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by kashkhan 10y ago
Fukushima was badly built, badly protected, and badly operated. First few decades airplanes were deadly. Now not so much. All tech can be tamed if you put in the effort.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
France is mostly powered by nuclear. How many french have died from it? Yes it's possible to make a nuclear wasteland. But it's also possible to not make it.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
it only works if resignations are numerous enough to matter to the company.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
No it won't. Assuming the stuff we have in US is the same, increasing the amount of money 10 fold will increase prices 10 fold. The difference will be that the ratio between the median and the top 0.1% will become more equitable.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
The situation in hyper-inflation like in brasil in 80s is different than helicopter money. We can use helicopter money to eliminate poverty. Its just one way of many. The world doesn't need most of the people to work. Today what you ac
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by kashkhan 10y ago
yes and we can adjust the crossover point as we see fit. that's how helicopter money works. In the limit you could give everyone a trillion dollars, and we'd all be equal. This is a thought experiment. My point is that wealth is r
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by kashkhan 10y ago
The homeless guy has no money to buy a $3 loaf today. After he gets a million dollars he will have money to buy a $30 loaf of bread.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
rich actually hold financial assets. the middle class owns houses, often half their wealth or more. Bill Gates doesn't live in a $40B house.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
everybody gets a million dollars. The person who had $50k, now has more than $105k assuming a 10x inflation. Everyone who had less than $100k would be richer.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
Yes there will be inflation but it will hurt the rich much more than the poor. Assuming the real world value of dollar goes down by 10x due to inflation, the median would still be the equivalent of $100k, while the top guys will go from $10
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by kashkhan 10y ago
you don't make the dollar. You get it from someone else. You can't arbitrarily make assets. The total capital in the world grows but grows slowly. And doubly slowly for you if you are poor. I think Piketty wrote something about th
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by kashkhan 10y ago
So wealth is meaningless and the rich hoarding tons of it aren't materially better off than the homeless sleeping in your doorway? If there isn't a single limited pile of wealth, then why can't we helicopter drop on everyone
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by kashkhan 10y ago
Designing a reliable system that is failure resistant is what aerospace design is all about. With INS fail op design is the norm. Yes accidents still happen for common mode failures, but those are supposed to be worked out before committing
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by kashkhan 10y ago
Errors in INS are common. Saturation is common. What isn't common is a bad design that isn't failsafe or failop for a single failure.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
these are solved problems. Look at INS in B777 for example, designed in the 80s with quadruple laser gyros.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
Maybe next time have a better system design so one instrument/sensor error/failure/loss doesn't lead to total loss of unit.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
i assume that this result is notable because they made all the needed corrections and took into account all known phenomena. Like serious scientists would.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
the only reason HN is discussing this result is that it is unexpected. The point of the experiment is to zero out all pedestrian explanations. Occam's razor is a good guide, but it is not a rule the universe is obliged to follow.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
this thrust was not predicted by physicists. We have a repeatable non zero result where the prediction was zero. We also don't know how much it can be scaled or improved.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
obviously because faces physically change when you do crime. charles manson was a happy camper before he started a murderin. All in the upper lip curvature, because why would a criminal smile in a mugshot.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
prison is inhuman punishment. it doesn't stop or correct crime. and in return causes huge social problems.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
how much platinum is there in the earth's core? $ 100 million per ounce is hardly grounds for a gold rush to the asteroid belt.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
consensus works by give and take. Hal and Bill don't just have to deal only with the fence. They have many more items they need to negotiate if they are to live as neighbors. our current system does NOT allow Bill to do whatever he wan
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by kashkhan 10y ago
sounds like you were in the majority. i have been in it also, and it works just fine. i certainly do not like to be in a minority where the majority gets what it wants and the minority is steamrolled.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
nation states fight over borders to increase tax revenues. wars are governments jockeying to get bigger pieces of the pie. the solution is to make the pie arbitrarily large. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by kashkhan 10y ago
its solvable by using consensus democracy rather than majority democracy. The literal consent of the governed is necessary for government to be legitimate.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
is wealth regulated, and do you have a wealth tax?
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by kashkhan 10y ago
transparency is good for everyone. It keeps companies honest.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
iirc all humans are animals.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
Identifying the problem is not defeatist. The concentration of power in government makes it attractive to abuse by the powerful and the rich. It is not against the law to pollute the environment, and reduce its future habitability. Companie

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