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by mjfl 6y ago
I was thinking more from an ethical, policy point of view than from the strategic point of view for the landlord.
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by mjfl 6y ago
Why should landlords take the loss on rent and not who they pay mortgage to?
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by mjfl 6y ago
I said almost exactly that.
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by mjfl 6y ago
don't forget economic illiteracy, that has a component too
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by mjfl 6y ago
The names listed here pay more taxes than anyone.
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by mjfl 6y ago
When I was an undergrad I would post all my homework assignments on Github, but I later learned this was a mistake when I interviewed at Apple and a few of their engineers went over my homework code with a fine tooth comb and found a memory
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by mjfl 6y ago
How about we stop coveting our neighbor's wealth?
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by mjfl 6y ago
The theoretical physicists I know get their funding from teaching and don’t need grants.
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by mjfl 6y ago
> UBI can free scientists from grants No it would not. The money necessary to find a lab is orders of magnitude higher than any reasonable UBI.
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by mjfl 6y ago
not if total payrolls stay constant.
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by mjfl 6y ago
Here's one: use USA percentiles for both countries. Or use Denmark percentiles for both. Only when you use a high bar for US and low bar for Denmark do they come out on top.
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by mjfl 6y ago
It certainly is true, but academics who want to conduct sophistry can use the metric that gives them the answers they want. Comparing USA to Denmark using in-country income percentiles gives Denmark a much lower bar to hop over for this BS
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by mjfl 6y ago
They would raise prices, and be immediately replaced by Amazon, who can outprice them with scale and robotics. All this time you are complaining about a society dominated by a few large players, but every policy you advocate favors the domi
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by mjfl 6y ago
If minimum wage goes up the stores will simply be replaced by Amazon- is that what you meant to say?
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by mjfl 6y ago
It is just simply not true that we can maintain a huge portion of the population on unemployment for an indefinite period of time. It would come out to trillions of dollars per year, the math just doesn’t add up. And I should remind you tha
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by mjfl 6y ago
Well, that GDP growth technically means you have a better opportunity to trade up in the USA than anywhere else in the world, if you apply yourself, get yourself trained, etc. you want to make people believe that these career choices are im
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by mjfl 6y ago
This will certainly be made worse by raising the min wage, as suggested in the article, not helped. Contrary to the apparent popular opinion, companies aren’t bottomless pits of money and many are barely surviving. How do people get away wi
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by mjfl 6y ago
Quantum mechanics definitively contains nonlocal effects (entanglement), which does seem to imply some kind of time traveling information, at least when combined with special relativity.
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by mjfl 6y ago
Greater than the energy expenditure of all Visa transactions? This makes it seem more efficient than Visa
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by mjfl 6y ago
"Equivalent to the carbon footprint of 694,893 VISA transactions" That's actually way less than I thought. How much energy does the VISA network expend? Aren't their trillions of transactions per year?
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by mjfl 6y ago
RNA has a half life of 8 hours, so uh... no. Edit: 10 hours... https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=104747
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by mjfl 6y ago
interesting timing.
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by mjfl 6y ago
Your VP lied to your company, to get paid more.
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by mjfl 6y ago
It's good to get some insight now and then.
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by mjfl 6y ago
> has been great for reigning in an overly narcissistic manipulative coworker because their actions are much more record-able now. What? What kind of workplace do you work at that you need to resort to recording your coworkers to get to
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by mjfl 6y ago
so then you must take China as a better steward of the global order? you believe China should be able to bully the US, like the US has 'bullied' others? you believe they are on the side of justice?
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by mjfl 6y ago
Shouldn't the power of the signal fall off like 1/r^2? So really, not too far.
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by mjfl 6y ago
I think another very important component was that they were innovating in an area where they had a legal monopoly - there was no risk that their competitors would steal away their inventions. This is not the case with Waymo for instance.
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by mjfl 6y ago
You need a business though. And that doesn't move the needle.
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by mjfl 6y ago
I mean some of their projects are a little... loony.

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