letsgoyeti

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by letsgoyeti 3y ago
As another layperson who only has a college freshman-level understanding of Biology 101, I don't think that's going to be simple. Immune cells look for -expressions- on the surface of a cell to tell them whether a cell is wonky or
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by letsgoyeti 6y ago
In your first scenario, the average rent has gone from $1000 -> $1333, so I'd say a 33% increase. In your second scenario, the average rent has not changed. If this supply change happened over a century, a 33% increase would probabl
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by letsgoyeti 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation - one question though, how do we know that Melvin (or any other security/fund) is not correlated to the S&P?
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by letsgoyeti 6y ago
I think most hydrogen proponents are pushing for it to replace hydrocarbons for shipping, planes, and seasonal energy storage, not cars. There's not a lot of other great options today if we want to decarbonize those sectors because of
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by letsgoyeti 7y ago
One example is housing rent. A lot of landowners through regulatory capture or just obstruction make it too expensive to build houses, making it harder for poor people to afford to buy, hence being forced to rent.
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by letsgoyeti 7y ago
Well, I'll just say you have to separate the analysis of the policy proposal, from what kind of actual policy we would end up with given political constraints. A similar critique of whether it's politically feasible could be made
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by letsgoyeti 7y ago
In a world where there were no existing welfare programs, I can see UBI discouraging work and increasing bureaucracy. But almost every UBI/Negative income tax proposal that's serious wants to _replace_ existing disparate welfare p
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by letsgoyeti 7y ago
Not a troll question, so please bear with me... From the perspective of the author of a piece of software wanting downstream changes contributed back, I think GPL makes total sense. From the deontological perspective of a consumer that