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by spangry 10y ago
I imagine this is a pretty murky area of medical science; there are so many confounding factors. It could be anything ranging from physical inactivity caused by depression ('psychomotor retardation') to abnormal hormone/catec
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Oh god, not this again. Sounds like Accenture are looking to bring in more 'technical integration' clients (read: marks). Government and old financial being the favourites, given their deep pockets and technical illiteracy. If any
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The interesting question is whether their Social Contract will survive. So far, the people are generally satisfied with the Party's performance but in the years to come growth will inevitably slow, if only because their economy is so
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However, they will earn monopoly rents in those local markets. These rents will be used by Uber to cross-subsidise their 'tougher' markets that they've bypassed for the moment (either due to incumbents with bigger bankrolls o
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by spangry 10y ago
I think part of the problem is that many online discussion places (e.g. twitter, facebook, reddit, HN) implicitly reward people who 'react quickly' and who 'lead' (make 'root comments') over those that 'pa
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by spangry 10y ago
To your first paragraph question, the answer is essentially 'no' (but it's complicated). From a theoretical standpoint, productivity is a volumetric measure (Outputs / Inputs). From a more practical standpoint, even if
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by spangry 10y ago
This is simply incorrect. From a theoretical standpoint, productivity is a volumetric measure (Outputs / Inputs). From a more practical standpoint, even if output is measured in dollar denominated terms, the methodology used to measu
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Ah LVTs, my favourite hobby horse. It can be done. Where I live, the 'state-level' government survived going to an election with an explicit policy of replacing 'stamp duty' (a tax on the value of property sales) with a
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by spangry 10y ago
I think the observations in your last paragraph are very wise. I've recently begun to wonder if pursuing 'happiness' is even a useful goal. I'm not really sure what 'happiness' is, or whether it exists. In the
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I think that if the public continues to putter along on auto-pilot for much longer, absolutely not. Acknowledging that I sound like some nutbag conspiracy theorist, we can already see systems of mass control being quietly put in place. At t
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No full scale ones, AFAIK. India and China are investigating the technology. Oak Ridge laboratories ran what was essentially a proof-of-concept MSR achieving criticality in 1965, operating until 1969. Lots of interesting history behind that
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Yup. I switched from Ubuntu to Arch after I realised I was trying to make Ubuntu work like a rolling release distro. This lead to frequent breakage. Arch definitely has a learning curve, but it also helps you realise that some things reall
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by spangry 10y ago
I think burnout is a much more specific phenomena than just generally hating your job. It can happen in spite of you being very committed to your job (perhaps this even makes it more likely). I do agree though that burnout is not just confi
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by spangry 10y ago
Even worse, an attacker can broadcast a spoofed deauth packet so that it looks like it's coming from your router. Most consumer wifi equipment will deauth and then immediately reconnect, allowing the attacker to capture the '4-way
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by spangry 10y ago
I feel like it's not so much that there's a lack of good UI libraries (e.g. GTK, QT5), but rather a lack of good design . I've been using Linux exclusively since Windows 10 came out, and even big UI focussed projects like Gn
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by spangry 10y ago
I don't know if this is useful, but if you're looking to acquire more background knowledge from someone with 'expertise' on water scarcity, perhaps you might consider contacting the Singaporean government? Water scarcity
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by spangry 10y ago
There's something terribly wrong at FIRB, but unfortunately we have a Treasurer (ScoMo) either too incompetent or too conflicted to do anything about it (he used to be the 'director of policy' at the real estate institute of
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by spangry 10y ago
Well, after arguing that it's impractical to run RCTs I guess it's time for a bit of a 'climb-down', because this is a really great idea. I could definitely see this working in a place like the USA, where you have lots o
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by spangry 10y ago
While I respect what you're saying, and agree to a limited extent, I don't agree with the idea that people, and society, are completely impermeable to analysis. Perhaps you truly are neutral on the question of democrats and republ
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by spangry 10y ago
I agree. I think at this point even the most conventional academic economist would start giving you sideways glances if you asserted that people are always rational utility maximisers. It seems that most econometric modelling takes a top-do
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by spangry 10y ago
Your feeling is probably correct. The NY Times ran an interesting piece in June covering research indicating that some cases of PTSD might actually be the manifestation of traumatic physical brain injury: http://www.nytimes.com
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by spangry 10y ago
That all sounds very clever and all, but there's still a rather important question being left unanswered here: on what basis should a government make decisions? Coin flips? Gut feelings? The phase of the moon? Let's say you'r
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by spangry 10y ago
I guess the follow up question to this is: what superior alternative do you propose we use for evaluating competing government policies?
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by spangry 10y ago
I think this might come down to individual preference. Personally, I find the whole US dining experience rather uncomfortable. Because I come from a country without a tipping culture (Australia), I'm never sure if I'm tipping way
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by spangry 10y ago
It sounds like we more or less agree then, in principle, on the government ownership side of things. However I do have a few minor quibbles (see below). It's also worth noting there are instances where the government pricing is ineffic
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I'd like to learn some basic physics, up to the stage of understanding electromagnetism and other magnetic phenomena. I've got a notion about how to design a more efficient coil-gun, but can't find any electromagnetic simulat
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by spangry 10y ago
Singapore does pretty well, considering their 'traditional' main water supply is situated in another country (Malaysia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in... They currently have the
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by spangry 10y ago
This is a good point, and an important one to note. Desal is cool and all, but in pretty much every scenario, other than one where electricity is clean and cheap, water recycling is way cheaper and much more environmentally friendly.
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by spangry 10y ago
I don't see how it follows that "public ownership of a resource doesn't work very well". From what I understanding, you're talking about inefficient over-consumption of some resource, and suggesting price-rationing
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by spangry 10y ago
That's not really correct. The GP is essentially describing standard price rationing of resources. Negative externalities occur when some activity or transaction imposes costs on some external party that has nothing to do with that act

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