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by ineptech 3y ago
And, > In just five years, $6 billion was invested in renewable energy — the equivalent of 12% of Uruguay’s GDP. Any country that invests 12% of its GDP in something over five years is probably going to produce some impressive results!
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by ineptech 3y ago
I agree with all of this, I should've said the buyer's value can be significant, in terms of hours spent by the agent. I've had agents that toured dozens of properties with me, around a very large area over several months,
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by ineptech 3y ago
For the buyer, the value is clear: someone to go out with you to house after house, let you in, walk around with you, talk about whether you could fit a king-sized bed in that room, etc. It's a lot of work and the buyer gets a lot of
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by ineptech 3y ago
No.
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by ineptech 3y ago
I think that ship has sailed. Our internet traffic has been hoovered up at the telco for decades (and shared with several other governments), our cars tell half a dozen "partners" which businesses we visit, our phones keep track
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by ineptech 3y ago
Particularly when juxtaposed with public schools. It seems like partly a difference in values and partly an accident of history that teachers of children have a powerful union and a lot of societal support, but many teachers of adults need
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by ineptech 3y ago
It can simultaneously be true that X causes more problems than it solves, and that the disappearance of X would cause even worse problems. Also, this is a common strawman: almost no one advocates police abolition over police reform, but di
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by ineptech 3y ago
Ah, I meant the lecturer is a PhD, which was supposed to be juxtaposed with the 1xx level course to indicate that it's probably a waste of time on both sides. I'm sure there are huge lectures that aren't useful, but Geology 1
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by ineptech 3y ago
Is there any value to those lectures, nowadays? I can see a PhD lecture on the fundamentals of virtually any academic topic, for free and at my leisure, on youtube and similar sites. Waking up at 8am to attend an in-person Geology 117 lec
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by ineptech 3y ago
I'm excited about the use cases, and leery-but-cautiously-optimistic about tying the experience to meta, but am I the only one worried about buying hardware from a company that's synonymous with monopolistic price-gouging? (Ray-Ba
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by ineptech 3y ago
Very cool, I hope this gets widespread enough to become the default way to prove identity online. I know a lot of people are very concerned about preserving the right to be anonymous, but it should be equally concerning that it's diff
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by ineptech 3y ago
Whether/when its better to think in terms of "X has a 37% chance of happening in a single trial" vs "If you ran a lot of trials, X would happen in 37% of them" is kind of a fraught topic that I can't say much a
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by ineptech 3y ago
"The expected value of a random variable with a finite number of outcomes is a weighted average of all possible outcomes." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
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by ineptech 3y ago
Did the self-selected amateur news sources that seemed more accurate than mainstream news happen, by any chance, to align with your preferred narrative?
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by ineptech 3y ago
I don't think that sweet, sweet heated seat revenue is the endgame here, I assume this is the POC for an in-car app store. (I say "is" rather than "was" because everybody bitched when they forced ads onto smart TVs
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by ineptech 3y ago
You're interpreting "tax liability" to include every possible deduction, when I think it's perfectly clear that OP was referring to taxable income before deductions.
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by ineptech 3y ago
> You don’t file a form with the IRS when you get married, have a child, divorce, pay for daycare... Er, yes you do? I'm pretty sure all of the things you listed are explicitly included in the 1040 and associated tax forms we have
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by ineptech 3y ago
Those are two separate discussions. Even if I do something dumb and am rightly blamed for it, we can still have a retro to discuss process improvements that would make it harder for that mistake to happen again in the future.
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by ineptech 3y ago
Fair warning, the research mentioned at the beginning of this video is controversial and (I think it's fair to say) has generally failed to replicate. The research in question ("Praise for intelligence can undermine children'
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by ineptech 3y ago
This looks like nothing but engagement bait for twitter's new monetization program. If I tweeted "Capitalism is cancer" or "Socialism is cancer" I'd get a lot of dumb responses too, but that wouldn't be e
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by ineptech 3y ago
I feel like the news used to focus on things we didn't know, and has shifted to telling us what we enjoy hearing. A great deal of it is in the form "<person you dislike> did <exactly what you'd think they'd do
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by ineptech 3y ago
> Keybase was sort of trying to do this with social proof, though it's reliance on a centralized provider (keybase itself) made it brittle. I think something like this could've worked, which is why I was so sad over its demise
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by ineptech 3y ago
Why? If any currency is appreciating, people are incentivized to hold it, which has the effect of decreasing supply, and decreasing supply makes the price of something go up, not down.
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by ineptech 3y ago
> That doesn't sound right. Nobody talks about the oracle problem in the context of market makers connecting to nasdaq. I don't follow, one of us is confused about what the other is saying and I'm not sure who. If the Ora
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by ineptech 3y ago
It's a speech by the author Robert Anton Wilson discussing the work of Alfred Korzybski, who helped to explain and popularize the map/territory distinction and how it relates to the philosophy of science. I'm a huge fan of Wi
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by ineptech 3y ago
> When Congress certifies the election they do not publish that certification onto any blockchain. Maybe some day they will. The Oracle problem isn't the fact that this doesn't happen today, it's that it can never happen i
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by ineptech 3y ago
> The only idea I see is for some certificates handed out by government to citizens and I absolutely hate it even in a democracy. I think this is the answer. Governments already have the infrastructure to verify identities in person, an
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by ineptech 3y ago
The problem of moving information about the real world (stock prices, weather report, did the Knicks win last night) into a crypto ledger so that it can be speculated upon (e.g. a smart contract that only pays out if the Knicks win).
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by ineptech 3y ago
I don't get how anyone can call something with an eternally-fixed quantity a currency. What's the plan for when it starts appreciating and people stop spending it and start hoarding it?
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by ineptech 3y ago
I don't buy this. I'm sure most iphone users don't care when you ask them about privacy or manifest v3 as an abstract concept, but remember what happened when Apple tried to push a U2 album to them? They lost their collecti

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