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by Yen 10y ago
Whether the unemployment rate discussed and optimized for should be U-6, or any other particular measure, is a disagreement about opinion, not about fact. Claims that the U-1 is falsified/manipulated for political purposes, or that t
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So, the biggest complaint about Instant-runoff voting seems to be that it can lead to a counter-intuitive scenario, where a candidate becomes more popular, but loses the election. From what I've seen of constructed scenarios that have
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I have a fun memory of the yellow Mindstorms set. Apparently, the visual programming environment was just a thin wrapper on top of C, and people quickly came out with simple IDEs that let you program the brick in C. I tried to program a mus
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by Yen 10y ago
A bit ironically, the 'Larger, more detailed figures' is is actually something Lego had already done , in boy-centered sets, several years before. http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/TECHNIC_Figure , http:/&#x2F
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by Yen 10y ago
How modern is 'modern'? When I was a child, the sets I received usually had some sort of theme, even if it wasn't a branded theme. Pirates, space, race cars, whatever. Also, as other articles have pointed out, the majority of
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by Yen 10y ago
This seems like a great idea! I usually try to avoid commenting on grammar or spelling too much, but it seems like you're a non-native speaker of English, and it's a bit tricky to understand some of what you're intending. Her
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I think we can read PG's tweet a little more favorably. I consider myself liberal, and generally in favor of things such as unions, workers'-rights, and anti-discrimination regulations, that serve to balance power in our society.
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I'm also curious as to what the mean (or median) HN political viewpoint would be, and which is the majority/minority viewpoint. Personally, I tend towards liberal politics. I interperent this statement as "Liberal politics do
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I could potentially see a conflict if we were talking about a subscription-based or microtransaction-based game, but Minecraft is a one-time purchase. And, I expect, most of the kids who are super-excited about Minecraft already have a lice
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by Yen 10y ago
At the moment, opening nytimes links in an incognito session works for me.
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by Yen 10y ago
A previous HN discussion proposed the term "scaling deeper". Scaling Horizontally - spending resources on adding more nodes to a cluster, so more work can get done in parallel. Scaling Vertically - spending resources on adding com
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Say 99% of players take the appropriate, personally-responsible actions while playing the game. You'll still have 1% of a very large population being encouraged to take some problematic action. While I don't know the specifics, it
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I believe there is a 'downvote' button, but it's only available once you've scored above a certain karma threshold. Also, while you don't know how often something has been upvoted, a comment with a higher score will
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by Yen 10y ago
One particularly pithy implementation of that idea: http://www.rpscontest.com/entry/614005
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by Yen 10y ago
If I understand your proposal correctly, you propose to * set the income tax to a flat 20% * provide no (or very little) universal basic income * Increase freely available benefits Addressing the tax issue specifically - you prop
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> [basic necessities] can be provided for less than $2k/year. I'm going to assume that this means "provided for approximately $2k/year". In any case, the value of that number isn't an argument against UBI, b
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Does your concern depend on the "dependents" receiving basic income, but the "working class" not receiving basic income? Or, does it depend on basic income possibly changing the signifiers of social status? If it's
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by Yen 10y ago
While I can't speak for everyone, I expect most proponents of "Basic Income" as a new social structure are advocating for "Universal Basic Income". i.e., everyone gets a check. In addition to, ideally, providing for
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by Yen 10y ago
What settings do you see on that tab? For me, I can only change the default quality, there's nothing to configure autoplay behaviour.
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by Yen 11y ago
The thing I'd want to see most of all? An experiment confirming or refuting the result of a posted paper, and the results of that experiment posted as a pre-print within ~3 months. I.e., actually getting real science done fast, taking
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by Yen 11y ago
For me, I think it actually works well as a user interface. If I'm in a mood to be charitable and particularly open-minded, I can choose to squint closely or highlight with mouse, and read a greyed-out comment. However, once that readi
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> I mean like, how does a binary decision select for things that are not even correlated to survival or reproduction but merely comfort? If you're referring to > For example, lets say the human anorectal angle was specifically &q
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> After all, selection works on an individual organism, and it's binary: either the organism survives, reproduces and passes on its genes, or not Not quite. Selection isn't a 'did reproduce' / 'did not repro
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Am I the only one who, when being interviewed, doesn't mind whiteboard coding? At interviews where I've later been given an offer, it's usually a relatively small algorithmic design challenge, where the specifics don't m
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I agree with you on some points, and disagree with you on others. > The open web is a web where no company is the gatekeeper. Absolutely! > The open web has nothing to do with "view source". It never did. "View source&q
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From the article: > She also asked if I "really" felt that way about Jimmy Carter. and > During the call, I got the impression that they thought / were worried that I was a conservative. The horror.
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For my own opinion, outside of just the article - Sure, the contents of that conversation are uncorroborated, but I don't think it's fair to the author to deny his experience on that basis. Denying that is, implicitly, accusing hi
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At the end of the article, under the header "The original post from July, 2014", he describes his experience. In summary: 1. In 2007, 14 Jewish Members resign from the advisory board of the Carter Center, due to disagreements over
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The linked article mentions that the interview was in Salon, not Slate. Is there a link/ownership between the two that I wasn't aware of?
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Cool project! Something you might want to keep in mind for future iterations or similar projects - You ended up with 127 usable scans, and then used all 127 scans as your test data set while developing. You run the risk, here, of 'over

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