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by lend000 6y ago
Government leased land tends to contribute far more to climate change. Landowners tend to be better stewards of their property than renters or bureaucrats. Examples include cattle overgrazing on BLM land, fracking on leased land, military a
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by lend000 6y ago
Furthermore, assuming it becomes feasible to develop multiple neutrino beam machines, you could use a technique similar to "Gamma Knife" to reduce the radiation exposure along the beam paths (and to make it harder to detect/t
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by lend000 6y ago
I use regular threads in Python3 even for I/O and network requests, just because they are what I am familiar with and I haven't yet found a compelling reason to port projects over that are working fine with the standard thread mod
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by lend000 6y ago
As another non-OP libertarian leaning commenter taking your off-topic bait, no, I don't think it's essential infrastructure. Healthcare didn't even exist 100 years ago beyond what you can find in any first-aid kit today, and
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by lend000 6y ago
What's the fundamental difference between a lobbyist for a cause you like "save the whales" and a cause you don't like "make noncompetes enforceable"? There will always be those acting to corrupt and change the
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by lend000 6y ago
Assuming taxes rise proportionally to cover the bill, there should be no inflation -- in fact, it would even have a slight deflationary effect (all other economic factors being equal) due to deadweight loss. Whether the nation is wealthy en
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by lend000 6y ago
The analogy I always use (similar to the joke about the economist not picking up a twenty dollar bill) is that the market is as efficient as an evolved jungle ecosystem. Most of us would consider this system highly efficient, certainly more
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by lend000 6y ago
Indeed. Turing arguably had a better intuition for how developmental biology works than the status quo of most "experts" I read 80 years later [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morph
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by lend000 6y ago
One city can't "outstrip demand" by itself. If prices are cheaper in one city, demand will spillover from others. It's a national problem. Cities/states that do build have certainly done better, though. Compare the
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by lend000 6y ago
While the definition of polymath is somewhat contested and arbitrary, my opinion is that the defining trait of polymathy is insatiable curiosity and a desire to invent things and solve problems, real or imaginary. I do not know how common t
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by lend000 6y ago
Perhaps the tax preference should be shifted from capital gains to dividends.
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by lend000 6y ago
I've been exposed as someone who comments on links he hasn't read.
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by lend000 6y ago
This isn't a cryptocurrency problem so much as a cyber crime enforcement problem. There is currently very little enforcement against cyber criminals originating in certain countries. Governments probably like it this way, so it won&#x2
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by lend000 6y ago
Interesting, do you have a source? So you're saying you get a dose of GS-441524 regardless as Remdesivir decays?
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Low incidence of smokers among hospitalized Covid patients(reason.com)
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by lend000 6y ago
It's often the opposite which is responsible for poor trading performance, due to the fundamental anomaly of markets: trends. Poor traders don't let winners ride and let losers ride to get above their break-even point, which often
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by lend000 6y ago
Intuitively, I don't think this is necessarily true. It probably depends on the type of random distribution for price movements.
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by lend000 6y ago
Trading fees are a valid counterargument here, and while they are non-negligible (especially back when the "90% of day traders lose money" rule was established), I don't think they account for the full 40%. For point 2, if th
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by lend000 6y ago
If markets were truly random, you might expect 50% of day traders to lose money, not 90%. Of course, markets are not random and most untrained humans have emotional biases that actively optimize for losing money in markets. This is likely a
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by lend000 6y ago
Schmidhuber is a great thinker in this field. I don't have a source, but I've seen him more briefly summarize this same point as "consciousness is a by-product of data compression." Pretty close to the last sentence you
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by lend000 6y ago
It's worth noting that most of the competitors are not making cars in California, so he may be correct about that.
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by lend000 6y ago
While the article mentions the current paradigm (accumulated DNA damage as the prevailing view of why our cells slow down), it doesn't address how it is wrong. In which case, cells with the right signals will behave more actively, but
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by lend000 6y ago
You seem to have completely missed the point that there have been severe currency exchange controls in Venezuela for over a decade. These Venezuelans aren't trading Bolivars outside the country; they are exporting BTC mined with a mism
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by lend000 6y ago
Based on the tone of the parent, I think we can probably agree his interest is more about deriding those who are involved in cryptocurrencies (whether they won or lost in the market) than offering a warning to protect newcomers. Like most,
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I'm certain that's the right decision for you. But for those who spend time understanding markets instead of mythologizing them (and assigning any unpredicted movement to a boogieman), there is absolutely alpha to be had, and the
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If you are so confident, why not sit on a Tether short? The reality is that the market expects solvency for the foreseeable future, and tether solves a market problem (liquidity in environments that do not impose the KYC laws required by th
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by lend000 6y ago
We don't know that he's right, and the Navy has officially verified the videos belong to them just last week -- these aren't a product of the organization that released them. However, the Go Fast video was not the interesting
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by lend000 6y ago
Did you even try to understand the paper? They rightfully point out the uncertainty in estimating even the order of magnitude in the Drake equation, then build a model on uncertain, if not completely speculative facts including the Kardashe
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by lend000 6y ago
I have a thread, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22353309 Frankly, I don't think these videos alone are the highest quality evidence of this kind of thing, but they are interesting because it is difficult to
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by lend000 6y ago
Mick West's explanation of "Go Fast" seems highly plausible (the video could be reproduced by a weather balloon, with parallax producing the difficulty of getting a radar lock and the appearance of fast movement). But for the

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