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by neilparikh 5y ago
You can if you'd like to: > And for those of you without a new MacBook Pro, Notchmeister also includes a genuine replacement notch. Be warned that side effects of this feature include making you want a new Mac even more than you alr
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It's even more ironic, because the entire point of NFTs is to create artificial scarcity in an environment without scarcity (the digital world). I guess you could argue that NFTs isn't the main aspect of cryptocurrencies, and I th
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When I first heard Web 3, I thought the semantic web had a resurgence (the semantic web was called Web 3). Unfortunately not though.
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Oh, I totally missed that typo! I guess I've seen the full word enough that I matched on the shape of the word and ignored the actual letters.
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The name comes from the fact that Purescript is a purely functional programming language (ie. controlled side effects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional_programming As a joke, I've heard some call J
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by neilparikh 5y ago
I'm not really sure what your criticism is, to be honest. I'll just microanalyze my comment and hope it ends up responding to your point. The passage I posted is basically just, "X is limited, adding more people will lead to
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At the very end they do have this: > Slower population growth could make the challenge of cutting carbon emissions less daunting.
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> Also, wages have not kept up with an individual's increase in productivity as all the gains have been skimmed by the top shareholders, not the workers. Much of the gains have also been skimmed by land, many of whom happen to be wo
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This reminds of a passage from Dune (context: the planet the book is set on is a desert with a very limited amount of water): > "There were water riots when it was learned how many people the Duke was adding to the population,"
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I think being able to target propaganda by audience makes it different. If your goal is to disseminate idea X, the way you convince a mid 20s progressive is going to be different from the way to convince a retired Republican. The internet a
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> But is this inefficiency and resultant drag on prosperity balanced out by making the market more efficient to access for people up and down the road? If the current configuration really is the most efficient, why does the government fe
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> If financial interests largely decide who gets enough funding to run in an election then how is it up to the average voter? You're responding to something completely unrelated from what I claimed. I didn't say anything about
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(Copy pasting my comment from elsewhere) > Our gov is effectively captured by financial interests. The "financial interests" that would provide you the biggest opposition in imposing a LVT are the financial interest of the aver
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> Enormous vested interests oppose it. > Of course, an engaged and educated populace could overcome that. The "populace" is the "vested interest" that opposes it! The majority of voters are homeowners, and thus the
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It doesn't really matter what economists think about it if the general public and politicians are against/unaware of it.
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> it's unfair to change the rules in the middle of the game This has already happened many times, and is happening now. Two examples: - abolition of slavery - taxing of carbon, and anti climate change measures in general Should we
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Just out of curiosity (ie. not trying to ask you a "gotcha" question), would you apply this idea to measures to reduce climate change? Oil companies and companies/individuals dependent on cheap oil would presumably lose a lot
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> most of it comes from the development rights. I don't think this is true. There are many part of NYC that fairly low density zoned (Long Island, SoHo, NoHo), but housing is still very expensive. New York City unfortunately still h
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by neilparikh 5y ago
I think Slack actually keeps all your history, it just hides older messages from you. If you subscribe to the paid tier, you should be able to see the older messages.
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> My belief is that as the profits and shareholder compensation have risen disproportionately to wages It's not that simple: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/finalin... (From
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Nvidia doesn't allow you to use consumer CPUs in servers/data centers.
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> Having people actually try to make the code runnable would make things so much worse... I’m not sure I follow here. For me, programming is an iterative process: write a small chunk, test it out, write the next bit, and so on. Not being
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Similar framework for Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/threepenny-gui
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I think something similar happened to the Warzone 2100 RTS.
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Wouldn't this mean people who earn enough to rent, but not buy (ex. service workers) wouldn't be able to live there (since there wouldn't be a stock of rental housing they can rent), and thus would have to commute?
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A lot of Google engineers use Chromebooks.
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The law of rent[0] means that broad increases in productivity[1] will eventually just be captured by land. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent [1] - ie. increases in productivity of everyone in the region r
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Unpinterested makes google image search a lot more usable, to the point that I get frustrated whenever I use image search on my phone now.
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Great thread, particularly the part on "land" in games. I've always found it a little off putting that so many cryptocurrency projects essentially advertise themselves by promising that early adopters will become landed gentr
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Asking people to pay property tax doesn’t imply “kicking out old ladies” though. Many people who could afford the new property tax (and thus aren’t being kicked out) might choose to downsize anyway to save money. It’s the same logic as a ca

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