yholio

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by yholio 7y ago
They are not selecting for individuals with an ability to do the job, punch out at the right time, and then live their lives. Corporations love obsessive-compulsive workers who feel thankful to have the job, are willing to sacrifice persona
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by yholio 7y ago
But if oil resources are nearing depletion, plastic production diverts crude from being burned as fuel, and pushes it's price up since plastics have a much higher economic value.
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by yholio 7y ago
Why would you do that, releasing carbon into the air? A PVC or PET container is about half carbon by weight and won't decompose in the next thousand years or so we're told.
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by yholio 7y ago
Because everyone recycles these days and it's politically unacceptable to see recyclable materials in the landfill - even if it's cheaper to produce new ones. In honesty, burying undigestible plastics seems like a great way for ca
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by yholio 7y ago
I don't understand how this diminishes the fault of the countries. They took the garbage, got paid for it or profited from the valuable recyclables, then dumped the refuse into the rivers. 50% of the garbage comes from a single river t
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by yholio 8y ago
The fundamental problem of any PPP is that a lot can go wrong or change in 20, 50 years. It's impossible to predict and anticipate future economic climate so both parts try to setup adversarial contracts where they are protected as muc
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by yholio 8y ago
I'm talking about competition, whatever the technical implementation. That's precisely the point, cost is determined by market structure and incentives, an inferior solution can be much cheaper due to lower margins.
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by yholio 8y ago
Sure there is, simply by virtue of being the only solution available. All of a sudden, a simple database becomes a sprawling corporation with a multimillionaire board of directors, waging political war among themselves for resources, power
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by yholio 8y ago
Those fines are the perfect representation of the lack of control EU has over US tech giants. They are essentially opaque and impossible to inflence through normal regulatory and political channels so the only options are the big guns. You
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by yholio 8y ago
> whats the expected value of a vulnerability "undetectable by voters and trusted auditors" in a 10-20 Mio/y market You might be low balling it yourself. The influence market has a limited value because players who would w
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by yholio 8y ago
As a more technical companion to Freakonomics, I would recommend "The undercover economist" and its sequel by Tim Harford. It's a great introduction to the way economy shapes our lives and choices. You will never drink coffee
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by yholio 8y ago
Clearly, without this invention , wipers to this day would still work on a sigle speed, calibrated for heavy rain. Millions of tons of wasted rubber and plastic, etc.
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by yholio 8y ago
It's either that, or they employed their market dominance to strike at their competitor. Without a public regulator that fines both Facebook and Apple for their respective abuses, we will never know which.
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by yholio 8y ago
It's not really an agreement, if you want to support Apple customers you either accept or leave that market to Apple itself. For something like social networking, that's absolutely massive, and we can't say that Apple has bee
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by yholio 8y ago
The problem with this is that "absolutely anybody in any country" can be a future potential tax payer, there are way more people willing to migrate into the US than there is economic capacity to integrate them all. Not to say that
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by yholio 8y ago
A major pet peeve are downvotes on perfectly polite comments from people who have different opinions about the topic you are commenting on. If downvotes were merely used to order comments, I could understand trying to deprioritize unpopular
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by yholio 8y ago
Nativist implies a racial undertone. I would call it tax-payerist: regardless of your background, the state prioritizes the interests of current tax payers to the detriment of future potential citizens. It's true even for migrants on o
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by yholio 8y ago
I disagree, if you can find cheap programmers in Des Moines, Iowa, then by all means expand there, spread the love within the country before going for import labour. As for bubbles, that's the point, there shouldn't be any if labo
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by yholio 8y ago
Seems like such a simple issue to fix: the only condition for getting a specialist visa should be to find an employer willing to pay a specialist salary, say above 150K. Doctors included, I see no reason to protect them from competition. Ho
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by yholio 8y ago
You don't need a 50% blood line to maintain your nobility title, you inherit the title from someone else, usually your father just like, and usually along with, a house or an estate. To make it like aristocracy the rule should apply re
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by yholio 8y ago
IANL but I think it's perjury to lie in a declaration "under penalty of perjury" only if that declaration is specifically required under the law or if you are submitting it to a legal body, such as a court, or to achieve an e
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by yholio 8y ago
This whole idea of storing a payment token that a company can charge at will (as opposed to a fixed top-up with cash) and then for me to be unable to deny those charges, I find it all unacceptable and refuse to allow it ever. After providin
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by yholio 8y ago
To enable end-to-end encryption, you need more than local storage, you need local computation using local execution of signed and reproducible code. Javascript in browsers is fundamentally not such a platform, mobile applications are - to t
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by yholio 8y ago
I happen to work for a council and know the general order of magnitude for road infrastructure investments - I participate in their approval. I would file this suggestion of "building smaller intersections", that is, completely re
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by yholio 8y ago
This is fundamental. If Facebook messages are still to work as before, with a web interface, an archive etc. then you need to supply Facebook servers with a decryption key. You no longer have end to end encryption. And I don't really s
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by yholio 8y ago
The cost of smart trafic lights is peanuts compared to the costs of reconfiguring and rebuilding a major intersection.
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by yholio 8y ago
Seems there is an important opportunity here to apply machine learning to video feeds of incoming traffic and people flow, and shape the phases to minimize wait time for all citizens, equally. The current systems require expensive induction
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by yholio 8y ago
> Votes are still cast on secret ballots, so I don't understand how that would even work. It's quite easy: jail the respective candidates and remove them from the ballot. > Really? A US-instigated military coup is the only w
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by yholio 8y ago
The analogy with the US fails unless you are claiming the Venezuelan election was fair. Sure, Maduro could have obtained a landslide victory against all odds, but he didn't, he eliminated his adversaries and rigged the results. Sure, t
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by yholio 8y ago
There are market research firms that specialize in this area. It's useful to have such information, so it has monetary value - money presumably saved by underpaying or avoiding overpaying your workers. It's not something the avera

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