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by lupatus 15y ago
Unless you are Amish. Assuming they maintain the birthrate they've had for the past 100+ years (and there is no reason to suspect otherwise), in 2150, the Amish run America[1]. What happens to global politics when a culture that eschews vio
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by lupatus 15y ago
Read my comment a few levels up. The data says that Jevon's paradox is wrong. See the energy usage chart here: http://www.singularity2050.com/2011/07/the-end-of-petrotyran... Since about 1982, the annual world oil consumption has held at
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by lupatus 15y ago
I am also talking economics. The customer would have loved for it to go faster, because then it would have looked like magic. In 1998, it would have been nice if I had had photo-realistic computer games, but I patiently made do with what I
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Yup, I totally get EROEI. But, it ignores possible efficiency improvements when it makes it's future projections. What do they say in the finance world? Something like "past performance is not an indicator of future returns." What if in
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by lupatus 15y ago
Two years ago, I was developing some HVAC equipment modeling software as part of a sales automation package whose worst case scenario needed to calculate the max cooling capacity, and a few other thermodynamic stats, for roughly 18 million
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by lupatus 15y ago
I totally get EROEI. In fact, I used to be the canned beans buying type. But, after years of thought, I realized that the EROEI has a fatal flaw. It completely discounts humanity's ability to discover creative efficiency improvements. Th
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by lupatus 15y ago
What the market wants is every map, book, song, movie, game, and poem ever made to be instantly accessible, searchable, and reviewable. They want their work to be autosyncing, autobackedup, and to follow them from device to device. They w
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by lupatus 15y ago
Note: I made a similar comment a few days ago. It seems that you might be slightly misinformed about energy. Since the 1950s, there have been a number of advancements in energy production. Some examples are efficient shale oil extraction,
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by lupatus 15y ago
I don't believe that (see the devil's advocate tags...). But, some people obviously do.
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by lupatus 15y ago
Awesome!! And, seriously, why the downvotes on the grandparent comment? On a ketogenic diet, I've lost 40 lbs of fat in 18 months, and my wife has lost ~100 lbs during the same time period. Eating fat doesn't make you fat.
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by lupatus 15y ago
A vice tax on fatty foods makes no sense if (1) you are trying to improve the health of the populace, and (2) you know about the health benefits of ketogenic diets[1]. If those are Denmark's goals, then they should instead be taxing sugary
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by lupatus 15y ago
I'll bite. <devil's advocate> Drug dealers/producers produce products that provide the user with exotic and novel experiences and which may increase the user's sociability. Similar to the travel industry and a personal life coach i
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by lupatus 15y ago
As The Futurist discusses in depth[1], annual world oil consumption has been hovering around 32 billion barrels since about 1982. That means oil consumption, at $100/barrel, is $3.2 trillion, or 5% of nominal world GDP. My take away from t
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by lupatus 15y ago
Plus, regularly-efficient farming can be greatly expanded. For example, a lot of former cropland in the United States' southern region (think former Confederate states) was purposefully reforested after WWII because agricultural overproduct
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by lupatus 15y ago
This past weekend, for the fun of it, I setup MongoDB and Node.js on Windows. After ~3 hours of downloading, reading MongoDB and Node.js example docs, and looking up some config issues on StackOverflow, I had written a small TODO list app.
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by lupatus 15y ago
How did you identify your niche (personal interest and hope it worked, or did you evaluate it with metrics of some sort)? Any recommendations for payment processing and goods delivery services?
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by lupatus 15y ago
Way cool! Any tips for success for folks who might want to set up a similar business model on other topics?
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by lupatus 15y ago
A few months ago, my old college roommate's dad got cancer. That situation inspired me to start reading medical research on how to avoid cancer, or at least drastically reduce my risk for it. I've learned a lot since then and have kept not
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by lupatus 15y ago
I like to think of my diet as "early-Neolithic". I am from one of the populations groups with adult lactose tolerance. So, I modeled it on the foods that might be available to what used to be called a "gentleman farmer". I also recognize
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by lupatus 15y ago
I sleep ~6 hours per night, drink 6+ cups of coffee and 1-2 cups of tea per day, and only rigorously exercise for 25 minutes 2-3 times per month. My daily diet consists of 600+ calories from extra-virgin cold-pressed coconut oil and butter
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by lupatus 15y ago
Your 'lump of labor' logical fallacy contradicts the principle of 'the bottom line'. As a journalist, he is not creating work, but performing work assigned to him by a superior. His amount of available work to perform is limited.
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by lupatus 15y ago
Like I said in my original post - ship him back to the Philippines.
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The Native Americans lost it fair-and-square through force of arms. Moreover, much of North America was unoccupied, unorganized territory open for colonization by Western Civilization. Whatever tribes were able to hold out are today richly
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by lupatus 15y ago
The USA has an orderly and, from what I understand from my immigrant friends and coworkers, not too difficult immigration process already. The meritocracy is here already. The article's author decided to cheat the system and be a criminal
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by lupatus 15y ago
Or suggest that he should return to the Philippines?
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by lupatus 15y ago
You are a criminal and not a "homebred American". You should stop punishing yourself and return to your home country. It sounds like you have the skills to be very successful there.
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by lupatus 15y ago
fastfinner, you may just want to stop trying to convince them or your karma might drop 20+ points in an hour like mine just did.
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by lupatus 15y ago
Up until a few years ago I would have agreed with you. But, then I started studying genealogy and history and I had to revisit just what the definition of a nation is. Wikipedia states that a nation refers "... to a community of people wh
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by lupatus 15y ago
Seriously! This guy would probably kick a$$ in the Philippines.

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