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by glofish 7y ago
Misleading title - the builders did not "intentionally" locate the fault sites, then built Macchu Picchu there. Rather, at fault sites, the geology is such that it is easier to build a city there.
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by glofish 7y ago
In an optimally functioning world yeah - in an artificial world, where all of them lose money and are propped up artificially, one failure will lead to the rest of them perhaps losing a little less money ... or it could be that travel drops
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by glofish 7y ago
They sure nickel and dime - but still, even after that, I can't believe how cheap flights can be. And if you buy tickets in advance then (compared to US) it feels like a rounding error to my spending, impossible to break even - there i
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by glofish 7y ago
I wonder how many of Europe's super cheap airlines are losing money. If more fail there might be a domino effect as so many places have come to rely on tourism.
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by glofish 7y ago
Generally agreed? By whom? Money managers? But of course! Guess what - if you think index funds are not optimal, deploy your own optimal strategy then profit bigly.
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by glofish 7y ago
My point is that while Wall Street may have figured out index funds better than it used to - it is nowhere near as "figured" out as that of manipulating individual stocks. As the paper points out - holding individual stocks is far
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by glofish 7y ago
Good point - they do indeed! What I was really referring to is someone else doing nothing more than buying a Vanguard ETF and then adding their fees (perhaps an order of magnitude higher) on top of those fees - just to "manage" yo
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by glofish 7y ago
As the joke goes: If you owe someone 100K and you cannot pay - you are in deep trouble. If you owe someone 1 trillion and cannot pay - they are in deep trouble.
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by glofish 7y ago
How would you know where the money earned as interest is spent?
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by glofish 7y ago
From what I understand this exact same argument is reiterated every decade. "It worked in the past but today is different" - invariably ending up with a suggestion to give up increasingly large amounts of your profits to someone t
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by glofish 7y ago
This is one of those studies that is primarily "belief" based. I for one am not a fan of these - since we can't really disprove it. Let's predict what a Denisovan skeleton looked like based on the ancient DNA of a single
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by glofish 7y ago
One unexplored dimension of this study is that the quality of predictions might get worse and worse as you add more data (individuals).
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by glofish 7y ago
Actually what we learn (or should learn in high school) is that pleading ignorance: "I did not know this or that" is a terrible starting argument for many crimes. This is what I was referring to in my observation. Stallman should
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by glofish 7y ago
He demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of how the legal system works. IMHO he is not qualified to lead FSF.
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by glofish 7y ago
Excellent comment! It exposes the perfidiousness of Stallman's argument.
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by glofish 7y ago
I find it surprising to the extreme that a person like Stallmann, supposedly smart and well versed in legal matters lacks the understanding of how the legal system works: "Unintentional crime is still a crime." Unwittiness in comm
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by glofish 7y ago
My point was that the times you refer to were so underdocumented and the reporting is so unreliable that using them in an argument amounts for confirmation bias. You wrote: "The Mongols created a single unified empire than stretched f
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by glofish 7y ago
I agree that from purely economical standpoint NASA research has paid for itself. But I must note how none of the benefits came from any of the lofty predictions coming true: colonizing other worlds, etc. If anything we found out that we c
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by glofish 7y ago
"Yet that difference is enough to justify thousands of years of murder." no, that difference is not the reason, that difference is the fabricated reason. The actual reason is the power transfer, and who gets to call the shots and
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by glofish 7y ago
"Check out the mid 1200s. The Mongols created a single unified empire than stretched from western europe to eastern asia." The main problem with this argument and others statements similar to it is that we don't have objectiv
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by glofish 7y ago
First and foremost "genes" do not exist. Genes are a fuzzy concept that people pass around and when talking about DNA. Because of the fuzziness, everyone can claim that genes do what they think they do since they are not constrain
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by glofish 7y ago
There are two schools of thought: 1. DNA is the hardware 2. DNA is the software CRISPR gets a lot of press because it seems to give biologists exactly what they've always wanted - a tool to mess with the DNA - to alter the hardware, i.
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by glofish 7y ago
I think there are a couple of neat examples there: lerzfijglpFiji-j -*? plus I learned about the "unquoted string" feature that is the reason why the joke works also, the writing is quite entertaining.
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by glofish 7y ago
You are not alone feeling that. Check out to paper titled "93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs" https://famicol.in/sigbovik/ "In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in th
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by glofish 7y ago
as luck would have it here is plot I saw on reddit https://www.payscale.com/college-roi
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by glofish 7y ago
Let me ask this, is your underlying argument that the $1.5 trillion student debt in the US is merely a result of ill-made choices? All these people chose not to enroll in that super-affordable yet on-par-with-the-best-over-long-term local e
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by glofish 7y ago
You arguments are bit like: if you can't afford a car just move to place with good public transportation. Problem solved. Yet in the US that's not possible to do a larger scale. There are just not enough places to accommodate ever
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by glofish 7y ago
but what if the society is not quite free or open, and tries to push you in directions that are not good for you.
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by glofish 7y ago
this is like saying: it is even cheaper if you don't go do school at all... look at the facts: 1. the vast majority of colleges are very expensive, 2. career prospects suffer if you don't attend the "expensive" colleges
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by glofish 7y ago
yes, that is the real problem, college shouldn't cost a hundred grand a year in the first place ...

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