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by padobson 7y ago
My guess would be agricultural subsidies more than food standards.
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by padobson 7y ago
These might just be early adopters in the longtail of personal flight technology. If personal flight starts as a luxury good to pay for research and development, as those innovations become widely known the price should come down to make it
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by padobson 7y ago
Don't forget we also spend less on feeding ourselves than anyone else in the world[0]. [0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/this-map-shows-how-mu...
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by padobson 7y ago
I don't mind elevating the autonomy of D.C., but there was a reason D.C. was created in the first place - so that no state would have too much power by containing the capital. It shouldn't become a full state. I'd rather diss
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by padobson 7y ago
Mob rule is not what you want. It's terrifying. What you want is a slow projection of the will of the people onto the seats of power. That's why separation of powers is so brilliant. Judges are completely insulated from the people
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The Axiom of Infinity (1904)(users.drew.edu)
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by padobson 7y ago
Let's do a 100x - 43,500 districts. This would probably fix Citizens United too, it'd be really expensive to buy 43,500 congress members.
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by padobson 7y ago
Came here to say something like this. Chief Justice Roberts' opinion[0] touches on the legislative evolution of the problem. The advent of districts was instituted by congress to encourage proportional representation - and it worked! G
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by padobson 7y ago
I had one quote from Patton[0] the film: I think it was Alcibiades in the Peloponnesian War... ...415 B.C. He said, "If Syracuse falls, all Sicily falls, and then Italy." He knew that Syracuse was the jugular of the island. Old A
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by padobson 7y ago
Can we mine enough uranium to produce this much electricity?
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by padobson 7y ago
Yet companies build plants on the Great Lakes, hoover up all the water, filter it, bottle it, and sell it to the unsuspecting I can't speak for every state, but here in Michigan (The Great Lakes state!), companies like Nestle have to
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by padobson 7y ago
Seems like you're talking about the 6th commandment[0], which is more accurately described as "Thou shalt not murder", rather than "thou shalt not kill". I like Dennis Prager's commentary on the 10 commandments
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by padobson 7y ago
From the third paragraph: That’s a key difference between hypothetical and practical security – your attacker will only do really wacky, creative stuff you hear about at conferences (or wherever) when there’s no easier way and the target o
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by padobson 7y ago
And also "Passwords don't matter as long as you aren't important enough or connected to a person or organization important enough to try more than the most routine password vulnerabilities"
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by padobson 7y ago
Thanks for the Skeptvet! Reading through all these comments, all I could think was, "Maybe I should rethink Blue Buffalo, where can I get some good information?" We don't feed our cats grain free, so they're probably get
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by padobson 7y ago
Mark Zuckerberg is the 21st century's Pablo Escobar.
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by padobson 7y ago
I can't help but think that Facebook doomed this "distributed ledger" possibility by trying to be first to market with a tarnished brand. The developing world would hugely benefit from a scalable technology that can efficient
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by padobson 7y ago
Moreover, high verbatim note content was associated with lower retention of the lecture material. It appears that students who use laptops can take notes in a fairly mindless, rote fashion, with little analysis or synthesis by the brain.
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by padobson 7y ago
This is a good point. The trail has already been blazed. Maybe it was blazed in a messy way, but the "younger" sciences just need to follow it now.
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by padobson 7y ago
You sort of answered your own question. People looking for a left-leaning narrative have (C)(MS)NBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. People looking for a right-leaning narrative have Fox(News)(Business). Fox has consolidated the right-leaning
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by padobson 7y ago
I agree with your point, limiting public discourse and transparency through business practices is more malicious than simply trying to increase efficiency by negotiating lower prices. That said, brave suppliers are capable of shifting the b
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by padobson 7y ago
To which he could have added, it takes talent to know that what counts is condemning mediocrity not in others but in ourselves. This is the money line for me. People who find purpose, who improve themselves to pursue that purpose, are alw
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by padobson 7y ago
With the pervasiveness of Uber Eats, Door Dash, et al, I'm starting to think there should be an AWS for food. Imagine some sort of central, industrial-scale kitchen that makes dirt-cheap prepared meals and uses the aforementioned servi
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by padobson 7y ago
The article points out that record low interest rates have pushed easy money into the hands of the already-wealthy, exacerbating wealth inequality. I see that as only half the story. While 0% loans were filling the coffers of Bank of Americ
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by padobson 7y ago
Any chance the next 10% after that owns exactly 10%? Have we reached a perfect pareto distribution?
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by padobson 7y ago
guaranteed lending ⊂ bad ideas FTFY
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by padobson 7y ago
I like what he says here, but I note that this particular version of his blog doesn't have comments on it. My guess is that the site has changed since 2011. He makes a really good point that there are lessons to be learned from, "
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by padobson 7y ago
That's the fundamental problem with "trickle down" economics, it assumes the economy is supply constrained when it is more commonly demand constrained. I was of the understanding that most orthodox schools of economics fund
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by padobson 7y ago
I think it's more about the trade-off. There's no obvious opportunity to deploy the capital, and if one pops up later, easy credit makes it trivial to take advantage of the new investment.
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by padobson 7y ago
I think they just read Bret Victor's rant about touchscreen interfaces ruining interface innovation: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

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