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one commonly used measure of inequality is the Gini coefficient, which isn't perfect but is great for getting a "big picture" view of things. The increased exposure of the rich to …

That formula won't work with compound interest. I'm not sure if most spreadsheet packages have an exponential function, but the formula should be money_in_account * exp( interest_r…

This is a really good point. Direct evidence of Satoshi's identity can only be in the form of someone claiming to be him, and that just wouldn't be credible. Circumstantial evidenc…

There's a difference between a "conversation" and an "internet exchange". In person, I agree completely. Skepticism towards your friends/ family/ acquaintances can easily poison th…

>Now that I have shown you the evidence about how people in the city are more likely to have attempted to reduce their meat consumption, are you willing to admit that your initial …

Without knowing more details about your resources, your skill set, and the other company, nobody here can possibly provide a helpful answer to that question. And even if all that i…

I came here to ask something along these lines. Sometimes I'm baffled by what percolates up to the first few pages of HN. I've seen more than a couple Wikipedia pages about random …

> But 84+33>100...? I know you have sources there, but something doesn’t as up. There's only a contradiction if the two groups are mutual exclusive. Retirement accounts belonging t…

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Big if true. If not though, nearly a million out of 17.6 million bitcoins seems like a huge number to be out of circulation, and that's a lower bound (other bitcoin owners have alm…

There's no way for me to phrase this while coming across as civil, but I'm genuinely curious: does anybody actually believe Musk? If so, why?

Honestly? Nothing. I think I would get more from investing in something boring-yet-reliable and finding another job. Do you really think that an idea someone gave you on the intern…

> The overall goal of the Boring Company is to substantially decrease the cost, and increase the speed of building tunnels. Good for it, but in the mean time a car tunnel would sti…

Homer's a bit of an unusual case. The Illiad was the first written work produced after a long dark age (or close to it; I'm not sure where the consensus is right now on whether Hes…

Just because most users use their devices for entertainment doesn't mean that entertainment is a valid reason to need more bandwidth. Most users couldn't give a good gosh dang whet…

Hey jobson, fair point. Please read my reply to exabrial below. There's a couple other commenters with salient links there, too.

People can already steam music and Netflix (or whatever) and be happy with it. You don't need 4k revolution (or lossless music) on your tablet. If you cared that much about quality…

While cable boxes could be replaced by subsidized smartphones, my question is "Why?". A wired connection will always be less capricious than a wireless one [citation needed], so if…

That's a completely fair point. I'd read a little on it, nothing conclusive, and as md224 pointed out, there's been some back-and-forth, and the science isn't settled. I figured th…

> While 5G Will be a great boon This is something I've been having trouble with. Lately I've become more aware of the secondary effects of 5G- on weather forecasting, on the radio …

Not at all, and autoplay is way too difficult to completely prevent. Even on Firefox with media.autoplay.default set to 1, noscript, and UBO some sites still play video without my …

It's not as though Linux is the only Unix in town. There's also MacOS and BSD. edit: and probably a whole bunch of other Unixes (Unices?) that I don't know about.

I'm guessing that everybody's going to lose for a while. When Netflix began offering streaming services, the major studios weren't certain enough that it would take off to develop …

Question related to this: I'm applying to jobs in data science (straight outta grad school), and I'm not really sure how to market myself. The problem I keep running up against is …