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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It’s dead.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Fed hates that and fights this tooth and nail. See, for example: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/09/fed-nixes-narrow-... https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/03/fed-vs-narrow-b
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
European cities are much less affordable than US cities. Just look at the data, compare average household income to average rent or purchase price. It blows my mind that people here put Europe as some kind of affordable walkable alternative
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You are asking for price controls. Historically, those have almost universally decreased availability and exacerbated shortages.
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Yes, that’s what the word “most” means in the sentence you quoted.
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Very interesting. While the theory that most peanut allergy is caused by no exposure in infancy is well supported by the evidence, seems like it’s definitely not the entire story, given your experience — after all, you could hardly have a l
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
How would the issue of intellectual property rights to published books be resolved in an alternative, non-capitalist system? In socialism, as far as I can tell, anyone would totally be able to ingest all these books, as there would be no co
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Ah yes, because there is no reasonable middle ground between forbidding experiments where a subject might get a mote in their eye, and literally sacrificing babies to Moloch. Please. You can make better argument than that.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is the case with literally all kinds of professional ethicists. Thanks to them, we do not routinely do scientific challenge trials and plenty of other valuable experiments, and in many cases are reduced to collecting significantly wors
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> It's not clear whether the assets are enough to make the depositors whole. It sounds like the FDIC is making up the difference. Which it normally would not. Sure, which is why I’m not opposed to depositors taking some haircut. B
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, this is not how the deal works. We do not reimburse investors for wrong, or just plain unlucky investment decisions. Our financial-regulatory system treats banking and speculative investment differently, and this is by design. > If y
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The depositors “took risks” by literally keeping their cash in a bank? This is ridiculous. What was the safe, responsible thing to do? Put it in one of the “too big to fail” banks instead, given that those are guaranteed to be bailed out sh
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
And how much stock he has left that he didn’t sell, and lost entirely a few days later? Is this really the best argument for the “privatize the profits” narrative, that someone picked up a few pennies from in front of $6B steamroller?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
“Privatize the profits”? What are you talking about? The owners of SVB are wiped out, they will not see any profits, they lost their entire equity in SVB.
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No, I am talking about regular night, which adds up to half of the year.
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> And if France makes it mandatory to cover all "substantial" parking lots it will generate as much electricity from just that as 10 nuclear power plants [1]. It will not, not even close to that. You are being deceived. This de
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
For the same reason why you might want to borrow money from one person, but not from another: people typically want to choose to whom they are responsible. You don’t want to suddenly acquire an activist minority shareholder, who’ll sue you
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Again, you are talking about stocks. Options work completely differently. Unlike with RSUs, you don’t owe any tax on options when they vest, only when you actually exercise. I know how RSUs works, I have actually worked at Google for a numb
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The employees can always exercise and quit even if they cannot sell it, this doesn’t do a lot for the brain drain. Instead, the main reason is that company wants to control who its shareholders are. They don’t want just any entity to be abl
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, this is completely incorrect. The issue in question is about stock options, not stocks themselves. If you hold actual stocks, there is no tax bill until you sell these to realize the gains, and you can hold these forever. Instead, the i
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
When was that? In 2008, the candidates who were good at leet code kind of questions were generally unusually smart and skilled: nobody at the time was grinding these problems to prepare, so people who could offhandedly solve them without an
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Mostly, yes, but there have been reported cases where even with zero temperature, you get nondeterminism, probably due to accumulation of errors due to different operation order on floating points.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In theory, maybe, but in practice nobody (in particular, no serious, non-hobby farmers) cares about it other than activists who hate Monsanto. Outside of activist groups and NGOs, this is simply a non-issue.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is a fully general argument against any progress: let’s not improve any production processes, because if we make stuff cheaper to make, everyone will have to do it the new, efficient way, which would be terrible. Just try to think of s
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, the people who don’t care much about well being and flourishing of people in poor areas of the world might say that. Sure, they work their asses of hoeing the rows, and get quarter of the yields people in the west get with ten times mo
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Nobody has ever been sued for accidental cross contamination this, and Monsanto explicitly says that it will never sue anyone for this.
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I don’t think it is ever a case that someone can patent the only crop you can grow. Parents are not issued for such broad categories. You cannot patent corn or potatoes as a whole. What is patentable is a specific variety of corn that you d
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Yeah, in the developing world they follow a lot of traditional practices, like seed saving or underuse of artificial fertilizers or pesticides, which results in bad yields and leaves them poorer.
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Your first link explains that when you’re a UK farmer and you save seeds, you must pay the government some kind of tax for the privilege. Oh, and also you cannot give or sell other people the seeds you saved. Your second link is some kind
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Yes, if the proprietary seeds are so much better and cheaper that nobody will ever buy legacy seeds, the latter might go out of business. Isn’t it a good thing? It’s not like proprietary seed makers will then be able to rack up prices, as b

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