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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The startup ecosystem & consumer property are driven by 0% interest rates; the investment property economy is driven by 0% interest rates & overseas money laundering. Agriculture relies on illegally imported labor & perpetual g
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
They are for legal residents without the ability to get proper documents from their home countries. My guess is primarily "refugees" that haven't gone through the full citizenship process. https://www.udi.no/
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
I'll start caring about condemning Albert Speer the first time I see a "long form" exploring the moral culpability of, say, Valerian Kuybyshev. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_Kuybyshev
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Cool project, but I have literally never thought a terminal was excessively low-performing enough to prevent work from getting done. What applications benefit from a terminal that's even an order of magnitude faster than the alternati
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
This would be extremely appealing if it had sufficient I/O to make it into a mobile, basically headless computer you could hook up to whatever display or input was handy. Looks like it only has a single MicroUSB port though.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
I have personally done so. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/rollover-ira-to-40... http://www.kiplinger.com/article/retirement/T047-C000-S004-m...
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Broadly, that's the entire Second Great Awakening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
... And you can roll your trad IRA into your company 401K before doing the backdoor Roth, thus avoiding the tax hit.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Why would you? You're already there. It's effectively a synonym for "different search engine".
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The history has been that odd preferences for the content & operation of museums and foundations very rarely outlive the founder, so you're looking at at most ~20 years of purely interior weirdness.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
My other favorite George Lucas property development anecdote is that when Marin County refused to allow him to expand the Skywalker Ranch, he threatened to deploy weaponized "low-income" (80% of median) housing against his uber pr
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Some models also have internal batteries, which allows one to switch the external battery without even hibernating.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
This has not been historically true. Growth overall has been more or less linear, and in developed economies like the US is essentially flat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#/medi... https
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The interesting thing is that literally all of the inferences we are "worried" about computers making were social consensuses not too long ago, with ample first-order evidence to support them even in the absence of fancy machine l
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Well, the proper response probably isn't to shoot yourself in the head and prevent yourself from knowing about the difference in default rates. It is entirely possible to figure out what is going on, to what extent, and then make an i
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
There is literally no support in the article for the contention that "artificial intelligence picks up bias from human creators" as opposed to making correct inferences from reality. All of the examples they provide, modulo blurr
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
I would be interested to know what the premium was.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
"There is very little real risk associated with this strategy" Once you get to inter-generational wealth there is catastrophic risk that is almost uninsurable; managing that risk is extremely difficult. It is not as simple as &qu
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
They empirically do. How do you think they control the existing MX & much of US drug trade? You must grow at scale to make it worthwhile, and then you need distribution. All of those things are vulnerable when the state can't &#
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Too late to significantly crush the power of the narcos by regulatorily affecting one particular business line. It might affect them on the margin; OTOH it might very well not, if they're able to maintain control of the trade with the
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The US has far stronger rule of law than Mexico (one of the reasons so many Mexicans desire to come to the US), and I'm primarily talking about the difficulty of uprooting the narcos in Mexico. That said, yes, I would expect to see a r
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
That works to the extent they do not already have above-threshold control of the economy & the ability to use force sufficient to at least deter the government. Under those circumstances it becomes self-perpetuating absent a significan
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
It's too late. The cartels were allowed (even encouraged) to grow to the point where they are no longer controllable by the state. If you legalize the drug trade, they will continue to assert quasi-legal control over it the same way
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
"Teen pregnancy prevention" is only seen as a universally good thing (as opposed to crypto-eugenic if practised on the right population) because you are encouraged to waste your fertile years in a cubicle / having anonymous T
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The little touches were the best part of the movie - the nihilist industrial scream-metal music, the Islamic militia in the streets, the plausibly crappy vehicles... Incredible movie.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Why would they want to "fix local poverty"? What does that even mean, writing checks in perpetuity? Why would they want to give their resources to other people? How culturally compatible are these "millionaires" with
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
There are a shitload of lawsuits, whenever a plausible plaintiff can be found.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
"It's money that was paid into social security with the explicit promise that you'd get it all back upon retirement" That's not even close to true; there is no legal connection that requires you "get it all bac
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
"Someone monitoring public CCTV" is where it tends to break down.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
"neither can any other remotely reasonable public safety measure" How about allowing citizens to carry their own protection?

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