spikels

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by spikels 11y ago
One of the big advantages of air travel is that it is much more competitive than train systems. This is due to the high costs of train tracks resulting in a natural monopoly. Without even the threat of competition there is little incentive
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Good luck making that connection at Long Eaton
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Can you give some examples of the "Really Bad Things" you are thinking of?
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This was written by a high school physics teacher. Very cool.
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Hoarding = saving and investing. Almost every point you make is confused about basic economics.
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Whoa there Moshe! While there are undoubtedly counterproductive incentives created by a basic income program most governments already have numerous programs with arguably worse incentives that are less effective. In most conceptions of basi
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by spikels 11y ago
HN is a terrible place for conversations about complex economic issues. Many comments seem to be both confused about basic concepts and trying to make political arguments. Not a recipe for enlightenment.
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by spikels 11y ago
This a very dishonest argument. Fatalities per km travelled is the standard metric of safety for a good reason. Are you against hospitals too? Deaths in hospitals have skyrocketed since they were invented. You are being a pedantic jerk. Rea
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by spikels 11y ago
For the past year the black/white issue has dominated the discussion of police violence, not male/female. That 97% of those killed by police are male but on 52% of the population is male seems too be in a large part justified by t
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by spikels 11y ago
I though the same thing until 9/11. The 3,000 people killed were 20% of the 16,000 murders that year. It was by far the biggest mass murder in US history. Next biggest was 44 in the 1927 Bath School disaster. And of course terrorism is
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by spikels 11y ago
Not that much smaller: Population Killed (mid-2012) by Police United States 314,102,623 984 England & Wales 56,567,800 3 Ratio 6x 328x Don&#x27
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by spikels 11y ago
See Table 7: http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf . Blacks are offenders in 57% of gun homicides, 60% of homicides committed in conjunction with another felony, 67% of drug-related homicides, and 42% of
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by spikels 11y ago
He is not arguing "categorically". You are simply misunderstanding. No strawman. Sorry.
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by spikels 11y ago
I think he is arguing almost exactly the opposite. Poverty, poor education, etc are the underlying problem - the arsenic - and income inequality is one of the symptoms - like hair loss from chronic arsenic poisoning. Attacking income inequa
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Paul Graham TLDRs Paul Graham because people can't resist misinterpreting him. Doubt it will help...
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Long overdue, this has been an obvious yet growing problem for decades. Asset forfeiture needs to be ended completely. This is only the first step.
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by spikels 11y ago
Make me think of this and optical illusions. http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
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by spikels 11y ago
It will be very interesting how this plays out. We are in rather unexplored territory. On one hand raising interest rates could spook the stock market which would reverberate through tech. On the other hand without room to lower rates the F
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by spikels 11y ago
It is no secret that both Mozilla and Django have a strong politically correct / social justice culture. This makes the two organizations more compatible.
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Yahoo's survival is a legacy of it's huge success in the late 1990s when it was the most successful company on the Internet. You are likely young and did not experience Yahoo's almost Google like dominance at the time. First,
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You are correct according to the news reports I read. See 6th paragraph of this Reuters article for example: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-divestiture-idUSKBN0...
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Yahoo has already done almost exactly that and had to write off $42 million in October when their original content effort failed. http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/yahoo-misses-q3-earning...
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by spikels 11y ago
You seem to think everyone's decency has a price, especially poor people. Pretty depressing thought but thankfully not true. Otherwise people would be blowing themselves up all over the world, including the US. Instead it is almost ent
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by spikels 11y ago
No problem: self-driving electric scooters and motor bikes - not too far behind cars. http://www.notimpossiblenow.com/the-latest/google-self-drivi...
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by spikels 11y ago
This is why electric self-driving cars are the future. Door to door service using existing road infrastructure much more efficiently. Most public transit systems are so poorly run many will not survive.
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Nvidia TK1 Linux dev board now only $99(makezine.com)
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I'm not sure which treaties you are referring to but certainly all trade agreements have always been negotiated in secret. And people who were against them have always complained.[1] Are you against climate agreements because they was
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The aluminum market is global and generally thought to have too much capacity. Even if US aluminum demand increased dramatically it would unlikely help the US industry much because production cost are cheaper elsewhere.
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I'm pretty sure you are getting downvotes because your original comment was needless political snark. Now you are making baseless accusations of "vote manipulation". Please don't do this here.
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The article has been updated at the very bottom. It seems to support your view that 15M greatly overstates the audience: Update: ESPN is now reporting that the Yahoo stream saw an average minute audience of 2.36 million, and 1.64 million in

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