jpadkins

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by jpadkins 7y ago
constraints help drive engineering decisions!
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by jpadkins 7y ago
I think one of the great potentials of commercial space exploration (and exploitation) is better long term focus (and stable leadership). Changing the mission every 4 or 8 years is not conducive with this stage of space exploration.
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by jpadkins 7y ago
Amazon does not deliver packages. A local delivery company in France does. They pay local taxes (corp, gas, etc) which are passed on to Amazon when Amazon pays for shipping.
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by jpadkins 7y ago
This is also naive. The federal reserve is a joint org of government and banks. There is no separation of government and banking power when it comes to currency in the US. In 1913, they agreed to control it together (run by the banks, ov
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by jpadkins 7y ago
https://www.zillow.com/houston-tx/ https://law.yale.edu/system/files/documents/pdf/hier1948.pdf https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research&#
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by jpadkins 8y ago
how do you tell the difference between a personal mail server and a spammer?
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by jpadkins 8y ago
why are you bullish on democrats winning the next few elections?
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by jpadkins 8y ago
switzerland
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by jpadkins 8y ago
that's only one side of the ledger (collection). Now calculate the costs to the taxpayers (people and corps).
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by jpadkins 8y ago
If you create a new good or or perform a service, you have created new wealth. (building a log cabin created wealth) wealth is not zero sum. Even money is not zero sum. Anytime someone creates credit, new money is created and the money su
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by jpadkins 8y ago
modern corporations outcompete family or upbringing based orgs.
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by jpadkins 8y ago
I'm not debating whether math exists or governs our reality. My question was can other species understand math concepts? Or is this a unique sapien genetic mutation. AFAIK, plants don't communicate or use math concepts (even if th
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by jpadkins 8y ago
I've wondered if mathematics is a 'shared fiction'. Obviously money and laws are shared fictions, but I wondered if other species can't grasp math concepts (beyond counting) because there is a fictional or conceptual el
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by jpadkins 8y ago
How different is PoS and PoW in practice (for ASIC eligible blockchains)? I need to devote X units of currency to get Y hashrate to gain 51%. This is a stake, needed to achieve a certain level of PoW. One difference is PoS requires stake o
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by jpadkins 8y ago
I think this was understood even in the earliest days of bitcoin. The centralized system of "playing fair" was the protocol, which as you point out, is a centralized community standard. Blockchain is independent actors following
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by jpadkins 8y ago
or it's testing for people who have the ability to 'meta up a level and see they follow a pattern' which is part of what we call IQ.
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by jpadkins 8y ago
it's weird to frame net new revenue as a "huge cost the whole community" Taking less money from someone who is building a business in your area is not a cost. They have a choice on where to build, and tax burden is one of ma
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by jpadkins 8y ago
desalination exists. the key word in is cheap. It's an economic and energy problem, not a water resource problem. They get water from Colorado because its cheaper than desalination. Once it's not, they will get water from the
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by jpadkins 8y ago
> What about the gigantic consumption of water this implies? The water isn't destroyed. It goes right back into the ecosystem. The planet surface is 70% water. We aren't running out of water. > how many people could we fee
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by jpadkins 8y ago
> inferior-in-nearly-aspect Palm worse is better https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html x86 was worse than RISC, Linux worse than BSD, Windows worse than MacOS, etc Palm got the the things right that mattered
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by jpadkins 8y ago
the costs of your system are probably way more than the value created for society via patents.
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by jpadkins 8y ago
Control-F 'montessori' ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education The conclusions are not new. Maria Montessori researched this 100 years ago. - Student choice of activity from within a prescribe
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by jpadkins 8y ago
> Earth has changed drastically with all the humans on it. do you have earth scale measures for this? what is your threshold for drastic? on most measures I can think of, earth is pretty much the same as it was 100k years ago. maybe y
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by jpadkins 8y ago
Thanks. Those are both good examples. And I agree quality of life is better metric than standard of living.
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by jpadkins 8y ago
can you write a guide on how to improve your standard of living while reducing consumption? I would think that reducing consumption while maintaining standard of living would have high initial capital costs..
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by jpadkins 8y ago
do you really want to live in a world where founders can be put in jail for writing insecure code?
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by jpadkins 8y ago
Google public shareholders do not have control of the company. Larry, Sergey, and Eric are the only shareholders who matter. So executives are responsible to them first and foremost.
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by jpadkins 8y ago
when states issue more currency to buy bonds, do you call that stealing? This clearly inflation and possibly fraud (depending on what claims were made when you bought the crypto coin), but I don't think you can call it theft (unless yo
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by jpadkins 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system 45-72 was bretton woods era which was still fixed price to gold. It was only after 1972 that the value was allowed to be free floating, not tied to an amount of gold
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by jpadkins 8y ago
I have taken econ 101, this wasn't covered. Deflation via credit default has shown to be harmful to wider economy 2x times in US history (monetary shocks). I am not aware of any conclusive study that a deflationary currency is bad for

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