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by jonknee 8y ago
It's a $500,000 dollar research grant, I assume the military gives out a lot of these and almost none make press releases. Uber has talked about flying cars before, so that's the experience answer.
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by jonknee 8y ago
I'd counter that MoviePass is not creating any value for you, they're literally just paying for you. That's not anything special.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Apple and Amazon operate completely different businesses, your comparison doesn't make sense. Walmart has more than double the revenue of Apple (or Amazon) and yet has less than a 2% profit margin [1]. Is that suspicious? If anyone is
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by jonknee 8y ago
Why? They don't have some special access to gambling that others don't and are known for losing phenomenal amounts of money.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Tweetbot will not pay that, they'll poll instead of stream and have a worse product because of it.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Well on a long enough timeline we're all doomed, but that doesn't mean golf is out of the question. This eruption has been going on for decades (1983!), it's OK to live a normal life on the Big Island.
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by jonknee 8y ago
The island isn't going anywhere, they're not in any danger.
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by jonknee 8y ago
And life goes on, love this angle of ash behind golfers: https://twitter.com/GettyImagesNews/status/99653888156569191...
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by jonknee 8y ago
> One thing that still baffles me is why did the DNC choose a for profit consultant over the United States Government I think it's really obvious why a political party would want an independent conclusion other than a government con
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Tim Draper Defends Mark Zuckerberg and Elizabeth Holmes in odd CNBC Interview(cnbc.com)
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by jonknee 8y ago
People can send you money through iMessage and you can then use that money for payments at places that both support Apple Pay and take Discover.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Someone struck the lottery and donated a ton to worthy causes. That is generous, full stop. If the government was concerned about this they wouldn't allow charitable donations to be deducted. And since you seem so concerned, you can&#x
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by jonknee 8y ago
Do you really put tape on your phone?
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> By the time an officer asks you to submit to a BAC test, they've already observed enough behavior to make them believe that you may be a danger to others. That's the goal, but cops also sometimes just like to exercise their p
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by jonknee 8y ago
It probably has something to do with the part about Qatar being a very tiny place (a native population of 300,000!) with very wealthy people and never having qualified for the World Cup before. That seems ripe for a bribe, especially becaus
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by jonknee 8y ago
But there are lots of types of US bonds and you can literally buy as much as you want (~$500b worth of them trade every day), it's the most liquid market in the world.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Did you miss the "essentially in name only" part? It was fixed to gold, but they also fixed the price of gold by outlawing [1] people from owning it! When they wanted to deflate the USD they just raised the price of gold [2]. It w
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by jonknee 8y ago
> Increases the cost of homes And decreases the energy bill by a very similar amount of what an increase in the mortgage would be if the cost was 100% passed on. Regardless, in much of California the price of homes has little to do with
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by jonknee 8y ago
Consumer spending going away means business spending going away which means jobs go away... Which means more consumer spending goes away and you can fill in the rest. Personal Consumption Expenditures make up ~70% of the US GDP. Unless you
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by jonknee 8y ago
Consumer spending is what keeps everyone employed. Even in Silicon Valley because who do you think is buying all the ads? > Upgrading your car when you dont need to is wreckless spending. But that's what creates the used car market,
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by jonknee 8y ago
Yes, essential spending would happen. But why upgrade your car, or go out to eat, or go on a vacation, or all the other non-essential spending that powers our economy? Even a very small change in these behaviors has huge effects because one
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by jonknee 8y ago
> I wouldnt use an entry level economics class to judge technology that eliminates risk of government hyperinflation and lowers/eliminates cost of transactions. I didn't, the question was "What makes you think deflation wo
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by jonknee 8y ago
And it doesn't take a scientist to realize that when things will be cheaper tomorrow people tend to avoid making purchases today. (Think back to when home prices were crashing, there wasn't exactly a rush of people to buy homes th
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by jonknee 8y ago
> What makes you think deflation would be bad? Literally economics 101. Investment grinds to a halt and progress along with it.
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> Historically Fiat currencies are awful Fiat has ushered in an absolutely amazing period of global growth that has made us unbelievably wealthy. But there is inflation, so why not go with the thing that has no history?
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The most inefficient API you could design!
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by jonknee 8y ago
It seems a reasonable default, but would be nice if there was a custom setting for a shorter time frame.
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by jonknee 8y ago
But you'd also need to unlock the phone to use the headphones... It is as it sounds.
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This both takes care of that and any other similar attacks that haven't been publicized or discovered yet.
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by jonknee 8y ago
They ate fewer calories, but still had lots of starch.

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