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by neffy 7y ago
Exactly. This is India vs the British Empire, non-violence is the only thing that stands a chance.
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by neffy 7y ago
... well it keeps getting sold.
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by neffy 7y ago
Legacy code... https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/boeing-7...
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by neffy 7y ago
Can confirm. I was there 3 years ago, this time of the year, and this is way higher than it was during the week I was there.
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by neffy 7y ago
What I´ve never understood in all these arguments, is why do economists think that the laws of supply and demand supposedly (given that from this article it´s clear that they´re not), suspended for debt? If for whatever reason (and having a
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Ebola researchers fight to test drugs and vaccines in a war zone(nature.com)
1 points by neffy 7y ago|0 comments
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by neffy 7y ago
Two additional datapoints - shares are used as part of the incentive structure for senior management, and can dwarf salary. Share gains are also taxed less. It's a simple feedback loop. It gets pretty silly when you look at the share b
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How a data detective exposed suspicious medical trials(nature.com)
2 points by neffy 7y ago|0 comments
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by neffy 7y ago
You think that's bad... https://www.dynare.org/ Advanced epicycles in the guise of macro-economic models.
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by neffy 7y ago
I find it fascinating you got voted down on what it essentially a pretty accurate description of how the system works.
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by neffy 7y ago
Or supply increases - and then as supply goes to infinity prices go to zero.
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by neffy 7y ago
Crypto currency pump and dump schemes for the most part.
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by neffy 7y ago
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner describes (extremely well, it´s a great book to read btw.) the evolution of Finch beaks on the Galapagos Islands. There was one particular Finch/beak size that had relatively small families and
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by neffy 7y ago
And notably similar to Eugene Podkletnov´s claims in the 90´s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov whose equipment is rumoured to have ended up in the US.
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by neffy 7y ago
The future was two weeks ago - 50+ degrees Celsius: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-india-heatwave-temperatures-ce... The problem isn´t just that humans can´t breathe underwater. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by neffy 7y ago
Move inland.
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by neffy 7y ago
No, no, no. You have to move the chapters around, renumber the sections, change the order of the questions at the back, and introduce a couple of new typos. Otherwise how are you going to force the students to buy the new edition?
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Chernobyl was worse than the TV Series(theguardian.com)
2 points by neffy 7y ago|0 comments
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by neffy 7y ago
Becoming a capitalist is the long history of learning to group together and work on common goals. The other way just doesn't scale.
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by neffy 7y ago
Gorbachev is on record as accrediting the cost of cleaning up Chernobyl/preventing something much worse as being one of the reasons for the collapse of the soviet union. A conservative estimate would put over 1% of the working populati
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by neffy 7y ago
or "New Private Window" (Ctrl-alt-N)
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by neffy 7y ago
Not really. A simplistic counterargument would be that our "successful" societies originated when we were able to escape the constant surveillance of the village, into the more permissive environment of relatively anonymous cities
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by neffy 7y ago
I really think that's just darkly entertaining marketing. Silicon valley in reality is a ruthlessly corporate business world, where known to be worthless options are traded for people's lives and labour. (Look up "founder&#x2
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by neffy 7y ago
I think this is more of a problem in America than in Europe. After all, their native population got wiped out by disease, so they don't have castles littering the landscape, the way we do.
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by neffy 7y ago
Pretty likely actually. A case in point is the tangled history of identifying the first inhabitants of the Americas. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/ancient-d... This article skips gently o
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Facebook Shunned by Top Talent(theguardian.com)
6 points by neffy 7y ago|0 comments
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by neffy 7y ago
Unfortunately, you really can't solve these kinds of questions with the full on deterministic approach. The world is big, speed limits change, databases have to be updated. Google maps was (dangerously in the winter) directing people t
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by neffy 7y ago
No it's not - banks are statistical multiplexers. They don't take money and lend it out. They create money, lend that, and then remove that money as the capital (loan amount) is repaid - or when the loan goes into default.
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by neffy 7y ago
so you're claiming... "It's different this time" ?
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by neffy 7y ago
Lyft (and Uber) are essentially borrowing money long term, and selling rides at a less than market price short term. Some of the drivers are getting stiffed - many of them, did they but know it, are getting an income where otherwise there w

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