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by DaniFong 17y ago
I would posit that having strict liability laws, in this case, might be the best of bad options. If you can get an out by looking for an authentic looking ID, pimps will find ways to issue fake IDs. It's not hard.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Firstly, I quoted the average age of prostitutes as 13; apparently the claim, even in the documentary, is that of the age of entry into prostitution. My mistake. Secondly, I've been trying to track down the original reference. The Justice d
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The documentary Very Young Girls may change your viewpoint. In particular, the median age of [corrected: entry into prostitution] in New York is 13. Typically they are runaways or neglected/abused children kept in 'the life' by a combinatio
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Take some videos of the thing working, and post them somewhere that you track and that's password protected. The reason for this is so that you can easily show one person at a VC firm, who, if excited, can easily show the rest. A working pr
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Hi ComputerGuru, I guess the main question for me is, what stage are you at? Have you done adequate manufacturing engineering? Worked on the factory contacts? Just getting started on the science? Working on product refinement? A few demos o
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In our estimates compressed air can be comparable to gas in capital cost, and far less expensive in lifetime cost. The technical development required is substantial though.
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Flow batteries, wherein one may pump spent electrolytes out of your tank and replace them with new ones, fresh and charged, ready to go. One might also use compressed air, which can be refilled with electric energy by powering a compressor,
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Yes, I do. What's that got to do with it? My point is that humans can do serious damage to both their own environment and their means for survival, be it on a world or island scale.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Isn't climate change (as a consequence of man-made deforestation) a large part of the problems that face Haiti today? http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002600/a002640/
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"Using the sun cannot be plan A, because as far as I've heard, solar panels barely output enough energy to pay back the energy it takes to make them." This was true 20 years ago, but now it's closer to 1% than 100% (and as that happens the
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by DaniFong 17y ago
More specifically, I am proposing a limit to the impact of human populations on the rest of Earth's environment -- in practice this is a limit on human populations too, though it could still go far. I don't have any answers I really believe
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation. I will read it. As I'm sure you appreciate, I've been thinking a lot about it. In my current thinking, it seems that there must be a new moral code. The powers of individual people, or even small groups,
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I have to believe that somewhere in the parameter space of human diplomacy and relationships there is the possibility for expansion and coexistence without utter annihilation of one side. We appear to be doing it on some scales in the moder
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Mainly because people so commonly dismiss a study by stating that 'correlation doesn't imply causation,' while going about their lives with their own ideas and biases based on anecdotal evidence just the same. It's the tool of a common cour
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Practical conditions not including routing networks and the stock market, you may wish to add...
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The calculated standard deviation from any finite sample size of a long tailed distribution (e.g. Pareto with alpha <= 2) will be off by a factor of infinity.The point is that, not only is the standard deviation irrecoverable in this
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Meta-statistics for website are typically normal? I think for one way flow through systems this has a tendency to be true (and so is likely to arise on most test harnesses), but I recall that multi-way routing systems with feedback effects
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by DaniFong 17y ago
But, as I understand it, most energy markets in the US and internationally are not commodity markets: they're regulated monopolies, often with a certain regulated maximum rate of return. I would think that these monopolies can use the d
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Thank you for your links, and writing the article that you've written. I've tried to understand it; though in honesty skimming it more than reading it, and I haven't given it the fresh thought that it likely requires. But. How can one decla
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Actually the practice of companies managing their own energy preceded the creation of the electric grid, and preceded the existence of software companies by over a century. Even today most large scale engineering outfits are both vertically
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Can you please elaborate? Are you really saying that it isn't legal to be able to use one's data on usage intelligently? Don't utilities need to -- and do this -- anyway? Is it true internationally?
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Correlation might not imply causation, but nothing implies causation. The best we've got is a pile of correlations, a few anecdotes, and a lot of imagination.
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I don't understand how reducing chained dependencies will eliminate g loading. If you eliminated g loading of a mathematical test, you'd need to be able to take a developmentally challenged person, and expect, statistically, for them to
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Once more, It's been shown that for a few cultures on a small norming sample on particular tests (IQ, SAT) that standard deviation on math related scores is greater than that for women. The bulk of the standard deviation is accounts for by
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by DaniFong 17y ago
What? Cite, please. Girls have been closing the gap in the study of mathematically precocious youth, and the international science Olympiads, too. The SAT and the IMO et. al. have been re-engineered? News to me. How the heck do you make a m
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That's being spoon-fed? This would be useful when I'm out for dinner with my gaggle of Math, Physics and Engineering PhDs. Splitting the tab is rarely the most interesting conversation to be had...
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Both solar and wind power will be produced at a lower cost than power from coal and natural gas plants, and sold to customers when they want it, how they want it.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Screw civility? The members whose contributions I most enjoy have been voting with their feet.
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Hackers often blame MBAs, management, and hierarchy for technological mishaps. As often did I. But it turns out that managing people is hard. It is amazing to me that an organization that is Microsoft's size can decide and execute on anythi
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by DaniFong 17y ago
For anyone who this video resonates with, I suggest watching the highly entertaining Bollywood hit 3 Idiots, about three mechanical engineering students a a prestigious indian engineering college, struggling against their autocratic princip

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