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by kauffj 11y ago
Agreed, but a max-width on the content would do wonders for readability.
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by kauffj 11y ago
A fella named Kevin from Zenefits sent me email once asking about our human resource needs. I told Kevin that we have no need for human resources since our company was run entirely by strong AI. I signed it, Yours in the Singularity. Kevin
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by kauffj 11y ago
Agreed, but why should the "rest of the world sighs with relief"? Existing government is sub-optimal and competition tends to increase quality. Is there a special property of government service that makes this principle fail here?
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by kauffj 12y ago
I wish more people would understand that net neutrality in it's platonic ideal will be nothing like the net neutrality that meanders through the bowels of the government sausage factory.
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by kauffj 12y ago
Therefore the only playing field left is: what do they have and what do they know? This portrays people as something akin to a Markov process: if you know these two properties, you can make meaningful predictions about the future. Are peo
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by kauffj 12y ago
A far more defensible position, since it is consistent :D I would have no problems with, and likely endorse, a private city banning many forms of public solicitation. It gets a lot more complicated when we are talking about public land.
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by kauffj 12y ago
Wouldn't banning panhandling/begging be an immoral restriction of speech? What is the fundamental difference between a beggar telling a sob story and the woman who stops you to talk about the ACLU/Planned Parenthood/<
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by kauffj 12y ago
Almost everyone sees it as their right (or the government's right) to restrict other's behavior/rights/property when it would affect their quality of life or the standards of their community (cf. drugs, gay marriage). Su
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by kauffj 12y ago
I love the idea of small scale stock offerings, but isn't this illegal? My understanding was that selling stock like this is a private equity offering and that private equity offerings are limited to a small number of people unless the
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by kauffj 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMwc1c0HRQ (seriously, why isn't there a mailing list option on the site?)
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by kauffj 12y ago
Taleb made this comment on Facebook yesterday. Seems relevant: Another attribute of small is beautiful: (what we call) democracy. The idea of democracy is to take the citizens’ location as fixed, and the identity of those in government as v
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by kauffj 12y ago
The concept is fascinating because it offers a chance to experiment with altering fundamental aspects of society that are otherwise static. What happens when a place exists with no or limited IP? What happens when a place exists with little
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by kauffj 12y ago
You're 100% right except for one aspect: that it is surprising. The highest quality services are ones with multiple alternatives and low switching costs. Monopolies tend to provide poorer service and are more conservative because there
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by kauffj 12y ago
Thanks. I was disappointed to see downvotes rather than engagement in the argument. You prompt a fascinating hypothetical: suppose all the world's atomic weapons were put up in a free, transparent auction? (i.e. bidders and bids are di
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by kauffj 12y ago
At below market rates.
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by kauffj 12y ago
People will decry this, but I'd argue a free and open market for vulnerabilities would be a great thing. Here's why: 1) It would result in more vulnerabilities found This is fairly axiomatic. An open market increases the price of
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by kauffj 12y ago
The fact that animals have experienced significant weight gain is by far the best evidence the author provides to support a factor exogenous to the calories-in-calories-out model. What are the leading explanations for this phenomenon?