h4nkoslo

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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
It absolutely cannot "protect the people [you] care about". It may, perhaps, lead to apprehension after the fact.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Debt in the limit is the same as equity, from the perspective of investors. You end up betting fundamentally on the solvency of the business rather than how much of a (positive) return they will generate.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
This is by far the best explanation I've read of where Machiavelli is metaphysically coming from: http://www.exurbe.com/?p=1429 . He was a true patriot for his people.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The latest major Fortran version, circa 2003, is at least as modern as something like C++.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
UBI won't get rid of the rest of the welfare state, so it just ends up being another transfer program. SF is not going to give up their $250M / year in "homeless services", and no government department is going to give u
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Molds can be significantly more expensive for low-volume parts, even for the same shape. There can also be problems with cooling of the shape.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
This is widely known as the "trilemma"; you can have at most 2 of: - Fixed exchange rate - Free movement of capital - Ability to conduct your own monetary policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinit
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
You don't even need a "database", the naming patterns are very distinctive.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Oh no, an American attempted to participate in the American democratic political process by donating a modest amount to a group that "put up one insulting but fairly mild anti-Hillary Clinton billboard outside of Pittsburgh". Cle
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The interesting aspect of NSLs to me has always been authentication. One gets a fax, and one faxes some crap back? Trivially hackable. One contacts the phone number listed on the NSL? Ditto. How difficult would it be for the Chinese or
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The fact that "developed nations, in reducing emissions, will bear most of the cost while the developing world will get most of the benefits" does not mean it's not a good idea to reduce emissions, it means that an agreement
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Google currently has more money than God, which alleviates much cultural pressure to extract marginal revenue from, eg, employees' toy mobile apps.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
That would actually be a convincing argument, if it weren't for the insurance coverage (private or government) they repeatedly mention. Seizing the person is just a prerequisite for getting the insurer to write the hospital a check; t
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
This is basically the same idea as electronic ear protection of the kind typically used for shooting sports, with the addition of a directional microphone to the existing global microphone. It works extremely well in that form factor, basic
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Of course they don't; every time wages rise in a particular sector, this is seen as a "labor shortage" that has to be corrected. In order to differentiate themselves into a higher "class" of labor equivalent to wha
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Even if you own a majority of voting shares, it's a basic principle of corporate law that you still have to treat shareholders equally, you still have to act in a way to maximize shareholder value, and you still have to consult the boa
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
"Philanthropy" in this case meaning to set up a dynastic foundation as a tax shelter.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Most of that cruft consumes minimal die area and results in absolutely minimal slowdown compared to an "optimized" minimal architecture. Fun exercise: do a histogram of instructions in some large program's binary. Not a ton
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Because those techniques are then available to anyone with a similar problem. Research isn't democratized but the product is.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Only if the money is considered as repatriated. I'm not a tax lawyer and the article is kind of crappy in explaining the precise treatment, but it is possible to purchase and hold bonds overseas (or to hold shares of an overseas ETF t
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
This is really odd phrasing for a completely standard arrangement that has existed for decades. The US treasury is paying interest on US treasury bonds to the legal holder of those bonds. Whether that company "should" repatriate
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The problem with 3D printing / lathing / milling as a service is that particular parts can have orders of magnitude differences in machining costs, and typically you need humans in the loop to figure out if you're asking for
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Prop 13 and various forms of taxable money laundering (overseas money dumped into real estate, Other People's Money based VC funds, imported under-market labor...) are the only things keeping this godforsaken state from going Full Vene
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
3D printing is inherently limited by what you can do with plastics (until you start getting into laser sintering or something else exotic). The niche application ends up being Yoda figurines and etc that require weird shapes and high detai
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Why should they? The "consensus scientific advice" on diet has changed so many times over the past 100 years that scientists have quite appropriately lost credibility on the issue.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Megalopolises continue to be hellish to actually live in, news at 11.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Underexplored in this discussion is that primary & secondary education, period, appears to have minimal impact on outcomes. Individual teachers appear to have absolutely minuscule effects at best. http://slatestarcodex.com&#
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
However you cannot deduct most costs arising from illegal activity, which typically causes taxes to exceed your profit margin.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Maybe you should try calling him a racist. That usually works.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
You don't get to be the kind of person who has $400 million by writing huge checks to make people go away.

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