Empact

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by Empact 10y ago
Not just for flirting either. My old standard rubric for workplace culture was adoption of slack - if you hadn't opted for it over synchronous communications or lesser asynchronous tools, you were backwards. Now I look to snapchat. We
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by Empact 10y ago
Throwback to that one time Google wouldn't hire @mxcl. ;) https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 Well done Mike and contributors! It's a great piece of work.
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by Empact 10y ago
The natural way that markets behave is when prices are high, the price is an incentive to create more supply, which then reduces the supply/demand mismatch. With reduced regulation, there would be much more housing supply in SF. E.g. t
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by Empact 11y ago
I don't disagree with your analysis of the studies, but the fact that a difference remains after accounting for known socioeconomic factors does not indicate that other factors do not exist. Personally, I wouldn't call this[1] a p
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by Empact 11y ago
I haven't looked into this deeply, more of a productive assumption[1], but here are some related studies: "the majority of the black-white gap (over 60%) [in violence] and the entire Latino-white gap are explained by a small set o
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by Empact 11y ago
Murder is highly correlated with urban and minority populations - the murder rate for blacks is about 8x that of whites.[1] The root of this is clearly socioeconomic, and I believe rooted in the drug war[2], which drives black market violen
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by Empact 11y ago
Late last year in response to IMO misleading charts showing a clear correlation between "gun deaths" vs gun freedoms, I charted murder vs gun rights from a city and state perspective, which illustrate some of the points made in th
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by Empact 11y ago
> Is this similar to instant runoff voting? No it involves building a graph of voter preferences to find the central nodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting#Delegated_voting
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by Empact 11y ago
My burning man camp, http://thephage.org/ , recognized the underlying oligarchy in our own organization and decided to make it open and explicit by identify leaders through proxy voting ( https://github.com/Th
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by Empact 11y ago
Yep, an alternative model enabled by technology is mutual / cooperative insurance in which the policyholders not only own the company but also govern the release of funds. This way incentives are aligned - the insured want the insuranc
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by Empact 11y ago
Confirmed, Alex Newman writes distributed databases in his spare time. https://github.com/posix4e https://github.com/cloud-software-foundation/c5 https://www.linkedin.com/in/posix4
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by Empact 11y ago
For all the people despairing, I see plenty of reason to hope, and it comes in the form of wireless broadband. The hardware is getting quite powerful and inexpensive - for a few hundred bucks you can get a pair of dishes that will push a ha
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by Empact 12y ago
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Coastermelt Part I – a silly reverse engineering project about laser robots(vimeo.com)
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by Empact 13y ago
"Other people were also right" is not an argument against libertarians being right about things. And isn't that the point? We should be celebrating and expanding on the opposition that exists, not dismissing it for lack of &q
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by Empact 13y ago
"the only thing close to a politics around leaking is libertarianism, the worst of all political worlds." Funny how often libertarians get this treatment even after so many prominent examples of representing the majority sentiment
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by Empact 13y ago
> I wonder how we could teach ourselves these lessons (without injury, of course). There's a wide-ranging and productive history of people expanding their creative capacity through self-imposed constraints. http://www.amazon.com/Creati
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by Empact 14y ago
Yep, for a significant period of American History, a good bit of long-distance travel was over privately constructed and managed turnpikes. Their financing was very much in the Kickstarter model: "American turnpikes were stock-financed corp
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by Empact 14y ago
Wild speculation: our first evidence of advanced alien societies carrying out the transcension hypothesis? http://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOyJUDTKdM
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by Empact 14y ago
I'm not having any luck finding the Sen research you cite. And without it, I'm not sure what you mean by "IRV is highly unlikely to produce an outcome which violates transitivity and independence." Link?
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by Empact 14y ago
> I don't understand why having less information is better (theoreticaly). A ranked-choice ballot only encodes the orders the candidates against one another, whereas approval and score votes also encode the candidates' positions within
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by Empact 14y ago
If you examine these supposed failures of Approval voting, you'll find that the bulk of them can be attributed to the divide between a "Majoritarian" or a "Consensus-driven" perspective. That is, many of the criteria suppose that the most-p
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by Empact 14y ago
There's a misleading conflation of at least 2 issues here: If manufacturers are releasing product with substantially different contents than the label, then they are guilty of defrauding their customers. This is a crime which should be expe
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by Empact 14y ago
Yep, if you must use the variables, much much better to use "require 'english'" and these more meaningful names than the cryptic originals.
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by Empact 14y ago
I supplement with 5000iu per day, and check my blood levels regularly. Even with supplementation far exceeding governmental recommendations, My blood levels have never exceeded 70 ng/mL, which is well within the health range of 30 - 100 ng/
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by Empact 14y ago
Vitamin D has anti-cancer effects which apply more generally than skin cancer. In studies which assess all-cause mortality relative to UV-B exposure, higher UV-B exposure is correlated with lower all-cause mortality. That is, more skin canc
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by Empact 14y ago
Great, but how much can you squat or deadlift relative to your bodyweight? Your posterior chain, from your mid-back down to your ankles, is far more important to your long-term stability and comfort. It's key to your complaint of discomfort
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by Empact 14y ago
Are buddhists sensitive about imagery? Somehow I don't think buddha would be upset over images of himself - why should he be? As for other monks, why should they be? Why should an image be considered an insult?
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by Empact 14y ago
Also, it's an ecosystem feature. If a library or a component of rails (e.g. ActionMailer) wants to process something in a background queue, the choice doesn't have to be between a host of bad options: * Forcing a dependency on a particu
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by Empact 15y ago
> people just don't get as excited for legislation and regulation as they do for a candidate Or, perhaps the legislation never matched up to the candidate. The examples of Obama's hypocrisy are well-documented, from war to spending to p

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