YokoZar

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by YokoZar 8y ago
This was a rambling, uninteresting read without any new insight or humor. Summary: Author doesn't like commuting, wonders why companies expect people to do it, then hopes for a self driving car future as though this somehow solves the
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Factorio's Save implementation is one of the worst I've ever seen. If you start a completely new game, the default name for a save game is the previous game you were playing. This means that you can very easily overwrite hundreds
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Almost all of Intellectual Ventures assets are patents with unclear value. Maybe they can use them to extract millions of dollars of settlements. Or maybe they're worthless. When that's the majority of your balance sheet, whatev
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Another version of this is that the Vitamin C gene itself mutated into something useful, or that not having it was in and of itself a small benefit given ample dietary C. A quick google shows there has been some speculation about this, but
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by YokoZar 8y ago
And if you didn't special case it would lead to an "interesting" strategy of trying to score on yourself whenever you were in serious danger of having someone else score on you.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Yeah but why bother? By teaming up they don't win they just make the third team lose. The more effort they invest in that the more tired they'll be when they finally decide to face eachother.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
How do you have 11 scored goals and only 7 conceded goals?
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by YokoZar 8y ago
The argument was that there are too many designers and engineers. Not keeping the talent around for long is exactly the point.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Glass windows block the kind of UV radiation you need to produce Vitamin D. You really have to actually go outside to produce it.
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by YokoZar 9y ago
> This description fits Los Angeles pretty well. In 2001, Los Angeles County boasted 21,085 lane miles of maintained highways. In 2016, that number had not budged much, growing to only 21,826 lane miles. In the same period of time, the n
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by YokoZar 9y ago
Because the day to day job is nowhere near as stressful as the artificial constraints of the interview process. Do people typically come in to work at 11? Why do you schedule interviews at 9 AM? Do people typically have time to think about
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by YokoZar 9y ago
You may have answered your own question. If you can relet the space more easily when WeWork Subsidiary LLC breaks the lease, then the landlord's default risk is reduced. Plus, maybe there's a large deposit.
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by YokoZar 9y ago
When you tax people directly, you recover money earned by people through corporate stock buy backs and dividends. Those are all taxable income.
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by YokoZar 9y ago
There are trivial amounts of alcohol in a lot of things that teetotalers end up consuming, even the religiously so ones. Vanilla extract, meats cooked in alcohol (it does not all burn off), some vinegars, mustard, cooking spray, "non
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by YokoZar 9y ago
This is off by a factor of 10. You get between 10,000 and 25,000 IU in just a little under the time your skin takes to burn. https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-do-i-get... You are very unlikely to dev
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by YokoZar 9y ago
Their own government is also failing to make it possible to affordably live in the area. Local governments doing their best to keep new housing illegal, but government nonetheless.
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by YokoZar 9y ago
In this case, we aren't feeding people. We're feeding cows. We're also running into frequent water crises where politicians ask people to shower less while we dump 90% of the state's water on the ground.
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by YokoZar 9y ago
The number of people waiting to move to California at current price points (or even substantially lower ones is not limitless. That's why you build more houses. The more you build, the less contention for housing at whatever quality l
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by YokoZar 9y ago
And where is that hypothetical "induced demand" coming from? Some other city that now has more affordable housing due to the people leaving town. Either way, when you legalize housing and build more houses, you end up with more h
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by YokoZar 9y ago
It wasn't clear from the article, but the context I found was that the Camden County Police Department took over policing from the Camden City force on May 1, 2013. Cities often have multiple options for who "owns" local poli
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by YokoZar 9y ago
The open source Spring RTS interface allows for player-made AIs to execute inside the game engine. You can play alongside your bots (and turn certain behavior off/on with the interface).
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by YokoZar 9y ago
That "rock-paper-scissors" cycle among the top preferences is the Smith set, and every sensible voting "violates" Arrows theorem by saying that sometimes it's ok to acknowledge that cycle. One of Arrows assumptions,
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by YokoZar 9y ago
If you told me these facts about a random video game I'd guess the following: - A high rank player can consistently execute a strategy that wins against the majority of players most of the time ("beats the meta") - The above
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by YokoZar 9y ago
Arrow's theorem is mathematics, but even citing it is greatly misleading. All Arrow proved was that, sometimes, voting becomes rock-paper-scissors between the three most popular candidates. That isn't "unfair". It espe
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by YokoZar 9y ago
There have also been randomized controlled trials of Vitamin D vs placebo measuring flu rates. This is one meta-analysis I found: http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
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by YokoZar 9y ago
Why not try legalizing the construction of more housing?
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by YokoZar 9y ago
The line in the article about VR-brain interfaces is I believe a reference to http://www.neurable.com/ This tech is exciting. Imagine a wizard game where you literally meditate to recover mana.
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by YokoZar 9y ago
The next best thing to teleportation is living across the street from work and having an instant commute. No public transit can compete with that. If you legalize housing next to work, then you reduce the amount of stress on the transit sy
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by YokoZar 9y ago
2-3x? Try 10x. A lot of those living in million dollar homes purchased in the 70s at sub 100k prices, and are still paying based on that valuation. Or their children are, since Prop 13 lets your kids inherit the right to pay 1/10 th
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by YokoZar 9y ago
Mars has isolated pockets of "mini magnetospheres" that are suitable enough to block charged particles. http://www.space.dtu.dk/english/Research/Universe_and_Solar_...

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