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by jp555 11y ago
South Africa is about the size of Alaska, but it doesn't look like that on most flat globe-projections. Draw a shape around SA in Google's MyMaps, and then drag that shape up to Alaska. The shape grows about 3x bigger.
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by jp555 11y ago
Every made in China product I've bought has been cheaper and/or much more capable than the one it replaces. Haven't they been exporting deflation this whole time?
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by jp555 11y ago
Vitamin D will help but it is not the only beneficial compound produced by our skin in the presence of sunlight. Strategic tanning bed/booth & Vitamin D supplementation works best imho. There seems to be attitional benefits to the
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by jp555 11y ago
Agreed about strategic tanning bed/booth use in winter. I don't understand the worry when you can precisely dose the minimum light you need vs. A random amount of much more ionizing sunlight.
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by jp555 11y ago
That assumes by "Marketing" you mean only advertising and not "Marketing" as advertising, pricing, distribution, and most importantly product development.
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by jp555 11y ago
I wonder how much biomass a tree grows throughout a year? Seems grass would be more as it just keeps turning air into leaves nonstop. Just picturing all those piles of composted grass compared to the pile of leaves raked up in fall...
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by jp555 11y ago
I bet an average lawn generates more oxygen & sequestures more carbon than 30 trees. It just grows so much faster.
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by jp555 11y ago
The bus is cheaper and less comfortable.
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by jp555 11y ago
As far as where to innovate, how about engineering wifi/3G/LTE to use less than 700mW of power? The smartphone is the first universal tech for mankind, and CPU is not the bottleneck there, it's screens & radios, all batte
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by jp555 11y ago
If we could trap those positrons somehow in large numbers... Antimatter production?
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by jp555 11y ago
> Jekyll-Hyde type personality He seems sociopathic to me.
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by jp555 11y ago
Aluminum was more expensive than gold (used to top the Washington Monument instead of gold) before a radically cheaper way to purify it was discovered. Now we wrap our food in it, and there is a massive aluminum market only because it'
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by jp555 11y ago
I just mean it's easy to conflate a reluctance to change one's process with changing software capabilities. I prefer to edit video on iOS over Windows/OSX but it required me to change how I get video editing done.
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by jp555 11y ago
> there's no way I'd stay on a system that wouldn't allow me to do what I want with it. But there's a big difference between allowing you to do something and allowing you to not change the way you do something.
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by jp555 11y ago
> assuming everything else has zero value Ah, so if you ignore almost everything, you have a point. Like, for example 99% of the people on the planet. Because there is no way a hunter-gatherer system could support our population. Not to
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by jp555 11y ago
yep, but 100i/h for 1h vs 10i/h for 10h is the same amount of energy in the end. I didn't mean to say the metabolization is the same at all, and absolutely fibre makes a huge difference, but that's a different macro nutr
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by jp555 11y ago
You think it's salt and not increasing obesity rates?
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by jp555 11y ago
by the time it hits the bloodstream the carbs in an apple and those in a bowl of lucky charms are identical. it's all broken down into identical fructose and glucose molecules.
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by jp555 11y ago
Does a human have the capacity to understand the complete workings of an Intel CPU? I doubt it. But we augment our capacities with tools, something mice don't do.
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by jp555 11y ago
I don't see them as separate, they are very much interconnected. Tech progress is learning. The "economy" is the act of economizing; learning to do more with less. It's a virtuous cycle.
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by jp555 11y ago
So much bias to unpack in your comment. Nobody needs all of these things? Nobody's idea of progress? According to you? Your strawman example seem awful to me, but I bet there are many many people who would prefer to be workaholics with
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by jp555 11y ago
cheaper is sometimes from lower-quality, but don't discount the effect of economies of scale. Every doubling of production volume reduces cost by ~30%. For example, Tesla thinks it's gigafactory will reduce the cost of their batte
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by jp555 11y ago
Are you also not saying "where I want"? There are plenty of low-cost geographies. You may need to retrain as a truck mechanic or fisherman and maybe learn a new language to live there though. But the point it its very possible.
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by jp555 11y ago
> Could our parents afford to own a home, have children, live comfortably off one income? Can we? Yes we can. But it means tradeoffs most people aren't willing to make.
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by jp555 11y ago
The safety of automobiles (ABS, airbags, auto-collision-avoidance, better tires, crumple zones, etc) have a HUGE influence on the quality of life (as you're defining it) for populations. Diet is by far the most effective way to provide
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by jp555 11y ago
Yeah we need 80% fewer resources per $ of GDP we create than we did 70 years ago, and there's is no indication this will stop anytime soon. Yes we "need" 2 incomes to buy a house, but that house is nearly TWICE the size of th
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by jp555 11y ago
Oh, did your parents have faster internet, bigger TVs, and better cars than you? Richness, wealth, is not money. It's the things we want. My parents never had $2/lb strawberries in February, or MRI machines, HIV drugs, discount ai
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by jp555 11y ago
SV can disrupt anything ... except geography.
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by jp555 11y ago
don't we just call that "breaking promises" now?
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by jp555 11y ago
Hundreds of suppliers build components for the iPhone, and don't many suppliers build all the components for car manufacturers? Why can't Apple get these suppliers to make their seatbelts, airbags, etc? But maybe the game changes

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