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by gph 8y ago
>So what if it turns out that industrial monoculture techniques are vastly oversold (they almost certainly are) Maybe some of the more recent techniques of industrial monoculture are oversold, but the steady rise of yields since the 1940
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by gph 8y ago
>there are plenty of farms that have switched to being fully organic while increasing yields and profits. But probably not corn or any of the other staple crops. It's going to be hard to get the same yields of those without using mo
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by gph 8y ago
Not to take away from the content, but this article reads like something a freshman wrote for a class project.
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by gph 8y ago
Never a central tenet, but I've seen/heard some conjecture around UBI that it would help lift people out of the poverty trap, and this could help them find a path to fulfillment that for many might lead to a fulfilling job/ca
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by gph 8y ago
I don't think we should be encouraging an average Ubuntu user to download and install anything from source that has an actively maintained package. Average users of Ubuntu/Linux should only use the maintained Firefox package that
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by gph 8y ago
How meta. You must be a super clever person with original thoughts to add to every discussion.
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by gph 8y ago
Did saying this make you feel better about yourself or something? Because it's a ridiculously naive statement at best. More likely just some sanctimonious BS you decided to post to signal how much of a good person you are. Like serious
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by gph 8y ago
>But its not like battery technology is advancing so quickly, and prices dropping so fast, that this is only just becoming profitable I wonder if there was even the capability to manufacture such a large order at the given price point be
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by gph 8y ago
Libertarianism. I hear they are testing it out in Oregon. /s
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by gph 8y ago
Did you read the entire article? It's not really 'free to everyone', it's not like it's magic money. It's more like a transfer of tax revenue from Tokyo to rural communities, with a bit of a kickback to the tax
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by gph 8y ago
Fair, I overlooked that. But given the unique situation of Detroit, and the fact that US cities are generally organized in quite a different fashion to Chinese cities there's really no good use in comparing the two IMO.
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by gph 8y ago
Eh, I think both you and the poster below are making a mistake in using the population of the city center of Detroit. The city center is making a bit of a comeback, but the majority of the population lives in the surrounding metro area, whi
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by gph 8y ago
The early smart people are now rich smart people. The late smart people aren't very smart after all.
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by gph 8y ago
That's not really anything like a commune. It's basically a grocery store you work at for discounts. I don't doubt it quite beneficial and nice, but really doesn't answer anything about the OPs question.
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by gph 8y ago
I mean, they'll still have to license the tech from Cruise, they'll just be licensing from a company they have a minority stake in. You can't just use tech from some other company even if you are part-owner. Heck I don't
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by gph 8y ago
Sort of. But considering that they are diverting a ton of tax revenue into charities, and the fact hat being a large donor to various charities and endowments can create large status and influence gains, especially for their legacy heirs, I
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by gph 8y ago
Anecdata. There were undoubtedly many other engineers working just as hard as Musk at other startups that never turned into Paypal. You can credit him and his cohorts for having the foresight to work on products/services that turned ou
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by gph 8y ago
No it doesn't. They use the proper medical term in the very same sentence, and continue to use psychogenic death except in a direct quotation from a doctor. You have to be pretty damn anal to think using a colloquial term suddenly disc
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by gph 8y ago
I think it's a bit more nuanced then that. If you dig into this case a bit it seems pretty likely that this Scott guy "worked" for Dixon in some capacity and even if Dixon didn't pull the trigger he provided the weapon a
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by gph 8y ago
You're the one saying they cost an astronomical amount that would preclude poor people from affording them, but that seems refutable by the fact that GPS trackers are commercially available for truck fleets[0] as well as tracking pets[
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by gph 8y ago
>But gps trackers, paid by the defendant, will then become just another bail bond Why do you think a gps tracker would be that expensive? And why do you think a defendant would have to foot the entire bill? It's not like they are a
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by gph 8y ago
But you're not really addressing the actual problem that the GP was stating. Disabled individuals want to be gainfully employed, but under the minimum wage law no one would hire them. Your 'right thing to do' just negatively
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by gph 8y ago
Well what the right thing to do depends on whether we're thinking idealistically or pragmatically. Idealistically everyone deserves the same right to minimum wage protection. But if we followed our ideals in this situation then most di
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by gph 8y ago
I think that's a perfectly fair description, they didn't say 'remote' they said 'secluded wildness'. And besides Thunder Bay isn't just 'nearby', it's separated by at least 30 miles of Lake
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by gph 8y ago
>I betcha there are 10,000 people just doing children’s services in NYC Ok, but we aren't talking about UBI replacing CSA or really any of the local services are we? It's not like child abuse is going to disappear because every
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by gph 8y ago
>a huge amount of the money spent on benefits are used just for administration. I think a lot of people way overestimate the administrative costs. For example U.S. Social Security administrative costs are around 6 billion a year. Sounds
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by gph 8y ago
>Bank employees were instructed to tell prospective clients to lie about their income But is there explicit proof of this? I didn't think there was, but maybe I'm wrong. I thought at best the argument would be more like: "
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by gph 8y ago
But printing the money is only useful in that it manipulates the market price to go that 10% higher which is where you make the profits. If they printed that money and everyone found it worthless and the market didn't response they wou
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by gph 8y ago
Wasn't the main part of the allure to blockchain/crypto to be better than democratic societies and institutions? After all that's what they are trying to replace right? Governments can't be trusted and all that?
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by gph 8y ago
I think it's well past that point. Now that there's serious wealth tied up in these projects and people have become millionaires and even billionaires on an unproven technology the general tech community is not going to give it th

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