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The conjecture - in the article - is it doesn't work at, well at all is strong but certainly not to the degree that is claimed. Also, given the replication crisis in this field, an…

I think it is more a case of being everything to everyone, and one size fits all just plain sux. IMHO there is no Twitter problem, but there are specific Twitter niche problems. Tw…

As opposed to wind and solar? Let alone batteries, that use extremely toxic chemicals. What we do with waste is a key ingredient to any power source, and the plan with old batterie…

Not all ads need clicking, and the big budgets have never been in generating clicks, but in Branding (like TV ads). The 10% that click are likely spit somewhere around 50-50 betwee…

I really shouldn't suggest this because it is definitely a bug that I enjoy exploiting, but on YouTube, if you hit the next video link then immediately hit back on the browser, the…

That's not the argument in full. Carbon cost of production includes the cost of wastage. If the cost in carbon to produce what is wasted is > than the savings elsewhere, it is a lo…

The cost in carbon of a thing is complicated, and this sort of X (local) is good, and Y (non-local) is bad causes a lot of the issues. There was a debate about Dutch flowers vs Ken…

All this stuff is super confusing. https://www.austrade.gov.au/contact/faqs/i-want-to-export-my... says you need to register if: > your VAT taxable turnover is more than £85,000 (t…

Depends on the tax code. In Australia, corporate taxes are passed down as a deduction to real humans. So if I get a fully franked dividend (fully franked means the company paid the…

Except Digital sales take place in no-man's land, and are hard to tax. A federal tax hits Amazon, but would it hit Alibaba? The specifics are what make these ideas so difficult.

> Who gets the bulk of the fruits of his labors, and to a very large extent what he does is determined by said expropriating suits At any other ti in history, with any other techno…

Just some causes that I think are mostly good: 1. Complexity - a change in exchange rates can hurt Netflix's / Google's / Apple's profit, even if all underlying numbers are correct…

Video transcoding is particularly suited to the cloud. This sort if unpredictable load - new titles will pop up at odd intervals - is ideal for striking the balance between speed t…

If anything, that is a call for better immigration, not better utilisation of those born in a country. Reasoning: 1. The US will not be able to compete w/ India or China when it co…

> It isn’t just about raw intelligence That's the problem though - blank slate theory. If we had a more biological attitude towards this, we'd be able to help individual more effec…

GP IS skeptical, by asking that the facts be made clear. The non-skeptical people are the ones implying "this MUST be wrong just because".

Does it though? If Germany's policies hurt the economy, at a time when the cost of energy goes up, it may threaten the plans. The last thing a costly reform needs is less money to …

That's cool but where are the lines? The problem is that a LOT of lobbying goes on, and we don't know how to allow what, when or why - and no country does it well. Examples: protes…

Is the problem then the search for a solution that works 100% of the time? I don't see any solution not having a downside, except maybe a UBI, and that's, lets be honest, just way …

To be fair the P/E will start to move towards 12. That's just inevitable. If the P/E moves from the 39.37 I just Googled towards 12, the profit needs to triple to maintain share va…

The article is weird in that Google has the single greatest advantage - YouTube. Ctrl + F youtube and ... nothing. TV ad revenue is going to start changing, but the value of video …

And startups are populated by young people, so the cultural shifts that exist matter. If you have any employees at all between 18 and 30, the current culture is something you need …

Government is excellent - BEYOND excellent - at policing others. In most every 1st world country, when the government goes after an industry, things change. See the recent Australi…

> I've seen countless people leave the restroom without washing their hands I am not a germaphobe at all (I'll eat food off the floor if it falls), and I agree 100%. The non-washin…

All of Asia was dragged out of poverty - over time - by doing stuff cheaper. China is a world power not from communism or protectionism or by some grand gesture. They took awful jo…