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by klipt 2y ago
You realize the government funds most people's pensions/retirement via investment right? Either directly via pension funds or indirectly by encouraging people to save in 401ks etc?
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by klipt 2y ago
Exercise often and eat healthy. "You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."
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by klipt 2y ago
The real cause of gentrification is failing to build enough housing, which means people can't move in without displacing others. It causes a zero sum mentality. Build. More. Housing.
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by klipt 2y ago
Arguably the US for where it is today by being too far away for European powers to enforce IP laws!
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by klipt 2y ago
> you have insurance companies you choose between, but you're required to have some kind of insurance, and there are a set of "public" insurances that must meet a certain standard at a certain price That's basically O
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by klipt 2y ago
But if it were just that, plenty of people would be willing to take the blame for less money. I think the problem is you have to hire someone highly qualified and with relevant experience to at least show you're doing due diligence,
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by klipt 2y ago
The website is just saying "make me a high offer", that seems like 100% speculation?
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by klipt 2y ago
> I eat the cost but that's a risk I could want to take You also have to eat the increased tax going forward. Which could be spent on eg universal healthcare.
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by klipt 2y ago
If your coworker was a US citizen he could just get his parents green cards. I'm assuming the reason he's not a citizen yet is because the employment green card queue for India is ridiculously backlogged compared to every other co
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by klipt 2y ago
Per Henry George we should tax this kind of speculation and rent seeking, by taxing things like land and internet domains. We could use the money to reduce our national debt, or pay for things like healthcare and education.
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by klipt 2y ago
Warring theocracies. Houthis are a cultish, nominally Shia minority in Sunni majority Yemen. They're trying to impose a Houthi theocracy and force the Sunni majority to become Shia (with Houthi cult aesthetics). Iran, which is majority
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by klipt 2y ago
The Houthi's civil war in Yemen has killed 377,000 people. And they're the ones shooting missiles at civilian ships. So I guess they're genociders, and they're bad for business.
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by klipt 2y ago
This seems like a problem that's automatically solved by land tax. If the property is abandoned, the tax goes unpaid and the state auctions the property off to cover the unpaid tax. Voila, new owner of record.
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by klipt 2y ago
Yeah I think it's clustering and dimensionality reduction. E.g. if French people form a rough cluster in DNA space and Japanese people form another cluster, someone with a French mom and Japanese dad would show up as a data point rough
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by klipt 2y ago
> There might be ways to reduce the emissions of cows in the future (different feeds, gut biome interventions, bioengineering), but right now these are science fiction. I thought there's already research showing that seaweed in the
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by klipt 2y ago
I associate the word strongly with Lord of the Rings. "The AI researchers delved too greedily and too deep, and awoke the BaLLMrog."
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by klipt 2y ago
Assuming the cars have internal cameras they should be able to surcharge riders who trash the cars.
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by klipt 2y ago
Or the bird's DNA contained some objective function, and the song gradually converged to maximize that function? :-)
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by klipt 2y ago
Because the real cause of high housing prices is too little housing supply (relative to demand). This "genius fix" does nothing to help that. The solution is to Build. More. Housing.
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by klipt 2y ago
How about getting more scientific input on regulations? Wasn't the cooling effect of sulfur already well known?
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by klipt 2y ago
If the incentive is to design for failure after the warranty expiry, isn't warranty length a good proxy for quality?
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by klipt 2y ago
The genes that predispose you to melanoma are probably the same genes that makes your skin white...
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by klipt 2y ago
Only going to get worse as CO2 levels rise.
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by klipt 3y ago
...and MS But of all those listed, cancer is far and away the most common and thus most likely to kill you in practice.
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by klipt 3y ago
Unless you want to live somewhere else with a similar visa!
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by klipt 3y ago
Religions are a product of (cultural) evolution by natural selection. Nothing supernatural about religion ;-)
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by klipt 3y ago
You're supposed to declare earnings from crime to the IRS. Otherwise you're committing 2 crimes, which is worse once you get caught.
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by klipt 3y ago
Killing completely random people is easy (and a war crime), killing a bunch of military commanders is much harder (and a valid military operation). This was the second one.
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by klipt 3y ago
One is a democracy, the other is an Islamic theocracy. Do you really think the world needs more Islamic theocracy and less democracy?
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by klipt 3y ago
That's an impressively effective strike, took out 14 Iranian/Hezbollah commanders and only 2 unfortunate civilian casualties.

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