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by rmah 7y ago
To use different phrasing, what you're saying is that you want people to be poorer. Please understand that I don't mean this as a personal attack on you, your beliefs or philosophy. But from a different perspective, that really
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by rmah 7y ago
Can they not do basic math? There are around 30 mil adults in California. Even if provision 18992.1 (b) is 5 mil people, that's still 25 mil people. That's 25 mil * $12,000 = $300 bil a year. The ENTIRE California state budget
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by rmah 7y ago
As eru tersely pointed out, most contemporary literary analysis and criticism is no longer based on what the author meant, but instead based on how the work itself, irrespective of the author's intent or the context within which it was
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by rmah 7y ago
"Store of value" is not how economists (and most normal people) define money. Pretty much any non-degrading asset can be a store of value. That doesn't make them money. To be money, something must fulfill three criteria: 1)
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by rmah 7y ago
Except that historically and worldwide, silver, copper alloys and even grain were far more commonly used as money (medium of trade, unit of account, store of value) than gold.
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by rmah 7y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I have doubts that 10x or 100x engineers are leaving google because of the reasons outlined in the post.
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by rmah 7y ago
They had working jet packs in the 1960's. One was used in a James Bond film.
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by rmah 7y ago
How many missile carrying drones do you think we could make for the cost of one $80mm F35 You can buy five MQ-9 Reaper drones ($16mil each), or three MC-C Gray Eagles ($31mil each). These things have flight performance similar to early w
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by rmah 7y ago
I took a program that used to take multiple days to run in python/numpy/scipy/pandas moved it to julia... and got it down to just a few hours. Something like a 20x speed improvement. It seems the biggest speedups are gained
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by rmah 7y ago
I have never understood why dropbox refuses to allow folders other than "Dropbox" to be sync'ed. It mystifies me and keeps me from using it.
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by rmah 7y ago
The vast majority of limited trade during pre-industrial times is due to the inefficiency of (i.e. cost) of long range transportation. A single modern cargo ship can carry more cargo in a single voyage than an entire years worth of the ent
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by rmah 7y ago
The new ground is that the tin is dated from apx 1000 BCE rather than 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE when the trade from the now british isles to the near east cultures was well established. These trade routes were thought to be disrupted during the
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by rmah 7y ago
Is this guy actually a researcher in the way most people would think of it? That is, someone who pushes the boundaries of science; who develops new AI techniques or finds the hard boundaries of existing AI techniques; who finds new ways
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by rmah 7y ago
The thinking behind "as long as people think it will crash, it won't crash" is as follows... 1) most people thinking that a crash is near means that they view the stock market to be overpriced. 2) this means they won't b
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by rmah 7y ago
And to think that I used to have great respect for Scientific American magazine. This article is the worst sort of pseudo-intellectual tripe. It uses fancy-schmancy academic language to dress up silly ideas and wordplay. Masking itself i
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by rmah 7y ago
Housing prices are included in the CPI both for owners and renters. Here's how => https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
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by rmah 7y ago
This is one of the best startup post-mortems I've read on HN. Clear and engaging writing which also provided key insights into the mind of the entrepreneur during his journey. It's sad that it didn't work out but I think it
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by rmah 7y ago
Um, that's $10 USD.
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by rmah 7y ago
The US experimented with democratic military structures during the early days of the Civil War (and perhaps before) at the regiment and company levels. Some volunteer regiments elected their officers. This did not turn out well and the pr
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by rmah 7y ago
The Reuters article is based on an article published by the WWF about a study they commissioned at the U. of Newcastle (Australia). Press release is here ( https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/press_releases/?348337 ) an
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by rmah 7y ago
The CEO of Enron, Jeff Skilling, was convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison. He cut a deal later to get it reduced to 14 years, of which he served 12 before being released on parole. Not sure what crime you think the CEO of Lehman
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by rmah 7y ago
In the text, the author writes "Don’t get me wrong. Focus is important, and it’s worth developing this capacity". But titled the article "Stop Trying to Focus". Am I the only one to be annoyed with this sort sort of cl
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by rmah 7y ago
IIRC, most of those were just accusations and quite possibly just "made up".
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by rmah 7y ago
Sorry, but nepotism, politics and connections are even more important in the cryptocurrency/blockchain industry than in traditional tech or even finance. In crypto/blockchain it's ALL about who you know. And the lack of goo
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by rmah 7y ago
You have stated that 1) you make far more than you need; 2) the workload is too high and that 3) consistency and response time are important to the client. If you are truly concerned that taking time off will lead to problems with the clie
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by rmah 7y ago
First, be smart. Very very smart. And be able to demonstrate your smartness at the drop of a hat under stressful conditions. Second, attend a top tier "name" university like MIT, Stanford or Carnegie Mellon and major in a relate
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by rmah 7y ago
The average person does not use bloomberg. These things cost $20k+ per year per person. You don't randomly hand them out to everyone at your firm.
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by rmah 7y ago
Question: what even gives ISOC the right to sell it? IIRC, they were granted control by the US gov, but that is not the same as ownership.
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by rmah 7y ago
I'm not sure of the details, but the Caymans have a reciprocal reporting arrangement with US tax authorities and financial regulators. That is, if you're an American, you can't really hide money there. What you can do is op
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by rmah 7y ago
Apple paid $10B in income taxes on $65B of income in FY 2019. In addition they paid billions in sales/vat/gst tax and various taxes associated with employees. Apple's tax structure in Ireland was not "deemed illegal&qu

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