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There were 27 years between the release of the iphone 5 and the Cray, and at a $649 release price, it was approximately 50,000 times cheaper. So, if this was linear, we can all expect 130 petaflop computers around 2043 for around $3,500? Lo
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> Land value tax This has nothing to do with allocation of land. If you have a land value tax there'll still be property companies with shares and people who arbitrage them. > state issuance of money via basic income Again, nothi
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Without being able to sell shares, a wine company that makes a profit can only grow by reinvesting their profit. E.g. it cost 100 tokens to set up the shop, it grows by 15 tokens a year, it has to wait 7 years before it can set up a differe
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If it's automated, why do people bother paying these people? And even if it is automated, someone has to write the algorithms, no? And how do you propose finding the relative value of different companies without these people?
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Some companies are going to be overvalued, and some undervalued compared to how much value they will make in the future (e.g. how much profit they will generate over a ten year period). If I manage to figure out that Company A is overvalued
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They provide a price-finding mechanism, and finding the price of goods helps create value.
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Wheat doesn't have proteins and fats - those are more expensive. And processing wheat is fairly laborious, you'd have been better off comparing it to flour (about 12kg of flour a day for the median US income after taxes). And ther
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There can be good reasons to break into cellphones, just like there can be good reasons to have a lock pick. Our problems stem from overfunded and underregulated intelligence agencies, not from the tools they use.
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There are still people in the US without access to clean water. In some parts of the country, primary and secondary school education is abysmal. As far as I'm concerned, it's a question of priorities. Sure, I love the humanities,
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Also to have an external backup of the video feed. Otherwise, if you get robbed, and they happen to steal your NAS, you've lost the main reason to have a security camera in the first place - to identify the perp.
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> If your more housing comes with an effective requirement for everyone who works in the city to live in that housing What? Where did I require that?
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That's not correct. The Council of Ministers, acting unanimously, decide on the rules governing the use of languages by the European institutions. Ireland (and Malta) would veto removing English as an official language. https:/&#
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A bit off topic, but I find it funny that if the UK leaves the EU, English will remain an official language of the EU due to the Irish Republic.
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21st, although it's not a like-and-like comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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I did not advocate for everyone living in cities. I advocated for more city housing, as currently it is unaffordable to many who do want to live in them due to demand outstripping supply. If you want to see my view as Pol Pot style authorit
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You've worded it better, so thank you, but I believe my main point stands.
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Looks like Daniel's website is under a bit of load. Here's a cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:os8OBl...
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I look at them now with horror - no need to wait 100 years.
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That's not the point. The margins could be low. But it would still have two effects: * Prisoners would be treated better * Whatever small profits could be pumped into rehabilitation Currently for-profit prisons have perverse incentives
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> You can already make these tradeoffs for yourself by moving to SF or Manhattan, which is generally ill-advised unless you make so much that the astronomical housing costs don't hurt too badly. The shoe is on the other foot. The re
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That's not quite accurate. What he did say was bad enough without exaggeration for effect. He said women voting led to less libertarianism, and he regards less libertarianism as a tragedy. He claims that he supports women voting. He al
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This election wasn't just about SJW - it was much more multifaceted than that.
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> I promise that I will do my best Uphold our Scout values Do my duty to the Queen Help other people And to keep the Scout laws Well I'm an atheist and a republican, so that wouldn't work for me.
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Just a note, it appears this was conducted in the UK which doesn't have a bear population, and barely has a raccoon population.
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I agree, maybe I'm a poor programmer, but 2 hours seems incredibly unrealistic for: a) Creating a frontend form to submit movies b) Creating the database to store movies c) The 'search to find the movies' feature Maybe I coul
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Which is why he has an approval rating of 55%?
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I recall reading that's how Spotify's model works.
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I believe prostitution should be legal, but I think the issue is still tied to trafficking. It's a lot more difficult to ensure that people are there consensually when brothels are driven underground. How can we possibly police every s
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But investing in 'the economy' generally means investing in the stock market. Which introduces risk, which isn't great for an emergency fund - and you'll no longer be covered by FSCS.
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[Nate Silver thinks the plan is doomed, I tend to agree with his points.]( http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/why-a-plan-to-circumvent-... )

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