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by nwah1 8y ago
If what you say is true, then it would require that these highly attractive people all monopolize multiple mates simultaneously. Particularly in a gender-imbalanced fashion. Then, we'd notice a steep dropoff in the percentage of people
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by nwah1 8y ago
But when people talk about a "superintelligence" they are not talking about creating an AI lawyer. They are talking about creating a recursively self-improving intelligent system that attempts to make use of all available resource
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by nwah1 8y ago
The exciting part is not the case, nor the specs, nor the OS. The exciting part is that they are attempting to use open hardware and firmware to the greatest extent they can practically achieve. They have created an open source "daught
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by nwah1 8y ago
Are there solid reasons why blazor cannot move to .NET Core? I know they require an ultra slimmed down runtime, but maybe there's ways to achieve that which could be upstreamed.
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by nwah1 8y ago
Kessler syndrome isn't an issue now, but as more projects like SpaceX's starlink program go online, it could become one. Starlink's goal is to deploy many thousands of satelites.
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by nwah1 8y ago
Your point is true, but internet technology is now certainly proven, and money has been instrumental in proving it. Blockchain technology is unproven for use cases beyond speculation or fraudulent/illegal activity.
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by nwah1 8y ago
That is curious, because with every other exciting new technology, having gobs of money thrown at it generally helps it get realized. Makes you wonder if there's something more fundamentally wrong about the assumptions going into it.
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by nwah1 8y ago
Rent rises with the productivity of locations, and density makes locations more productive in the aggregate. Agglomeration is the economic term for why that is. It may seem paradoxical to you, but supply and demand simply doesn't funct
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by nwah1 8y ago
It goes up regardless of building restrictions in a booming economy, but restrictions can make it worse. This is called the Law of Rent. Land prices function like monopoly prices, and rise whenever the value obtainable from the location ris
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by nwah1 8y ago
If Trump is good for anything, it is for complaining about contractors charging too much money. Hopefully he complains.
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by nwah1 8y ago
Microsoft is putting out compelling products and has the #2 cloud platform and fastest growing cloud platform. They have lots of developer momentum with VS Code, Typescript, .NET Core, etc. Their recent acquisitions make sense, mostly, unli
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by nwah1 8y ago
There is heavy lock-in with Apple, moreso than any other company I can think of. But for sure it is a fashion brand. But in order to be fashionable, they need to have compelling designs and technology. They do not anymore. Their main new pr
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by nwah1 8y ago
I've thought this for awhile, and have seen other articles about it. While Amazon and Microsoft seem to be executing well on their respective visions, Google, Apple, and Facebook all seem asleep at the wheel. Nothing gamechanging from
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by nwah1 8y ago
Damore
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by nwah1 8y ago
Strange to cave so late in the game with AVIF right around the corner. This article really doesn't explain why.
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by nwah1 8y ago
It's layers of markups and artificial scarcity stacked one on top of the other. Hospital associations that lock up their turf, and have geographic monopolies. Electronic medical record companies that create proprietary and incompatible
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by nwah1 8y ago
But notice, it doesn't affect random assets. You don't see people hoarding and speculating on cars to a ridiculous degree, because cars depreciate. Likewise, with real estate, the actual improvement values depreciate over time. Wh
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by nwah1 8y ago
As long as we all go on the Stigler Diet
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by nwah1 8y ago
And to add another useless anecdote, I always feel slightly odd in a bad way whenever I take rhodiola.
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by nwah1 8y ago
I'm surprised that there isn't some kind of huge multi-billion dollar prize to improve air conditioners. Environmental groups have so much money, and they waste it lobbying for bans on plastic straws. How about some R&D, pleas
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by nwah1 8y ago
More proof we are living in the Berenstain Bears universe, forever disconnected from our original Berenstein universe.
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by nwah1 8y ago
If you read the article, you'll note that the dosage and quality of the melatonin matters greatly, and simply saying that it didn't work isn't that meaningful if you don't explain at least what the dosage was. Very low d
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by nwah1 8y ago
They are a fairly close 2nd in cloud computing, and growing faster than AWS. And remember that Oracle is an enormous company just by focusing on enterprise, but MS is way larger just in enterprise. Sharepoint, SQL Server, etc etc. And even
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by nwah1 8y ago
People like to live near amenities, transportation hubs, and so forth. And many types of jobs fundamentally cannot be remote. And even if hypothetically everywhere became equally viable to live, then rents would adjust to take that into acc
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by nwah1 8y ago
Awful. This needs to be voted up.
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by nwah1 8y ago
True. And the constantly varying price of land in response to the desirability of the location means that land has this inexorable tendency to push down real wages regardless of almost any kind of technological, social, or political artific
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by nwah1 8y ago
Engine exhaust is full of carcinogens. Given this, it is entirely fair to fine polluters in proportion to the level of harm they cause. Outsourcing the enforcement to citizens is a bit strange, but it is important work and someone should be
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by nwah1 8y ago
The eating itself is neutral. It is immoral to pay people to raise other organisms in confinement and later slaughter them.
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by nwah1 8y ago
I understand that view too, but insincere arguments have some drawbacks too. I do know some people who became disillusioned after hearing bad motivated reasoning on that, and on dubious health claims. My current thinking is that both the ec
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by nwah1 8y ago
And not because of environmental concerns. But moral concerns. Something that is flagrantly immoral would be opposed regardless of environmental questions. That is important to note because it is not a simple question whether meat is net po

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