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How is that " the calories of a meal do not equal the sum of it's parts"? That seems to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
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My best guess is that Thiel secretly supports neoreactionary politics. He's gone on record saying he's opposed to democracy and thinks things started to decline when women got the vote. Neoreactionaries like the idea of governmen
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How so? Irrationality of markets are a direct result of irrationality of human beings. I doubt things would be terribly different without Keynsian ideas.
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Hah. Yes, from my overview, that pretty much seems like what's going on. Oh well, as long as they upgrade their laughably antiquated systems, all's well, even if they have to justify with buzzwords and tech hype.
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Work on your business from 7pm to 3am every night? Let's say you work 9am to 6pm. Let's assume you have to get up at 8am, that gives you, very optimistically, 5 hours of sleep. Some people can survive on that. Even more people
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Yikes. I hope the wounds heal over time. What you all did sounds right. It seems like your brother had a problem and giving him more money would have exacerbated it. Hang in there, I'm sorry you all had to go through this.
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Makes sense. I like the UCT in principle, but I can't argue with the evidence that CCT does have positive effects. Of course, CCTs may eventually have the same problem as traditional welfare policies: self-perpetuating bureaucracies,
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Famous? Among whom? Other than libertarians who already agree with that point of view. I didn't read everything Bastiat wrote, but he appears to be describing either the absolute or the comparative advantage of trade (e.g. the first
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Are you kidding? Or are you serious? The probabilities of getting the diseases you refer to are much, much lower than the probability of suffering harm due to alcohol or tobacco use. Now if you're saying we should also ban the use of
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Those are nice quotes from Lewis, but the fact remains that he and most other Christians would support criminalizing prostitution. And although moral outrage against sex may not be in the teachings of Jesus, it's certainly in the teach
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Bingo. What is different is that most of the future frauds will be explicitly financial in nature, whereas Theranos was a scientific fraud. Material misrepresentation of revenues and costs structure, overinflated usage stats - that sort of
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Meh. Same things would have happened if it was a stereotypical founder. I think being female is tangential. Look, fraud and deception have been around for much longer than political correctness. The female angle is definitely a cherry on
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You're being generous calling it PR. It's pretty much just an advertisement. To be fair, that's pretty clear upfront. My main problem is that they don't provide any references for all these layoff numbers. That would h
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It depends. There's some business units that just don't make any sense to keep funding. They may have become uncompetitive, technology could have made their business model obsolete. There's a whole host of reasons why it wo
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Interesting. I love the idea of this product, I work in finance and accounting and I'm already thinking of ways to apply. However, the examples used in this video are awful for the reasons you outlined. Plus, there's already goo
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This is a common trend among more ardent libertarians. I think it's due to a lot of libertarian predictions about the post-recession stimulus not coming true. I know, I was one of those libertarians who though Obama was going to usher
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Google Sheets has a "query" function in which you can write out SQL-like scripts and I have found it to be tremendously useful. I've been disappointed that a similarly easy-to-use function doesn't exist in Excel. This
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Excel superuser here. There's a lot of excel users who aren't comfortable with SQL, but I think they're a dying breed. The SQL you need to know for about 99% of your workflow is something you can learn in a couple of weekend
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I'm glad I read this comment before wasting time on reading the article. Thanks!
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The biggest risk is that Amazon will act as a monopoly and jack up the prices of the products once it's destroyed competitors. Honestly, I don't think that's too likely as amazon's business model is built around razor-th
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"We really need everything right now" I support more building but I can't agree with the above. Straus's statement is the embodiment of the kind of short term thinking that inevitably leads to planning disasters.
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I think you have a pretty naive and overly optimistic view of human organizations other than the US federal government. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In general very large organizations can be problematic. Very large organ
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Why is it a good balance? All you've done is state that "my idea is good because my idea is good." A better response would be to devolve power to CSA - combined statistical areas. These are geographic units defined by econom
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In order for states to use their self-interest to diminish quality we have to ask "diminish relative to what"? If your comparing the actual to some ideal then, of course, your always going to see a diminished quality. But that&#x
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Huh? Your comments are completely ahistorical. The US federal government played a massive role in creating the states. Examples include the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, massive Federal armed deployments against nati
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German comedian? Is that the punchline?
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Not really. Sailor makes the case that there's a strong dose of affirmative action involved. His blog posts don't really contribute much to the discussion other than adding that slight "politically incorrect" slant. Hi
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Hmmm. Does he even reference the fact that the SF Bay Area was the recipient of massive amounts of government and government contractor money? And what about the free-wheeling, non-traditional culture (embodied in the Homebrew Computing Cl
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I applaud their commitment to a good cause, but this seems kind of like a double victory for the moralizers who passed this law.
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You're assuming people know what type of genitalia other people in the restroom have. I don't understand the type of restrooms you use. When I use the restroom I do not inspect the genitalia of my fellow men. I'm pretty sur

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