YokoZar

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by YokoZar 13y ago
There are already a good deal of gas stations that fit the supercharger model -- they sell gas, but also have attached restaurants (often fast food, but often up-scale too). Basically the sort of place truckers like to stop -- food and gas
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I edited the bug itself to include a direct link to Mark's comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834 Somehow I felt like I was disturbing the universe doing such a thing.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I feel like we lucked out with the international dateline being exactly half way around the world from the observatory -- were it not for the random chance of geography, the dateline could have easily ended up in the middle of a populated l
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by YokoZar 13y ago
This cannot be right. Buying a house surely increases your risk, because the price of your house now affects a majority of your wealth. If you didn't spend all that money taking on debt to purchase a home, you could have your assets sprea
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Almost surely. There were official remotes for previous generation consoles. It is, after all, a blu-ray player.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Of course, there is room for urban planning. But it's quite telling that none of these projects are starting even in the "downtown" areas adjacent to caltrain stops, which is exactly where you want growth to happen. If a peninsula city ac
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The article hits on an entire class of silly arguments I've seen against bitcoin from the start: people claim that bitcoins will be worthless because they will be too valuable to trade. The language used for "too valuable" may vary (scarcit
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by YokoZar 13y ago
A much simpler point the author missed is that wealth doesn't exactly cause the housing shortage so much as not building houses. San Francisco has rent control, and most of the peninsula has severe zoning controls. It would be extraordinar
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by YokoZar 13y ago
My high school math teacher once asserted that, if you try this experimentally, the dog will in fact take something very close to the optimal path. Therefore, he said, dogs can do calculus.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
> All of this has me really questioning how and where I want to apply my skills for the remainder of my career. It's entirely possible to create technology that works the other way, such as inventing the power-loom that replaced expensi
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I went through my collection of Cards Against Humanity and removed all the "not subtle" cards that are basically trying to be puerile. The game is a lot better, and I can now fit the good parts of the game + expansions into the original bo
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It's not just subsidies for gasoline (and oil exploration) to worry about, it's the externalities they carry.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Slightly more interesting to me would be the median income of a person getting off at a particular stop, rather than the folk who live there. Plenty of people work in the poorer parts of the city and live in relatively expensive neighborho
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by YokoZar 13y ago
As the article points out, this sort of situation is exactly what creates the difference between first and third world nations. The only difference is that in countries like Ecuador most of the economy is like New York's food truck busines
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Thats the joke.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
If substantial inflation is on the way, the interest rate earned by your savings will increase accordingly provided you're not investing in mattress funds.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Alternatively, you can think of it as a good argument for open source. Take abuse of the notification area, for example: in Ubuntu this was eliminated by modifying every package in the archive. That's something a system like Windows with
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It's strange because the overwhelming consensus so far has been that the latter releases have been much more tested and stable than any before, with the sole exception of LTS releases. Still, it's always been good advice to hold off on upg
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by YokoZar 14y ago
More relevantly, nothing stops you from creating a tradeable note that says "redeemable for 1 bitcoin from <trusted authority>" and then using those as currency. This happened with gold, and also would happen if we saw a true bitcoi
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I recall hearing somewhere that the original paper wasn't actually published in a peer-reviewed journal, so requirements for data and code wouldn't really have applied anyway. Perhaps the greater lesson is that we should trust proper journa
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I have the website field turned off -- it's not visible if you are a real user using the form, and "website" doesn't show up next to comments. But I still get a lot of spam containing the website field; it seems like the bot is just automat
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by YokoZar 14y ago
And if you do understand the supply chain as an outsider for some reason, you're going to be using this information to make large bets about the stock price rather than release it to the media.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I think Krugman himself has noted that economists are referenced most on things they disagree on (such as the relation between deficits and growth), and referenced least on things they agree on (such as the effects of rent control).
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Especially if you use an axe.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Attempting to avoid infringing software patents like this is an absolute waste of time. There are vast amounts of terrible patents covering everything you do, and even if you don't technically infringe the mere allegation that you do by a
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by YokoZar 14y ago
You can also spin this as "keeping people who need a ride poor by raising the price of the good they depend on", or even "preventing the poor from working by making it uneconomical for them to get to work". If you're going to argue in favor
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by YokoZar 14y ago
The reason there is a tragedy of the commons is that not _all_ the costs are internal to the driver. Sure, if traffic is slow enough it becomes unprofitable for everyone, but before that point there's a situation where it's profitable to y
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by YokoZar 14y ago
If you want to limit congestion, price congestion. Don't limit taxis, the right to drive people, the right to drive a car ending with a particular license plate number, or the amount of fuel available (all have been tried to reduce traffic)
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Storing volatile currencies creates risk, no doubt, but it also creates demand independent of speculation. Interestingly, this implies that more convenient bitcoin exchanges could greatly lower the demand for bitcoin.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
You will see similar arguments happen about real life currencies backed by small nation-states. It's entirely plausible for mass market speculation to, say, quintuple the price of the Botswanan note.

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