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by zeroer 9y ago
Not very well?
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by zeroer 9y ago
Satoshi is gone, so unless you're claiming to be Satoshi, then no one is trying to claim that title.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Wow. I've made jokes 10x worse in meatspace. I'm thankful I grew up before the social media craze.
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by zeroer 9y ago
> I'd much rather see a "miles traveled" tax than a carbon tax Why? The harm done is relative to emissions, which is exactly proportional to the volume of fuel going in. A tax on miles traveled would unfairly punish cars
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by zeroer 9y ago
> Imagine a world with essentially no children. Thanks, but I don't want to get lost in fantasy while at work.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Unless the laid off workers are randomly assigned to training or finding other work there's a pretty serious selection bias that the people with the best prospects are the least likely seek training.
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by zeroer 9y ago
This kind of story is not so uncommon, you know.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Everything you say is correct. I wish there were some mechanism to force inventors (or enormous multinationals) to use their patents or lose them. I was just mildly frustrated with the tone of the article.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Agreed; still sucks.
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by zeroer 9y ago
> Hettinger held the patent on finger spinners for eight years, but surrendered it in 2005 because she could not afford the $400 (£310) renewal fee. Isn't this bizarre? If she couldn't monetize it and make it profitable in eig
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by zeroer 9y ago
What developed countries have comparable scale and diversity as the US?
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by zeroer 9y ago
Wait. I though Puerto Ricans were only exempt from federal income tax on Pueto Rican-sourced income.
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by zeroer 9y ago
I'll let you know in 12 years.
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by zeroer 9y ago
What do you leave your house for for a few hours every two years?
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by zeroer 9y ago
Yes, but NoScript means I almost never see such things.
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by zeroer 9y ago
I don't think it's an improvement. I'm just addressing the points of my parent.
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by zeroer 9y ago
That's kind of funny. If the auction for seats goes too high, it's a short squeeze.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Sorry.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Hi Brian, I'm a happy Backblaze customer. Thanks for commenting. What you're describing is certainly better than no encryption, but couldn't the system be designed so that unencrypted customer data is never accessible by Bac
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by zeroer 9y ago
I hope not. The writing's been on the wall for ten years.
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by zeroer 9y ago
The obvious answer is that plane ticket prices would increase. Some people wouldn't fly and some flights wouldn't fly.
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by zeroer 9y ago
I wouldn't expect it to be much cheaper, as involuntary bumping is extremely uncommon.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Yea, I agree the problem is not auctioning seats high enough. But the proximate issue is that United didn't offer cash, but $800 in United Fun Bux that are worthless for most people. The vouchers they were offering were only valid at
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by zeroer 9y ago
OK, but arbitrarily high temperatures necessitate arbitrarily high mass-energy densities, and the latter won't happen without a gravitational collapse.
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by zeroer 9y ago
When you heat something, you have to add energy to it. Mass and energy are equivalent; both warp spacetime. You will, in fact, reach a temperature where your block of metal collapses.
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by zeroer 9y ago
I think the argument rests on the fact that on net, people generally do positive things with their time. If the break-even point isn't 1 million people, where is it? 622k? 100 billion? 3^^^3? This is Eliezer Yudkowski's dust sp
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by zeroer 9y ago
You jest, but given that the average lifespan is about 622k hours, I think you can have a serious moral argument about whether it's better to kill one person or make a million people late by an hour.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Men in San Francisco live 2 years longer than the national average. http://sf.curbed.com/2016/4/12/11415526/san-francisco-san-jo...
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by zeroer 9y ago
That connection between slits in the infinite limit and path integrals is really fascinating. I've read of lot of Feynman, but never that. Where does he talk about it?
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by zeroer 9y ago
I'm not sure if you realize, but you've described the Many-Worlds Interpretation.

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