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by leot 14y ago
That all sounds like lobbying from non-corporate entities.
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by leot 14y ago
... because in the long-run, everything will work better if everyone just behaves selfishly ... ?
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by leot 14y ago
It doesn't look like quinoa can only be cultivated in particular regions, but rather that it takes time to get good crops going. The price should come down in a few years.
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by leot 14y ago
Given the success of various "healthy fast-food" restaurants, it seems nearly everyone can be taught to cook the simple stuff. But I was thinking, here, of quinoa prepared in a rice cooker (comparable in difficulty to microwaving a burrito)
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by leot 14y ago
Blarney. Healthy food is not pricier unless you get fancy. Legumes, quinoa, and vegetables aren't more expensive (though they do have smaller margins!) than the crap that they had been serving previously.
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by leot 14y ago
In Canada, the prime minister did a similar thing, announcing soon before the census's administration that the long version (administered to a random subset) would no longer be mandatory due to "privacy-related complaints". The decision pro
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by leot 14y ago
Do we know how much of his own money was there?
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by leot 14y ago
Question: anyone know the largest risk, financially, that Thiel has recently taken?
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by leot 14y ago
This is in part because cops (indeed, nearly everyone) behave better when their actions are recorded.
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by leot 14y ago
To me, good jobs are satisfying, economically productive and reasonably well-compensated ones. You know, the ones you get from having a well-educated and empowered workforce.
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by leot 14y ago
Elon Musk is the exception that proves the rule.
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by leot 14y ago
The wealthy will only bother to put up capital if they're more interested in earning money than in holding on to it. Your willingness to tolerate risking x% of your wealth goes down as you get wealthier.
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by leot 14y ago
How about the creation of good jobs?
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by leot 14y ago
There's an important difference between wealth and income that PG does not go into. Sure, I'll buy the idea that taxing income discourages work (though its impact is far more muted than some people would like to suggest). However , I've no
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by leot 14y ago
If the mind/brain is relatively modular (as is widely believed), then it's entirely likely that compassion is subserved by a particular (perhaps widely distributed) subsystem. One irony, then, is that sociopathy or psychopathy might arise n
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NoisePNG -- Generate noisy PNG images with alpha transparency(noisepng.com)
3 points by leot 14y ago|0 comments
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by leot 14y ago
Saverin was born in Brazil and has been living in Singapore for a while. There are also probably psychological advantages to being out of Zuckerberg's shadow. While taxes might have played a role, it's not obvious that this was the principa
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by leot 14y ago
... something like having every car slipstream the car in front of it?
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by leot 14y ago
Most modern copiers offer scan-and-email functionality. This might be much simpler than faxing.
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Matterport: create 3D models of spaces and objects in minutes(matterport.com)
59 points by leot 14y ago|14 comments
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by leot 14y ago
Apply thumb and forefinger on either side of the seal. Press together and slide. Coefficient of friction between finger and seal might need to be increased somehow (perhaps by texturing the material differently at that point).
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by leot 14y ago
It is, though it doesn't always work, and it's easy to tear a sub-optimal opening.
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by leot 14y ago
Seems like a good design would be to have seals that are extra-weak to shear forces while being strong for all the other kinds.
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by leot 14y ago
Of course monopolies are "good" for those who benefit from them. This much is a truism. Thiel says entrepreneurs should seek out areas areas in which there will be minimal competition. This, too, is not exactly earth shattering. The issue i
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by leot 14y ago
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKs0dEbyEk
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by leot 14y ago
... this is the untold story of the quietly wealthy; the millions of smart, capable people with vast reserves of capital who do their darndest to make sure they don't have to do anything at all.
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by leot 15y ago
Superficially, the answer to this question is, obviously, yes. We reason spatially and with mental simulation, but we also reason by applying the linguistic conventions learned from our culture (e.g., "if this statement were false, then ...
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by leot 15y ago
I've been advocating (to friends) the need/inevitability of this kind of system. One possible marketing phrase that's been thrown around is "data asymmetry", as in "TheMux aims to rectify the massive data asymmetries that give Facebook and
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by leot 15y ago
The U.S. is already tax-obsessed, to its own detriment.
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by leot 15y ago
This "but taxes are complicated" counter-argument is a canard. Under a verification-based tax system, the option would always remain available to do things the hard way (as it is today).

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