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by jaibot 13y ago
This isn't a news article - it's a post on "East Bay | Global Justice and Anti-Capitalism"
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by jaibot 13y ago
Pain and fear do not tend to lead to rational approaches to complex problems. People's lives are getting worse, and they're not thinking through the problem fully - just lashing out at the most visible, proximate cause. It's
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by jaibot 13y ago
Microsoft's CEO is not going to be happy.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Any proposition, where A is the thing you want to believe and B/not-B are observations - it's a slightly tongue-in-cheek attempt to mathematically represent the idea that no matter what you see it confirms that you're right.
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by jaibot 13y ago
That sentiment is also often a way to cover for the incoherent belief "P(A|B) > P(A|-B) > P(A|B)".
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by jaibot 13y ago
> Time to go all-in if you haven't already... If every possible outcome confirms your hypothesis, you are not considering the evidence properly. If China hadn't moved against Bitcoin, would you think that would make Bitcoin a l
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by jaibot 13y ago
Fractional dimensions are a thing (for certain values of "dimension"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Long_Is_the_Coast_of_Britai...
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by jaibot 13y ago
Is there evidence of correlation?
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by jaibot 13y ago
How is this different from a loan to start any business?
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by jaibot 13y ago
Re: 10000% return...that's sort of a reverse-sunk-cost fallacy, isn't it? (Found gold fallacy?) Whether or not bitcoin is a good investment is an orthogonal matter.
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by jaibot 13y ago
On a related note: Is the bitcoin infrastructure mature enough to support short selling in a sane way yet? I've yet to find a decent way to do this.
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by jaibot 13y ago
You're not comparing your knowledge to the median human - that would be insane. In five minutes you can become vastly more informed than the median human on any specific given investment, because there are millions of possible investme
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by jaibot 13y ago
Rule of thumb: Don't make speculative investments unless you know something that everyone else doesn't know. How many other people are thinking the _exact same thing_ right now?
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by jaibot 13y ago
Actually, my assumption would be less disease leading to more prosperity leading to smaller families. The current correlation between disease and population growth in any given part of the world is pretty strong. Hans Rosling has some good
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by jaibot 13y ago
Before engaging in any discussion of this genre, I encourage people to take some IATs, if only to have some quantifiable introspection going in. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
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by jaibot 13y ago
These 'banned' topics were all covered at my public high school in one of the most liberal counties in the country.
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by jaibot 13y ago
I know of at least one shop that does most of their work offline and keeps a local SO cache for exactly this purpose.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Good points, especially the varying cost-of-living associated with medical conditions. The obvious gets-us-most-of-the-way-there solution is to have those costs covered by a generous healthcare system as a separate matter from guaranteed in
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by jaibot 13y ago
Milton Friedman proposed negative income tax _in addition to_ guaranteed income. Worth noting that the US has partially implemented negative income tax (we call it EITC) - it's working really well and should probably be expanded (proba
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by jaibot 13y ago
Combined with some progressive taxation this works out to be massively more efficient and helpful than most other forms of welfare. Replace foodstamps/subsidized housing/unemployment-insurance/myriad-of-other-safety-net-progr
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by jaibot 13y ago
In this thread - people confusing up arrows with "good". (Rapid deflation is not a great thing for a currency in general)
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by jaibot 13y ago
The fuck? USD changes less than 2% a year. Within the last _six months_ BTC has been valued at anywhere from $65 to $321 USD ( http://bitcoinity.org/markets ). It would be incredibly difficult to oversell how volatile BTC is
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by jaibot 13y ago
A sudden interest in reforming the taxi medallion system.
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by jaibot 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0r8egBvWRM&feature=youtube_...
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by jaibot 13y ago
I keep seeing complaints like this, which indicates an existing and underserved market. That's an opportunity for anyone who can make a decent RPG and sell it for a flat fee.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Don't forget the perverse incentives of mandated "free" parking, resulting in every pedestrian, cyclist, and transit user subsidizing everyone who parks somewhere (in addition to the horrible sprawl effects).
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by jaibot 13y ago
Autonomous taxis may help - it won't completely eliminate cars, but it can effectively eliminate the need to allocate parking in urban areas (cars will either be transporting people or parked outside of the city). Throw in the safety w
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by jaibot 13y ago
It's not about helping "the government", it's about fixing a problem which is going to keep millions of people from getting decent healthcare.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Next they'll have government controlling our water and electricity.
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by jaibot 13y ago
The original intention was for all the states to build their own exchanges. The more liberal democrats wanted a single federal exchange, but compromised to state-level exchanges to get enough votes for passage. Then the conservative states

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