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by viknesh 4y ago
I'm not sure that it's just funding. Collecting fares also creates capitalist incentives which is ultimately good for an end user, since the transit system is incentivized to do things (increase frequencies during rush hour, creat
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by viknesh 4y ago
If a company disappears tomorrow, how would you realize the gains on the short? If there is no liquid stock to trade, they're just paper gains. You'd have to wait until legal proceedings end. What you are betting on in a short pos
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by viknesh 4y ago
Is your expectation to be given advice for every country in the world? Or is it implied that you only care about advice for the country you'll most likely receive it for (USA) in which case...why not just state that.
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by viknesh 4y ago
This is pretty much wrong because it misses an important point, which is that this is only discussing the annual gift tax limits. The lifetime limits are currently 11 million, which means that the first 11 million you give will not be t
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by viknesh 4y ago
That makes sense, and also suggests that governments with more centralized planning might skew more heavily towards nuclear. I'm not sure if that's actually true in practice (because obviously there are many non-efficiency related
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by viknesh 4y ago
I think that efficiency does matter. If a government/utility company/whoever wants to spend 100M on fixing climate change, they have a choice between building a new solar farm or building a new nuclear reactor. One of them will be
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by viknesh 4y ago
Historically speaking, this seems true. My understanding is that you're only looking at hydrocarbons (coal/gas), nuclear, and hydro, since everyone else is pretty new. Hydro is obviously the cleanest/safest, and nuclear has k
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by viknesh 4y ago
It's really interesting to see that pretty much everybody in the industry agrees that wind and solar are the future after having read https://www.lynalden.com/energy-problems/ . That piece seems to argue that wind
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by viknesh 4y ago
Margin calls are designed to stop the broker from losing money, not the customer.
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by viknesh 4y ago
What? Have you not heard of progessive income taxes? If you're in the US, medicaid, food stamps... your comment makes no sense if your only complaint is UBI.
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by viknesh 4y ago
A small nit: > As John Green (or Georg Cantor) taught us, some infinities are bigger than others—and the number of things is a really big infinity I don't think this statement is true, at least not in the context it's given. At
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by viknesh 4y ago
"What’s not part of it is insiders selling at the expense of investors." I was surprised to read that quote. If you ask me, that's the defining characteristic of crypto...
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by viknesh 4y ago
This headline seems factually incorrect given what the post actually claims was said. What's described isn't a 10% error rate, but rather 90% precision. It seems like the actual thing which would be called (type I) error rate isn&
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by viknesh 4y ago
I think the point of the original comment was that it's extremely feasible for attackers this sophisticated to have access to browser 0 day which would allow fs access, "insecure" browser or not
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by viknesh 4y ago
Another interesting factor (obviously not specific to tech) is inflation. This means that real wages probably declined by closer to 20-25% once accounting for that.
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by viknesh 4y ago
That's not how technology works. Unless you want the world to hide & censor the information on how to make similar models, the data exists for anybody with sufficiently powerful computer resources to make similar models. The only
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by viknesh 4y ago
I wonder what the average/aggregate expected loss in years of life is due to this. It's very different to make a fatal error on somebody with a life expectancy of 1 year vs 50 years. This data doesn't seem to be discussed in
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by viknesh 4y ago
Completely insane given how most websites default to the local currency based on IP, Airbnb included. I just visited the site logged-out, from a non-US IP address, and although the home page claimed to be in the local currency, it actually
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by viknesh 5y ago
I once had a paper/digital subscription, and at some point I had cancelled the card linked to it. Unbeknownst to me (my parents were receiving the subscription), they had kept sending the paper despite the card being cancelled. When NY