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by mac01021 9y ago
The following blog post[1] should be required reading for everyone everywhere. It talks about physical constraints on economic growth. The main point he makes is that, regardless of how inexhaustable our sources of energy are, increases in
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by mac01021 9y ago
> But what if most people just used buy and hold? I'm having trouble imagining that. Every time someone buys, some one else is selling, after all.
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by mac01021 9y ago
I think the purpose of the 120M is to create an endowment from which ~5% can be taken to provide financial aid every year. If their investments perform as hoped, it should last quite some time.
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by mac01021 9y ago
a million dollars behind where she would have been if she went straight into what industry?
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by mac01021 9y ago
How is that not a (temporary) shortage? When did it become part of the definition that all shortages must be permanent? What if nobody trains to become a construction worker (for whatever reason) and then over the next 5-10 years demand go
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by mac01021 9y ago
If it takes 3 years to become good at construction work, there can definitely be a 3+ year shortage in qualified construction workers.
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by mac01021 9y ago
May I ask what industry you ended up in? I assume it's something that you feel is adding value to the world?
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by mac01021 9y ago
Doesn't this sentiment preclude you from almost every programming job? It's almost always going to be about finding the optimal way to funnel money toward whoever is in control of your employer.
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by mac01021 9y ago
They're comparing the age of the universe (on the order of 10 billion years) to the expected lifetime of a red dwarf (on the order of a trillion years).
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by mac01021 9y ago
You believe she's not sincere?
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by mac01021 9y ago
I solve this problem by having Google voice and a phone that I can use to make calls, but usually don't receive calls on. Missed calls and voicemail show up in my email, transcribed to text and everything. Given this, there is usually
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by mac01021 9y ago
Perhaps. But only because the mapping I've defined has so much symmetry. Instead of the range [X-25 ... X+25], assign to each sex a random one of the 200-choose-50 (4.6 * 10^47) possible groups of partners sexes with size 50. It would
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by mac01021 9y ago
How can they possibly get anyone to do this job for $50 per hour?
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by mac01021 9y ago
> what makes a "sex" a "sex" if it's just variability within the sex chromosome, but every individual is able to create progeny with 25% of other individuals? I haven't read the article yet (looks like it&#x
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by mac01021 9y ago
Well, there's Jack Ma. But he's a rarity.
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by mac01021 9y ago
Why is consumption lower after you retire? You've finally got time to spend all that money that you've been spending all your time earning.
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by mac01021 9y ago
I agree, that graphic is splendid. But what's going on with Washington State?
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by mac01021 9y ago
Wait. It's not?
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by mac01021 9y ago
I can't speak for Quantopian but traditionally the goal of a "hedge fund" is to preserve your vast wealth through a diverse range of market conditions. This means it should substantially overperform the index funds when they
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by mac01021 9y ago
I wonder how long it took to train.
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by mac01021 9y ago
> I say companies refusing to pay enough for labor, then complaining they can't find workers. They'll pay any amount for labor up to the point where the cost of the labor outweighs the additional profit for the company that the
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by mac01021 9y ago
So after you take down the number on that ice cream truck you saw driving by, and get back home from your walk and decide to call them, what do you say? Just, "hi! Do you need any software developed"? I've never tried, but
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by mac01021 9y ago
The sooner the better. We'll finally be able to stop tying health insurance to employment in the ridiculous way that we currently do. Skilled professionals will more often be able to make their own hours and find more variety/nove
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by mac01021 9y ago
> What if companies had to pay for the time you spend commuting? They already do. I'll take a lower salary from a company that doesn't make me commute.
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by mac01021 9y ago
> 11.2 billion and still climbing by 2100. They really don't think any physical constraints are going to get in the way of that? There are only so many fish in the ocean.
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What are you doing now? Cellular data plan only?
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by mac01021 9y ago
> Plant a ton of trees and the CO2 problem solves by itself. Citation? Obviously we're emitting CO2 at some rate E and a ton of trees will sequester that CO2 at another rate S. But it's not clear that you've measured and
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by mac01021 9y ago
I talked to one of Confluent's sales reps, who said this service starts at around $1,500/month on the low end. Definitely not for a startup whose monthly Kinesis bill is a few hundred dollars, which is a shame because Kakfa is b
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by mac01021 9y ago
Ok. So he wants to cut spending and also keep his party's donors happy. That second constraint prevents many kinds of cuts, but not all of them. My point was that he's not malicious, merely apathetic. Hurting people by cutting
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by mac01021 9y ago
> the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives wants to hurt poor people. No. He wants the government to spend less of his money. Maybe he doesn't care whether that means poor people get hurt, but it's no

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