throwaway123156

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by throwaway123156 7y ago
I suppose it would lead to inflation and as long as the inflation is controlled, that's doable. Effectively, the government is being funded by all dollar holders at that point. It's a wealth tax of sorts imposed on those who hold
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by throwaway123156 8y ago
It's good to see an audit paper trail is generated by these machines. If EVMs are to be used, an auditable paper trail is necessary. Hopefully the Election Commission will audit a representative sample of locations to prevent any irreg
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by throwaway123156 8y ago
Was Bill Clinton appreciably more conservative than Jimmy Carter, the last Dem President before Clinton?
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by throwaway123156 8y ago
Primaries are not elections. They are private intra party affairs. Also, as far as I am aware, other than 1 district in Brooklyn whose votes were not counted in time in the Dem primary, there was hardly anything "corrupt" about ei
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by throwaway123156 8y ago
True, but markdown was meant to be readable for a markup language. Which is likely still less readable than something whose sole purpose is to present to humans, such as HTML/CSS.
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by throwaway123156 8y ago
Taking that statement out of context reverses its meaning. The author clearly believes they know why it hasn't taken over the market. That's the entire point of the article, and they start explaining immediately after the sentence
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by throwaway123156 8y ago
The Fed can easily replicate the benefits of cryptocurrency in seconds. They simply need to come out and say "We will only print X number of dollars, every Y number of months". There you go. All the benefits of Bitcoin replicated
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by throwaway123156 8y ago
The comment you were responding to was about electricity, which is clearly a highly linearly correlated marginal cost. I am not sure why you're bringing up average costs at all. And the comment you replied to did not even mention the o
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by throwaway123156 9y ago
I agree the statistics we have are pretty terrible. However, in this case, I think Waymo's statistic is actually quite useful. It's likely that Waymo's x miles driven statistic is largely driven by the fact that Waymo has tes