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by nwah1 5y ago
Whether or not this statistic is accurate, certainly a large percentage is in private hands, and this does have security implications. Nationalization is not the only possible way to harden security. But we could designate certain key indus
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by nwah1 5y ago
It seems to be MIT licensed, and if so then maybe anyone could. But probably the actual authors have the most legitimacy and knowledge.
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by nwah1 5y ago
Seems implausible that they can perpetually run at a deficit. Unless you mean absent subsidies. But if such subsidies exist then that is one way to convert the losses into profits.
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by nwah1 5y ago
This seems like an opportunity for vertical integration. Goodwill can start an unofficial recycling sorting operation, and learn to make a profit center out of this cost center. This field is also ripe for innovation.
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by nwah1 5y ago
This speaks about standardizing contracts but neglects to mention that the competing proprietary electronic medical record standards also add cost, complexity, and increase medical errors. And there are still about 14 other layers of the he
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by nwah1 5y ago
Finding charging stations can be a challenge, and if you are renting an apartment you likely don't have access to a garage. And if you want and affordable car, then you are stuck with older used EVs with poor range. And if you are in a
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by nwah1 6y ago
In addition to lost life, there is also a cost to quality of life. Air quality is one of the biggest contributors to the risk of senile dementia. But also the gas composition is known to affect cognition in the short run as well, with a mea
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by nwah1 6y ago
The way I heard it that makes sense is that to be optimally productive you need to be "hungry" in the sense of wanting more and not being complacent. But you don't want to be starving, generally. For the same reason, some say
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by nwah1 6y ago
Fascintating piece of history. The inspiration behind the game Monopoly was an attempt to educate people on the immoral nature of the current landownership paradigm. But interestingly, it is based on the same original classical liberal argu
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by nwah1 6y ago
Google just released a feature called Heads Up to remind people to look where they are walking https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/googles-heads-up-t...
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by nwah1 6y ago
In no way does this help.
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by nwah1 6y ago
The emissions have been near the best-case projections, and far below the average and worst-case projections https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-unstoppable-momentu...
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by nwah1 6y ago
I assume the fear of this sort of thing is the potential for causing Kessler Syndrome.
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by nwah1 6y ago
If certain lucrative professions, like daytrading, could see an edge from this sort of thing, even of a modest amount, then it would happen no matter how invasive.
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by nwah1 6y ago
True. Of course the need for all that parallel processing can sometimes be replaced with intelligence, such as the new video codecs that leverage machine learning. Maybe CPUs will be better for video if those codecs start to dominate.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Elon Musk says improving the speed of communication is the killer app. Typing with "meat sticks" is inefficient compared to the speed of thought. Eventually using it to backup and data mine memories will likely happen, as in Black
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by nwah1 6y ago
Iodine deficiency and leaded gasoline are other examples.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Same with Islam and Christianity.
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by nwah1 6y ago
The scale of the market for treasuries is such that even a fund with 120 billion AUM is not going to affect it that much. The Federal Reserve can basically overwhelm anything. There are some cases where a fund can flex power, such as George
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by nwah1 6y ago
It is not conflating. It is essentially giving advice for how to live, which is that meaning and identity and focus should not be on something material since those can and likely will be lost. Wallace even mentioned the Four Noble Truths as
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by nwah1 6y ago
A PR team wrote all this, and even if Dorsey really personally wanted a decentralized open source Twitter it would not be in his power to deliver.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Tokens are an abstraction layer that can never improve any payment processing system. Anonymous advertising sounds like a way to literally make everything I spoke about worse.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Might be a useful way to launder money.
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by nwah1 6y ago
>I don't understand why WHO is selling it's creditiblity in trade for politics. What is there to gain? Might have something to do with the fact that the leader of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom, was hand picked by the Chinese commu
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by nwah1 6y ago
Advertising has perverse incentives, which encourage business models that require invading privacy and optimizing "engagement" at the expense of civil discourse and mental health. When you don't pay for something, you are the
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by nwah1 6y ago
The UX is actually kind of bad. I think it is electron-based, the menus are far from a work of art, and the folder management seems very primitive. But that said, it is by far the best product despite this.
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by nwah1 6y ago
95% of worldwide grid energy storage comes from pumped storage hydro. Yet almost nobody mentions this, or suggests building more.
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by nwah1 6y ago
This issue claims they are starting work on PostgreSQL support this week. https://github.com/bitwarden/server/issues/453
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by nwah1 6y ago
Cryptocurrency itself is the equivalent of tulips. NFTs are just another color of tulip.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Is. GME is still going.

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