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by meric 11y ago
I think so - Pong was only available on the arcade machines at first, and cost a coin for each play, and real estate to hold those machines. Angry birds is available on people's phones, 24 hours a day, and the only real estate it neede
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by meric 11y ago
In the medium term - the prices of stock markets are driven by capital flows. Even the price of a money losing company is going to go up if the pension funds[1] are buying it. Central bank pulling liquidity out when they finally realise the
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by meric 11y ago
When they hit limits of monetary policy and stop digging into the hole they are in. Japan is the closest to such a limit. It has relentlessly pumped money into stocks and bonds and now all the JPY does is move up.
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by meric 11y ago
If and when the central bank finally sends the interest rates up the stratosphere, real estate and equipment prices will collapse to a fraction of its current value, which will make infrastructure like you mentioned possible.
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by meric 11y ago
Or maybe, just maybe, companies find it cheaper to hire new employees due to the number of people who permanently couldn't find jobs, than to invest in increasing productivity. The past 8 years of overestimating economic growth by cent
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by meric 11y ago
The current big threats to humanity are climate change and nuclear war. They are threats we create for ourselves, by relentlessly expanding the economy and inventions of new technologies. Ironically our solution to it is to further expand o
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by meric 11y ago
Yeah, stuff and food and automated services would be cheap, but real estate expensive. Like today, but even more so.
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by meric 11y ago
60% of families are dual income. [1] (53657/1.6) / 52 = $644. That makes the hourly rate $18.72. So around 20 hours to make 1930's purchasing power. Keynes prediction still ahead. [1] http://www.pewresearch.org&#x2
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by meric 11y ago
Law of comparative advantage: "If my ability in A compared to my ability in B as a ratio is different to your ability in A compared to your ability to B as a ratio, then we can benefit from trading which each other."
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by meric 11y ago
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/24/news/economy/trash-workers-h... Some garbagemen do make $100000, more than some bankers (and some software engineers), as they rightly should, as described in this ar
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by meric 11y ago
We use vero & mailgun.
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by meric 11y ago
Apple could be seen as the brand name NeXT decided to keep after acquiring Apple 1.0. I'd say there's two unicorns in there, one died from accelerated aging and had its corpse eaten. Remember even Ford and GM were unicorns once up
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by meric 11y ago
In fact, the very ideologies we consider "detrimental to society", to put it lightly, e.g. Nazism, Communism, were "detrimental" because one tenet of those ideologies involved banning ideologies which it considers cou
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by meric 11y ago
Given the limitations of computation over large inputs and large spaces, the question is, could sentience be a prerequisite of solving those kinds of problems? All we know about machines and computations is the harder the problem the more t
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by meric 11y ago
Intelligence can be unaware. Often they call algorithms "artificial intelligence". Consciousness cannot be unaware. Given only a limited set of inputs in a limited space, (e.g. r, g, b, a channels in a jpeg image, and a limited se
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by meric 11y ago
I don't even think they were "created by deliberately taming and selectively breeding" in the beginning. There were wolves, who voluntarily hung around human camps in a friendly manner, and those wolves being close to each ot
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by meric 11y ago
Good point - Now I know why I wouldn't eat certain animals but is perfectly content to eat beef. I've seen bulls, and they wouldn't mind knocking my eyes out with their horns if I stood next to their grass. But with, say, cat
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by meric 11y ago
I'm Django developer and I agree with you. We've ditched Django templates entirely. We use it as our API platform only - most of the computation time is spent in json and in Postgres.
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by meric 11y ago
I think machines would have to have awareness and experience before we can say they think like us. We are extremely aware of our computers - every pixel it emanates from the screen, every bounce on the keyboard, the temperature, it's h
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by meric 11y ago
That's a fine pattern matching Markov chain generator. Is it open source? It looks like it crawls science blogs, too.
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by meric 11y ago
Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone and bone, and bone flutes China [1] I'll take living as a potter in 8000 BC China over being homeless in NYC today, thanks. I don't have to be the King. [1] http
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by meric 11y ago
Holding: PSLV, GDX, GDXJ, ASX:RMS, ASX:DRM, ASX:WPG, ASX:ARD. Up around 50%. Recently sold: ASX:NST, ASX:EVN for 300-400% gain. All gold miners / explorers.
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by meric 11y ago
Libertarianism and Conservatism doesn't make sense, as you said. Discourse of these ideologies should be banned from university grounds.
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by meric 11y ago
2. Meditate - 15 minutes 3. Write - I usually write "3 things that I am grateful for" and "3 things to focus on that particular day" Muslims pray when they wake up, pray in a meditative mood, and when prayi
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You could move to Beijing, they're planning to open 18 new subway lines between now and end of 2020[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Subway#Future_lines
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by meric 11y ago
1. The lack of pilot problem affects only regional carriers but not national airlines level yet. 2. Regional carriers can't afford to increase pilot salaries because national airlines are stingy. This problem will begin to resolve, whe
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by meric 11y ago
>> end up paying for things they don't like. That's what's happening now - you've got low quality viewing clubs scamming from everyone else. And that's a certainty. Remember in information one false bit can in
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by meric 11y ago
Maybe it's not so good to have people who read more to vote with other people's money in a capitalistic market. If a person is willing to sign up to unlimited just to read one authors books once a month, that means those books are
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Why would people skip to the last page to look at ToC of a novel? He put it there so people don't have to look at it.
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Unless they played 40k the whole day. ;)

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