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by habnds 7y ago
if you only look at primary source you're correct. But if you assign pollution by end product then food production is the worst. Fertilizer production and food supply chains are part of food production imho.
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by habnds 7y ago
Food production is a larger source of pollutants than transportation in the global economy.
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by habnds 7y ago
Every stat I hear about meat production is shocking. 40% is lunacy. For anyone interested, the book, Diet for a Hot Planet takes a close look at this topic.
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by habnds 7y ago
GS is spending the money on this project to reduce high frequency traders ability to capture some of the value of their trades on behalf of clients. Why do you think the price moves away from them? It isn't random. It has everything t
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by habnds 7y ago
An article titled "GS spending millions to shave millisecconds off stock trades" has nothing to do with HFT? It isn't at all clear to me buying and selling at an auction even only once a day, let alone once a minute or second
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by habnds 7y ago
right, you used present tense. You meant hft "could possible have" more benefit? HFT is much more the product of the current regulatory structure than a feature of efficient markets. Instead of reading Flash Boys, which is good bu
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by habnds 7y ago
It's important to make money but,how much you're paid for your work is an exceptionally bad way to measure that work's value in our society. Tim O'Reilly said "Create more value than you capture." I would argue
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by habnds 7y ago
What sort of benefits has it brought to software and hardware? edit: honest question :)
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by habnds 7y ago
Maybe mad is a strong word, but, it isn't just $100m, That's one investment by one company. It's billions of dollars across the world to gain arbitrary milliseconds. Restructuring financial markets, to use periodic auctions f
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by habnds 7y ago
people aren't mad only because tons of money is made on hft. It's also because money is _wasterd_ on hft. That's $100 million dollars spent on something that has 0 use to society. It's just rich people playing weird game
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by habnds 7y ago
that's nuts
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by habnds 7y ago
for real, in addition, there's interesting research looking at how, punishing and exiling groups of people alters society's relationship with that group. Stuff like harrassment, arrest, and enforcement actions against a specific g
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by habnds 7y ago
the just-world fallacy is a much more appropriate term. > the cognitive bias (or assumption) that a person's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person
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by habnds 7y ago
wait wait wait, you can't mention a case of changing someones wallpaper and describe it as very serious and not share details! Is there a criminal case about a changed desktop background?
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by habnds 7y ago
discriminating on the basis of race is banned separately. This would probably be addressed by the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, not free speech under the first.
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by habnds 7y ago
Agreed, Tranport for London recently built an enormous database of cycling infrastructure to be integrated into OSM. It's an exciting project/collaboration. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TfL_Cycling_Infr
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by habnds 7y ago
that's not how anti-trust issues are dealt with in the US, conglomerates are broken up so preserve the value of the existing buinesses but break the monopoly, not just legislating a business line out of existance, Bell telephone into a
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by habnds 7y ago
But as a percentage of their perspective markets Amazon is larger. The grocery/homegoods industries are very competitive. Think about how many alterantives you have to walmart. How many places do you routinely go to order things online
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by habnds 7y ago
IMHO, your analogy is exactly correct and if Safeway was as big as Amazon, Warren would be calling for them to be broken up too. On the other hand, maybe the analogy isn't good because safeway displays products side by side while Amazo
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by habnds 7y ago
> In 1980, the richest cohort of middle-aged American men could expect to live until about 83 and the poorest to 76. By 2010, the richest American males had gained six years in life expectancy, living to 89 on average, while life expecta
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by habnds 7y ago
Interesting, I wasn't (consciously) aware of that advertising... I think personally, I don't find it believable that one of the world's largest public companies would have the discipline to forgo a revenue stream as big as ad
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by habnds 7y ago
Honest question, why do you say that about privacy? My basic assumption is that all of these mega companies are the same and terrible about privacy. Surprised to hear otherwise.
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by habnds 7y ago
Bicycles actually are less stable with a more angled fork. If the fork was perpendicular to the ground it would be very difficult to turn. the geometry of the ride type of a bicycle or motorcycle is really interesting [1] [1] https:/&
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by habnds 7y ago
Again, you're looking at the average life expectancy, but we're talking about the poor, not everyone. CoL in NYC/SF has almost no effect on the overall price index, it's much more representative of middle america. Comple
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by habnds 7y ago
So it should be easy for you to find sources. Life Expectancy in the US is going down [1]. That's happening as many people are living longer than ever. The difference comes from plummeting life expectancies at the bottom. Real minimum
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by habnds 7y ago
I think this is inaccurate and you need citations to justify the idea that those in deep poverty are better off then they were 25, 50, 100 years ago. Health outcomes, (obesity, nutrition, drug addiction ) could easily be worse. Security out
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by habnds 7y ago
Scarcity means that relative wealth _is_ absolute wealth because we need to compete for resources. Falling too far behind other members of society means not being able to compete for resources successfully. Focusing on relative wealth is pe
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by habnds 7y ago
Isn't this the point of "copyleft"? Create a valuable product, require that when someone builds on it, that what they create also be free to use. Open source software fails like this even if it's valuable because fixes a
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by habnds 7y ago
> ...goes well beyond Huawei making normal hires and some happen to come from military backgrounds. For instance, Huawei employees list representing or working for Chinese state security or military agencies at the same time as they work
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by habnds 7y ago
The head line is: > China Snares Tourists’ Phones in Surveillance Dragnet by Adding Secret App and subtitle : > Border authorities routinely install the app on the phones of people entering the Xinjiang region by land from Central Asi

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