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by rmah 5y ago
There are 10 to 15 million beavers in N.America. In comparison, there are 400 beavers in the UK. There are 100's of thousands of bears roaming the US, 10's of thousands of mountain lions, millions of alligators, thousands of wolv
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by rmah 5y ago
The scenario where the destitute masses toil for the crazy rich few does not make economic sense in the post-industrial age we currently live in. That scenario only makes sense in low-productivity societies (and that was essentially how mo
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by rmah 5y ago
Civilization is far more resilient than most people today seem to believe. History shows that utter devastation can tear through a civilization, killing as much as one in three people, but civilization will rebound within a generation or t
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by rmah 5y ago
Even cruise missiles are horribly expensive for conventional munitions payloads. Cruise missiles were developed to deliver nukes. An unguided 1000kg "dumb" bomb costs $2,000. A "smart bomb" costs $20,000 to $100,000.
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by rmah 5y ago
"is it that in the past there was not a similar proportion of the brightest working on similarly pointless and wasteful problems" It is that in the past a large portion of the world's brightest were working in the fields or f
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by rmah 5y ago
My guess is that a failure to report is essentially be a regulatory violation, not a crime. Thus, a regulating agency will determine how to enforce. Which likely means they start with notices of violation and finally escalate to "rea
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by rmah 5y ago
The US financial industry has almost the exact same contiguous time off requirement for the same reasons.
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That's because that's not what GDP tries to capture. Might as well complain the # of songs played on the radio doesn't capture the quality of music composition..
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by rmah 5y ago
The author writes "who would give you money if you didn’t know what product you were making". Which is a very good point. And is the point of an creating an MVP first. You create an MVP before you seek outside financing, not
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by rmah 5y ago
After reading that article, I still don't fully grasp what bubble in particular, or "no-code" in general, actually offers or provides. This no-code movement strongly reminds me of the 5GL (or was it 4GL) snake oil pushed in t
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by rmah 5y ago
I sorta feel the same way as you as I spent a lot of money on music when I was younger. But, that said, those 800 CD's and 1200 LP's cost you around 800 * $15 + 1200 * $10 = $24000. That's enough to pay for 200 years of stre
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by rmah 5y ago
Um, not to sound like an ass but how is being asked to dig into the things on your resume a surprise?
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From what I can tell, it sounds sort of like a simplified spreadsheet as a code library.
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"Rich white/asian kid from NYC" I've seen this sort of characterization a lot here. I can understand it, but it doesn't really reflect reality. I don't know a lot about other areas, but in NYC, most asians ar
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by rmah 5y ago
If I may be so bold, I do not think Compass Letters is the sort of service one promotes with advertising. Instead, the $15k you mention ($5k/yr on 3 platforms) would be FAR better spent on other marketing activities. Media coverage,
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by rmah 5y ago
"It's not hard to imagine if Haiti had a US backed leader, who was removed in a coup and then replaced with a pro Russia / pro China president." Um... Cuba?
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by rmah 5y ago
Overall it seems like a well reasoned article. But as a side note, I have often seen people say something like "despite being blessed with natural resources" when talking about poor nations. While it feels reasonable to think t
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by rmah 5y ago
Marx's labor theory of value is wrong.
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by rmah 5y ago
Single pane windows are not common in the US in anything built in the last 30 years or so (give or take a few decades). Sliding windows are usually 2 or even 3 pane. Movies use single pane candy "glass" windows so characters can
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by rmah 5y ago
Where is a pound of meat cheaper than a pound of bread? Either way, no offense, but your economics grad needs to re-take some basic classes. To simplify, input costs only establish a floor on prices. Otherwise, prices are set by dynamic
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by rmah 5y ago
There is no theoretical (technical) solution. Ownership is a legal construct, not a natural phenomenon. To wit, someone only owns something because a legal jurisdiction is willing to recognize that he does. No blockchain tech can surmoun
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by rmah 5y ago
Then, IMO, all those other companies are the ones people should be complaining about, not Apple. No employer should share employment details beyond "he worked here" with third parties for any reason.
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Google will not confirm your title. They will only say you worked there.
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by rmah 5y ago
KevinFarzad is not a journalist. WaPo was just reporting on such jokes.
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Lol, if you think "Masks have gigantic effort/inconvenience and mental health costs", your life must be a continuous living hellscape.
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by rmah 5y ago
I'd argue that exactly the opposite. It allows those who don't look or speak a certain way to shine. It allows people who don't have good contacts and family networks to demonstrate their capabilities. Our firm has every ca
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by rmah 5y ago
Is $1300/mo supposed to be high? I've seen parking spaces going for $600/mo where I live.
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In America today, for many types of businesses, it's still that simple. You can open a sole proprietorship business with zero paperwork and no permission from anyone. You're not required to incorporate. You're not requi
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In the US, State and Federal agencies could share this data feasibly, if not for certain policies. I read stuff like this about salaries, budgets, contracts, etc. regarding various US federal/state/local governments quite often.
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by rmah 5y ago
Multiple reasons. Along with reasons given by other replies... During that era, they did not have a monetary economy. It's hard for us to imagine, but most of the things produced by the economy were simply traded (bought/sold).

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