HN is, barely, a step above twitter. If one were to pick the bottom 20% of comments from HN, it would be ignorant, biased, group think, poor logic, borderline bigoted (but mainly ignorant). I don't expect that you'd be…
The first line from Wikipedia: "A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue." And, this is exactly why I keep "losing my password" for my HN account, so that I have to take a…
Me too. But, again, not the point the commenter was making. Just, noise.
have fun regressing out everything else...
i used to work at an institutional investment firm. a huge one. (say it like trump) huuuuuge. we had lots of economists. i chilled with them. i partied with them. and when we partied, when the booze flowed and we all…
even if we accomplish all this and more, we have still not answered the question, "what is the 'good life'?" because that is not a technical question. we can put off death. we can increase quality of life during the…
eventually even atoms will stop spinning. i think what the commenter was getting at, is that, immortality is impossible, and so finding meaning in a life that must eventually end, is still important. also, your…
Asking for someone to offer an argument for the claim that "it is worth while considering other life philosophies other than those that lead to chasing immortality and viewing the end of one's own life as a negative",…
I should have said: "And yet Mathematica is <sometimes> not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician." I wasn't meaning to imply that Mathematica has no value or has little…
The writing is on the wall. Tough time to be a meth dealer or truck stop hooker. Time to retool for a new career.
And yet Mathematica is not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician. The value of maths is 1) it's "open-source", 2) it's free to use, 3) if you want to switch from one module…
"Mathics is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)." There may be a few other differences you are not considering.
no. not true.
( >We don't have anything remotely close to a free market in housing, though... + >Right now, the market wants to build - we should let it. ) vs ( >I would be much, much more apt to lay the blame for the current housing…
Going out on a limb, I think yourapostasy pointed to Levittown not to attempt to explain the entire economics of housing for the U.S.A. during the 70's (because hey, if we're taking the issue to that level we have to…
I'll cede the floor to the well know investor, with impeccable credentials, Warren Buffett. In 2010, during the Great Recession, he said: ...After a few years of such imbalances, the country unsurprisingly ended up with…
I feel that this sort of response (land value tax) is very political, in addition to being an economic response. Taxes are at the heart of politics. Without taxes to raise revenue most governments would have no…
As has been stated in other comments, it's not that we don't have enough homes or that we don't have affordable homes. Perhaps the "free-market" is not the optimal distribution system for housing. Said another way,…
"Nest" isn't a bust. "Post-Google" Nest is a bust. And the bigger issue is much, much bigger. Google didn't acquire Nest to out of an altruistic desire to assist Nest to grow faster to fulfill their mission. Nest was…
I think there is a dynamic being left out of the conversation here (and do please correct me if this has been brought already). There is certainly a story in that "yet another Google service is being shut down." But,…
HN is, barely, a step above twitter. If one were to pick the bottom 20% of comments from HN, it would be ignorant, biased, group think, poor logic, borderline bigoted (but mainly ignorant). I don't expect that you'd be…
The first line from Wikipedia: "A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue." And, this is exactly why I keep "losing my password" for my HN account, so that I have to take a…
Me too. But, again, not the point the commenter was making. Just, noise.
have fun regressing out everything else...
i used to work at an institutional investment firm. a huge one. (say it like trump) huuuuuge. we had lots of economists. i chilled with them. i partied with them. and when we partied, when the booze flowed and we all…
even if we accomplish all this and more, we have still not answered the question, "what is the 'good life'?" because that is not a technical question. we can put off death. we can increase quality of life during the…
eventually even atoms will stop spinning. i think what the commenter was getting at, is that, immortality is impossible, and so finding meaning in a life that must eventually end, is still important. also, your…
Asking for someone to offer an argument for the claim that "it is worth while considering other life philosophies other than those that lead to chasing immortality and viewing the end of one's own life as a negative",…
I should have said: "And yet Mathematica is <sometimes> not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician." I wasn't meaning to imply that Mathematica has no value or has little…
The writing is on the wall. Tough time to be a meth dealer or truck stop hooker. Time to retool for a new career.
And yet Mathematica is not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician. The value of maths is 1) it's "open-source", 2) it's free to use, 3) if you want to switch from one module…
"Mathics is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)." There may be a few other differences you are not considering.
no. not true.
( >We don't have anything remotely close to a free market in housing, though... + >Right now, the market wants to build - we should let it. ) vs ( >I would be much, much more apt to lay the blame for the current housing…
Going out on a limb, I think yourapostasy pointed to Levittown not to attempt to explain the entire economics of housing for the U.S.A. during the 70's (because hey, if we're taking the issue to that level we have to…
I'll cede the floor to the well know investor, with impeccable credentials, Warren Buffett. In 2010, during the Great Recession, he said: ...After a few years of such imbalances, the country unsurprisingly ended up with…
I feel that this sort of response (land value tax) is very political, in addition to being an economic response. Taxes are at the heart of politics. Without taxes to raise revenue most governments would have no…
As has been stated in other comments, it's not that we don't have enough homes or that we don't have affordable homes. Perhaps the "free-market" is not the optimal distribution system for housing. Said another way,…
"Nest" isn't a bust. "Post-Google" Nest is a bust. And the bigger issue is much, much bigger. Google didn't acquire Nest to out of an altruistic desire to assist Nest to grow faster to fulfill their mission. Nest was…
I think there is a dynamic being left out of the conversation here (and do please correct me if this has been brought already). There is certainly a story in that "yet another Google service is being shut down." But,…