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by tamana 11y ago
Ha, I recently thought of X10 as an alternative to the modern IoT cloud crapware, I forgot about their webspam.
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by tamana 11y ago
Maybe they just had a recent big advertising push. Or the link is inserted after he sends it, before it is delivered to you?
633.
by tamana 11y ago
Don't conflate lifetime wealth with one time annual income. Many more than 1% of the population earns top 1% income in some year. And don't conflate wage income, which is taxed at (marginal) 40+% right off the top, with investmen
634.
by tamana 11y ago
The median-finding algorithm os exact. Reread the Wikipedia page more closely. MoM uses an approximate heuristic to guide the search for the exact median. The key is that the approximate has bounded error, and can be refined to exact in li
635.
by tamana 11y ago
They hired all the Math, CS, and Physics PhDs, so now they are hiring the tier 2 quants :-)
636.
by tamana 11y ago
People are lining up around the block to adopt poor non-white babies? Mothers have no natural human emotions of attachment to their offspring?
637.
by tamana 11y ago
Indeed, being young, male, healthy, educated, and white is a great way to bootstrap out of poverty.
638.
by tamana 11y ago
Walmart can "Support" raising the minimum wage but conveniently fail to achieve it.
639.
by tamana 11y ago
If this system worked so effectively to its ends, why is bill gates so wealthy and not taxed away?
640.
by tamana 11y ago
Land-Value Tax. Landlord makes money by improving the land and providing services to residents, not by merely owning land in perpetuity. Land is common wealth.
641.
by tamana 11y ago
Edison was a capitalist manager and salesman, not much of an inventor. How much value he created vs extracted is up for debate.
642.
by tamana 11y ago
It's theoretically trivial: most transactions have a surplus. How is the surplus divided between the seller and buyer? More lopsided, more exploitative. Some transactions leave one side even worse off, but they execute due to ignorance
643.
by tamana 11y ago
A huge portion of payday loans are repeat loans from people trapped in a cycle of debt, taking out loans to pay off interest on previous usurious loans. Yes, payday loans have defait risk, whixh is part of why they are expensive. But that a
644.
by tamana 11y ago
Pay day lenders are required by law to publish APR. The ugly truth at the bottom of it is that their customers base is fundamental to stupid to know what is good for them, or too impulsive to make responsible choices, or too desperate to se
645.
by tamana 11y ago
"Land Value Tax". This is well studied area of economics.
646.
by tamana 11y ago
"Non-profit" is an ownership structure. It doesn't guarantee that management isn't commanding extortionate salaries.
647.
by tamana 11y ago
..or the people eating the fish and drinking the water.
648.
by tamana 11y ago
Social Security. Unemployment insurance. WIC/SNAP (food stamps). Government mandates affordable housing on major transit lines. Non-usurious Government loans for the working poor, secured against income. Stuff we already do, but shoul
649.
by tamana 11y ago
Fantasy or not, free to not, landlords don't control the Fed.
650.
by tamana 11y ago
You made a huge leap from "running a trailer park" to "being a slumlord", and you also implied but haven't answered the question of who is to pay for mold remediation etc when the tenants can't afford to make i
651.
by tamana 11y ago
Is that a bug or a feature, that Eve checks your wealth to open a buy order, but not to keep it open?
652.
by tamana 11y ago
Are there games my kids can play and safely get burned and learned by scams like this, using play money not expensive credits from real money?
653.
by tamana 11y ago
V = IR. For a given resistance (your body!) V and I are interconvertible.
654.
by tamana 11y ago
Have you seen the movie "Little Man Tate"? You might appreciate it.
655.
by tamana 11y ago
What's wrong with that quote? It seems like thr normal jargon of psychology.
656.
by tamana 11y ago
The unicode arrow is just a pretty-printed -> The bizarre opeators seem to be an attempt to maintain similarity to make's cryptic oerstorsr
657.
by tamana 11y ago
It is an easy complaint to address: just open this database to reports of good police interactions, just like Amazon does for products. I would appreciate a resource that told me which police officers are trustworthy.
658.
by tamana 11y ago
Almoat all malware is installed by mistake, or by exploiting a bug.
659.
by tamana 11y ago
Next up: ransomeware that replaces your cloud files with encrypted version
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by tamana 11y ago
That's only free for demo usage. $120/yr for the lowest tier for non-trivial/toy projects.

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