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by mehwoot 9y ago
It seems like an alternate explanation is that people don't like to artificially pick winners and losers, but they're willing to lessen the gap between winners and losers if it's too big. Isn't that the same thing, jus
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He failed to realize how the power dynamic influenced things. Yes, but I bet he realizes it now. That's the entire point of naming and shaming this behaviour. If you don't understand the negatives of your actions eventually pe
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Maximizing your number of future options is not always a good idea. Sometimes fewer options are better provided that these are more useful options I guess I'm missing something, because this seems to negate the entire point... isn&#x
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Come on out here and propose to our average Joe the idea of buying a Tesla Model 3 for $37,000 But that's not what the article is suggesting. It is saying with electric self driving cars, you won't own your own car, it will be
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because each one of the low-motivation engineers in the chain of command is reluctant to work Possibly the laziest analysis I've ever seen
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I recognize that work of one sort or another is as essential to survival as protein... I have compassion for those making the most of their commute and their cubicle; I just wish they could be a little less cheerful about it. In one parag
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ATM many/most top games are not optimized for multiple cores That's not a simple thing to fix. Even in platforms like unity.
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I went to Japan for the first time recently, and holy crap, high speed rail is amazing . It's like flying business class, or better. You have so much leg room, free wifi and a powerpoint next to you. You don't have to check you
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Welcome to America
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How the monopoly arises is irrelevant to the law. Even if it's just collective laziness, it is still illegal to use that monopoly to influence other markets.
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I kind of see your point but it's the wrong phrase. It's not a runtime dependency in a technical sense.
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Our infrastructure is crumbling, billions of people still don't have enough food or clean water. And what % of tech startups are tackling these problems?
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But what could a homeowner do about it? If Zillow makes your house look a lot less than what it's worth, so nobody wants to buy it for the proper price, you can't do anything. That's exactly what this lawsuit is about. They
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The problem is that people think the value of their homes is equal to what they paid for it plus some percentage gain every year. How is this the problem when you just stated previously that the price is 20% off from reality for 10% of pe
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http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-i... When it's summer in the arctic, it is winter in the antarctic, whose area of ice is necessarily going to vastly outweigh the other when you add them
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His company's profits are minuscule by any historical valuation Because he reinvests all the profit back into the company. Which makes sense- what is he going to do taking money out of the company anyway? Unless you want to buy spo
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https://web.archive.org/web/20060115031554/http://news.indep... "...to sustain their secretive fortune, which industry insiders count not in billions but in trillions, and keep it within the family.
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by mehwoot 10y ago
If you go to a restaurant and order a salad Sure, if you're blocking ads on a platform where you paid a subscription I'd agree with you.
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How exactly did he steal 50k? It says georgia tech paid 50k for some chips which where sent to korea for verification, and then back to georgia tech, which the professor said is allowed by tje licensing deal. And which was not shown in any
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Some percentage of users will use ad blockers, and businesses should account for that. How is that an argument for it? Some percentage of people steal things from stores, business do account for it, but its neither here nor there in an a
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They are already here and they do not want to not exist nor be treated badly They are only here because we eat them. Look at the link I gave- nearly every mammal (counted by total weight) that is alive on earth is so because it has some
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If someone lets you live a happy life then hunts you down and kills you to eat, is that OK with you Yes, definitely. If the alternative was that I didn't exist at all- most pigs wouldn't be around if we didn't eat them ( h
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Still, In December, the U.S. government reported that life expectancy had declined in 2015 for the first time since 1993 as death rates for eight of the 10 leading causes of death, including heart disease, rose. points to there being a re
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But global warming isnt caused by energy dissipation, its caused by the greenhouse effect.
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Yes, he probably is an asshole. But at least he's self reflecting and attempting to modify his behaviour. That's a good first step. And I continually hurt those around me — just by being myself-and it’s beyond heartbreaking. S
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Presumably none of this is taken in isolation. If all you do is use encryption and camp I doubt they're going to think you're a terrorist.
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Which is another form of non free market. It's just whether you want the rules enforced at the level of housing co-operative, community or the state government. As you move up the levels, the market becomes less free (easier to move t
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Because there are negative externalities to someone constantly renting out their unit for short term stay. In a completely free market, there are no rules to protect the neighbours from these negative externalities.
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“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”
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I would hope this is just poor execution on the manufacturers behalf and will eventually realize that making the battery an upgradable module When does it ever work like this in the real world though? Planned obsolesce and all that. Eve

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