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by flubert 8y ago
You may enjoy: "The Myth of the Rule of Law". http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
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by flubert 8y ago
The Last Psychiatrist has an intersting take on luxury watchery: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/11/luxury_branding_the_...
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by flubert 8y ago
Isn't there some trickle down effect though? Is there a good way to quantify it? Someone pays $25k for a watch. They probably paid income tax or capital gains tax on the income they earned on that $25k. And then there could have b
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by flubert 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere
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by flubert 8y ago
I believe I've been hearing stories like this (about the lack of liquid savings for Americans) for something like 30 years now. Anyone able to dig up the historical data on this? I kind of think Milton Friedman wrote about this in on
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by flubert 8y ago
Also, there should be an externalities tax on air travel (especially for vacationing) since it has such a disproportionate effect on atmospheric CO2. https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=air%20travel%20climate%20chang...
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by flubert 8y ago
Is there relevant literature on this? Would this also be a strike against Universal Basic Income?
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by flubert 8y ago
I don't think anyone has to worry about UBI being implemented until someone comes up with a better/more persuasive name. Something like the "Robot Dividend". Compare and constrast: "Social Security" vs. &quo
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by flubert 8y ago
>1. $50,000 is not enough money to become a homeowner by yourself 1900 sq. ft., $44,900 -- https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/709-East-St-Spencer-SD-57... 2342 sq. ft., $46,500 -- https://www.zillow.com&
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by flubert 8y ago
Here are some deals for you: 2680 sq. ft., $44,900 -- https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1-Hillcrest-Dr-1-Marysvil... 2268 sq. ft., $37,000 -- https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/505-Francis-St-Dayk
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by flubert 8y ago
Yes, a gasoline engine. "ABSTRACT: Achates Power has spent the past 12 years modernizing this historically efficient engine architecture to deliver a step-wise improvement in brake thermal efficiency (BTE) over the most advanced conven
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by flubert 8y ago
That is the claim anyway. http://achatespower.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/JSAE_s171... http://achatespower.com/
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by flubert 8y ago
Only tangentially related, but at the ARPA-E Summit this year, there was a company demonstrating an opposed cylinder, 2-stroke, compression ignition engine that they had placed in an F-150 as a test bed. They were claiming something like 3
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by flubert 8y ago
Does anyone have a history of self-hosting compilers / interpreters? I bet there is more to flesh out here than what Wikipedia has to offer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)#Hist...
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by flubert 9y ago
Interesting. So am I right in assuming there are: - 9 bronze level (1k Euro/year) - 5 silver level (2k Euro/year) - 11 gold level (4k Euro/year) - 5 platinum level (8k Euro/year) ...members of the c
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by flubert 9y ago
> I'll be stuck with whatever the personal preferences were of the people who wrote the tooling. User experience is one area where Smalltalk seems like it could use some focus on. Compare the screenshot of the system browser on pha
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by flubert 9y ago
If you want to seed doubts in your mind about the real numbers, you can get that at: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404335 ...as well (skip to chapter 5 for the impatient).
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by flubert 9y ago
>anyone can upload to arxiv.org I thought you needed an endorsement from someone already in the system, or were affiliated with a university? https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
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by flubert 9y ago
>The idea of a right is that governments must work to secure them for its people. >If so, how do you propose that privilege be fulfilled in rural communities that currently don't have internet access? I think a lot of the noise a
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by flubert 9y ago
Outrage Addiction? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=outrage+addiction
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by flubert 9y ago
Don't forget things like Small Modular Reactors: https://www.energy.gov/ne/nuclear-reactor-technologies/small... http://www.nuscalepower.com/
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by flubert 9y ago
> Power companies don't seem to be willing to spend the money needed to encapsulate waste for thousands of years. The "Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982" charged utilities a 0.1 cent/kwh fee for disposal of nuclear was
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by flubert 9y ago
Is there a way we can quantify that? Is there any publicly available geospatial database of buildings sorted by type (residential, grocery store, etc.)?
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by flubert 9y ago
At what exposure level?
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by flubert 9y ago
There is also a couple of sections on ground loop heat pumps in the book "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" by David MacKay: http://www.withouthotair.com/c21/page_152.shtml
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by flubert 9y ago
Yes, I'm willing to give up on the comparison to private insurance/transactions. So now I'm just wondering how to get a hold of Medicare reimbursement rates. We know that they vary by location, and other factors. But it mu
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by flubert 9y ago
Are you saying that Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement rates aren't public information?
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by flubert 9y ago
Does anyone know how to look up what Medicare/Medicaid pays for particular procedures, and how to look up codes in the first place? Somehow I came across that G8709 was for prescribing antibiotics. I figure I should be able to plug th
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by flubert 9y ago
>Sure, but it requires some fairly complex software to do so and manual input of tons of different data specific to your insurance contract that almost nobody wants to do it Can someone quantify the value added by having this complexity
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by flubert 9y ago
>Despite the fact that the wealthy engineer circumstances to keep the poor in their diminished condition for their own profit Is there anything specifically you think the author has done to "keep the poor in their diminished conditi

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