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by ggreer 7y ago
I have an x210. The main reasons I bought it were the keyboard and the screen (2880x1920, which is a 3:2 aspect ratio). If you want a small laptop with 32GB of RAM, the X390 and L390 seem like decent options.
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by ggreer 7y ago
But I want more Bezos, Gates, Buffets, and Musks, not fewer.
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by ggreer 7y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all and I've never heard an AI risk person say something like that. I just read your blog post. It is attacking a weakman[1]. Kurzweil is not worried about AI risk, and his arguments about AI are
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by ggreer 7y ago
Most experts don't think this is likely, just that the potential consequences are bad enough that it's worth making it less likely. It's just like how most people don't think global nuclear war is likely, but it's s
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by ggreer 7y ago
> They didn't do that in the 1950s, though. In the 1950s there weren't any alternatives to the US. Europe and Asia were rebuilding from WWII. Central and South America weren't nearly as developed as today. Places like Sing
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by ggreer 7y ago
They would just renounce their US citizenship and move to a country with lower taxes. That’s what Eduardo Saverin did.
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by ggreer 7y ago
Annoyingly there is no source for the data in the article because the book that it is advertising doesn’t come out until next week. My guess is that the wealthiest 400 households don’t have much income to tax. Most of their wealth would be
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by ggreer 7y ago
This article fails to account for exemptions and deductions. This post[1] by the Tax Foundation explains it: > However, despite these high marginal rates, the top 1 percent of taxpayers in the 1950s only paid about 42 percent of their in
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by ggreer 7y ago
La foto, la mano, la radio. El dia, el mapa, el sofa. There are plenty of words that are exceptions. English’s main issue is spelling, but every language has its quirks.
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by ggreer 7y ago
Prop 13 means that property taxes on residences in California cannot increase more than 2% per year. It also mandates that reassessment cannot happen unless ownership changes hands or significant construction is done (such as tearing down
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by ggreer 7y ago
Nobody is trying to take your grandmother's house away. She can keep her house until somebody offers her enough money for her want to sell it. What you want is for your grandmother to be able to control what everyone around her is allo
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by ggreer 7y ago
Why would anyone buy a scooter that has a geofenced governor? Scooter rental companies might do that, but then they'll have more competition from modes of transportation that don't have such restrictions (such as rental bicycles).
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by ggreer 7y ago
Text looks rather pixelated. I couldn't see someone reading a book in VR, but that's not the selling point. VR's advantage is Presence.[1] Current headsets are good enough that you can feel like you are in another world. I&#x
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by ggreer 7y ago
> That said, while Twitter seems to be incredibly slow at introducing new features, the trade off is that what they do push out often ends up being a good thing. I find most new Twitter features to be worse than useless: • "Like&q
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by ggreer 7y ago
That's the fault of Australia, not Apple[1]: > "If Apple claims the ECG function in its Apple Watch has therapeutic benefit for wearers, the watch would need to be included in the [Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods] in o
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by ggreer 7y ago
I don't know how that would work since the teacher could reboot the device or hit/swipe home to exit the fake app. If the fake app was in guided access mode, they'd see a pin input instead of a home screen. The only way to fo
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by ggreer 7y ago
You are assuming that vaping is comparable to smoking in terms of danger. It isn't. Vaping is incredibly safe. The only people who have gotten sick or died have been using black market THC cartridges. Smoking kills around 400,000 Ameri
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by ggreer 7y ago
Vaping is a substitute for smoking. If you ban vaping, you get more smokers and overall worse health outcomes. Using just US statistics, you get the following result[1]: > ...if a public e-cigarette ban reduces the number of smokers who
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by ggreer 7y ago
If you measure outcomes, it has worked quite well. Japan's life expectancy is 84 years. South Korea's is 82. For comparison, the US is 78.5 and decreasing.
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by ggreer 7y ago
Nowhere in that article are timelines mentioned. Yes sea levels will continue to rise, but it will take over a thousand years to melt the ice caps.
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by ggreer 7y ago
The most pessimistic IPCC projections estimate a 1 meter rise in sea level over the next century. For comparison sea level rose by 20cm in the past century.
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by ggreer 7y ago
A megawatt is a million joules per second. It’s a unit of power, not energy. Mixing up watts and joules is like mixing up miles and miles per hour. It demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding.
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by ggreer 7y ago
The EU doesn't prevent the "bad" startups from existing. They just prevent them from starting in the EU, which means the EU misses out on a lot of the potential upside. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Uber, Facebook, and Pa
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by ggreer 7y ago
If you read the paper I linked to, it says that the money is likely going to the US and other places outside of the EU. Capital can cross borders effortlessly.
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by ggreer 7y ago
> What I'm rejecting is that that's necessarily an undesirable state of affairs. Does the world really need the likes of Blur or DiscountMugs to succeed, when they have proven woefully incapable of protecting the most basic for
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by ggreer 7y ago
You are comparing server logs containing your IP address to human trafficking. That's a fun bit of rhetoric, but it doesn't help anyone in this conversation discover what's true.
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by ggreer 7y ago
It's not due to larger industry trends. The paper shows that startups in the US got more funding in the same time period, including early stage startups. I remember warning about this when GDPR was being considered. People said it wasn
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by ggreer 7y ago
You misunderstand the point I'm making. After GDPR, investments in early stage startups dropped by almost 50% in the EU. If you cut investment in half, you're going to cause some startups to fail that otherwise would have succeede
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by ggreer 7y ago
No, you can't. Since GDPR was rolled out, venture capital investments in the EU have dropped by a third.[1] According to that paper, the companies most hurt are early stage startups. 1. The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Ventu
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by ggreer 7y ago
They did not. The CDC data on suicides only contains statistical information, not identities. And even if the researchers did have the identities of everyone who committed suicide, I doubt Netflix would share account data with them. It woul

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