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by kansface 6y ago
I have strong doubts given the amount of churn among both the ultra rich and our biggest companies. No one seems to stay in the top 10 for more than a few decades.
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by kansface 6y ago
I know SV wasn't in the running, but I can't imagine the Bay Area or California even addressing the permits by 2023... On another note, does anyone know if the supply chain/parts/materials/machinery can be sourced
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by kansface 6y ago
> but meanwhile in America Twitter bans people or the NY Times refuses to publish literally anything anyone sends so they're censoring too!" more realistically, a Twitter mob harasses your employer until you are fired, unemploy
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by kansface 6y ago
A NYT reporter posted an ostensibly private conversation of absolutely no newsworthy value for the sole purpose of ruining some peoples' lifes, got the facts completely wrong, posted a non-apology, and then played the victim. At best,
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by kansface 6y ago
Meth is actually available by prescription in the US for ADHD and obesity [1] (at a much lower dosage than what addicts take)! Opiates obviously are as well. 1. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetami
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by kansface 6y ago
> Someone shorting a stock has an incentive to see a company fail. How is that incentive any different than the incentives of someone taking the opposite position: > Sometimes people will put out rumors or even go on fiance shows talk
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by kansface 6y ago
The incidence rate of HIV infection is the same in the US as it is in France, Span, or Italy though higher than the Scandinavian countries. I couldn't easily find data for the current rate of new infections, but its not immediately ob
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by kansface 6y ago
Indeed, overdoses in SF are way up, at least partially due to putting the homeless in empty hotels.
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by kansface 6y ago
I don't understand this sentiment at all... even approximately. I've been doing this for about 15 years now. I started in the days of "This website works best in IE5" (read, only works in ie5). I wrote Macromedia Fl
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by kansface 6y ago
> in that the statements of fact and of logical implications are valid. See for example https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-rev... for a slightly different take.
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by kansface 6y ago
You could make a container with the pipeline and data set up to go. Also, ideally, you'd publicly host the Dockerfile or w/e build time config, too.
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by kansface 6y ago
Jobs aren't useless, but a job can produce net negative value. Consider other politically mandated jobs like gas station attendants in Oregon. These sorts of jobs (and the government guaranteeing a job for everyone) are downright dyst
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by kansface 6y ago
> I think they couldn't really. If you look into modern artists they are extremelly talented and their unique style that seems like _anyone could do it_ comes in later stages in their life. This is incorrect (although I don't k
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by kansface 6y ago
I have no trouble believing the 3x rate given that I believe I had Covid in April and was steadfastly refused a test, and later in November, after traveling, was refused testing once more. There still isn't sufficient testing capaci
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by kansface 6y ago
Back in 2014, ~50K accounts were posting support for ISIS. Parlor got one day's notice. How much notice did twitter get before the liberal consensus was to remove it from the Internet for inciting hate? https://www.brookin
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by kansface 6y ago
Free speech exists in the public square, not on a W2 (you could claim you earned $0 last year all you want, just not to the IRS). In the cases of fraud/libel, the specifics matter. > it seems obvious that free speech is not absolut
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by kansface 6y ago
See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_L%C3%B3pez_Rivera (off the top of my head, there are probably others).
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by kansface 6y ago
Assigning some bytes to a person is easy, but how do you authorize transactions? People will not keep a secret... secret. People will not remember a secret. People will lose cards. Smart phone adoption is maybe 75% in the US. Many peop
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by kansface 6y ago
The numbers don't pan out until for buildings with fewer than 5 floors or so. I don't know the street, but this will almost certainly be a 3 story house, max.
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by kansface 6y ago
I don't have a citation for you, but it sure seems that something requires new construction apartments in SF to devote half of their square footage to wheelchair accessible bathrooms... I'd guess every apartment I lived in in SF w
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by kansface 6y ago
SF has (had?) the highest percentage of millionaires/billionaires in the US. It is (was) arguably the richest city in the US or possibly the world. Many of the thousands of fresh millionaires that it mints yearly come from very large
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by kansface 6y ago
> Actually, if net value of land is negative what will happen to it? You would be describing parts of Detroit wherein land is abandoned and the city limits shrink as the cost of providing services increases.
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by kansface 6y ago
I'm a small time Apple shareholder and have the opposite reaction. Apple is sitting on 300 billion in cash - I expect them to do something with it. They need to move into some other market because their existing ones are tapped out.
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by kansface 6y ago
What happens to any startup founder when the company hits 20 million? Do you propose we confiscate the extra shares? Obviously, putting a 20million dollar cap on the value of any startup would be profoundly distorting to the market for st
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by kansface 6y ago
Electric cars are really simple to make (Apple doesn't need the help). GM is a legacy business with a legacy business model selling dozens of indistinguishable cars via multiple competing dealerships. Its both terrible for custome
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by kansface 6y ago
Off the top of my head, what happens to any farm, family business, or house in California?
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by kansface 6y ago
I wonder what that did to financial transactions in the 48th year?
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by kansface 6y ago
There are many Russian speakers even if Russia doesn't have a huge population - 258 vs 145 million.
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by kansface 6y ago
Unions as implemented in the US are absolutely part of the problem. They have an adversarial relationship with management and are frequently (seemingly always) corrupt.
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by kansface 6y ago
> For example, we have code in systems that performs network retries, and I have code in my own software that performs polling operations when a request/response "should" work, but in practice, a variety of reasons cause i

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