h4nkoslo

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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
$50K in $100 bills fits in a safety deposit box. Precious metals are even more compact.
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You evidently think your livelihood should in principle be contingent on the desires of whomever controls the governing apparatus. If tomorrow you need a certification of racial purity, or a Temple recommend, in order to practice your prof
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"Ethics" codes are in practice a mechanism for a formal institutional body to exercise power over a profession. Case in point: "But what developers really need is an organization that governs and regulates their profession l
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
You'd be surprised what you can do with, eg, billet aluminum, which is available essentially everywhere and requires no elaborate supply chain to source cheaply. Something like a cell phone or a car has an incredibly elaborate bill of
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The NYT is putting you on notice that any political involvement, especially outside of approved channels, may necessitate threatening your career. What you should really be doing is paying taxes and keeping your head down.
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There is also the issue of prototyping; some classes of goods (eg some music parts, gun parts, car parts...) require large amounts of design & experimentation work, and have high enough price points with low enough volume that it's
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Australia is kind of interesting in that it has a lot of preconditions for success (relatively high IQ & conscientiousness, high levels of social cohesion, stable governing institutions, good education, high social & human capital i
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
There is an immensely profitable niche finding regulatorily dictated pricing schemes like this, or LIBOR, or various other "one true commodity price" setups, and mercilessly arbitraging them.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The present internationalist regime is a holdover from the Cold War. Institutions (social or political) like the EU or Buckleyite conservatism or the promotion of a trans-national, US educated elite itself (eg Barack Obama Sr) were explicit
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Any country you can name came into existence when a collection of warlords established it by force. Ironically, you would expect libertarians to know this better than others.
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Minimum parking requirements are also a mechanism to prevent businesses from declining to build parking and free-riding on their neighbors. They also effectively ensure maximum density, which in some areas is an explicit government policy o
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This is remarkably stupid, at best descriptive of convergent evolution in generically authoritarian regimes. It's not too far from describing the current Chinese government, which to put it mildly has no connection to the thought of B
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It's generally understood that police will lie like rugs at every point in the process, because the smooth functioning of the system requires it. But, when they're directly lying to a judge, the judge tends to take it personally
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I'm always curious about the model fans of this approach are using. What is the "correct" amount of conserved land? Given that the government essentially never reverses these kinds of easements or grants, you have to be ext
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Gun control is great for gun sales - California for instance is seeing an unprecedented boom in the run-up to their legislation kicking in on Jan 1. The lack of gun control legislation prospectively coming from a President Trump, as opposed
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Lacking in this conversation so far is the absurdity of yet another "precision ground attack" platform, when there are already ship / submarine / air land launched cruise missiles, air launched guided bombs from (suppose
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The "should" here is more normative than descriptive. That said, the consensus is actually the opposite - if the government controls large stocks of natural resources, they tend to focus on resource extraction rather than developi
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Because that is literally the mission of the United States government. "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity ..."
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The easiest way to fix "diversity in tech" would be to reduce the number of H1B visas, which in the tech sector overwhelmingly go to overwhelmingly overrepresented Asians. But in practice, "diversity" is ~exclusively use
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
What indicates "diversity in tech" is broken? Are there notable examples of wildly successful companies that credibly attribute their success to "diversity", in the same way they attribute it to low overhead, technologi
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Thinkpad T450s. Lightweight, matte non-glare screen, and double battery. The latter means I can swap batteries if I'm out and about without shutting down. 100% Linux compatibility. Also under $1K even considering an aftermarket SSD &
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Is there any evidence of the Romans engaging in Amish-style quashing of an invention for social stability purposes? Even aside from "commercial" innovations in eg textiles, something like Newcomen or Watt's steam-driven pump
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
To describe China as "unified" ignores their dozens of civil wars and conquests by external groups. They kind of have an at best metastable "tough shell / gooey center" dynamic, and I would not be surprised if thei
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bloodyshovel.wordpress.com is pretty excellent on this and related issues.
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Why would that matter? What kind of useable communications platform prevents third parties from conversing about a separate person?
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Angela Merkel is extremely upset that the population management techniques she is familiar with from East Germany are no longer effective when people are able to search out opposing points of view. That's why she's leaning so hea
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"Anti-abuse" in practice is revenue-negative; regardless of whether you think it's a good moral position, kicking people with tons of followers off the platform for starting inter-celebrity drama (or sometimes for no clear re
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Without the pointless veneer of physics, this phenomenon has been well-discussed under the moniker of "preference cascades". For instance when you have large majorities in favor of immigration restrictions, preventing illegal immi
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It sounds like they effectively built a rhetoric detector. "The team found that judgements by the European Court of Human Rights are often based on non-legal facts rather than directly legal arguments, suggesting that judges are often
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Given all of these market mechanisms & broad consensus about GW effects amongst a certain wealthy & market-moving slice of the population (coastal landowners) it is extremely odd that they continue to, eg, pump money into Miami re

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