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mattrices··on Why one of America’s richest states is also its poorest
Housing supply isn't very elastic.
mattrices··on The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement
Hm, I brought it up because its a staple item that everyone seems to need, but upon reflection that would make it a target for subsidy to reduce the inflation metrics.
mattrices··on The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement
Reducing the cost of critical goods is sometimes necessary. Should milk cost 20+$/gallon?

I understand the appeal ideologically, but in practice what you are suggesting would increase inequality.

mattrices··on Disclosure of autism at work holds risks and benefits
I'm having similar issues though luckily have less responsiblity and can avoid them for now.

Is there a book on coping strategies you would recommended?

mattrices··on Cargo bikes as symbolic markers of egalitarian gender roles
Would you link the portage bag youre refering to?
mattrices··on Evidence that drinking baking soda can promote an anti-inflammatory environment
This is myth, Ca actually can reduce kidney stones while Na increases the probability they will develop. Ca could have negative cardiac effects above 1200mg per day though.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/urologic-diseas...

mattrices··on Evidence that drinking baking soda can promote an anti-inflammatory environment
CaCO3 and NaHCO3 effect pH in similar ways, Calcium Carbonate is the stronger alkaline buffer though because it can pick up 2 H+ where as bicarb alread has an H+. Both can form bicarbonate ions depending on the pH.

lawr.ucdavis.edu/classes/ssc102/Section5.pdf

mattrices··on IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices from every office
Allow me to present an intangible analogy to illustrate... If I see a chair at ikea and they own a patent on it and I go home and make a chair based on their ip, but don't commercially manufacture and distribute it then did I steal a chair? If it is stolen what have I stolen exactly?

I guess my point is that my point is that ip is a liscense to manufacture and/or distribute rather than a total monopoly on the idea or demand for the product.

mattrices··on US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level
Americans do actually want to do ag jobs, they just expect decent working conditions. Many employeers prefer illegal immigrants because they are more easily exploitable in regards to not only wages, but also safety.
mattrices··on IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices from every office
Your intention is irrelevant, limiting your opportunity is not theft. You're using that analogy as an emotional appeal to present the ip holder as a victim.

Any competitor could limit your opportunity by releasing a functionally similar non infringing product. Would you choose the word 'robbing' in that circumstance?

One would have to use your ip to create a competing product before it would even be copyright infringement, and it still wouldn't be theft since you cannot steal somthing intangible since by definition it only exists as an abstraction which is not the same as zero valued tangible inventory.

mattrices··on IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices from every office
Your candybar arguement is absurd because you can't sell ip direct to consumers. You could manufacture a product that uses it or sell access via some supply limiting portal, but that is much different than actually selling ip.

Additionally it's not inventory because it is not finite. There is a distinction made by GAAP regarding valuation of tangible vs intangible assets because it is much more complex process to valuate intangible assets such as ip.

mattrices··on The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
That is a function of the design implemented. Since you can read a table of figures you can probably also plug them in the heat flux equation in with your own guesses at air gap distances and surface area. The relevant info is that 5 times the energy per degree difference are conducted, that is why any hot spots from friction are smoothed.
mattrices··on The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
He has a conductivity coefficent K (W/mK) = .151 and air = .026. Since everything else in heat flux eq is linear, approximately 5x rate of heat movement per degree that the HD is heated beyond surrounding air is expected.
mattrices··on Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic
You could also look at the variance in amount in different environments for different sensors (noisy/not noisy), (complex image/flat color).
mattrices··on A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin
Spotify was spun out of private torrent network libraries that still exist independant of spotify. Youtube still gets a lot of uploads from private torrenters trying to generate ad revenue. Just because they are percieved as legal and convienient they get more views, but ultimately where did the content come from?

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...

mattrices··on A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin
Sure, but first movers have an advantage due to wider name recognition and in this case a large established market cap and mining network. Unless the underlying tech shifts to somthing more stable or more profitable, last movers are at a disadvantage.

The deflation and high transaction fees seem to favor btc bc miners wouldn't shift to somthing less profitable and those using btc as a value store profit from deflation long term.

mattrices··on A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin
Friendster and napster were central systems that were shut down for legal reasons and were replaced with other more distributed systems. Btc value is derived from its distributed "anti-fragile" nature which would require a lot more effort to shut down.
mattrices··on The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than double that of veterans
Canadian farmland has less potential value due to the reduced light and lower temperatures of the northern climate.
mattrices··on U.S. government once wanted to plan false flag attacks with Soviet aircraft
I doubt that doctors and nurses and teachers are under acknowledged. They deserve a place above a brute warrior for sure, but the education and medical bureaucries are only moderately more humane than our military.
mattrices··on Bitcoin World’s 30th Largest Currency, Market Cap Closes on Mastercard
This is not QE. BTC is treated like a physical asset with a fixed quantity, if x reserves of y mineral were found that would not be QE. Discoveries that increase net global value are completely different from altering the amount of a circulating currency.
mattrices··on Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled
Google can use user prediction to guess which account you are with your browser, ip, ism, mac address, and other persistant metadata. Its how their whole 'you signed in from a new location' security scheme works.
mattrices··on Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?
Insurance conpanies have an obvious vested interest in the drug war being successful.
mattrices··on DOJ: Strong encryption that we don’t have access to is “unreasonable”
To be fair, they still don't
mattrices··on Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C
Overpopulation is frequently the cause of steep popuation decline (90+%) in ecology due to input resource depletion and the building of toxins that are the end products of that species metabolism.

Pollution and resource scarcity are the obvious limits that can send population numbers off a cliff.

mattrices··on The latest experiment in basic income will be coming to Stockton, California
The ski lodge and state college operate with a monopoly, once youre there you have no other choice of coco vendors. Cash flow has nothing to do with monopoly pricing.
mattrices··on Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
The soil type in iceland has volcanic parent material with very high carbon content that results in a low nitrogen to carbon ratio so has little nutrients available to support biomass production without adjustments.
mattrices··on Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)
This makes me wonder how many of those additional absences in open plan offices are due to depression / introverts recoiling in horror rather than increased biological pathogen transmission.
mattrices··on Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)
The point is not all sneezes are due to colds. There are other causes that account for much more than .1%. Don't reinfoce societal pressure with biased probability analysis.
mattrices··on The Debate Over Neighborhood Zoning Could Hold Up Fast 5G Wireless for Years
No one will be starting an internet company in a location where there is only mobile internet.

>lets get it done as cheaply and with as little market distortion as possible.

Why do people act like they're paying for personally? This was already agreed upon by communication companies when they were allowed to monopolize much higher ROI urban markets. The whole point was that the high ROI markets would fund the development of the rest of the infrastructure.

Sandbagging the bandwidth of the rural markets is creating an information void that ends up sandbagging support for research and development in other areas.

mattrices··on Equihax
> interest is probably older than agriculture

Offtopic I know, but quantitavie economics and bureaucracies were both borne out of agriculture; before that value was subjective.

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