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by lend000 5y ago
Yes, but the point is that there is an upper limit to the contribution, and even reforesting unrealistically vast tracts of land does not make up for carbon extracted from deeper in the crust. Growing, cutting, and burying fast growing tree
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by lend000 5y ago
Does anyone read the whole article before commenting? They did an experiment with a tribe that does not have a word for blue, and they were significantly better at discerning subtle (to a western observer) shades of green than green versus
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No one could see the colour blue until modern times(businessinsider.com.au)
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by lend000 5y ago
> it should be illegal to market it as medication That's exactly what I stated. But banning substances outright is anti-science and anti-freedom. Just prevent fraud, and make sure it isn't poison.
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by lend000 5y ago
After accurately describing the problem, would you now say that the real root of the problem is our socialized healthcare system, or having choice in drugs?
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by lend000 5y ago
The baseline reaction I'm seeing from commenters is appalling. This drug has been shown to NOT be particularly dangerous in clinical trials, while having a biochemical effect on amyloid protein buildup, which has strong correlations wi
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by lend000 5y ago
For a while, I've supported a less extreme measure of cutting all patent and copyright durations in half (applied backwards to legacy patents), eliminating all legacy submarine patents, and requiring that a party proves it is actively
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by lend000 5y ago
Perhaps someone at Github can chime in, but I suspect that open source code datasets (the kind they are trained on) should require relatively permissive licenses in the first place. Perhaps they filter for MIT licenses in Github projects an
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by lend000 5y ago
From my experience in budgeting, the cost of an employee for this kind of technical enterprise is about double their salary. That includes employment taxes, benefits, and employee-specific overhead (laptops, office space, licenses, etc.).
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by lend000 5y ago
"Security reasons" doesn't pass the smell test -- US adversaries are going to see the report regardless of what time it's released, whereas significantly fewer of its own citizens will. > That stuff even creeps into H
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by lend000 5y ago
From a first skim, it looks intentionally vague and noncommittal, and in classic form, released on a Friday afternoon to minimize coverage. Also of note: there was no input at all drawn from the CIA, which is the agency most frequently asso
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by lend000 5y ago
> successfully used an instrument designed for the 'middle class' to shelter billions in earnings A Roth IRA is beneficial if positions are being changed (taxable events), because those taxes are deferred. For very long term ho
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by lend000 5y ago
No, the Gimbal video isn't even related to the Nimitz incident. There is significantly less contextual data available for the USS Roosevelt incident or the other east coast incident released in 2017 (labeled GoFast). The GoFast video i
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by lend000 5y ago
Perhaps you didn't read either link? Both involve an unidentified object closing in on a helicopter at some point, stopping and hovering, a green light being the primary visual, and then the object leaving the helicopter and eventually
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by lend000 5y ago
Remarkably similar to a 1975 case [0], which was regarded as one of the most credibly unexplainable UFO cases prior to information coming out about the Nimitz incident in 2017. [0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ufo-nea
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by lend000 5y ago
That's just human psychology. Can't fix that one. It's one of the fundamental anomalies of markets. People also tend to sell more when the price is trending downwards, all other things being equal.
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by lend000 5y ago
The Standard Oil claim is historically false. Kerosene prices fell dramatically during Standard Oil's tenure [0]. The competition did not benefit from Standard Oil, but consumers benefitted dramatically. A malevolent monopoly needs gov
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by lend000 5y ago
They buried it, remember, they didn't invest it into CD's with high interest rates. If they did put it in a bank, then your whole point is moot, because any bank that pays interest is actually lending your money to generate that i
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by lend000 5y ago
If we are assuming nothing changes, comparing now to 400 years ago is unproductive, and there is no point hypothesizing if this person was Napoleon-esque. In a more realistic, modern interpretation, Rockefeller sold his assets and buried hi
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by lend000 5y ago
Some people would naturally respond to the content of the article. Others would naturally appeal to authority or ad hominem the author. Some food for thought. CPI ostensibly worked the same way in 2004, by the way. Based on your other comme
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by lend000 5y ago
A contrived example ignoring the inheritance taxes on whoever digs it up, but an interesting point to address. Consider: 1. The money supply can grow without inflation, as GDP grows (via fractional reserve banking). 2. The number of years (
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by lend000 5y ago
> For much of human history we pooped in the street and murdered each other with reckless abandon. I'm not sure the rose colored glasses mean much here. Is this a straw man or a red herring? Try to avoid your logical fallacies on HN
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by lend000 5y ago
> Your job is not to save money. Your job is to save value I could not disagree more. For much of human history, and most of American history, saving currency was exactly how you saved value. You already created value in exchange for the
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by lend000 5y ago
Some problems with this line of thinking: for much of US history (as demonstrated by the graphic), the value of the US dollar did not steadily decrease, but oscillated around the value of gold, and during many periods increased. So most of
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by lend000 5y ago
No, all you need to do is fix the tax brackets, so that when someone liquidates five billion dollars worth of capital gains income, they are paying a higher effective rate than someone making 1/10000th that in regular income (not curre
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by lend000 5y ago
Because Visa and other payment processors don't require opening an account? (e.g. a credit card, which is a much more involved process than opening a channel). Or 24 hour servers?
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by lend000 5y ago
You don't get to deduct interest for personal loans, and mortgages interest deductions have been limited to interest on 750K principal since 2017 (this article is picking examples that are no longer relevant.) The whole article is full
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by lend000 5y ago
Do you have a source for this? I just struggle to believe that lenders would make loans like that on a large scale, without some major caveats.
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by lend000 5y ago
I've seen this idea posted a few times without data, and it isn't convincing. The wealthy need to pay back those loans, and realize gains in order to do so. Sure, they can maintain a higher average debt/expenses ratio collate
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by lend000 5y ago
Congrats. While it can be exciting to come up with a profitable algorithm, publicizing a mean reversion algorithm is counterproductive if you intended to make any money with it. The returns here are low enough that it could stay under the r

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