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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 dece…

>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…

Consider genuinely strengthening the argument of the person you are talking with before providing an alternate viewpoint.

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…

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 optio…

When moving, cars can compare hundreds of different viewpoints. Multiple cameras provide for depth perception when stationary.

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 …

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…

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. Wit…

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 enfor…

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…

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 incr…

That may maximize the immediate value to shareholders, but the real goal is to maximize all discounted future cash flows.

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 comp…

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 n…

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 experi…

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. I…

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 sp…

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 m…

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 st…

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.…

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 willi…

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…

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.

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. O…