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by avn2109 10y ago
Though if we must have egregious politics, it's best if they're implemented incompetently.
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There is an absolute ton of open land on Manhattan island, waiting to be built on. It's the hilariously-too-wide streets and especially our Avenues. We should infill these like crazy, leaving little ten-foot wide streets basically wher
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>> "The piece in fact, is more about the author than the film" There is a whole loathsome, solipsistic genre like this. E.g. novels about wealthy privileged young authors living in Brooklyn struggling to find meaning in thei
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by avn2109 10y ago
Not an expert but I'm pretty sure the AMA gates the number of residency seats and then the schools take the hint and gate admissions numbers independently.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Yeah, Buffet is actually not the best case to back up this argument with. RenTech/Jim Simons [0] is probably a better example of making money on pure skill. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologie
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A nonspecialist such as Stewart may or may not have contributed to the paper. All the evidence we have now is her name on the paper (for which there is obviously a strong propaganda/PR incentive for all authors, so that evidence should
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by avn2109 10y ago
This is an interesting claim but I'm not qualified to evaluate its truth or falsehood. Can you link us to the "original foundation?"
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>> "...people in the drug discovery business do not see the FDA as an obstacle to doing business." Let me play devil's advocate here and suggest that entrenched market participants love high-barrier-to-entry regulator
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Is there a reason you're calling your non-free product something with "Community" in the name? CDB is intriguing but this feels like intentional doublethink to me.
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They don't get the data for the (existing) Muslim registry by asking you. Just like the Stasi didn't send out a pre-persecution questionnaire to identify Catholics.
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Presumably the (publicly) unacknowledged plan is to severely wound private car ownership and then collude with Lyft to fix prices, similar to how it worked with Didi in China [0]. There will likely be some regulatory capture on the side to
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by avn2109 10y ago
TFA and a lot of commenters here don't seem to understand that Uber doesn't want to compete with taxi services, which are a niche business to be disrupted en route to the real prize. It wants to compete with your car - imagine 1
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...will you build a Muslim registry..." I don't support Trump or the unconstitutional American deep state, but you realize there is already a Muslim registry right? In fact there are probably several competing imple
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Also, the high-social-mobility list of schools is dominated by schools in high CoL areas, particularly NYC. Graduates from NYC schools (including graduates with non-wealthy backgrounds) disproportionately stay in NYC and make an NYC salary,
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Nonetheless I find the comment in both its incarnations civil, insightful and substantive (though contrarian), and I don't think it ought to be dead.
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In my (admittedly short) experience as a data scientist, "solving the wrong problem"/"working on irrelevant things" and "inadequately cleaned/prepped training data" are vastly, overwhelmingly more com
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It will be $39.99 and if you buy a 3rd party one it will pull up a modal dialog box that says "This peripheral is not supported and may not work properly."
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We hire people with your exact profile for data science jobs all the time. You should be applying to DS jobs like there's no tomorrow.
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by avn2109 10y ago
"Potentially permanent positions" is a euphemism for "tenure track research job."
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Compare this overall bill to the total amount of public and private money spent on interstate highways, bridges, interchanges, rolling stock (aka automobiles) etc in the United States. By back of the envelope math the comparison seems to fa
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What if your apartment is on a goofy street?
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>> "...freedom to switch to any ride-sharing network they like (or even multiple networks)." The hardware manufacturer/owner will fight tooth and nail to prevent this. They'll probably write a clause into the user&
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by avn2109 10y ago
Regardless of the merit of this specific accusational-and-denial cycle, the fact remains that Whatsapp is closed source crypto and there is no way in principle for the user to verify any security claims. I happen to trust Moxie's princ
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by avn2109 10y ago
However, the Saudis will soon raise the price of fuel to exorbitant levels (again), while electricity prices will remain stably regulated by each state's power commission.
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by avn2109 10y ago
For automotive scandals like e.g this one and Dieselgate it's always surprising how much outrage people muster. If an automaker sells N cars exceeding some emissions limit by 100%, people get out the pitchforks. But if that same automa
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>> "GM, BMW, MB, and Ford" GP here. My whole point is that ~everyone is cheating to various degrees, it's just that not everyone has been caught yet.
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If you've ever been near a major automaker's test engineering lab, you quickly realize that ~all of them are doing shady things to hit their numbers. This is a result of the cold hard engineering fact that our current level of tec
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The model that gets us out of this predicament is trivially simple and literally fits on one line: Really Narrow Streets Unfortunately most North American local government has a savagely visceral hatred of that idea. Full disclosure I stole
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When Bush the younger tried to privatize SS in the early 2000's as a favor to his cronies, he made sure the defaults were e.g. John Hancock at 2.4% fees. With effort you could have run it through Vanguard but most people are confused b
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But your employer is perfectly capable of doing accounting. So they pass through their 6.2% to you. In practice the mechanism is that every employer figures it in to their offers, such that every offer you ever receive is ~6.2% lower than i

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