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by akamaka 9y ago
Electric vehicles have not yet turned out to be more reliable or cheaper to repair. Tesla vehicles are lower than average on both of those measures. I used to be very optimistic because of how simple electric cars are in theory, but in pra
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by akamaka 9y ago
Thanks! I just got finished enjoying the 1979 miniseries and I'm very happy to learn that there is another one to follow it up.
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by akamaka 9y ago
I've never been able to separate work from the rest of life, even after more than a decade of working. The only answer for me has been to find better jobs, or, better yet, taking long periods of time away from work entirely.
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by akamaka 9y ago
For those interested, here is a rebuttal article, also from 2012: http://www.cahsrblog.com/2012/07/new-evidence-shows-flaws-in...
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by akamaka 9y ago
I meant my comment about unlimited spending as an philosphical argument, not as a literal data point. And yes, the biggest problem in the US is unneccessary tests, procedures, drug consumption, etc., and the cause of that problem is a syste
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by akamaka 9y ago
Perhaps that indicates how effective the healthcare industry in the US is at maximizing their revenue. If the choice is paying or dying, people will pay an unlimited amount.
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by akamaka 9y ago
It's his interpretation that people "chose" to spend more money as they got richer. Many other people interpret it differently, when the alternative to paying might be death.
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by akamaka 9y ago
The most important consideration is which point of your career you're in. If you're early in your career, leave immeadiately. You are missing out on opportunity to learn from the best people and use that knowledge for decades to c
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by akamaka 9y ago
Incredible. This blogger indeed uses a dizzying amount of graphs, but doesn't mention until the end that he has built his entire argument on the assumption that Americans "choose" to spend their higher income on health care.
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by akamaka 9y ago
I know someone who had to have a circumcision as an adult. If he decides to have the procedure performed on his son to avoid the same problems he had, then I will respect his choice.
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by akamaka 9y ago
If you're interested in this sort of subject, Thomas McCraw's book Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions gives excellent overviews of how the economies
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by akamaka 9y ago
I'm reading the biography of Moses as we speak and the current chapter does paint him as being capable of a unique kind of horribleness, regardless of his other positive qualities. As one of his friends described him: "He's s
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by akamaka 10y ago
Spot on. Do we work at the same company? I deal with the exact same problems every day with our in-house component framework.
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by akamaka 10y ago
Yes, it's possible to do incredibly fast signal processing calculations using interfering laser beams. http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2014/08/startup-with-optical-so... In practice, it's not easy to compet
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by akamaka 10y ago
You can skip reading the article, as it does not list any "errors" that have happened. It merely questions whether the agreement under which the data is shared has adequate protections.
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by akamaka 10y ago
Why do you think $30 billion is delusional? Just because it's a huge number? The US spends well over $1 trillion dollars on transportation every year, to put it in context.
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by akamaka 10y ago
Not supported on most browsers, as opposed to what the headline suggests: http://caniuse.com/#feat=same-site-cookie-attribute
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by akamaka 10y ago
Who is this rant directed at? I don't know the context, but I presume he's responding to some specifc group of programmers who he hasn't named.
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by akamaka 10y ago
I feel like the denunciations aren't specific to anything in particular that he said, but part a general trend among some commentors of this site. When I read someone's personal reflections, I just listen to what they have to say
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by akamaka 10y ago
The phrase "nary a peep" means "never one single small sound". The context of this discussion is about entirely unreported drone strikes, not the number of pages devoted to a front page incident. Your points are fair, b
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by akamaka 10y ago
Like I said, it's a matter of debate as to whether raising prices during an unfortunate circumstance is ethical. Regardless of which choice Uber makes, they are open to criticism. There could have been articles right now about how Ube
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by akamaka 10y ago
Because the people who had bombs dropped on them were bad people, but the people being held at the border are good immigrants. We could spend endless hours debating the the gray areas of warfare, but that discussion aside, that is essential
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by akamaka 10y ago
Surge pricing is often derided as price gouging. Uber has turned off surge pricing in the past during unexpected events (such as the New York bombing), so as to not be seen as profiting off unfortunate events. This seems to have been done u
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by akamaka 10y ago
From the article: "All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations."
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by akamaka 10y ago
I think this is the best comment in the entire thread. I'd like to add one more point, which is that some folks argue we would be going back to a world of sustinence farming without GMOs, ignoring that much of the improvements in agric
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by akamaka 10y ago
Yeah, for sure. I was implying that the other 74% will be avoided by cars with self-driving features, since the parent comment was suggesting that getting driverless trucks was more important.
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by akamaka 10y ago
Saving any lives in great, but trucks are a very small part of the problem. Out of 33883 US traffic deaths in 2009, 3380 involved trucks, and truck driver error was listed as a cause 26% of the time. Self driving long-haul trucks probably w
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by akamaka 10y ago
For every 100 jobs you apply for, how many responses do you get, and how many interviews?
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by akamaka 10y ago
This looks great, thanks for sharing. Has anyone tried doing SICP in several different languages, and have thoughts on how Clojure compares to others?
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by akamaka 10y ago
The new model is not improving CPU performance ( https://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks ). Also, losing the escape key is painful, and I still frequently use devices that don't have USB-C connectors. I did an all

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