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by mamon 7y ago
That may be true, but only for people who made their fortunes themselves - and even then you have some amount of luck involved. It doesn't work for those who inherited their fortunes, or simply won $100M in a lottery.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Dangerous driving is discouraged by the threat of getting your license revoked, not by getting a fine. If so, then why not use that exclusively and get rid of speeding tickets?
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by mamon 7y ago
>> We have no idea how it will do in crash testing Yes, we do. The recommendation for car to have easily-deformable zone in the front was based on thousands of crash-tests. Musk might be your superhero, but he still cannot bypass basi
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by mamon 7y ago
Symmetrical broadband is useless for people outside HN buble who don’t run home servers, and asymmetric connections help drive the cost down
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by mamon 7y ago
If you commute by car you have to payon to the road and can’t do anything else. If you use public transportation it is probably too crowded and inconvenient to read a book or watch a podcast. Situations as described by you are exception, no
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by mamon 7y ago
Interest rates are set by FED, who can print arbitrary amount of money out of thin air, there is no supply/demand mechanism involved in setting them. Basically every rate change is an experiment testing whatever monetary theory is curr
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by mamon 7y ago
You actually can have both: dedicate some parts of the city for single-family homes for upper-middle class,other parts for high rise buildings. That's how many cities in Europe look like: high density central districts, then some subur
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by mamon 7y ago
Democracy is a scheme to keep masses in check by giving them illusion of power. If a politician starts promising people to give them what they actually want it is called "populism" and said politician will become a pariah, painted
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by mamon 7y ago
Please keep in mind that the process names have become meaningless marketing terms. Intel is currently a bit behind due to their 10nm fiasco, but it is entirely possible that Intel's 7nm will beat TSMC 3nm process. AMD can have 10-15%
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by mamon 7y ago
Those countries existed for centuries. History of Europe is long and complicated, it helps to look further back that the last 100 years. Poland was established in 966, to lose independence in 1795, to regain it in 1918. Hungary existed sinc
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by mamon 7y ago
This is a perfect strategy for buying clothes, but candies? nobody stores candies this long :)
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by mamon 7y ago
>> As for transaction fees, if we exclude Bitcoin which has really high fees, cryptocurrency fees are very small and almost negligible.[0] That's probably because their popularity among users is also negligible. Problem with cryp
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by mamon 7y ago
There was a study recently showing that people that do not have Facebook account are happier :) Not to mention their personal data are not being abused.
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by mamon 7y ago
I think it is a good thing, like a free market for tax laws - you can choose the one that best suits your needs :) More seriously though, tax havens are necessary: governments are just as greedy as corporations, so we need some means of tax
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by mamon 7y ago
>> you need other types of unrelated input for your brain to make a different type of association Or maybe it's even simpler: conscious mind stuck on hard problem starts to work as broken record - you are repeating the same thou
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by mamon 7y ago
Don't know how that works in US, but here in Europe the answer is yes, the main reason people become contractors is because taxes for contractors are lower than for employees, which means more take-home pay for the same cost for the em
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by mamon 7y ago
Tariffs cause the price of imported goods to rise, which is bad for everyone, except this tiny minority of employees of the respective industry that get to keep their jobs and salaries.
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by mamon 7y ago
And that's exactly the problem. With better templating language you shouldn't need this "| nindent 4" expression at all.
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by mamon 7y ago
Putting people in jail for small scale, non-violent crimes isn't a good idea - it can convert petty thief into real criminal. People who have jail time on their permanent record feel like they have nothing left to lose, and go all-in o
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by mamon 7y ago
Same thing happens in Poland.
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by mamon 7y ago
Isn’t neuroplasticity the main method of operation for a brain? So you’ll always notice some plasticity in a person that is not, literally or metaphorically, brain-dead. What’s the news here?
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by mamon 7y ago
Self-driving cars are far away from matching human driver skill level right now. We do not need them to be "perfect" we need them to stop doing such a silly mistakes as described in the article - that is a very basic requirement b
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by mamon 7y ago
You quit and then get a job at McDonalds, because you're clearly not qualified for self-driving cars development.
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by mamon 7y ago
And that's exactly why perfect GINI score is not 0, but around 0.25 - it balances those two goals: ensuring that everyone has their needs met and still has motivation to put in extra effort.
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by mamon 7y ago
Saying "no" is only possible if you haven't taken significant VC money yet and excercise full control over the company. Otherwise your investors will often force you to say "yes" to aquisition because they want to c
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by mamon 7y ago
Traditional banking serves pretty much everyone on earth, without running into performance issues, so if Bitcoin is going to replace those banks then yes, it must do the same. And it was Bitcoin fanboys who declared that Bitcoin is here to
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by mamon 7y ago
US have just reduced their tax breaks on Teslas by half, and are going to remove them completely soon. Meanwhile, in Europe more countries decide to subsidize electric vehicles, so European sales might actually have higher margins.
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by mamon 7y ago
Because handing out vitamins costs money for each dose, and with GM rice you only need some seed (pun intended) investment and then people, even the poorest ones can grow it by themselves - it is two orders of magnitude cheaper. Also: hand
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by mamon 7y ago
And if the seller in turn uses your $1 to buy a lottery ticket you both would have roughly equal chance of getting rich :)
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by mamon 7y ago
On a single machine? You need a Hadoop cluster for that :-P

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