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by pfisch 9y ago
How many humans were at work on any given day in New York City, and how many of them died daily? I'm not sure I buy the whole peacetime was hell for horses vs lower or middle class humans during these same time periods.
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by pfisch 9y ago
I think we are pretty far from truly replacing truck drivers. There will be a long period where the truck driver is in the car but not really driving, maybe even a very long time depending on if it is enshrined in law. Even if the truck di
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by pfisch 9y ago
Do you live in america? Do you plan to live 15-20 years past retirement? You are already at 50k/year with a million dollars, which is an amount of money that is ok in the present if you are young, but with inflation it will be a lot
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by pfisch 9y ago
Retiring a millionaire is not winning. Retiring with less than a million is losing. Just do some back of the envelope math and it is very clear that you will have big problems with less than that.
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by pfisch 9y ago
I guess. The reality is they own so much information and so many processes that basically no matter what happens this company is going to zombie on in some way or another. Like they are forced to sell their assets, ok I'm sure those a
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by pfisch 9y ago
>Laws should aim for the maximum distribution of the means of production, rather than the optimal throughput of productivity possible with those means Won't you just get run out by others who are focused on productivity and can beat
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by pfisch 9y ago
I'm guessing you haven't seen The Book of Mormon. It is not about the story told in the actual Mormon bible. That is just a southpark episode.
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by pfisch 9y ago
>I would also bet that if your game is only 2 hours long, you would have coffee-level pricing, and users probably wouldn't bother refunding if it's that cheap. Maybe I'm wrong about that though. You are very wrong about th
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by pfisch 9y ago
>I think you're looking at this backwards. "If only Steam would prevent returns, I would keep 10% more sales!" No, if Steam prevented returns, you would never have had those sales in the first place. I never said that. Ho
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by pfisch 9y ago
Well you certainly can't return other similar media products in this way. I'm not even saying it is wrong necessarily, but in a system that allows around 90%+ of returns to have nothing to do with the product being defective I am
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by pfisch 9y ago
I am not talking about those "games". I manage like 60 real games on Steam, many of which have review scores between 80-95. These are real games that definitely are not defective on 10-20% of pcs. Like this one: http:/&#x2
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by pfisch 9y ago
The refund rate on steam is like 10-20%. I'm sorry but that really only makes sense if people are using it as a demo/abusing it. The products certainly aren't defective at that rate.
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by pfisch 9y ago
I think that example is kind of right about Shallan, but I can't think of similar analogues in any of his other books. Though I don't really care for the newer steampunk mistborn trilogy. Actually I thought most of the standalone
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by pfisch 9y ago
> My father told me that con men preferred to go after smart people This doesn't make a lot of sense. Most cons like the various Nigerian money scams and pyramid scams are designed to only get responses from less intelligent people
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by pfisch 9y ago
How much does the car cost? Also I don't think it would last very long driving around 20 hours/day every day. It would be like airbnbing my apartment. Huge pain in the ass all the time with maintenance and dealing with other rela
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by pfisch 9y ago
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=100514.0 Look at all these btc ponzi schemes from 2012 Also I thought Mt Gox had a bot buying tons of btc on their own exchange pumping the price.
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by pfisch 9y ago
I guess. I mean the regulated stock market has dark pools and super fast algorithms jumping in front of people's trades stealing from them. I actually feel like the playing field is more uneven between individuals and firms in the reg
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by pfisch 9y ago
How did it change? People have been scamming with bitcoins forever. Mt. Gox was a scam exchange. There were a bunch of people scamming even before that.
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by pfisch 9y ago
If you can afford a Tesla why would you let your car be used like this? I am the kind of person who would get a tesla and I would never want to deal with the inconvenience of lending my car to a public fleet so it could get fucked up by dru
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by pfisch 9y ago
>I think the compelling question is why people feel so compelled to take a pill to sell their souls to a rat race? Seems like an almost Huxleyan Prisoner's Dilemma to me. I think people just want to be their best selves. They want
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by pfisch 9y ago
It's also the pilots who are on the record and have a history of integrity, anyone else who saw those videos before and after edits, the air traffic controllers that day.
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by pfisch 9y ago
skepticism of science based on the accuracy of prior theories is appropriate. Newtonian physics seemed correct for 99% of observable phenomena, but it was in fact very wrong about some basic underlying ideas of how the universe works. Tha
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by pfisch 9y ago
I'm not saying it is definitely wrong and no one should believe it because it is the best working theory. Based on the track record of science though it is very unlikely that it is 100% correct.
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by pfisch 9y ago
"Our understanding of physics is very wrong" - this seems very likely to me. Pretty much all scientists have been proven wrong so far in significant ways. The entire structure of the universe makes no sense without tons of dark
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by pfisch 9y ago
But they are in fact different. Maybe not as different as gold vs silver but similar in that gold and silver also have completely artificial values driven by hype.
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by pfisch 9y ago
Forking bitcoin doesn't create more bitcoins. It creates something else that is not bitcoins any longer that will not be accepted anywhere.
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by pfisch 9y ago
There are additional reasonable explanations. Unknown rare physical phenomena for example Ball lightning.
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by pfisch 9y ago
This is just not true for basically all of 2017 with the rate at which the value of all the coins has been rising. Especially if it is your desktop on off hours so the hardware is essentially a sunk cost.
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by pfisch 9y ago
This is not a hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_Ai... I'm not saying it was an alien craft, but there are a limited number of plausible explanations for an event like this and none of
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by pfisch 9y ago
That does not adequately explain what happened over O’Hare airport https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_... or any of these other sightings really.

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