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by dilemma 10y ago
How many windmills and solar panels can be built before we run out of their raw materials?
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by dilemma 10y ago
Burrow could get a billion dollar exit through an acquisition but its hardly going to become a sustainable concern. It's designed to sell, basically, and the idea is no more mysterious than building a furniture company that is digital
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by dilemma 10y ago
>It seems science is taught in a way that's just long tirades of endless hero worship, instead from a philosophical perspective of what it can and can't do for us. For evidence of this, see the comment in this thread referencin
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by dilemma 10y ago
It's the opposite. Neural networks show that the human mind cannot be a recreated computationally.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>Manufacturing happens to be as much of a commodity as air travel and gas For low tech manufacturing, yes. But for high tech there are not many suppliers able to meet Apple's needs - how many fabs in the world could produce the A10?
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by dilemma 10y ago
They're not "driving themselves" in either case. They are executing a program. Problem is, that makes them rigid and unable to handle anything unplanned for.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>What I am saying is that in English, after learning 26 letters, you can read any combination of them. No. After learning 26 letters you're no better off than before. You can't read, because you don't know the meaning of t
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by dilemma 10y ago
Preprogrammed paths is absolutely not what is meant by self-driving vehicles. Preprogrammed means a human has made all the decisions an actual self-driving vehicle would need to make.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>Driving from my house to the local shopping centre is only 4 turns, this could be a preprogrammed route to a designated autonomous-vehicle drop off point. Who's going to preprogram it? And then the billions other potential preprogr
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by dilemma 10y ago
It could also be called taking a sociological view on the way the media works.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Whoosh. You support "I don't need this study" with prior studies.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>Bookstores have felt those pains hard; it's not that people don't want content, but they want content in different forms, and a lot of bookstores just couldn't move fast enough. I'd say rather than people preferring
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by dilemma 10y ago
You certainly do need this paper because saying "I have a hunch" without supporting it with anything does not further discourse and it definitely is not actionable.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Nominal price changes do not necessarily reflect changes in demand. I.e. when the value or supply of money changes.
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by dilemma 10y ago
While demand for shelter remains constant, the supply of money increases, pushing prices higher.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>they are both expressible in terms of what he called a Universal Machine. Prove it.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>The solution I think should be something like governments borrowing money at the near zero rates we have at the moment and doing stuff like investing in infrastructure and things that will boost spending. When you get back to too much m
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by dilemma 10y ago
>Don't even get me started on electronics when it comes to the overabundance of choice. I only buy Apple laptops now specifically because the choice is so limited and I can be sure that I'm getting "the best" laptop.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Tesla cars are powered by coal, gas, and nuclear, in varying parts depending on location. Is there evidence that they produce lower emissions than other cars?
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by dilemma 10y ago
BSB is a subsidiary of China's largest manufacturer of industrial air conditioners, boilers, and related products, and that's where their financing comes from. They are able to finish onsite construction quickly because their buil
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by dilemma 10y ago
I have to use Quip every day and I'm dying for Office 365. Quip is actually terrible.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>founding spacex and tesla only make sense if there was some genuine desire to make the world a better place. You're forgetting ego. Really, your last paragraph shows you're a true believer and it's not helping the discuss
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by dilemma 10y ago
Startups are valued by potential so have Uber China's future value be capped at 1/5 of Didi is certainly a downer on its total value - this is the world's largest consumer market. The points you make about the Chinese market
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by dilemma 10y ago
Learning is easy if you're interested. Einstein's advice to his daughter was something along the lines that you should pursue your curiosities because that way you can learn anything effortlessly. For me, learning English was effo
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by dilemma 10y ago
Mondragon is a co-op by name only. If you look into how it's structured, its basically just a corporation with a twist. Source: The Ownership of Enterprise, available on Amazon.
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by dilemma 10y ago
I spend 7% of take home on rent. Used to be about 17%, but now I've moved further out to a nicer area.
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by dilemma 10y ago
The parent poses good questions and they're rhetorical - instead of disincentivising this, it would be better to accept it and then create an organization with checks and balances to counteract it.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Why do you need to ask everyone about everything everyday? That's called micromanaging. Their non-compliance is a message. Try trusting them instead. Signed, Micromanagee
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by dilemma 10y ago
That's the quarter capitalist point of view. The brand adoption cycle goes from Professional -> Prosumer -> Consumer. If you lose the pro market you lose brand equity that makes you a premium brand. Then, you eventually lose the
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by dilemma 10y ago
Human minds are not search engines. They do not run code.

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