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by nwah1 7y ago
This is a really important goal, but whether simple mandates can solve it, I'm not sure. The real problem is that consumers don't care about the prices, which is how all the various layers of providers and middlemen are able to
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Precisely. It's unfair for the little guys, but lot's of stuff is unfair... such as most of high speed trading, and the people who use arbitrage to skim from the index funds that use predictable purchasing.
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I remember seeing stories about programmers with access to credit card databases getting indicted for trading on the information. This is a legal version of the same thing, and also probably any attempt to make it illegal would be unenforce
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by nwah1 7y ago
Great link! There were also other scientists like Alice Hamilton who helped challenge the biased science on this. Ironically, the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center is now a world renowned medical research institute, but it will be hard
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by nwah1 7y ago
Because the wheel and tire would both be constructed out of fiberglass webbing, it seems like this could potentially reduce weight. But whether it provides enough durability, traction, and a smooth riding experience is unclear. I'm roo
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by nwah1 7y ago
A lot of the proposed efficiency improvements involve new engines, new fuels, or new materials. This is a new design which could stack on top of any of these other improvements. Including a hybrid or electric engine.
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Great video. A feedback loop between algorithms and content creators, with the audience's influence being quite weak and indirect. The monetization in general is often heralded as important for revenue sharing. By comparison, facebook
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Only for men, though. And in the case of Sweden, specifically, IQ and fertility were positively correlated for men who were born in the postwar period. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.035..
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Selection against intelligence should definitely not be ruled out, although there are various environmental issues that could be solved. Female obesity is known to lead to preganancy complications which cause cognitive deficits. Obesity in
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George's view of land directly was inspired by Adam Smith. And by David Ricardo, who was primarily inspired by Adam Smith.
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Still means Linux is working as intended. Freedom means options. Options means bargaining power. Bargaining power means monopolies can't push you around as much.
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Yep. It is turning off Spectre/Meltdown mitigations. I also see the new MDS mitigations turned off.
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Self-driving cars would be the only thing that makes sense, but it is a longshot and spending 80% of your revenue on that seems nuts.
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What is included in that R&D category? If it is mainly just maintaining their infrastructure, then there isn't much research happening, and thus nothing to even hope for in terms of breakthroughs.
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The rumor for a long time was that the Windows Phone brand was dead but that they might want a "Surface Phone" possibly with x86 emulation, which could double as a PC in your pocket. They just tested the water with ARM-based Windo
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They did try a number of times to write kernels in C#-like languages. Singularity, Midori, etc. This spawned a lot of interesting academic work that influenced languages such as Rust... trying to get high level features and safety without n
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by nwah1 8y ago
Corporations and capitalism are different things. Capitalism is composed of a constant churn of organizations which are all failing at different rates. The point is that the system as a whole is not reliant upon the continual success of any
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I admire the efforts to get coreboot support, and love their open hardware initiatives, but I don't understand why everyone has NIH syndrome. There was no need for them to create their own distro. That is a huge expense just to reinven
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by nwah1 8y ago
Consistently, I was most frustrated by the demands in my English and Creative Writing courses that there were correct answers to what certain things within stories were meant to symbolize. And creative writing in general is something that d
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4.5 billion in income this quarter, and has been rising consistently. They have a cash flow problem, not a revenue problem.
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The company that produces the meal kits can buy all the ingredients in bulk. They can portion all the ingredients perfectly so that there's no waste. They don't need to staff, light, heat, cool, and stock any stores. And you don&#
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In economics there's something called the Wilt Chamberlain Problem, where Chamberlain explained that he liked basketball so much that he'd play for free. Yet he was paid millions. So every dollar that he was paid produced no incen
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Rust-based WASM front-end libraries will likely be small and also high performance. Unfortunately, all of the existing ones are highly experimental right now.
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The compressed size is 31 kb, and other frameworks are smaller. https://gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d
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I agree largely from a development perspective, but the client-side javascript frameworks are ultimately more performant, particularly on mobile, and are not as bad as they used to be. Neither server-side nor WASM are ideal for mobile devic
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They can probably distinguish between a 14 year old and an adult.
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A very poorly managed one https://earthsharing.org/a-comedy-of-errors-how-the-us-gover...
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I know people who believe the alcohol one, and it isn't completely idiotic, since alcohol is a depressant and may help you get to sleep. But the article is correct that sleep quality drops so much that it is not worth it.
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If we had a medicare-for-all system, we could provide some economic discipline by having high deductible plans, even if those plans are completely covered by a government-funded HSA plan of equal value. As long as the HSA could be withdrawn
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A construction boom is great, but temporary. Best way to ensure housing isn't treated as an investment or speculative commodity is to have a tax on land value. Unfortunately, this view is very unpopular in the US, particularly among th

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