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by jp555 8y ago
People have been saying that forever. Although the amount of resources required to produce $1 of GDP has gone down ~90% in the last century. Economic growth = figuring out how to do more with less.
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by jp555 8y ago
Credit has been nearly free for a long time. Cheap money increases buyer leverage, which translates into higher prices. Plus large numbers of immigrants in big cities a big factor. Buying a home is generally #1 focus of new Canadians, They’
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by jp555 8y ago
Interesting that the Canadian economy is also almost 4x bigger than it was in 1989.
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by jp555 8y ago
but wouldn’t the 1.01kg of antimatter have an “inverted gravity well” that propogates in all directions, sitting at the bottom of Earth’s much much larger gravity well? I mean I’m looking at gravity in that it isn’t like electromagnetism; p
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by jp555 8y ago
So antimatter warps space in opposite way that matter does? Then you’d probably then need a negative-Earth-mass amount to counteract the depth of the earth-mass caused gravity-well we’re in. The antimatter mass equal to our planet is a lot
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by jp555 8y ago
Apple devices last a long time. My mother still loves using my old 2012 iPhone 5. Used iOS devices are the Kia version.
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by jp555 8y ago
The coming AR computing epoch will again increase the hours/day we’re staring at (through?) screens.
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by jp555 8y ago
You think modern global society is run by humans? Seems to be mostly algorithms already.
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by jp555 8y ago
Ah, you mean grass?
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by jp555 8y ago
“In the near future, atmospheric CO2 will be recycled to create organic fuel” That’s been around for quite a while already; you’re describing a tree.
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by jp555 8y ago
Anything a sous chef invents becomes the creation of the chef they are working under.
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by jp555 8y ago
I come across maybe half a dozen straws a year. But then maybe the real problem is most people eat way too much fast food? Starbucks is fast food too. Yeah, it’s the straws we need to stop... /s
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by jp555 8y ago
Isn’t this kinda like the the difference between a chef and a cook? Many cooks work for a chef, and some grow on to become chefs.
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by jp555 8y ago
The smaller the problem, the bigger the outrage. Isn’t everyone flipping out over drinking straws these days? I mean non disabled people for which straws are extremely helpful of course.
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by jp555 8y ago
Economic growth = learning to do more with less, and arbitraging profits. The myth that economic growth means more waste is just wrong. Compared to the early 20th century we use ~90% fewer resources per dollar of GDP created.
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by jp555 9y ago
Ever heard of a ballistic parachute? Not a 100% solution of course, but then again zero customers died in all passenger aircraft flights last year. That’s saying a lot when every single day, there are times when there are over a million
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by jp555 9y ago
I’d think coal fueled central heating changed the planet much much more than cars did in the first half of the 20th. Id think a relatively small percentage of the world drove cars before 1965.
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by jp555 9y ago
Ah I see so deciding, as in to act as though something is intrinsically true. Is it just me that these things so often seem like arguing about semantics? Or are we talking more about weight (extrinsic) vs. mass (intrinsic)?
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by jp555 9y ago
Humans focus on what they look at, compounding into a perspective, belief, and actions. You can’t work to think nothing is of any consequence and simultaneously work to build anything of value (family, friendships, business, intellect, etc)
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by jp555 9y ago
“And nihilism isn't a bad thing.“ Becoming unwilling to manifest any faith in anything at all is absolutely a bad thing.
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by jp555 9y ago
What monopoly regulation would apply to a dominant market position delivering value at no cost to the user, for a product who’s competitors are but a click away? I thought US monopoly laws were more about dealing with unfair profiteering of
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by jp555 9y ago
What is the antibiotic? How long does this compound last when deployed? If something is highly reactive (causing the death of bacteria) is it not a reasonable starting assumption that it would not last long once deployed? If it is long acti
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by jp555 9y ago
Rockefeller for all his wealth, could not buy penicillin. I’m just trying to make the point that productivity improvements diffuse out to everyone over time. Cell phones were $10K when they came out and now how many Indians have them?
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by jp555 9y ago
Ever hear of a milk bar? It’s like if your grandma opened a fast food place and served her best schnitzel, mashed potatoes, & coleslaw. I first came across them in Eastern Europe, and they’re amazing. Home cooked meal fast for less than
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by jp555 9y ago
Benefits or profits? Are there more cancer treatments today than ten years ago?
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by jp555 9y ago
Generally people only consider ads that “don’t mean much to me” as ads. If they do mean something to someone they suddenly cease being ads to that person. It’s a weird thing.
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by jp555 9y ago
Are clicks the majority of revenue for FB? An ad unit that fills a users screen for a few second as they scroll throughout the day every day is super super valuable to brand advertising. I think that’s ~$450 billion of the total ~$500 billi
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by jp555 9y ago
All that would happen is people would quickly aclimate to killing their dinner. We did it for humdreds of thousands of years , it’s part of our genetic make up.
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by jp555 9y ago
You mean if journalist’s versions of research come to fuition? Those breakthroughs, when applied to scaled up battery manufacturing give us the 5%-10% compounding annual improvement we see. A doubling at least every 15 years is pretty goo
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by jp555 9y ago
Unless they’re among the top 500 YouTubers I bet they make more selling fresh basil than YouTube ads.

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