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by jpadkins 12y ago
education degrees are lower on the IQ scale http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-colle... I think they are paid about right, given the business model. If we had a private run education system, we would se
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by jpadkins 12y ago
I assumed genetics.
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hong kong vs. pre-market reform china, south korea vs. north korea, 18th century US vs. 18th century mexico, cayman islands vs. cuba, singapore vs. jakarta there are many examples of the more free market society doing better than its counte
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by jpadkins 12y ago
not anymore. And you have full visibility/control of what google 'remembers' about your account.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
If you are downtown, Sree's on 7th/smithfield is nice. She makes a different dish everyday. I agree on ethnic food. I still can't find a decent burrito place.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
NetApp, Google, Apple, PNC, UPMC, and a few others pay experienced devs over $150k. Medical device companies may, I don't have first hand knowledge (they pay UX consultants the same rate as in CA). Dev jobs in IT depts of industrial f
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by jpadkins 12y ago
Your thinking is well reasoned. However, I think you are defining profit too narrowly to a direct currency transaction. Money <> Time <> Happiness are fungible to a large degree. Even altruistic actions are done for profit. I
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by jpadkins 12y ago
my communication was a challenge to you, to promote my worldview (laissez faire free market) to the 3rd party readers of our exchange. Since my skills, knowledge, are heavily intertwined with this worldview, my value goes up when people swa
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by jpadkins 12y ago
Can you give an example of communication that does not have an incentive to profit?
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by jpadkins 12y ago
Moral of the story: Don't let your current business model cloud your judgement. When evaluating something new and foreign, use first principles to see how this will impact the future state of the world.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
in the self driving future, there will be a place for off road trucks and fast cars on race tracks. We probably won't let those type of vehicles on the main roads.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
this meme of everything google has to relate back to ads is wrong and needs to be retired. They already have non-ad revenues above $1B/year. They are clearly investing in non-ad businesses across the board.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
Has Mozilla really changed its policy? At a certain abstraction level, they already had a plugin in system that allowed for DRM binaries embedded in the browser. So what if the plugin system is a bit different? You could already watch DRM
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by jpadkins 12y ago
Agreed on your quote, but of course no one will win elections with that kind of truth. But I still don't think there was any policy the US could have taken to prevent the rise of industrial Korea and Japan, and the downfall of Newark a
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by jpadkins 12y ago
> Create new jobs for poor parents while simultaneously improving schools for their children? Tulsa OK is trying that. Preschool combined with a jobs program. http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/304563233/wh
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by jpadkins 12y ago
I was with you until "free market globalization has simply left places like Newark to die." Can you explain that in more detail? Detroit is the counterexample where the firms did not offshore the jobs, but the city still got deci
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by jpadkins 12y ago
Do you have a copy of Abe's kill list? Because I'm pretty sure he didn't have a targeted kill list. Re: your hypothetical. Yes, you send in special forces to stop them based on your intel. If they lay down their weapons, y
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by jpadkins 12y ago
sarcasm generally does not add signal to the conversation, so it is downvoted here like humor and other noise.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
UK is much more dense than Kentucky. Really hard to compare prices like that.
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by jpadkins 12y ago
because utilities suck? Innovation, price, customer service, take your pick on which dimension they suck. Governments have had a century of experience dealing with utilities. I'm glad they are at least trying new models before going
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by jpadkins 12y ago
campaign money is such a narrow factor in elections. While I think these efforts are well intentioned, they will not be effective. Billionaires buy media companies that lose money (Jeff Bezos is just the latest one). why? because they want
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by jpadkins 13y ago
and the reason you don't have the option to switch to another service provider is your state and local governments granting comcast, et al local monopolies. Please direct criticism to the proper source: government interference.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
Failure is a feature, not a bug.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
yea the race to the bottom pretty much defines human progress. It is a great thing. That is why $100 today can get you what a king could not get 200 years ago.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
He has a pretty good track record for this stuff. IIRC Some of his AI predications from the 80s were accurate to +/- 3 years.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
> Google acquiring Nest has a plan: collect data on electricity usage, presence in house and have a basis for inferring what people are doing generally all day. OK I'll bite. What does google do with this data? I don't see any
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by jpadkins 13y ago
worse is better. Also, has anyone done a energy use per transaction comparison to other payment networks? I'd be surprised if bitcoin was really that bad in comparison to Visa or Paypal if you included all the energy costs that go int
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by jpadkins 13y ago
I live in western PA. I follow this issue closely. I care about my and my families health. Your article simple says there are reports of pollution. Pollution != polluting the water table. All fossil fuel extraction creates pollution. Hundr
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by jpadkins 13y ago
Please name a natural* monopoly or cartel? *not created by the government or by government regulations. The most monopolistic sectors of the economy (FIRE, healthcare, energy, defense) are also the most regulated.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
> Look at natural gas extraction by fracking - are we saying that polluting the water table, the air and ground in an is best? Yes, it's better than the alternatives. Cleaner and less CO2 than coal, cheaper than solar/wind&#x2

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