andrewem

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by andrewem 9y ago
Agreed, the idea that Apple couldn't possibly have any influence over municipal policies is laughable. They just didn't try.
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by andrewem 9y ago
This guy who used to be a white supremacist leader makes pretty much that point in this interview I found very interesting http://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/525516754/white-supremacist-tr...
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by andrewem 9y ago
I have to give Elon Musk credit - the average person would be hard-pressed to come up with even a single laughably impractical mode of transportation, but he's got two.
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by andrewem 10y ago
Looking at that picture of the huge empty highway and ramps, I can't help but think that the $15 million needed to connect to fiber optic backbone could have been found if so much hadn't been wasted on that road building. The same
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by andrewem 10y ago
I'm a fan of the min-conflicts heuristic for this problem. See eg section 5.3 of http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/2nd-ed/newchap05.pdf
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by andrewem 10y ago
You make a lot of points. For the moment I'll take issue with only one of them. You claim OpenAI is "an organization that pays below market rates", and give a link to support your claim. The first thing in that link is "
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by andrewem 10y ago
The response from the Public Editor does not say that the review was faked - it says the opposite, starting with the headline "Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test". Later it says "I am convi
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by andrewem 10y ago
That video would be much more compelling to me if it had narration, and explained why the basic concept of their product is better (for at least some cases) than the built-in code review features on GitHub and similar services. Or maybe the
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by andrewem 10y ago
I can't tell if you're trying to troll here, but the comment you're replying to said Windcrest is a separate city (it is, with a Mayor and City Council, per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcrest,_Texa
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by andrewem 10y ago
Figuring out the pattern of a pseudorandom device used for gambling reminds me of Michael Larson, who learned the patterns used on a TV game show in order to win a lot of money. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha
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by andrewem 10y ago
The term was created by white supremacists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right
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by andrewem 10y ago
"Until we can figure out what is going on" is not the language of policy, it's the language of demagoguery, and thus your trying to read it as straightforward statement of policy is a mistake. Further, Trump's willful di
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by andrewem 10y ago
(Assuming this isn't a troll.) Really? He was quite clear about the actions he planned to take on immigration: "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country&#
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by andrewem 10y ago
Watching this video what struck me most was how overbuilt almost all the streets were - they're designed for high speeds and devote essentially all the space to cars. We know how to get at least a 3x reduction in fatalities, as the Net
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by andrewem 10y ago
What are the effects of eating that many apples in a day?
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by andrewem 10y ago
The chain of comments leading up to yours is interesting. One person said that if you've got a relational database you should push lots of work down to it, which they say requires lots of SQL knowledge, and they think having that knowl
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by andrewem 10y ago
Or to take another example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkin_bag Edit: here's the Planet Money podcast episode I heard about them on: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12&
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by andrewem 10y ago
Uhh, Stowe is Harriet Beecher Stowe, so "he" ought to be "she". Because this is HN, I'll assume good intent and presume this is just a slip and doesn't indicate your lack of familiarity with the material you&#x
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by andrewem 10y ago
https://vimeo.com/56002315 is an hour-long documentary about his performance there, with lots of footage of the show itself.
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by andrewem 10y ago
I don't have time now to write a comment laying out a comprehensive rebuttal of all the foolishness that some people have suggested here (bicyclists need to be licensed! bicyclists should have to follow exactly the same rules as driver
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by andrewem 10y ago
Similarly to your dry aged steak anecdote, I has two bottles of the same brand of port, one aged 10 years and the other 20. The 10 year tasted great to me, but once I had it alongside the 20 year, I realized the 10 year had a somewhat unple
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by andrewem 10y ago
Sounds like you're referring to "Hiroshima", published as the entire editorial content of an issue of the New Yorker shortly after the war, later published as a book of the same title, and IMHO one of the most important magaz
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by andrewem 11y ago
It's true that user fees - gas taxes and tolls - for motor vehicle drivers in the US pay far less than the costs of the roads they use. I think it's roughly 50%. However, assuming that by "electrification of mobility" yo
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by andrewem 11y ago
I had read several of his books, and thought I had a pretty good picture of him. Then I read his new memoir "On the Move", and I found out how little I knew about his life, which turned out to be far more interesting than I'd
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by andrewem 11y ago
There's lots more about this in The Autobiography of Mark Twain. See http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267190 or http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Mark-Twain-Complete-Auth...
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by andrewem 11y ago
I went looking for an old graphic showing doping status of other top Tour de France finishers during the years Lance Armstrong won, and couldn't find it, but the Wikipedia article on doping at the tour should go a long way to satisfyin
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by andrewem 11y ago
Right. Cancer is not a single disease, and so the drugs that will be effective depend on the particular cancer, and in some cases on particular mutations in the tumor (see for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncog
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by andrewem 11y ago
That's known as a "post-completion error" - you've finished what you meant to do, like making a photocopy, and then forget to do some follow-up step, like take the original document off the copier.
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by andrewem 11y ago
My dad just retired from a programming job at 66 years old, and now he's back down to one job, doing programming at his own business for clients like big manufacturing companies. One of his complaints before his retirement is that some
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by andrewem 12y ago
Perhaps they're special cases, but I've visited cemeteries of people who died in the 1600s and 1700s in Boston, Plymouth and Salem, Massachusetts. You'll find two cemeteries almost across the street from each other in Boston,

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