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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
perhaps the priority is encouraging investment into capital.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
consider that the cost of complying is immediate and borne by the agent, whereas the penalty of defection is discounted according to the degree to which people believe it can be postponed (insofar as they consider the penalty at all).
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> Health care and education > government's mostly laissez-faire approach to handling both actually those are among the most heavily regulated and subsidized industries in the us.
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FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident(thedrive.com)
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> At the same time, many if not most students contribute to the challenges by being almost totally uninterested in labor market signals or genuine learning; Number one reason to attend college? It is an opportunity to move out without ha
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
(2017) > What’s a floating signifier? It’s a symbol that has an imprecise meaning. And that broad vagueness is its strength. A floating signifier is “amorphous enough for many different kinds of people to connect with and see their value
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
there is a prisoner's dilemma type of effect here where, when other people are "defecting" (wasting fossil fuels and packaging), it's rational for the individual to defect as well.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
>Despite his reputation, Dr. Lown was treated like just another widget on the hospital’s conveyor belt. “Each day, one person on the medical team would say one thing in the morning, and by the afternoon the plan had changed,” he later to
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
if we assume our desired orbit to be at an altitude of 320 kilometers and our orbital velocity to be 7 kilometers per second; and we assume that air resistance decreases as a proportion of the cube of velocity inside the troposphere, propor
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> And indeed, even in countries with high inheritance taxes, the richest families tend not to change much inter-generationally inheritance taxes are designed to restrict upward mobility on a timespan of generations. of course the richest
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> It's going to be hard to fix those problems without taxing them. its going to be hard to fix those problems if your only tool is "even more of some rich guy's money". there are structural problems, these schools hav
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
should say "cryptocurrency" not "crypto"
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
but if you want a normed ring division algebra you must stop at 8 dimensions.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
originally they made money by the margin between the profit they make on wise investments and the amount they pay in interest for the privilege of investing money for them. those days are long gone.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
people in those countries tend to be highly critical of the actual affect of his interventions. his children are in school, but his friend and fellow-billionaire-advocate-for-higher-taxes-on-billionaires, Warren Buffett, is doing the same t
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> How many potentially great developers are lost in awful educational systems, for example? not for lack of funding. taxing the shit out of billionaires isnt going to fix the structural problems that make the schools a poor environment f
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> giving away to a foundation which he controls. its how the ultra-wealthy preserve their wealth, its pretty standard issue.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
that way it is harder for anyone to catch up to him
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
1. intelligence is a matter of applying the correct model without allowing your emotions to interfere. 2. your models and your application of them are affected by your experience, emotions, and social constraints; and the specific informati
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> The thing about children is that they generally don't have the experience or knowledge to make decisions like this. very true. >Besides, voting with your dollars is a fallacy. in an oligopoly such as education where the purchas
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
http://www.softschools.com/formulas/physics/magnetic_field_f... the strength of the magnetic field is equal to the (current times the permeability of the medium) divided by (the distance times 2 pi). magnetic flux