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by tcbawo 7y ago
That was the thought, yeah. I was thinking of something like Mint for the environment, paired with an optional credit card so you can contribute as you go vs. get a 'bill' afterwards
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by tcbawo 7y ago
I had an idea once to create a credit card where a configurable percentage of spending went towards carbon offsetting. The goal would be reduction in personal carbon footprint and eventually going negative. This would require both measurem
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by tcbawo 7y ago
They way I interpreted his take was that experts can be stubborn and risk-adverse. After all, the downside risk for reputation probably outweighs the upside for a risky and unique surgery.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Extolling? No. My point is that hedge funds have resources and smart people working on signals that they will trade on before you see them in Google trends. Also, some hedge funds do well while others do not. Most are very secretive and
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Hedge funds don't use Google trends as an indicator. They hire photographers with infrared lenses to gauge the inventory of oil refineries and shipping depots, or buy non-public location/foot traffic. I would not be surprised if
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by tcbawo 7y ago
In the large city where I live, green spaces and parks are flourishing. There are many cultural amenities for children (zoos, museums, libraries). There is also a large ecosystem of for-profit child care/play spaces. Cars are every
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Should you be a resident to invest in a fund that purchases US real estate? The US has always been open to foreign investment.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
It's very hard to build a real money-making business. The best language is the tool that gets you over the finish line. It's great to invest in new technologies. But, I have also seen many developers push technology without the
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Stylistically, it's hard to imagine anything as stereotypically 80s as this collection of furniture and lamps. It's like the early days of 3D rendering in physical form.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
There is a book that examined this over a century ago, Progress and Poverty ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty ), which was hugely influential in it's day. It seems as though it could have been w
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by tcbawo 7y ago
There are products (Venmo, Zelle, Popmoney, Quickpay) that solve problem.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
I recall the CEO of Motorola in the early 2000s deriding Samsung as Same-sung because they just copied other people's ideas. But Motorola steadily lost marketshare and now exists in name only (except for the government business).
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Costco is one of the few places you will see prime grade meat these days outside of a butcher shop or restaurant.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Roman numerals remind me of that adage that obsolete technologies never really go away. There might be more people alive today that use Roman numerals than at the Roman empire's peak.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Is this speech available somewhere?
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Where possible, I've found it effective to keep system components small and reusuable (each component should have one purpose and do that thing very well) instead of building monolothic objects. Complexity of system components increas
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Western capitalism seems to be the one thing that has successfully incentivized people to have less kids, later in life. It's not always glamorous, but it's probably better than most alternatives.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Does the decommissioning process for a nuclear plant involve returning the space to other uses? Does it become a permanent dead zone? Half-lives of thousands of years are no joke. Practically infinite is a long time.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
China has fluctuated between being a net buyer and net seller recently ( https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt )
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by tcbawo 7y ago
This usually happens when you pay upfront. If they bill an uninsured person retroactively, they try to capture as much cost as possible expecting that they will not get the entire amount. It's an awful system.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if camera makers were embedding invisible watermarks in their images/videos already.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
I am not a blockchain enthusiast but proof of authenticity is a use case that I've heard. It could be used to prove (for example), that a specific video existed in it's current form at a certain point in time.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
It's been a long time and I worry that looking back, the material might not hold up. Here is a short interview I found about some of the machinations behind the series (although it doesn't seem very subtle): https://ko
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by tcbawo 7y ago
It's been a long time since I played the Ultima series, but it would be refreshing if they could incorporate character-building (in the moral sense) into a modern game.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
In good design, form follows function. I don't see the purpose in that angled glass structure other than trying to look different.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
The Pimsleur method, which relies on a progressly timed learning technique really helps commit language to long term memory. It's audio only, but I really recommend then. I believe Ankh is based on this as well.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
With a college education, you are paying for someone to curate content, present it in a way that builds on itself, and provide a reasonable amount of depth and breadth of knowledge. Maybe some of this is solved with modern online courses,
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Companies invest a lot in their employees. They don't want them to leave. In many managers' eyes, physical presence in the office makes it much easier to gauge employee satisfaction and whether they may be out interviewing. Also
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Ayn Rand's writing is thought-provoking but provides ample opportunity for confirmation bias.
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Seems to overlap somewhat with smoking: http://time.com/3832031/smoking-map/

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