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by anamax 3y ago
> "There's a million ways to get caught for murder, and if you can think of half of them, you're a genius." Does "think of half" apply to the folks trying to solve murders?
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by anamax 3y ago
California can subsidize the building of houses even though it isn't a country, let alone one with control over monetary supply. All it has to do is borrow or collect the relevant amount in taxes and spend it on housing. FWIW, Californ
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by anamax 3y ago
One use of shell companies is to protect "not US" businesses from the US govt. The US Govt asserts jurisdiction over companies that do business with US entities, even if said companies don't do business in the US. As a resul
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by anamax 3y ago
Senior discounts are also used to smooth out/move usage. "Seniors pay 20% less for movie tickets at Tuesday at 1 pm" sells tickets that few people with jobs would buy, regardless of price.
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by anamax 3y ago
> The tough thing is, the developers in that area are happy to let all the buildings rot and fall over, That's not how developers work. Developers make money by, wait for it, developing. Developers don't "buy and wait for
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by anamax 3y ago
Have you tried?
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What did we tell coal miners and pipeline workers? Yes, I know that those folks didn't tell their own stories, but ...
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by anamax 3y ago
> Tax rates in the 50s vs tax rates today. The lack of higher income brackets in the tax code, etc. The US has had a wide-range of tax rates and tax policy. Despite that, FedGov has never collected more than 22% of GDP for longer than tw
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by anamax 3y ago
> Historically nothing sets up a country better for future success than lots of immigrants Are immigrants fungible?
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by anamax 3y ago
> 2. Short lived + well-defined lifetime (per frame/request). Can be allocated in a memory arena. You now have an "arena management" problem. Figuring out the correct arena to allocate from can be a problem. (You want to
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by anamax 3y ago
Not so fast. A tracing GC, by definition, traces. (Not to mention that tracing keeps the live objects alive.) My important-to-me application has a large amount of "live forever" memory and, at any one time, a fairly small amount
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by anamax 3y ago
FWIW, Elton John and Bernie Taupin worked the other way at least some of the time. (Taupin wrote lyrics and then John wrote the music.) That said, repurposing music with new lyrics is very common. For example, the Star Spangled Banner is
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by anamax 3y ago
If a simple tree doesn't work, the best naming scheme is to use names that don't even try to reflect relationships. Yes, random numeral and/or letter sequences.
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> If someone builds an expensive condo, yes this increases supply of housing in the area, but in the event that prices increase all over the place due to cartel-like behavior Umm, no. Adding a new expensive housing to a market does not i
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by anamax 3y ago
> I never said they do not. I said that’s not the typical reaction It doesn't take many shoppers to make a huge difference. > because moving is very difficult There's always a fair number of people new to the area, not to me
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by anamax 3y ago
Boston/Mass has let every tech "lead" for the last 60 years "slip away," so why would AI be any different? Boston has never actually had a lead, but it has had the opportunity to be competitive, especially when MIT
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by anamax 3y ago
I believe it, but there are also a lot of people in that top 10% who will like this price discrimination. My 10% cut-off is probably wrong. It's unlikely to have a noticeable effect on the top 5%. (Zuckerberg wouldn't notice if
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by anamax 3y ago
Is that power available 24/7?
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> It is, if anything, an extremely strident argument against prejudice. Not at all. It actually plays into one of the most popular prejudices in the west. Here's how you know if you have that prejudice. Do you think "I'm
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by anamax 3y ago
My question was motivated by the OP. The longshoreman was arguing for some sort of compensation for an injury from an electric shock. Unless there are relevant symptoms or electric shock is known to have effects on bones, why would the doc
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There are lots of good reasons why you can't admit that it's a con, most of which are some variation on "it's good to lie."
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There aren't enough people in the top 10% (by income) to repeal this.
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Who should pay the benefits for the motorcycle accident that happened before the guy became a longshoreman?
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Palo Alto and Santa Clara both have "city owned utilities". Those utilities don't produce power, they don't bring power into the cities, they may not even distribute power within the cities. What they do do is buy power
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> That less woke/regulated companies will suddenly leapfrog the giants now? What kind of "leapfrog" do you think is necessary to produce a "killer fully autonomous robot"? We've actually had "autonomous
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> new evidence from exercise science shows women are better physiologically suited than men at long distance running. The average doesn't tell you the shape of the distribution matters Men's distributions on some things are a b
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by anamax 3y ago
They're not watching for the end, they're watching for the journey. If you just care about the end, there's no reason to show up until then. Heck, a photo of folks crossing the line should be enough.
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They're not trying to get everyone. They just have to make it painful enough for enough people to get the vast majority of the rest to "fly right." I'm certain that this is not terrorism.
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Presumably the police think that people who viewed those videos are somewhat likely to have committed some crime. At least some of those people wouldn't have thought of committing that crime without being exposed to those videos. That&
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by anamax 3y ago
Zero-sum has nothing to do with absolute numbers, let alone "the number you can meet". The issue is relative numbers. If there's more demand for women than there is demand for men in the relevant cohort, some men's dema

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