karpierz

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   by karpierz 7y ago

   Why isn't Taleb a billionaire if he's great at predicting events that are surprising to the market (IE, aren't priced in)?
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   by karpierz 7y ago

   VAT+UBI is still regressive, you're just subtracting a constant factor. So instead of hitting the poor the hardest, you're hitting the middle class the hardest and creating a valley around where the break-even point is. In additio
3. 633.▲
   by karpierz 7y ago

   Then that becomes part of the payload that you decompress, and you no longer have a 0 byte payload.
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   by karpierz 7y ago

   "correlates"
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   by karpierz 7y ago

   The parent poster is referring to the three-sector model of the economy: primary (resource extraction, agriculture), secondary (manufacturing, processing), tertiary (services). Education, R&D, knowledge workers, secretaries all fall und
6. 636.▲
   by karpierz 7y ago

   You seem to be misunderstanding the value proposition. Suppose that I have some of my personal medical data, and I'd like to use it to try and detect early symptoms of HIV. But because there's a stigma against HIV and I don't