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by temp-dude-87844 7y ago
Fear of missing out. These risky bets fit into the long-shot side of part of a balanced portfolio, and if they do make it, those who have backed them are positioned to make good money. When the appetite of VCs cools, these get dumped on the
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This is pretty common among the coming-of-age generation that has grown up on the Web. It's more likely to be tried in communities organized around shared attribute, circumstance, or interest, than just shouting into the ether. Typical
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Hungary is shrinking because of a one-two punch of (1) birth rates falling in the 1990s during the economic transition and staying there, despite generous incentives in recent Orban governments to encourage its rise, and (2) people of prime
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A higher level of relative wealth unlocks an advantage in the allocation of scarce resources like land and housing within a particular locale, which is meaningful to lots of people.
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Interstate wars are risky to the aggressor, because they require massive production capacity and supply chains to carry out in a way that avoids and immediate and crushing loss in a counterattack. Although the significance of frontline logi
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Regulations are a double-edged sword and serve many lords, just like most actions of government. It's possible for the same regulation to vastly decrease the risk of harm to consumers, yet act as a barrier to entry for smaller players.
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These sorts of elaborate rebuttals, like the article or the art project it references, aren't that different from the works of outsiders that they seek to prove wrong. It seemingly is the case that Appalachia attracts a kind of journal
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Consider that the political positions they hold may differ from the views they hold in private, both before and after a seeming change of heart. Successful politicians are skilled opportunists. If the politician believes that holding one ki
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VHF may be desirable because it penetrates objects and buildings well, has dozens of km of range, and typically propagates line-of-sight instead of groundwave or skywave. But the VHF band is nearly full [1] of existing allocations for publi
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This appears to be pushed through by France at the behest of Thales [1], a large and diverse manufacturer of civilian and military tech that, among other things, builds UAVs and aeronautical communication equipment. This portion of the band
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Recently the US Supreme Court ruled in Apple v. Pepper that app buyers of the iOS App Store do have standing to sue Apple in the antitrust suit, because they're buying the apps from Apple directly, and not from the apps' develop
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Many of the paragraphs are painful to read, and not just because, as Ava put it: "when I hear people being so rigid and so strict about certain forms and presentations, it just reminds me of that "Simpsons" cartoon, "Old
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One or more of the following: - Living in units where the rent is far below the median rent. - Working multiple jobs. - Living in a multiple-income family. - Living with roommates and pooling rent money. - Payday loans. - Behind on rent. -
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A nontrivial amount of opposition to vaccines comes from communities, both online and in person, that circulate accounts of atrocities committed by authorities. Naturally, accounts of mistreatment, whether or not its systemic nature is seem
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Hmmm, it's almost like all this sensor-loaded, networked hardware, whose signing keys are held abroad, could be realistically adapted for intelligence-gathering by a push of a few buttons if a government the company couldn't blow
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AirBnB isn't highlighting a zoning problem; rather, it enables ordinary people to engage in frictionless regulation-skirting commerce. Incidentally, Uber does the same thing. The problem with this is that it makes masses of lawbreakers
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A lot of core EU policies are based the neoliberal "gentle free markets" model of the world, like the rules to privatize infrastructure, transport, and telecom. They're largely to allow an EU-wide market where protectionism a
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by temp-dude-87844 7y ago
This is a promising venture. Low-tech solutions that truly improve quality of life. I applaud the improvements and those who've worked or donated towards this outcome. I have so many questions, though. Some that come to mind: 1. The nu
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This essay observes that the advantages conferred by cars were significantly dampened once the cityscape evolved to benefit from those advantages. At a time when cars weren't so widespread, they allowed freedom of movement, freedom of
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There will a big market for used trucks unless they make further changes to the emissions and inspection laws. Also, AirCare was cancelled, so older vehicles aren't currently under as much scrutiny as a few years ago.
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Maybe so. So let's forego his metaphor, and say instead that climate change puts us in a prisoner's dilemma. Maybe it's the same 90 companies polluting, and clearly they've contributed to the structural choices in our li
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This has long been empirically observed (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift ), but different schools of economic thought have different opinions about whether it's sufficient to result in a vicious
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Most of the US freight rail system isn't electrified because the capital expenditures of doing so would be very large, and its return on investment in terms of direct monetary savings wouldn't materialize for many, many years. Sin
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Yeah, the whole point of them isn't to announce it and then force the content on them anyway, the point is to warn about the nature of the content's gravity so that one can make an informed consent whether to continue or not. It&#
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The poles are a reservoir of factors that could further contribute to a warming climate and rising sea levels, and with their disruption, the processes will escalate. The emergence of similar reports might finally cause the conversation aro
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The MSG panic was one of a chain of food ingredient hysterias that have surfaced the last few decades. The government regulates food additives, in an effort to ensure that we can all trust our food supply. But food is the "think of the
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Aldi is really quite bizarre, in a way the article tries to capture. For all their rock-bottom prices on store brand goods, whose quality ranges from pretty good to never-again mediocre, they stock the store with a rotating selection of ran
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These movements come in waves, and it's a mistake to suggest that the recent developments are troubling or unnatural. All ideas are ultimately interpreted according to the norms of the time the interpretation is voiced, so perhaps in a
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It's tiring how much the media and casual discourse treats "millennials" as one gigantic person, but then again generational cohorts are a planning tool because large numbers of them engage in similar activities around the sa
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In past comments I've written about the symptoms and observed effects of wealth concentration, but I don't think wealth concentration explains this. It's a bad fit. Instead, I believe abundance of supply does. In the past, th

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