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by nkoren 13y ago
The issue isn't the total amount of money in the real economy -- it's the distribution and accessibility of money within the real economy, as workforce participation falls off due to the lack of jobs. While the financial econo
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by nkoren 13y ago
> It was shot down rather quickly. The referendum has not happened yet. You're probably confusing it with the referendum on limiting CEO pay.
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by nkoren 13y ago
The data simply doesn't support your claims. > First, money has to be spent somewhere Financial instruments such as derivatives and hedge funds do very little to put money back into the real economy. If they did, then you would not
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by nkoren 13y ago
The tl;dr in one sentence: 47% of US jobs have a >75% chance of being replaced by software and/or robots within a decade or two. [edit to clarify timeframe as the authors state it.]
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by nkoren 13y ago
Two suggestions, slightly contradictory, but either will work: 1.) Spices. there are loads of really interesting, amazing spices out there, but even a simple sautée of olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt, and black pepper can make almost a
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by nkoren 13y ago
Thank you! This is actually for my prior startup (probably too profitable to call a "startup" at this point, actually), http://www.futurescaper.com/ . But Podaris is shaping up to be HTML5/JS from top to botto
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by nkoren 13y ago
HTML5. My (Meteor & D3-based) application is primarily aimed desktop browsers, and it already very nearly works out of the box on mobile -- there are a few D3 touch events that need to be revisited, and a new layout that is friendlier f
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by nkoren 13y ago
Sigh. Kids these days... Raytracing is not exactly a lightweight calculation. My first raytracer was TurboSilver 3D on the Amiga, in 1990 (actually one of the first commercial raytracers ever produced). "Photorealistic" images at
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by nkoren 13y ago
An interesting project, but I can't help but think that this problem would be better solved by Chinese Wheelbarrows: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarr...
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by nkoren 13y ago
A Freudian flip?
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by nkoren 13y ago
Apologies for making a pedantic meta-comment, but may I recommend that you read this: http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/page2.html Your comment was otherwise well-written, but you misused apostrophes nine times (thrice in the fi
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SpaceX Grasshopper 744m test flight [video](youtube.com)
171 points by nkoren 13y ago|37 comments
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by nkoren 13y ago
Ah, thanks, you're entirely correct!
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by nkoren 13y ago
That's exactly correct. At 45%, the top earners would pay a bit less, the bottom earners would receive a bit less, and the break-even point would move to the 45th percentile rather than the 50th percentile. So more people would actuall
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by nkoren 13y ago
Can you cite any BI proponents who explicitly say that it shouldn't replace existing benefits programmes? Speaking for myself -- and every other BI activist I've ever read or heard of -- I certainly think that it should replace
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by nkoren 13y ago
Careful there -- a GMI is different than a UBI. Guaranteed Minimum Income is the idea that if your own income is insufficient, the state will step in and provide one for you. The conditionality in that definition, however, means that it wou
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by nkoren 13y ago
Actually, one of the major effects of basic income is that it would decrease marginal income tax rates (although it would undoubtedly raise taxes overall). This is counter-intuitive, so let me explain. Marginal tax rates are the taxes tha
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by nkoren 13y ago
In theory, they certainly should be. However in practice that's not always the case. What significant innovations has Blackberry brought to market in the past three years (the timeframe this list covers)? Offhand I can't think of
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by nkoren 13y ago
Visualization, shmisulization. Only so much that bouncy balls can do to sex up a strangely parochial list. No ARM, no Tesla. But Blackberry is on the list? Seriously? How many CEOs are currently asking themselves "how can we be more in
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by nkoren 13y ago
Fascinating true(?) story about how lactose intolerance changed the course of history, as recorded in the ancient sagas[1]: When the Vikings established their colony in Vinland, they wished to establish peaceable relations with the Native A
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by nkoren 13y ago
I actually got great results from the Galaxy Nexus -- check out http://www.instagram.com/nathankoren; all the shots prior to Dec 2012 were with the GN, and many of them are quite good. The main trick was to be extremely d
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A day in the life of poverty(amandasledz.com)
1 points by nkoren 13y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 13y ago
A cautionary tale: I was using this script for a while. Then Google Docs had some sort of freakout, and began sending me hundreds of "your site is down" emails, even after I tried to terminate the script and even deleted the docum
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SpaceX Launch - Official Webcast(spacex.com)
248 points by nkoren 13y ago|160 comments
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by nkoren 13y ago
> easy to get into any format one could need Okay, I'll bite. How would one get these into SVG? I haven't found anything as straightforward as an SHP->SVG converter.
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by nkoren 13y ago
Might want to re-think that exact assumption: http://justinvincent.com/page/1874/yelp-you-cost-me-2000-by-... I understand that this is one anecdote, but I've seen enough similar cases of misapplied filtering
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by nkoren 13y ago
You're absolutely correct -- "scare quotes" are an element of American English, not British English. In this context, they're simply indicative of the fact that somebody (not the paper) has called these workers "sla
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by nkoren 13y ago
Sure, if you have 100% self-driving vehicles with good vehicle-to-vehicle communications, you can even do intersections like this: http://vimeo.com/37751380 However, there's one further requirement for removing traffic
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by nkoren 13y ago
According to a friend of mine who was close to Wikileaks and had some access to this production, the Iran subplot was scrapped completely, and replaced with a still-fictitious but entirely more plausible Tunisia subplot. Which is rumoured t
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by nkoren 13y ago
Back in the day, you could boot the entire BeOS kernel, filesystem, GUI, network stack, window & task manager, and web browser off of a 1.44mb floppy disk. Ever since then, I've been unable to shake the feeling that something has g

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