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by marvin 5y ago
Might also be a language matter on OP's part? For instance, I know that Europeans often use the term "windmill" for wind turbine, and get corrected that they're using the wrong engineering term. But for many European lan
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by marvin 5y ago
Could you get more specific about the reasons or the definition of a financial transaction? Not being able to do financial transactions seems like a slow-motion death sentence.
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I already felt like that 20 years ago. The distributors (copyright holders) have been dragged by their hair, kicking and screaming, into a future where content distribution is digital and less onerous than in 1995. But they haven't cha
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by marvin 5y ago
The GDP change in 2020 for Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland were -2.8%, -0.8%, -2.7% and -2.8%, respectively. Sweden had no advantage over its neighbors on the economic outcome, and you'd need to cite real data in order to make an a
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by marvin 5y ago
Your argument seems to approach that any measures against covid that significantly impact daily life are bad utilitarian policy, since even the most extreme outcomes where healthcare capacity has collapsed leads to less than 1 percent of th
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by marvin 5y ago
A highlight of my development career thus far is when I was able to fix a build that happened to be broken on a colleague's machine, which had stumped three other developers for multiple hours spread across a week. I don't remembe
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by marvin 5y ago
Do you sleep on your stomach, or does it work sleeping on your side too?
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by marvin 5y ago
Are you sure on the economics part of the equation? My impression was that Sweden also had a bigger GDP per capita decline than the other Scandinavian countries. I don't have the data in front of me, though.
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by marvin 5y ago
Power assist cuts out at different points, depending on design choice (and jurisdiction). Norwegian e-bikes, for instance, disconnect their power assist above 25kph and you need to pedal like crazy to go significantly faster than that.
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by marvin 5y ago
We actually don’t need to lower the cost of permanent CO2 sequestration by very dramatic anounts before it’s feasible to finance a CO2 neutral Western lifestyle via taxes. The big challenge is scaling it up, and also having a society that’s
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by marvin 5y ago
Uh..."cash flow positive if investments and the credit part of debt is considered cash flow"? That sounds like a situation you'd really prefer not to be in. In fact, this is exactly what the market has recently realized separ
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by marvin 5y ago
This time is different? I don't mean to say this as a snarky and meaningless rebuttal. A large part of the book that coined this phrase indeed had the subtext that something _was_ different, each and every time. When people quote it wi
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by marvin 5y ago
I got bitten by a dog that looked at me from six meters away when I came out of the owner's car (with the owner driving! We were chatting amicably at the time), then with no other warning than standing very still for two seconds ran at
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by marvin 5y ago
Well, if the crisis ever ends. Any crisis can in principle lead to a new Detroit, with 40 years of depressed asset values. Assuming that a crash is just a temporary decline requires a selective memory.
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by marvin 5y ago
I perfectly agree. It's just that when it comes to these points, I am quite annoyed that in the whole world, only Apple seems to realize that UX is a thing that's too subtle to design by committee. In principle, we could have a $5
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by marvin 5y ago
This is the cost of abusing the public's willingness to allow certain exceptions to civil liberties. In a society where the public generally trusts the authorities, this problem wouldn't occur. People would almost always be willin
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by marvin 5y ago
Maybe you have some sort of weird proprietary lab software or such. There's a piece of portable sensor hardware I'm currently looking at, which needs to be attached to a computer and AFAIK only talks to Windows software. There&#x2
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by marvin 5y ago
Probably "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century"
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by marvin 5y ago
It’s obviously not feasible, or we would be doing it, but healing the damage that has happened would be the ideal solution.
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by marvin 5y ago
The $23,000 probably have a capital cost of $30 per month or so, and if they're written off to nothing in 20 years (and the acquisition cost isn't lower by then, which it will), that's another $100 per month. So that leaves $
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by marvin 5y ago
No one does that reliably. It's 5-7% after inflation on average, where a five-year average is expected to get you within 2 percentage units or so of that number. Commonly large deviations over shorter timeframes and rare deviations ove
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by marvin 5y ago
It's funny to keep seeing people post this exact same comment regarding Tesla's valuation, on every single earnings report since 2012. I mean, it's obviously going to come true at some point following a stock price growth t
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by marvin 5y ago
> But if they simply don't have at least 100% of their liabilities in assets, then they are bust. Only when we find out!
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by marvin 5y ago
Maybe I just don't get the social or cultural context, but this always confuses me. There's plenty of occasions where referring to one's skin color is relevant. I'm light-skinned enough to be close to ginger, for instanc
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by marvin 5y ago
That's weird. What happened when you went flat-out on these machines? Did you just end up doing 200 strokes per minute with each of them having the resistance of a greased water slide? Doesn't sound like they did their job. I have
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by marvin 5y ago
Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change has nothing to do with ownership structure. Employee-owned companies make just as selfish decisions as investor-owned companies, and if they didn't, they'd lose to the competition if the
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by marvin 5y ago
What? This does not follow at all. You’re implying that any degree of involvement in activities that have negative consequences is equivalent. That’s incorrect!
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by marvin 5y ago
For those who figure this is a great way to monetize their security skills and actually have the chops to do it: It should probably be pointed out that once you do this, you’re in the weapons industry. Your work will likely be used, directl
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by marvin 5y ago
There is something obscenely totalitarian about this whole mindset. You're making a very pragmatic point, but take a step back and look at the whole thing. You're warning a teenager against making a brilliant, harmless, funny and
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by marvin 5y ago
You are misunderstanding the definition. A 10x developer does not write code ten times faster than average. They have ten times higher impact on the results of an organization than average. And that's not far-fetched at all. This does

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