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by jcfrei 11y ago
Behold the magically shrinking measurement error. They are down to what now? 100μN of inexplicable force?
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by jcfrei 11y ago
But class-action suits are ideal when a large number of people suffered a minor monetary loss. How are you going to deal with these cases if only arbitration is left? If these cases are handled on an individual basis nobody will seek redemp
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by jcfrei 11y ago
That's a good point. One could just argue that in time consumers will just favor contracts with companies that either don't have arbitration clauses or if they do the consumer doesn't care anyway about losing potential disput
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Why doesn't somebody just create a git repository with contracts from major companies and push changes whenever they appear? Link to a subreddit that discusses said changes and voilà you get a little more transparency. Or am I missing
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I don't think people get less productive using smartphones (but I'm not 100% sure that that's really what you are implying). I think the demographic of web users has/and is still shifting. Desktops have always served the
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by jcfrei 11y ago
History has shown time and time again that societies can only survive if the difference between the rich and poor stays within certain bounds. The French revolution didn't happen because people were thrilled by the prospects of a democ
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by jcfrei 11y ago
The problem with the ongoing commoditization of work is that it causes it to lose value. As a result the economy becomes more efficient. However the question is who benefits from this increase in efficiency? It certainly isn't the work
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by jcfrei 11y ago
>I'm glad Ahmed got all the support and encouragement he did but not one person of note/power, including Obama and Hillary Clinton (who offered their cute tweets) have talked of punishing, penalizing, or in the very least repri
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Great entrepreneurs don't necessarily make great academics and vice versa.
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I agree. Public transport has to be treated like a network. A network's usefulness increases with the number of connections it can make. A half-assed public transport system will never convince people and if it's done right it&#x2
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I always feel like the hindrance to new public transportation systems is never the technology or the price. A lot of existing public transportation systems are superior to cars, like metros, aerial tramways, even buses. The biggest problem
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Very interesting that you bring up Marx! However if I recall correctly Marx was mostly worried about the complete commoditization of work (which we see to some extent with service companies like Uber). I don't think he considered the p
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I feel like land is such a good example of the destructive powers of a good with a heavily deflationary value (deflationary due to policies and not by nature). It just leads to hoarding and benefits the early buyers, while at the same time
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Amazon is apparently almost desperate to establish their own apps marketplace.
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by jcfrei 11y ago
What really confused me was the following tip: Try to avoid sitting in the same position for more than 30 minutes. So is there a correct sitting position? Or is the correct sitting position "sitting differently" every 30 minutes
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I'm pretty confident that we'll see a reversal in the trend, for humans at least. The last 70+ years have been unprecedented in the history of nutrition, with high calorie and high fat food being more affordable than ever and with
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by jcfrei 11y ago
yeah, in my opinion the decline in shipping is far more worrying than the recent stock market crashes.
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Coronal mass ejections increase radiation on the whole electromagnetic spectrum so your solar panels would most likely just produce more electricity. This shouldn't damage your cells but it would probably contribute to overloading your
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I doubt we are going to see a revolution in farming. The reason traditional farming is most likely still much cheaper than vertical farming is because of all the government's implicit and explicit subsidies. For example: For most farme
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Here in CH virtually everyone receives a modem/router combo for free from their provider (ie. they borrow it to you). They are also usually preconfigured - so you just need to plug them in. Is it the same in the US? I guess at a 199$ p
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Amazon will never have the same impact on our lives like Walmart did. Simply because retail won't grow as much anymore as it did when walmart became big. We're moving into a digital economy (ironically to a small extent thanks to
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Russian plutonium-fueled breeder reactor reaches first criticality (2014)(bellona.org)
43 points by jcfrei 11y ago|81 comments
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by jcfrei 11y ago
What worries me is that soylent is 20% based on soy. Some studies indicate that eating a heavily soy based diet leads to increased estrogen levels. Which can have negative side effects regardless of your gender. [0]: http://www.n
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Importing food or nutritional supplements into the EU is difficult because the EU still has a very protective agricultural policy. You might have to look at competitors such as mymana.
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I agree. Only speaking about the search engine I could imagine that in the future Google will still remain the dominant search engine. But search engines will be used less and less. Instead most people will use native apps and their respec
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by jcfrei 11y ago
Same thing crossed my mind. I can only assume that the company has long pivoted to another technology, left the ultrasound technology behind and just kept the old homepage (the mentioned WSJ article is from Oct 2014). Or the valley VCs migh
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Varoufakis' Plan B: How to introduce a parallel currency in a monetary union(soundcloud.com)
1 points by jcfrei 11y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 11y ago
How poor was your vision before?
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by jcfrei 11y ago
I agree, this seems like mod intervention solely aimed at discrediting the article (ie. making it appear shallow and unscientific). I'm not saying this is a great article but the edit is unnecessary.
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by jcfrei 11y ago
If you are certain that you can go back to uni anytime and finish your degree then I don't really see why you shouldn't go for the job. Degrees matter if you don't have a lot of experience (something like less than 5 years) i

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