The article you linked shows that more people moved to the upper bracket than the lower (5% vs 4%). In relative terms the earnings growth was even more dramatic -- the upper class grew 27% larger whereas the lower class…
There are existing prototypes of laser systems for killing fast moving insects such as mosquitos. Imagine a device on a fence pole covering the surrounding acre. There are plenty of slow moving pests, weeds and the like…
Scooters don't have pedals.
Yes, with a per capita expenditure of $700 it's safe to say they aren't covering any serious illness. "Our costs are low because we have a healthy lifestyle" -- more like the costs are low because no one has any serious…
I'm looking for more than a strap and a seat. I'd like the entire interior space to be repurposed to absorb impact energy.
Honestly what I'd like is a safety oriented cabin designed to minimize whiplash. Restrain my head and neck, surround my body with impact absorbing material and put a screen in front of my face and a keyboard within…
Would you care to elaborate? I'm finding your opinion rather odd myself. The vast majority of people never freeze their credit and never have to expend any energy on the issue of credit security at all. Most people have…
On the contrary, credit card theft is one of the most common forms of identity theft. As I said above, it is far, far less time and expense to follow up to actual fraud with a police report than it is to freeze-unfreeze…
On the contrary, it works even better if you regularly use your credit report because you don't have to deal with the absolute pain in the ass of freezing and unfreezing it constantly. Time is money and that's a…
Just file disputes, it'll get removed. Disputes are free and with a police report in hand they will go through. I'm suggesting you should not pay upfront to help curate this data, to pay to micromanage access to a…
You could just do nothing. That's what I'm doing. I care very little if someone defrauds some bank using my identity to open credit cards. I won't be paying for it. It's the bank's problem, not mine. I'm under no…
It's not reliable enough now, sure. Similarly, my 6 year old is also not reliable enough to pilot a car. Both will change as they mature.
Self driving cars also have prior experiences and a sense of what other drivers are doing and why. That's sort of the point of machine learning. In fact, they will have a lot more prior experience than any human driver…
Yes, but not just from the transplant. The immunosuppressant drugs following a transplant also increase your risk of cancer. Dramatically for certain types of cancers.
The horse market is like the piano market. Exceptional specimens are exceedingly expensive but at the low end you can probably just find one for free that no one wants anymore.
Taxi service regulation in the US are why those systems are unusable. I can't get a taxi if there aren't enough medallions issued. There's no regulatory body preventing me from getting into the car I purchased. It makes…
Slatestarcodex wrote a fantastic blog on exactly this subject: "The Toxoplasma of Rage" http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
I don't think it's true that "everything helps." I think many of these grandstanding initiatives are received with open mockery and I think they serve to undermine the credibility of the larger environmental effort.…
If the context here is the development of human history leading up to notions of private employment then our timeline is in the tens of thousands of years and variations within past decades become almost irrelevant.…
See, that's what I'm talking about. What history actually shows is that humans have steadily moved away from barbaric structures such as owning people. Primarily through the construction of societies built around the…
You appear to have a twisted understanding of both economics and human history.
The cost of UBI depends entirely on the magnitude of the benefit; your position is indefensible given we haven't established the magnitude. Obviously increasing welfare implies increased taxes. I don't see anything…
On the other hand, without all this working for others we wouldn't have a system which lets us spend that other half of our lives seeing the things we do get to see. It's a net win overall.
Your comment reminds me of the paradoxical fact that countries with high "life satisfaction" scores have higher rates of suicide: http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/25/why-the-happiest-state... This trend is also seen…
Yeah. I should say "virtually no one." The tax did apply to a very tiny proportion of high end income.
The article you linked shows that more people moved to the upper bracket than the lower (5% vs 4%). In relative terms the earnings growth was even more dramatic -- the upper class grew 27% larger whereas the lower class…
There are existing prototypes of laser systems for killing fast moving insects such as mosquitos. Imagine a device on a fence pole covering the surrounding acre. There are plenty of slow moving pests, weeds and the like…
Scooters don't have pedals.
Yes, with a per capita expenditure of $700 it's safe to say they aren't covering any serious illness. "Our costs are low because we have a healthy lifestyle" -- more like the costs are low because no one has any serious…
I'm looking for more than a strap and a seat. I'd like the entire interior space to be repurposed to absorb impact energy.
Honestly what I'd like is a safety oriented cabin designed to minimize whiplash. Restrain my head and neck, surround my body with impact absorbing material and put a screen in front of my face and a keyboard within…
Would you care to elaborate? I'm finding your opinion rather odd myself. The vast majority of people never freeze their credit and never have to expend any energy on the issue of credit security at all. Most people have…
On the contrary, credit card theft is one of the most common forms of identity theft. As I said above, it is far, far less time and expense to follow up to actual fraud with a police report than it is to freeze-unfreeze…
On the contrary, it works even better if you regularly use your credit report because you don't have to deal with the absolute pain in the ass of freezing and unfreezing it constantly. Time is money and that's a…
Just file disputes, it'll get removed. Disputes are free and with a police report in hand they will go through. I'm suggesting you should not pay upfront to help curate this data, to pay to micromanage access to a…
You could just do nothing. That's what I'm doing. I care very little if someone defrauds some bank using my identity to open credit cards. I won't be paying for it. It's the bank's problem, not mine. I'm under no…
It's not reliable enough now, sure. Similarly, my 6 year old is also not reliable enough to pilot a car. Both will change as they mature.
Self driving cars also have prior experiences and a sense of what other drivers are doing and why. That's sort of the point of machine learning. In fact, they will have a lot more prior experience than any human driver…
Yes, but not just from the transplant. The immunosuppressant drugs following a transplant also increase your risk of cancer. Dramatically for certain types of cancers.
The horse market is like the piano market. Exceptional specimens are exceedingly expensive but at the low end you can probably just find one for free that no one wants anymore.
Taxi service regulation in the US are why those systems are unusable. I can't get a taxi if there aren't enough medallions issued. There's no regulatory body preventing me from getting into the car I purchased. It makes…
Slatestarcodex wrote a fantastic blog on exactly this subject: "The Toxoplasma of Rage" http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
I don't think it's true that "everything helps." I think many of these grandstanding initiatives are received with open mockery and I think they serve to undermine the credibility of the larger environmental effort.…
If the context here is the development of human history leading up to notions of private employment then our timeline is in the tens of thousands of years and variations within past decades become almost irrelevant.…
See, that's what I'm talking about. What history actually shows is that humans have steadily moved away from barbaric structures such as owning people. Primarily through the construction of societies built around the…
You appear to have a twisted understanding of both economics and human history.
The cost of UBI depends entirely on the magnitude of the benefit; your position is indefensible given we haven't established the magnitude. Obviously increasing welfare implies increased taxes. I don't see anything…
On the other hand, without all this working for others we wouldn't have a system which lets us spend that other half of our lives seeing the things we do get to see. It's a net win overall.
Your comment reminds me of the paradoxical fact that countries with high "life satisfaction" scores have higher rates of suicide: http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/25/why-the-happiest-state... This trend is also seen…
Yeah. I should say "virtually no one." The tax did apply to a very tiny proportion of high end income.