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by yholio 6y ago
Not only it's a bad idea to ban shorting, but it's almost impossible to do outside regulatory action by the SEC and even then. Shorting is essentially borrowing the control of stock to some other party. That's it. It doesn&#x
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by yholio 6y ago
Thanks for the specifics. The drug prices problem has a quite direct solution for single buyer systems: competitive tenders for generics, and QALY price ceilings for patent drugs. If a producer asks for a too high price compared to the heal
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by yholio 6y ago
The problem here seems to be that UCR prices are not correctly calculated, as the net prices that are actually paid, not label price. If UCR would be defined as the median of net prices charged in the last 24 months, inflation would halt. A
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by yholio 6y ago
I believe the USA is squarely within its rights to reciprocate the ban that american companies such as Google and Facebook face in China. So the move is justified on commercial grounds alone. That being said, Trump's claims that TikTok
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Neuralink is not a startup, it is a research lab dabbling in a very speculative area. Something might come out of it in the very long run, or it might not. The demo showed essentially a tool they are using in this research, a miniaturized b
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by yholio 6y ago
It's remarkable to see people so detached from their natural origins to believe produce will freze or spoil when extracted from the supermarket and exposed to the outside world for a few minutes. Unless you are living at the North-Pole
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Your sentence for today to write 100 times, Bart Simpson style, is: "I shall never use my monopoly power to restrict access to justice for my clients".
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Lock-in was their business model back in the 80s, it still is to this day. It got them to the verge of bankruptcy then, it will be their downfall now.
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Lock-in is not inherent to capitalism, see for example how open platforms like Linux competed successfully with closed platforms like Windows, with all their resources. So there is something particular with, say, operating systems, webserve
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You see this pattern for all professional tools, which have a very narrow expert audience. After a period of open competition, that for most fields ended in the 80s and 90s, a closed source competitor emerges which becomes the industry sta
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by yholio 7y ago
> the average gap between consecutive prime numbers among the first N integers is roughly log(N) So if you are compressing exceptionally large numbers, say, a whole video file, which is likely to contain very long factors, you could sha
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by yholio 7y ago
The idea is that virtualization escape vulnerabilities are quite frequent. An attacker might not have one on hand at any given moment and you might patch your system frequently when they become known. But this only means a determinated atta
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by yholio 7y ago
Meanwhile, I logically built on the same point to present a contrarian opinion, so your initial reply is somewhat pointless nitpicking. It's exactly what the author of the article intended, making a passing reference to the fundamental
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And then goes on to make outlandish claims about the benefits of the technology
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Yes, it's within 90%.
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And there are a fair number of people who seem to take personal offense that SI units exist in any form or fashion, perturbing the natural way of the world. We can't really know to what category this one belongs to.
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by yholio 7y ago
Electric cars don't usually have "gearboxes" proper. They use gears, fixed ratio reductors. This is not expensive nor is it fragile nor bulky nor inefficient. The benefits that a very high torque motor could bring are real bu
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by yholio 7y ago
> Put payment for a procedure in escrow, sign all the malpractice waivers and try to attract a doctor like tinder. I'll sign all malpractice waivers if you'll just cut this cancer out of my gut. We can use my living room! It&#x
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by yholio 7y ago
> What, exactly, is supposed to be new here? I see nothing distinguishing the economics of this "new consumer environment" from 1995 The free software model failed all the same in 1995 for a certain class of applications. It&#x
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I think the wins of the open camp are real and tangible and they powerfully shape the industry. Android is free precisely because an open kernel is available that could empower a competitor. Google is absolutely paranoid about this possibil
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Typical obfuscated process so that a company complies with the letter of the law but they make sure almost no users will go through with it.
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Self driving a 10Kg electric scooter on a dedicated lane to a nearby charging spot seems an orders of magnitude simpler problem than self driving 2 ton car in heavy traffic with people on board.
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What makes you think city run scooters would be so much more effective? I agree payment should be standardized and unified. But competition is a strong motive for innovation. For example, it could push providers to increase the range, safet
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by yholio 7y ago
So you are proposing dedicated lanes for scooters, and less lanes for much more dangerous vehicles? Why, that's an excellent idea.
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> “The real impact comes largely from two areas: using other vehicles to collect and redistribute the scooters; and emissions related to producing the materials and components that go into each scooter.” I think the first point can be dr
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Early bikes probably had similar reliability problems. Once the scooter design stabilizes, we will see refurbished units and mass recycling of consumables. There is nothing inherently wasteful or prone to rapid breakdown in scooters; the fa
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by yholio 7y ago
> What if we could solve this problem through core changes in our society? Yes, we call the necessary changes 'the state'. It's exactly to solve a collective action problem that the state first appears: military defense an
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by yholio 7y ago
Climate denialists are completely acceptable and don't disguise themselves, one of them is the POTUS. The last thing the oil and shale industry needs are an expansion of nuclear capacity, directly threatening their booming gas electric
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> we would be giving them a pile of dangerous radioactive waste several miles under the ground. Not sure whether it can be argued if it is really a better alternative. Seriously, we are pondering if a completely inert mass of nuclear was
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by yholio 7y ago
The iPhone is exceptionally cheap compared to what a device with similar capability would have costed 5 or 10 years ago. So, pricing is always relative to the existing technological level and competing offerings. Within a given technologica

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