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by olefoo 8y ago
THC and CBD is kind of meh. The real fun (for perverse values of fun) is when someone starts making heroin starter that can reliably turn sugar into enough opiate to risk an overdose. And then bootleg biologics and other patent drugs, I wou
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by olefoo 8y ago
You can't monetize it without it being a business. So accept that and manage it like a business; decide how much time you want to devote to it and what are acceptable revenues to justify the time you are giving it. Look at different bu
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by olefoo 8y ago
If their revenue is coming at your expense. Due to say, stronger consumer or environmental protections.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Chores.
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by olefoo 8y ago
The most relevant and interesting aspect of any conspiracy theory is the fears it exposes. Whether its fear of environmental degradation ( Chemtrails ), fear of loss of agency ( anti-vaccination, anything mentioning the Federal Reserve, mos
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by olefoo 8y ago
You are applying heuristics for a normal distribution to a power law distribution. If you aren't in the .01% you aren't really that rich at all in the larger scheme of things.
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by olefoo 8y ago
So like, a Basic Income Guarantee, Single Payer health insurance not tied to employment and maybe some sort of jobs program we could use to solve a couple of pressing problems involving climate change and failing infrastructure? Sign me UP!
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by olefoo 8y ago
I too wish I had the resources to go live in the woods and not deal with the modern world.
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by olefoo 8y ago
He actually seems to understand the relationship of publisher to newspaper in a way that fairly traditional. He ( in the form of Amozon ) has made it very easy to subscribe to the Post and helped raise it's paywall. But has assiduously
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by olefoo 8y ago
Wastrels and scoundrels do not always suffer for their sins. Such is life.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Our society wastes most peoples talents. At a time when we face problems that require a full mobilization of all human ability to solve if we are to achieve mere survival as a species. The wasting of talent does not always look like someone
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by olefoo 8y ago
As to point 1. why do you assume that current patterns of ownership will persist? If self-driving cars can be summoned as needed why would you want the hassle of maintaining a private one especially as parking becomes astronomically expensi
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by olefoo 8y ago
There are plenty of banks that operate with rather flexible attitudes towards the onerous financial regulations most US residents are familiar with. Add in the archipelago of tax havens and opaque ownership structures and for criminals oper
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by olefoo 8y ago
If this is actually happening on a large scale, there should be secondary evidence. Like, do a lot of REITs have financial ties to banks in low enforcement jurisdictions? If an investigative journalist were to show that there were networks
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by olefoo 8y ago
If this unusual object were an artifact and our solar system wasn't it's destination the most positive evidence for it's artificial nature would be it's onward destination. As yet I haven't seen any extrapolations o
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by olefoo 8y ago
Shareholders including pension funds. Nobody likes to be told that their retirement savings just lost 8% of their value because of a lawsuit.
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Uber IPO could be delayed by US government shutdown(ft.com)
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by olefoo 8y ago
In a known, easily watched location? Did you read the article?
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by olefoo 8y ago
Standards that were adaptive when society was much less connected are no longer adaptive in todays world. This is an attempt by the APA to improve treatment for problems they see in their field including the much higher rates of suicide and
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by olefoo 8y ago
Clearly since a few people were able to succeed in engaging with a thouroughly corrupt system; everything is fine and there is NO NEED TO FIX ANYTHING. Thank you for clearing that up for us.
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by olefoo 8y ago
If you are that strong a believer in the evils of socialism do you avoid Freeways, airports and the internet? All of which depend on public subsidy.
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by olefoo 8y ago
The point I was trying to make is that some forms of speech are violence ( in the action intended to cause harm sense ).
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by olefoo 8y ago
If I were to post here linking your legal name and identifying information and residence to this post and issuing a call to have you disemployed and harassed at home; evicted if possible and subjected to a general boycott covering everythin
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by olefoo 8y ago
Hi. Let me take over your VPN provider and watch your traffic and let someone else use that data to figure out what you've been doing and get valuable competitive intelligence from data you thought you were obscuring from everyone.
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by olefoo 8y ago
This is a great example of defining deviancy down.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Do you realize the scale of the work, negotiation and monitoring that went into making the ozone hole not be a problem? It took decades and we still have people trying to cheat the agreement and produce CFCs. CO2 and greenhouse gases in gen
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by olefoo 8y ago
It does seem odd to stick with an intellectual property system that is so obviously deficient in it's stated purpose of "improving the useful arts and sciences". Current patent law amounts to a barrier to entry for most small
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by olefoo 8y ago
But are the explanations true? Are they deterministic? If someone took ten minutes of video of you driving in city traffic; could you consistently explain all of your decisions that would be recorded? It's very easy to tell yourself th
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by olefoo 8y ago
Asking for a board seat for employees is the interesting bit.
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by olefoo 8y ago
I read that as, you would be able to use the sample code verbatim once the patent expired and would be able to read and understand the principle behind the patent.

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