Bitcoin's exchange rate is a function of supply in demand. It could exist and do its job with low demand (e.g. $1.00 / btc) or high demand (today&#x27
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
Why should Bitcoin cost so much just because the future may depend on it? That's a good case for why it will continue to exist, but it could also exist and do it's job at $1.00 / btc. I think it's a couple of things that
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
I see where you're coming from. When I was first learning how to do it, I would go from being in trippy, vivid non lucid dreams. Then I'd become aware of the dream. Then all of the craziness would immediately drop off and I'd
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
Pretty much what happened with UFO photos, ghost photos, etc.
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
Not sure how active users work, but I wonder if that would account for posts that make it to r/all. If a user scrolls past a post, hides a post, reports, clicks on a post, etc., then that should count as an impression. The inflation-ad
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
>The only thing they get "tax free" is tuition, which they shouldn't be paying because in most cases they aren't even taking any classes. That's my point. If you swap the $20k in my example to tuition, the econom
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I thought it was interesting that it seems to like the English Opening. It's not popular, but Bobby Fischer played it in the world championship against Spassky.
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So that's the name of what I spent hours doing while trying to solve that sunken ship puzzle on The Witness.
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
Here's a relevant section from Deepmind's paper: > We also measured the head-to-head performance of AlphaZero against each baseline player. Settings were chosen to correspond with computer chess tournament conditions: each play
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
>How does that work? Say a company is paying Bob $40k to build a better mouse trap. He pays tax on the full $40k. Then, there's a national mouse problem, so the government gives the company $20k to stimulate research into better mou
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>Their innovation is primarily in making more people work for less and take on all the risk. Work for less than... what? Their side gig had Uber not existed? I see these companies' primary innovation to be that of communication. The
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by defertoreptar 9y ago
Don't forget economic productivity.