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by arebop 11y ago
Even using wildest estimates of the proponents of the anti-AirBNB measure, AirBNB involves a negligible fraction of the city's housing units. It was only related to housing by political rhetoric. Surely the commenter upthread was talki
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by arebop 11y ago
I have worked at companies that don't expect candidates to code during interviews, and I have worked at companies that do. I was personally acquainted with programmers who couldn't write working code at the former, and I have neve
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by arebop 11y ago
I'm not saying that all Indians are alike in all ways, just that in India the most popular majors are STEM [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_India ], whereas in the U.S. the most popular ambition o
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by arebop 11y ago
It seems that Indians and Chinese cultures both (all?) celebrate education and particularly science/engineering more than other cultures.
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by arebop 11y ago
Businesses have experimented with "other people's data" forever. The clerk at the video store chats with customers, learns which ones are chatty, what recommendations work out, etc. This is considered to be good service . Bu
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by arebop 11y ago
As I said, I think reasonable people can disagree about it, but I think they are demanding that the wall have a shape like "this data will be displayed back to you while you work on it and to your teacher during the grading period and
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by arebop 11y ago
According to the FAQ, "It’s also possible that Google does not use student data for any of these purposes—but unfortunately, Google has refused to articulate the reasons" so it seems like the EFF's position on Internet-hosted
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by arebop 11y ago
If reports are to be believed, then clearly Uber expected that it would be 5 stars or nothing, and their low tolerance for 4 stars makes reality more consistent with that belief. But as a user from the early days, nothing in the app clued m
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by arebop 11y ago
Collaborative filtering is the obvious way to make a scalable restaurant ratings service. Google tried to do it and apparently failed; then Yelp tried to do it [ http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/06/whats-nearby.htm
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by arebop 11y ago
That could be enough if your housing is free, and with rent control some people have very cheap housing.
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by arebop 11y ago
We already subsidize employers of low-wage and part-time workers; Wal*Mart is infamous for encouraging its workers to apply for food stamps, for example. This outcome is even implicit in the common observation that UBI could obviate the min
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by arebop 11y ago
What's to stop a cartel from doing the same for corn growers?
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by arebop 11y ago
Alexander the Great had a very personal relationship with his horse [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus ].
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by arebop 11y ago
No, the prism leaks show that the NSA had access to data. It is often implied by various commentators that the access was facilitated by the companies, but there's no evidence to support that. The evidence about companies cooperating w
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by arebop 11y ago
The www.netflixprize.com data from 2009 is quantitative evidence about whether the recommender works (it is much better than random). I'm open to the idea that a curated collection might delight more people, but in my experience and ba
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by arebop 11y ago
Really, you have never heard American progressives call for reduced military expenditure?
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by arebop 11y ago
Almost all photos are copyrighted and not licensed for my use. In practice I rarely worry much about it, and I doubt it is very common to think "I must take my own photo of the Washington Monument, because how else will I get permissio
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by arebop 11y ago
a7s goes up to 409600 ISO, and some would say the results at 80000 ISO are pretty damn usable [ http://philipbloom.net/blog/a7s/ ]!
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by arebop 11y ago
Cities grew for thousands of years. Suburbs have had a 50 year run. Maybe it's oscillation on a exponentially increasing frequency, but I'm more inclined to think that suburbs were a temporary aberration. People seem to like to be
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by arebop 11y ago
There's no incentive for them to do this though. Cable TV uses a broadcast model, so it's possible that ads on subscription channels is a profit-maximizing strategy. But YouTube users have independent streams of video. If some use
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by arebop 11y ago
I think the two key elements that are often missing when people use the term casually are anhedonia and persistence. The wikipedia article has details about the accepted clinical definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by arebop 11y ago
The first time you hear it, it sounds surprising. Then someone explains about revenue and it makes sense. So then you want to share the cleverness. Of course, it's actually a pretty shallow analysis, unsupported by the company's h
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by arebop 11y ago
A warrant to query everyone's geotagged cell phone records? That's a long way from traditional warrants to obtain a suspect's call log or to tap a suspect's phone...
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by arebop 11y ago
We know how to run fast auctions, so this doesn't seem hard to solve. #5 Managerial Skills seems harder to work around.
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by arebop 11y ago
No, Microsoft is a special case because they have always been at best amoral; they have been a cutthroat, even malicious company. Recently they've softened their behavior and image, but it's really a very recent shift and given th
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by arebop 11y ago
Also, it's a false dichotomy that we must have either no development, or a building everyone (other than the architect himself) hates. For most of history, architects sought a graceful balance between art and practical considerations.
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by arebop 11y ago
How do you compete with insurers who use a unconditional table rather than assuming the worst case? Presumably they beat your prices for both genders.
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by arebop 11y ago
A rational reason to focus on the foreign aspect is that we have immigration controls that disadvantage foreigners. These controls distort the market at the expense of laborers more generally. Immigration controls worsen the bargaining posi
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by arebop 11y ago
Sorry, I was not clear: I think if you have the option to work in Silicon Valley, you can make more elsewhere. The housing crisis and (to a much lesser extent) generally high wages amplify this imbalance. Lots of people say that Silicon Val
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by arebop 11y ago
I moved from the midwest to San Francisco. In my experience: -> the culture here is more optimistic and open-minded; people are more willing to take risks and try hard things -> the weather is more moderate -> the scenery i

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