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by alehul 7y ago
> The shortage isn't about the amount of available housing at all, it's about people's ability to live there too. And if you're just doubling the building heights, you haven't talked about wages or ability to liv
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by alehul 7y ago
(Note: Disregarding the possible negative outcomes of general AI on humanity for the sake of this comment) While I completely agree with you that we don't want machines to make these human-like mistakes, wouldn't you agree that it
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by alehul 7y ago
> but do you have a better idea where it should be placed? How about having a small notch at the front of the mouse, like every other mouse I've used? It can then be simultaneously wired, and usable. Maybe you're right that it&
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by alehul 7y ago
I have used the mouse, yes— I understand what you're pitching, but I think that ultimately the user can decide whether they want it to be a wireless mouse or a wired mouse, depending on their needs. Putting it on the bottom did nothing
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by alehul 7y ago
> whichever idiot thought putting the power plug at the bottom of the Magic Mouse was a good idea. For those not familiar with the Apple Mouse, the commenter means that the power plug is on the part that you’re supposed to have on the mo
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by alehul 7y ago
For those wondering, TFR = total fertility rate and means "total number of children born or likely to be born to a woman in her life time if she were subject to the prevailing rate of age-specific fertility in the population". [1]
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by alehul 8y ago
This comment made me want to investigate Intel's financials and see whether this qualitative story matches their quantitative data, but it seems to be the opposite: Revenue grew last quarter almost 20% YoY to ~$20B Net income has been
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by alehul 8y ago
So there are freedoms of speech that are limited to the press? A collection of individuals in a corporation has more rights to speech than an individual alone? Thank you for making that distinction, and based on the interpretation of "
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by alehul 8y ago
The above comment is being downvoted, but the UK actually arrests people for offensive speech. 625 arrests in 2010, for instance. [0] I'd note the caveat that "aggressive" speech is included, but it also is simply meant to co
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by alehul 8y ago
> Drivers use Lyft for a reason; they may have a greater bonus payment that balances out the higher commission to Lyft Drivers use Lyft because riders use Lyft, and it's better to drive for either at a given time than neither. It do
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by alehul 8y ago
Search is one of my favorite parts of Slack. It assumes that I want to search within a certain channel or messages with a certain person when that's where I'm clicking the search bar from, but I can quickly erase that if desired.
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by alehul 8y ago
Personally, I found it helpful to view information consumption like this: All information has a time horizon over which it is likely to be valuable. For some outrage news stories, it's just a few hours, while for more thoughtful politi
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by alehul 8y ago
Good question! I wondered the same. There isn’t explicitly, and I know that’s part of what the federal top-down model tries to prevent, but is it really working? The United States’ affluent areas are night-and-day to the poor ones. If we th
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by alehul 8y ago
When people who are fans of the "Scandinavian model" in the U.S. try and hype it up, this is what they seldom understand (or at least publicly recommend). In Sweden, until you hit ~$65,000 in yearly income, all of the taxes you pa
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by alehul 8y ago
Do you mean that there are other American cities without rampant homelessness, and that capitalists would wrongly accuse them of being communist? In other words, that capitalism can exist without homelessness? Similarly (but with blame else
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by alehul 8y ago
> Dismantling the capitalist system and giving workers control of the means of production? I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but what empirical evidence have we ever had that shows "you'd have millions in the bank AND you
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by alehul 8y ago
> "I'm donating money to you, fiscally conservative senator Cotton, because I disagree with your policy and think you should adopt a more progressive policy, even though it's against the fundamental tenants of your party.
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by alehul 8y ago
It may not be how donations work for the average individual, where you want to donate and support those in power who you agree with. It's very different, however, for those who can donate enough to meet with politicians, and leverage t
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by alehul 8y ago
> If you want to learn something, top-tier universities aren't much better than many other options. Very true. In fact, at colleges like Harvard and Columbia, higher grades are often easier to achieve than at the mid-tiers like Bost
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by alehul 8y ago
Touché! I suppose I'm partially criticizing the idea of a #1, but that aside, there's a fair point to be made that MIT would beat a smaller version of it on any nominal measurement rather than per-capita. Additionally, if you want
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by alehul 8y ago
Found the Caltech student! Jokes aside, why not include MIT or UChicago? The former is arguably a bigger Caltech, and the latter is extremely rigorous, even if not focused on engineering.
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by alehul 8y ago
Awesome, TIL! I live in Boston and have only traveled to New York often, but maybe I'll try a longer route sometime. :)
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by alehul 8y ago
> a private room, bathroom, and shower What trains have you found that offer this? As an American unaccustomed to such trains, I'd be super interested to try them.
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by alehul 8y ago
While I would personally wager that those in prison are on average less moral, there was nonetheless a valid point above that those who commit crimes don't necessarily lack morality. The argument here would be that law does not perfect
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My Conversation with Patrick Collison (2018)(fs.blog)
1 points by alehul 8y ago|0 comments
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by alehul 8y ago
I've never formally learned Political Science so I could be off-base here, but doesn't it go like this? Socialism: the workers own the means of production Communism: the state owns the means of production* *Granted, what I was tau
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by alehul 8y ago
> certain people always get money whenever someone else does work The people who did work were paid by the investors for almost 7 years now (Lyft was founded in June 2012 and is unprofitable to this day), along with some equity. If Lyft
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by alehul 8y ago
> It's the rich getting even richer off the labour of workers We could also view it as the people who paid for all of their labor for years getting even richer, considering Lyft being unprofitable.
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Man Pleads Guilty to Phishing Scheme That Fleeced Facebook, Google of $100M(npr.org)
3 points by alehul 8y ago|0 comments
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by alehul 8y ago
Nine, apparently! Any particular recommendations out of those? And does an English version carry the same weight, or does one have to read in Russian to appreciate most of it?

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