jpadkins

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by jpadkins 11y ago
> Recognizing a livable income as a human right I was with you until that one. The fundamental right to other people's wealth is a very slippery slope. I believe human rights should only be negative rights. > Paving the way for a
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by jpadkins 11y ago
your criticism is spot on. There will be a have / have not divide. It will make today's inequality look quaint. The top 20th percentile in IQ/productivity will live way better than the rest, but they will probably be creatin
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by jpadkins 11y ago
relative to US middle class? Sorry I have too many friends from Asia and Eastern Europe who were born into a much lower standard of living than US middle class who are now successful in SV. I was raised by a single working mother, and went
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by jpadkins 11y ago
One huge fallacy in the article: "Instead, we’d posit that many of the “winners” in Silicon Valley are part of a faux meritocracy — being born into the right city or social network." Vast majority of those who work in SV were not
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by jpadkins 11y ago
You missed the point of UBI. There will be a whole class of people who won't be able to create enough value to justify the money needed to have a comfortable living. So we create UBI so they can still live comfortably. When most thin
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by jpadkins 11y ago
If you read / believe in Teal, profit making isn't the sole function of Teal organizations.
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by jpadkins 11y ago
gravity existed long before we 'discovered' it. Trade and "the economy" existed long before we 'discovered' it too. The economy is just as much about Cooperation as Competition. That's why we call it Free
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by jpadkins 11y ago
He outperformed the other bond fund managers.
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by jpadkins 11y ago
"the economy" predates human history. The ones who fight the best for resources gets them. We have only recently become more civilized where we don't have to literally fight for resources. But as long as there is human des
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by jpadkins 11y ago
That is just a misallocation of funds, not a lack of budget. I think the federal government can find a way to fix bridges with a 4 Trillion dollar budget.
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by jpadkins 11y ago
you should stop browsing the web if you don't want to be manipulated or read content with a slant. 99% of the organic content on the web is trying to manipulate you.
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by jpadkins 11y ago
> We need the Federal government to stimulate aggregate demand at the consumer level. How? Investing tax dollars in a smarter manner. How do you get 535 people (congress) to spend $3 trillion smarter? It's an impossible task. A foo
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by jpadkins 11y ago
those are all tiny product details that won't fix the company. I am not saying you are wrong, I am saying there is a bigger reason why all those product defects exist. It's the culture. It's the talent.
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by jpadkins 11y ago
aggressively stimulating renewables is one thing, but a lot of people are calling for a world wide flat carbon tax. That is a very regressive tax that will hit the poorest the hardest. It will barely register for the average californian, bu
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by jpadkins 11y ago
> The climate researchers are able to dig back literal millions of years and chart their findings. sorry, this is pretty funny. Do you know what the data those charts of millions of years are based on? models based on thin evidence and
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by jpadkins 11y ago
yup. you are right.
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by jpadkins 11y ago
good stuff. I use a simple technique that wasn't covered: cost / benefit ratio. Rate items on cost (dev, op, etc) and benefits (rev, profit, users, etc) on a 1 to 10 scale. Items with a high cost/benefit ratio go to the top
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by jpadkins 11y ago
https://myaccount.google.com/ you can see all the data google collects about you. You can export it or delete it.
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by jpadkins 11y ago
We used to build cathedrals that took 3 generations of masons. Imagine working on a design that your granddaughter would see the launch of...
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by jpadkins 11y ago
> Video Games - try writing one without knowing much about Linear Algebra. See how far you get. Trivial in Unity or UDK. Good frameworks / game engines make non CS people productive in building apps. There are thousands of successf
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by jpadkins 11y ago
Give a man a fish, he becomes dependant on your fish. Yes, teaching him to fish takes longer, but it's better. > how are you going to even think about getting education? You start with an education on how to survive better. You don
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by jpadkins 11y ago
how do you do that? Which people get to be in a position of power? Who decides?
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by jpadkins 11y ago
lower barrier to entry. easier to get to acceptable quality.
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by jpadkins 11y ago
i think the default setting for new android releases is only update on wifi and plugged in.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
145 comments and no one has mentioned the obvious: refining diesel will increase the transport cost of goods and materials. This will add cost to the US trucking industry, which has a big lobby. And they have a valid case that increasing
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by jpadkins 12y ago
its a visual search engine that is taking share from google. It's ad formats perform as well as search ads. $11B is undervalued, especially compared to whatsapp et al.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
which is actually better than spending billions and then losing the ISP market to cable + other ISPs using wholesale. It's actually a rational move. Title II prevented them from competing effectively with the companies that were not un
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by jpadkins 12y ago
I think you just proved his point. Bye bye thepiratebay or anything else the US government calls a 'pirate' website. Oh yea, be sure to pick up your public web service license so are not causing harmful interference with those th
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by jpadkins 12y ago
I think WhatsApp potential value caps out at 50B or so. SpaceX potential value might be in the trillions (low probability). So while their current valuations might seem 'wrong', the long term potential value might be closer to y
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by jpadkins 12y ago
its the business model. As long as its taxpayer funded, incentives won't be aligned, and you won't see a lot of money in education. A market system would have a lot higher salaries, and attract a lot more investment.

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