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by ranie93 7y ago
Seconded. Once I figured this out my days of plugging USB cables in the wrong way were over. Look for the two little open holes on the face of the plug and you're golden
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by ranie93 7y ago
They're not, but its fine to read between the lines. The letter makes no allusions to seizing wealth or stating that immense wealth hasn't been created.
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by ranie93 7y ago
Some additional sources to inform opinions Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/ The Pay of Corporate Executives and Financial Professionals as Evidence of Rents
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by ranie93 7y ago
Without checking the figures, I can agree with the idea that a one-time seizement wouldn't assuage much. Certainly Bill Gates and his endeavors have created immense value for many. None of these points are being contested or purported
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by ranie93 7y ago
There is contention about what this supposed progress entails; if its as great as touted, if we could be doing much better, etc. This open letter is a good starting point: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2&#x
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by ranie93 7y ago
most likely due to the caveats I assume: "Two caveats. This only works for a table with equal legs, where the wobble is caused by an uneven floor. If the table has uneven legs, you probably need the folded napkin. Also, the floor can b
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by ranie93 7y ago
I think the person you are replying to is making the more basic interpretation that such propensities (someone who stays at home watching movies, someone with the motivation to move to another country, etc) are themselves composed of variab
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by ranie93 7y ago
Yes! I really enjoy them as well-- and he has his animation software on github: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
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by ranie93 7y ago
The "dial" gesture is incredibly subtle. Kudos to them if it works reliably. MKBHD doesn't seem convinced in the efficacy of the sensor* from his Pixel 4 video: https://youtu.be/sKJ4i7p-o-4?t=326 * from Anale
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by ranie93 7y ago
I'd look for other sources to back your claims-- not just the tax foundation https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/the-tax-foundat... https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsv
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by ranie93 7y ago
It seems to be mentioned in the article: "[...]and the Schönhage–Strassen algorithm (1971) is even faster, for sufficiently large n." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nhage%E2%80%93Strasse...
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by ranie93 7y ago
Good point, better to keep exploiting than be a hypocrite!
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by ranie93 7y ago
See also: https://dynamicland.org/
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by ranie93 7y ago
Maybe so that the Apple logo remains visible during the transaction
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by ranie93 7y ago
A related piece from Jeremy Waldron on the topic of "moral distance": "The parable of the Good Samaritan, as it has become known, is cited most often by moral philosophers to open a debate about the duty to rescue [...] We a
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by ranie93 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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by ranie93 7y ago
FYI it looks like the images are hosted on a .xxx domain which are commonly blocked
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by ranie93 7y ago
some additional resources: "The striking difference was that while many of the African and Indian subjects registered predominantly positive experiences with their voices, not one American did. Rather, the U.S. subjects were more likel
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by ranie93 7y ago
Probably because Snowden is a VIP who has people looking for him (US government, for example). A live stream would be a liability, kind of a breadcrumb trail, potentially exposing his current location.
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by ranie93 7y ago
>Patent rights exist because they benefit the public. I don't see how your following statements support this claim. Specifically in the short term, you say that the patent provides access to an invention (through the company or whoe
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by ranie93 7y ago
>Try to keep this off Reddit and other similar sorts of things. so much for that
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by ranie93 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by ranie93 7y ago
Thanks! Maybe an area chart could show their relative popularities over time ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_chart ) I look forward to your future developments, this is really cool. I think some interactions with th
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by ranie93 7y ago
What does the y-axis represent? For example, why does Behaviorism seem to have a bulge around the 1930s?
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by ranie93 7y ago
Add this to the list of items (or perhaps the only item?) you'd take if you'd time travel to the past
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by ranie93 7y ago
"In terms of CEO compensation based on realized stock options, CEOs of major U.S. companies earned 20 times more than a typical worker in 1965; this ratio grew to 30-to-1 in 1978 and 59-to-1 by 1989, and then it surged in the 1990s, hi
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by ranie93 7y ago
They claim "median personal income for ALL AGES us up 394.4% since 1977". However a quick check on FRED [0] tells me this figure is way off: 1977: $23,202 2016: $31,099 (2017 not available in the data) ~34% increase They said they
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by ranie93 7y ago
I'm not the OP, and they may be overstating statistics (happy to be shown otherwise). At the same time, wage stagnation is no myth: "From 1973 to 2013, hourly compensation of a typical (production/nonsupervisory) worker rose
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by ranie93 7y ago
My own back of the napkin calculation: 5.1T / 10 Years = .51T / Year Current US Stock Market Cap: 153% of 21T = 53T [0][1] .51T of 53T = 0.9% For reference; the 2000s bubble had the stock market decrease by 36% over 3 years, the 2
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by ranie93 7y ago
[citation needed]

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