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811.
by mac01021 8y ago
This is only happening in a handful of cities, though, right?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Saddling someone with (or allowing him to take on) an unpayable debt raises him to a state more equal with people who were previously better off? How? Doesn't buying a house (at market price) have an approximately zero effect on your
813.
by mac01021 8y ago
Is the responsiveness of an oil plant so different from a natural gas plant? Why? They're both essentially a furnace fueled by a flow of combustible fluid, right?
814.
by mac01021 8y ago
Does divestment from a corporation actually provide an incentive for the corporation to change its behavior? Maybe if you were boycotting their IPO. But the mechanism of influence is much less clear if you're just declining to buy the
815.
by mac01021 8y ago
"Natives", here, clearly means people born in the country, rather than aboriginal .
816.
by mac01021 8y ago
No. There are many ways to understand. They could witness a close friend or sibling struggling to raise children. They could simply reason about the commitment of time and money required and take note of all the other things in life that p
817.
by mac01021 8y ago
Which of those categories contains CanBuildFrom? It's #1, right? But instead of the number of characters typed, I think its primary value is in removing (from the call site) implementation details that the reader of the code need n
818.
by mac01021 8y ago
> You are culprit of an infinite number of crimes unless you prove yourself innocent all the time. I don't understand. What crimes are these？
819.
by mac01021 8y ago
> Want to see these comments? Go to an instance that permits them. Don't want to see them? Go to an instance that deletes them. Problem solved. Maybe what people really want is to be outraged...
820.
by mac01021 8y ago
That explains why people don't shop around for health care. But it doesn't explain why they won't shop around for health insurance .
821.
by mac01021 8y ago
Foster competition? If a company can capture a greater share of the market by offering the same service with a lower premium, isn't that what they'll do? I don't know why that effect is not present now, but it could have mu
822.
by mac01021 8y ago
I wonder how the radiation exposure I endure from having a phone in my pocket stacks up against the exposure I get from just being in range of one or more cellular towers.
823.
by mac01021 8y ago
How do European professors and universities avoid grade inflation? Are their incentives very different?
824.
by mac01021 8y ago
Interesting. One thing they leave implicit is the amount of work that parsing requires. The result is that you can parse in time O(log n) if you use O(n) processors, so parsing requires O(nlogn) work. (This is probably to be expected.)
825.
by mac01021 8y ago
TVs don't cost 10k. And they don't cost half as much every 5 years.
826.
by mac01021 8y ago
You also have to stop all the other people who aren't upset from eating fish. So... not so easy.
827.
by mac01021 8y ago
It may not be availability so much as conversational style. Anecdotal (I would most likely qualify as high-income for the purposes of that study): Most of the time when I am with my now-18-month-old daughter, I give her a lot of authority
828.
by mac01021 8y ago
It sounds like what I did at Boy Scout Camp in the 1990s more closely resembled your Girl Scout Camp experience 30 years prior.
829.
by mac01021 8y ago
What is it that you fear would happen to them?
830.
by mac01021 8y ago
Why did they get so mad?
831.
by mac01021 8y ago
I've been wondering about how do get a gig like this for some time. Are you a regular salaried employee? How did you approach your employer about entering this arrangement?
832.
by mac01021 8y ago
That seems like a reasonably likely outcome, but this is the first time I've seen a claim that it is the entire goal. Do you have any pointers I could follow to evidence that this is a deliberate strategy like you are describing?
833.
by mac01021 8y ago
The state doesn't need to grow the money supply if it takes from the people the same amount that it distributes to the people. Even then the prices of various products will likely be affected, but the nature and extent of those effects
834.
by mac01021 8y ago
> they reshaped themselves to become dependent on it What does such a restructuring look like, in concrete terms?
835.
by mac01021 8y ago
I'm pretty sure you can't buy 365 * 24 man hours for 25k.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Would land and shipping both be cheap if we ceased to externalize a lot of the cost of each? Both land use [1] and shipping [2] contribute significant fractions of our society's carbon budget. [1] http://science.sciencemag.o
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by mac01021 8y ago
Indeed, reading his wikipedia page, it's curious that those dudes perceived this particular author as an authority on the things they wanted to know about.
838.
by mac01021 8y ago
Aesop's grasshopper felt the same way about the ant...
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by mac01021 8y ago
So, having received an offer that you're inclined to accept, you will never be swayed by a counteroffer from your current employer? I suppose the logic is sound, especially if you know you aren't hard to replace. I feel I need to
840.
by mac01021 8y ago
Maybe the author is simply does not fully appreciate the nature of those billionaires' interest. After all, they are billionaire hedge fund managers. As in investor, when your portfolio is sufficiently large, you invest a significant

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