andrewem

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by andrewem 8y ago
I've downvoted your comment, because you claim without explanation that "gas taxes and congestion prices are different", and therefore the article is foolish. Maybe you're right in some meaningful way, but showing that w
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by andrewem 8y ago
This thread by Atul Gawande, a doctor, analyzes recent death data from Massachusetts. Several interesting notes, especially this: "The starkest differences in death rates are not by race or gender, but by level of education. People wit
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by andrewem 8y ago
It gives access to an archive containing a huge quantity of irreplaceable material. Here are the requirements: https://www.archives.gov/research/start/researcher-card.html
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by andrewem 8y ago
That's great. It's only a shame that instead of driving by people don't walk or bicycle by, because that would allow for easier stopping and deeper interactions. Perhaps there are changes to the street design which would faci
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by andrewem 8y ago
I've downvoted this because it seems like you're trying to be insulting to this person on the basis of an assumption about their gender. That doesn't seem worthy of HN.
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by andrewem 8y ago
The counterexample to your claim is FamilySearch.org, which worked with Reclaim the Records on digitizing a set of records. (It's a nonprofit run by the LDS church, which is a behemoth in genealogy records.)
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by andrewem 8y ago
Reclaim the Records has done amazing work. HN user Asparagirl is the founder and runs it ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Asparagirl ).
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by andrewem 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate has an explanation
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by andrewem 8y ago
Would you please give some examples where you've found "that languages truly put constraints on one's ability to formulate thoughts"?
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by andrewem 8y ago
> I dislike rails because there's too much magic This was a common complaint about Rails years ago. What are the "magic" parts in current-day Rails that you dislike? (I disliked the dynamic finder methods, e.g. find_by_cit
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by andrewem 8y ago
Your comment on the public not knowing the difficulty of climbs reminded me of a great piece about a juggler, which includes this: "Jugglers don’t have to perform difficult tricks to entertain people, because audiences generally don’t
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by andrewem 8y ago
The story calls him a "A $5-an-hour office supply store salesman", so at 2,000 hours a year it's $10,000. That makes the gross prize money five times his salary. He could easily have paid for someone to attend Harvard on the
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by andrewem 8y ago
Note that some services will allow you to upload a spreadsheet of SNPs which you got from another testing service. If the police had access to a non-commercial lab, say a state-run lab in California which can sequence a similar set of SNPs,
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by andrewem 9y ago
Is the bike lane physically protected from the car lanes? If not, it's quite dangerous to ride in it, no matter what the law says. Edit: I should add, please don't buy into the idea that people walking and bicycling should fight o
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by andrewem 9y ago
It's pretty difficult to argue that NYC was "designed for cars" in the same way as Houston when much of it was designed in the pre-car era. See for instance Manhattan's street grid designed in the 1800s, and large parts
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by andrewem 9y ago
Very cool site, and it makes your point quite well. I panned over to the east coast of North America, and what's that? Oh yes, it's the Nor'easter that just hit that area, a big rotating storm with a very clear center. https
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by andrewem 9y ago
What kinds of things do you include in "living like a foreigner" besides buying foreign foods that aren't commonly eaten in Japan?
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by andrewem 9y ago
I've downvoted your comment because it's only an insult (to a person who doesn't even seem to have been directly involved in this work), rather than an argument that you put forth and which others can attempt to either suppor
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by andrewem 9y ago
I skimmed that link and couldn't figure out what they mean by "processing". (It's related to compliance with a law, so I assume that the common sense meaning of a word isn't necessarily what is meant.) Do you under
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by andrewem 9y ago
I guess it's anecdata, but near me within 10 miles of downtown Boston there is a substantial area of forested park land which used to be farms. You can tell it was farm land by the remnants of the stone walls, which themselves only bec
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by andrewem 9y ago
What I don't understand about your making this argument here is that the article uses "peopled" exclusively to describe what happened 11,500 years ago. It doesn't use it at all to discuss the much later arrival of Europe
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by andrewem 9y ago
I think what they mean is it's fully set up, so that if you've never used Emacs and you start using it, you won't encounter the situation where something stinks and your friend who's an experienced Emacs user says "
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by andrewem 9y ago
For instance, even if you read your compiler's source code and then compile it, there's no way to know that the compilation process didn't insert a back door, as in this classic essay: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/
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by andrewem 9y ago
Noisily thumping along is also a way to get people who are walking slower and blocking your path on busy Boston-area sidewalks to notice your presence and move out of the way.
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by andrewem 9y ago
I hadn't seen that abbreviation before, but it's apparently this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_be_upon_him
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by andrewem 9y ago
I've never heard of Matrix, but it looks like this is the project: https://matrix.org
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by andrewem 9y ago
I'm not saying a universal basic income is good or bad, but notice the pivot you did there. You criticize programs that don't just spend all their money by giving it to the poor, then you say: "Which we could instead do direc
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by andrewem 9y ago
I hadn't heard of this, but it's true: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Judge-clears-Ellison-for-landing-at-night-2909426.php
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by andrewem 9y ago
I get that psychological aspect - it makes you think the current owners have poor judgment, and so what else did they mess up ? That's also why you should do simple maintenance and cleaning when trying to sell a house, because if a pe
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by andrewem 9y ago
After I bought a house, I couldn't turn off the dining room chandelier lights for three days while I figured out the box they'd stashed in a cabinet had a radio transmitter that talked to the light. A while later I paid an electri

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