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by halpert 5y ago
But only old people are using Facebook. While engagement around conflict works for all ages, each age group has a different set of conflicts they will engage with, so the content found on Facebook is specifically the stuff that makes old pe
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by halpert 5y ago
That sounds reasonable to me.
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by halpert 5y ago
The article is really sparse on what information was missing. Neither the NRC or Oklo specified what else is needed. It’s probably wise to give both sides the benefit of the doubt.
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by halpert 5y ago
I don’t think it’s reasonable to ask someone to come on the show if they feel misinformation is being spread. A simple list of inaccuracies should suffice.
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by halpert 5y ago
So the gas stove wasn’t causing elevated NO2 levels, but rather the furnace was? I’m confused as to what the conclusion is. Gas stoves ok, but furnaces not?
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by halpert 5y ago
You can’t fathom it? On what basis?
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by halpert 5y ago
Is there really a marginal cost to holding more money? Presumably they can buy treasury bonds and earn some interest off the holdings. In terms of data storage, is it really more expensive to store a positive number vs. zero?
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by halpert 5y ago
I believe when awarding construction contracts, some of the deciders look at past projects, which could discount underbidding. Often, other engineers are deciding on the contracts, so they also have a general idea of how much it should cost
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by halpert 5y ago
But a corporation is a legal construct, and ownership of one isn’t anymore a right than having a drivers license. I believe it’s totally within the governments rights to regulate them differently than the individual citizens comprising the
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by halpert 5y ago
I’ve lived in Germany for a number of years. My taxes were around 42% if I recall correctly. Plus 400 euros a month for health insurance. Oh, and don’t forget 25% of capital gains. I do agree with you though: you get your money’s worth in E
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by halpert 5y ago
But your taxes are also much higher. You would pay more than 30K over 18 years most likely.
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by halpert 5y ago
I think 30K is quite a reasonable cost. Parents have almost two decades to save the money, plus they can do so with a 529 plan and avoid capital gains taxes. Even saving $100 dollars a month invested in the market will net 42,000 after 18 y
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by halpert 5y ago
You just keep saying “you have property rights”, but aren’t saying where that right is written down in the law. It’s a pretty simple question with a definitive answer. I’m just pointing out that you believe something to be true without any
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by halpert 5y ago
But again, what property is being taken? Unless you consider “the right to buy stocks” as property itself, which seems tenuous. You basically could apply that to any such item: “the right to buy drugs”, “the right to buy nuclear weapons”, e
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by halpert 5y ago
So you can buy anything? Where is that right enshrined in the constitution?
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by halpert 5y ago
My point is that you don’t own a stock until you buy it. So you can restrict the ability to buy a stock without impacting the someone’s ownership rights.
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by halpert 5y ago
But buying stock means you don’t own it (otherwise you wouldn’t need to buy it), so your property rights aren’t being violated.
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by halpert 5y ago
But what about the profit that has already been made? Apple is taking 30% after all.
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by halpert 5y ago
What part of the constitution protects the right to trade stocks?
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by halpert 5y ago
Who are you referring to with won and lost?
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by halpert 5y ago
If they were targeting Amazon, you would probably say "Targeting Amazon and not Google or Facebook for tech monopoly is not a good luck." You need to start somewhere. If you have a specific reason why Facebook is not a monopoly wo
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by halpert 5y ago
Galileo Galilei?
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by halpert 5y ago
Hot air should have higher pressure, so theoretically you could get more displacement. But your pumps also have to work harder to create a pressure differential. Hard to say which effect would be bigger.
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by halpert 5y ago
I used LinkedIn to get a job. There was a company I wanted to work for. I reached out to a recruiter at the company on LinkedIn via DM. He set up some time to talk that day, and a formal interview happened a week later. Couldn't have b
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by halpert 5y ago
The claims almost all say "via the user interface." (Not a user interface btw) The figures also contain detailed descriptions of the user interface. I know it's a trope that software patents are bad, but a generally broad p
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by halpert 5y ago
Wow that’s a crazy statistic. Do you have a source?
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by halpert 5y ago
There were a number of patents in question. I'm specifically referring to this one: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8588949B2/en Here is the abstract, you can see that it clearly is about the interface of
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by halpert 5y ago
Again, it’s not the controlling of the speakers that was patented, it was the UI for grouping them and controlling them. Bluetooth headphones generally have the same controls as normal headphones, so they wouldn’t apply to this patent.
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by halpert 5y ago
I don’t really consider using the services of a public company with thousands of different investors the same thing as directly purchasing the fruits of slave labor. If Uber drivers were slaves themselves, then that would be more comparable
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by halpert 5y ago
From my reading of the patent, it's not that the concept of speaker groupings was patented. Rather, a specific UI for showing and modifying the groupings and adjusting the volume. Unfortunately, there aren't many different ways to

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