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by aeternus 7y ago
Isn't cost and concentration also a factor? How do you avoid creating a slum with dense low-income housing? Seems like highly distributed low-cost, low-unit housing might work decently.
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by aeternus 7y ago
>If there is one rule, then it had to be the ‘safety net’ rule. It just means that everyone is safe to speak their minds during the retreat. There will be many sessions on feedback about product, company, people etc. If team members are
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by aeternus 7y ago
Consider genuinely strengthening the argument of the person you are talking with before providing an alternate viewpoint.
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by aeternus 7y ago
What identity confirmation exists currently for phone companies? You can use a pay phone, pay cash for a prepaid wireless phone, phone in a motel room booked under a fake name, etc.
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by aeternus 7y ago
So ban all types of internet-based or IP-based calls? That's an extreme solution for a limited problem. The problem is the lack of threat validation by police. There are many options now to validate threats, we have tech that can see
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by aeternus 7y ago
When moving, cars can compare hundreds of different viewpoints. Multiple cameras provide for depth perception when stationary.
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by aeternus 7y ago
When issuing the EV cert, they don't actually validate any of that so it is of questionable utility. I was surprised how easy it was to get an EV cert. The validators work from an offshore call-center and use sites like whitepages.com
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by aeternus 7y ago
How do you decide which one needs to change its name? There's no objective measure for which is 'larger'. The vast majority of consumers are not going to lookup an FDIC number, and even if they did, it is still not optimal s
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by aeternus 7y ago
This is similar to what I'd like to see. Sharing cookies is somewhat dangerous since they could have login/user data, but it would totally work to avoid browser fingerprinting. With all the fingerprinting methods (screen resolut
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by aeternus 7y ago
The problem with EV is how do you handle companies with the same name? Many banks have similar and in some cases the same name. The domain name system already handles this by enforcing uniqueness and leveraging the market.
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by aeternus 7y ago
If you are concerned about timing it right, or macro-economic swings, simply purchase a corresponding long position in an index fund / S&P 500. Options do cost premiums, but shorts typically do not. You can however even recover t
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by aeternus 7y ago
Buying existing assets only results in asset inflation if you lack a free market. Otherwise, buying existing assets (such as houses) will increase the price which will trigger increased production of that asset.
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by aeternus 7y ago
That may maximize the immediate value to shareholders, but the real goal is to maximize all discounted future cash flows.
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by aeternus 7y ago
The entire purpose of a company is to return value to shareholders. Due to our current tax law, buybacks are a much better way to do that than dividends. Are you saying that a company should invest 100% back into itself? There are a few v
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by aeternus 7y ago
If you are confident in this scenario, then rollover your 401k into an IRA, enable options trading, and buy puts or short the companies that you believe took on too much debt. No need to be an accredited investor.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Amazon's delivery drivers are more similar to Uber/Lyft drivers. They get minimal to no training and simply follow instructions via the app. Some of them have documented the experience on youtube and it's worth a watch. Th
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by aeternus 7y ago
I'd be interested to know how much of those costs are due to driver incentives and other costs related to expansion into new geographic regions vs. costs for established regions. It could be that cutting costs is as simple as slowing d
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by aeternus 7y ago
Seems like they are trying too hard, and actually made the message more cryptic than it needs to be. Why not say "nuclear" or "radiation"? It seems very unlikely that the entire species will completely forget about the
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by aeternus 7y ago
Thanks for the explanation, your argument makes sense. I'd just look at it in a slightly different, perhaps more optimistic way. The fact that this investment has the highest ROI means that society as a whole would benefit from inject
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by aeternus 7y ago
I've seen this as well, in my experience much of it comes from other orgs that see the engineering team come in late, or walk around the office tossing a ball into the air. They start putting pressure on engineering managers to make su
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by aeternus 7y ago
This is not really true. The market overall works as a surprisingly efficient resource allocation engine. Onions aren't a great example as they are a commodity rather than a stock. Regardless, if someone does bid up the price of onio
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by aeternus 7y ago
There is pretty much always someone willing to buy or sell a stock at some price. The best way to think of the exchanges are as a perpetual auction. There is a line of buyers willing to buy shares at all different prices, and similarly th
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by aeternus 7y ago
I would love to see an open review system like that. Comments out in the open, along with the experiments and experimental data which supports or does not support the work. Science is all about experimentation, yet we currently measure pap
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by aeternus 7y ago
Online is just too easy for people to follow up. Most class-actions require mailing in a form so probably have much lower participation rates.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Sustaining the expansion is questionable but the Fed's more specific goal has been to maintain inflation at around 2%, which it has done surprisingly well over the last 20 years. Of course, we have no way of knowing if the Fed's
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by aeternus 7y ago
Personally, I like it. My team and I can spend less time at the office because of it. We also don't need a strict on-call schedule since the team is good about responding if they happen to be available and near a computer. This gives
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by aeternus 7y ago
Leave it up to the hospital. They are best equipped to assess the cost and likelihood of being able to save the person. They also are most responsible for the repercussions in terms of positive/negative publicity and reputation.
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by aeternus 7y ago
And how do you measure social utility? Price is currently the best measure of 'social utility' that we have. People choose to spend their hard-earned dollars on the products that provide the most utility. Companies spend their
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by aeternus 7y ago
Coke is enjoyable to many, that's a benefit. Air travel and space travel also cause ongoing environmental harm, whose says the benefits of those outweigh the environmental cost? Maybe we should ban them as well. All companies "b
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by aeternus 7y ago
Experiments have shown that pilot waves would have to travel faster than the speed of light. My understanding of the experiment is as follows: Take two entangled photons, beam them up to satellites far away from each other. The satellites

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