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by psadri 6y ago
People may “travel” within their local area.
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by psadri 6y ago
This argument is missing one important part. The prevalence of student loans has caused the cost of education to skyrocket, pushing it even further out of reach. So now even people who previously afforded higher education need to get loans
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by psadri 6y ago
16 degrees warmer or cooler?
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by psadri 7y ago
The current situation is not normal. People are forced into unemployment to control the outbreak. I completely agree that governments need to step in and provide support during this artificially induced economic coma. But I’m not sure an
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by psadri 7y ago
Does this mean some microwave radiation escapes the oven?
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by psadri 7y ago
What about all the people who were responsible and managed their debt?
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by psadri 7y ago
This doesn’t work because so much of our world is built around loans that assume certain things about the future. When that future gets disrupted, as it has these days, all those loans and everything else that goes along with it has to get
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by psadri 7y ago
If U.K. goes it alone they will be out of sync with the rest of the world in terms of travel restrictions. No one will be going in or out of U.K. until everywhere else has caught up to their herd immunity or we have a vaccine. Not sure ho
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by psadri 7y ago
Humans don’t understand exponential growth. But they could look at China and Italy and think - those guys are the same as us. We are not special. The same thing that is happening to them is going to happen unless we act now. The real sad
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by psadri 7y ago
Not in an election year.
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by psadri 7y ago
I had never heard this about white cars! This must apply to any car maker and maybe other light colors?
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by psadri 7y ago
Same could be used for movies - directors, cinematographers, producers. I wonder what else this could be applied to?
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by psadri 7y ago
Google and Apple should be able to infer the presence/status of roads based on telemetry from all the phones out there in the world. If a bunch of people regularly pass through a path at a car like speed, it’s likely a road.
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by psadri 7y ago
The idea of free market is that public companies have financial incentives to produce safe products. If they produce an unsafe product, their market capital should suffer. This hasn’t happened to the extent I expected with Boeing. Is the m
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by psadri 7y ago
I didn’t mean any disrespect. My comment was meant to be humorous.
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by psadri 7y ago
That’s “AI” alright.
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by psadri 7y ago
https://www.manufactum.com I haven’t but anything from them but this seems to be their premise.
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by psadri 7y ago
Heh... just chiming in to say the affiliate person wasn’t me :-)
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by psadri 7y ago
Thanks for posting and the nice comments. Glad to have built something that people found useful...
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by psadri 7y ago
I’m curious what’s the effect of interfering with the wind patterns?
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by psadri 7y ago
Bookmarked!
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by psadri 7y ago
The question on my mind is what else will this freed up oil will be used for? One area could be cheaper fuel for aviation? More plastics? This of course ignores the environmental cost of continuing to use oil.
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by psadri 7y ago
Reading hacker news!
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by psadri 7y ago
This is an interesting observation. I think you are saying that real estate prices crashed big time because the people who held the assets couldn’t afford to keep them because of their very high leverage. High leverage was possible because
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by psadri 7y ago
Note to self - buy luxury goods stocks after the next stock market crash.
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by psadri 7y ago
A relative of mine recently got an Apple Watch as a gift. He has since been transformed by it. The health/fitness reminders/achievements are huge motivators for him - he was fairly fit, but now he is in the best shape since I ha
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by psadri 7y ago
There is a difference - the money that’s stored in the bank is not just sitting there. It is lent out with an interest to people who need to borrow money and earns the bank an income. The banks want your deposits because it lets them earn
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by psadri 7y ago
Take an introductory data structure and algorithms class. Now that you have some real world work experience, they will be very relevant.
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by psadri 7y ago
If you are joining a startup, you should be there to get equity. This is the main financial reason to join a startup. If you prefer cash, join a established company.
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by psadri 7y ago
A complex system such as the climate (a huge understatement) is full of non linear of feedback loops that we don’t understand or are even aware of. It’s very hard to model such a system accurately. Chances are humans will be a blip after a

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