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by laser 9y ago
"it could occur slower and over a few generations but sooner or later poverty is back." But, if the UBI is set to a percentage of GDP, then as overall wealth increases, the wealth of those depending on UBI increase. In the past fe
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by laser 9y ago
If the government guarantees a basic income, you're really only guaranteed (at best) until the next election cycle. Just recently, seven years after its passing, the ACA was nearly reverted, which would have kicked millions of people o
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Franchise – An Open-Source SQL Notebook(franchise.cloud)
398 points by laser 9y ago|63 comments
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by laser 9y ago
"Google would be an elephant while DuckDuckGo is a mosquito (this is not to emphasize; I’m actually making things better for DuckDuckGo)." Why would this guy go out of his way to say this metaphor is actually literally informative
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Is the World Getting Better?(youtube.com)
1 points by laser 9y ago|0 comments
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by laser 9y ago
Wow. I thought you were kidding. That's disgusting. I don't dare link it here for fear of encouraging such behavior.
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by laser 9y ago
That "$208M" is how much more would have been earned in taxes had Apple built the data center there with no tax breaks. However, it seems like the reality is that without those deductions, there would be no Apple there, and theref
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by laser 9y ago
Just because they both use the word "open", does not make them structurally the same. Show me a ranking algorithm I can't game...
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by laser 9y ago
But if it's open, people will game it...
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by laser 9y ago
Thanks, in the back of my mind I thought this might not be the best example, as I vaguely remembered reading a similar study from Facebook where slowing their users pages down resulted in less time spent on the site. I think the second exam
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by laser 9y ago
My understanding is that the danger of glyphosate is one step removed from direct action on "human" cells, so bringing up metabolic pathways is a straw-man argument. The suspected danger is from disruption to the symbiosis of the
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by laser 9y ago
If Google intentionally slowed its search results by 10%, would people not spend more time on the site? Perhaps even to the tune of 10%? But would people suddenly love Google 10% more? As a more explicit example, Facebook used to allow you
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by laser 9y ago
Because extending the logic on such an idea, all people of North America, and most of the world, are immigrants. 'I always wonder how people can call someone immigrant (and claim they are not) if they are not the mountains and the eart
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by laser 9y ago
50-68%? You mean 32%-49%? https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en
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by laser 9y ago
IANAL, but a security is profit-sharing/right to $-related things, like stocks and bonds. Tokens that are used to make purchases within applications/networks are not securities, for example in the Storj example above, tokens are b
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by laser 9y ago
Why is ibogaine [1] still a fringe treatment for opiod addiction? It seems like a heroin -> methadone -> ibogaine treatment could get the vast majority of addicts cured. Instead, on one end of our medical system's pipeline we get
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by laser 9y ago
Why did this get flagged? A bunch of people being sour? If the technology community cannot come together here to find solutions to the problems of government, where shall we gather?
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by laser 9y ago
To be contrarian for a second, perhaps there isn't enough money in politics? Look how much candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were able to raise directly from constituents, despite being snubbed by big money. What if we gi
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by laser 9y ago
Are these supposed founders that haven't done the basic dilution math on the funds they're raising fit to be raising funds at all?
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by laser 9y ago
It's a bit like a ransom when they load the article at first, you start reading, and then the text disappears asking for payment. Fortunately, The Economist seems to just use cookies so you can still view the articles incognito.
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by laser 9y ago
If you click through a twitter post you can get through on WSJ: https://twitter.com/OurMissingNews_/status/88354772711571456...
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by laser 9y ago
Isn't such a statement without example a form of public manipulation? The NYT article that got this going only said about Sacca, "At a mostly male tech gathering in Las Vegas in 2009, Susan Wu, an entrepreneur and investor, said t
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Creative Adversarial Networks Generating “Art”(arxiv.org)
1 points by laser 9y ago|0 comments
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by laser 9y ago
I think you must've meant, "under promise, over deliver"? At least that's what Scotty was suggesting.
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by laser 9y ago
Pinterest [1] and Instagram [2] may be the two largest. And I guess technically Twitter [3]. But Google is so massive that I'm not sure it really would impact their overall market cap at this point. For example, Twitter is about 2% of
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by laser 9y ago
No, just good humor :)
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by laser 9y ago
Was it because they had a philosophy of hierarchical power that ensured the ruling class maintained rule by the utmost power, divine right, over the populace? One in which all suitable ideas would be approved and any unsuitable ones taught
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by laser 9y ago
Worked on Firefox 54.0 on macOS 10.2.5 for me. Though it was incredibly slow, taking 5-10 seconds to load for me. (And also just updated and Firefox 55.0 works too)
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by laser 9y ago
In case it makes you feel any better, if you enjoyed the 3000% returns, you'd still feel shitty about missing out on the 50,000% returns :P
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by laser 9y ago
ICOs implementations have varied, such that while your points about inverse value and transparency of fraction of offering may hold for some, ex. Bancor w/ it's "hidden ETH cap" announced at 80% full [1], it does not hol

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