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by avn2109 12y ago
Barnard is a special case for the following reasons: 0) It is one of Columbia University's affiliated undergraduate schools, so facilities/athletics/administration/some budgets are tightly coupled to the mothership, whic
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by avn2109 12y ago
Good point---that's a subtlety that I had missed. Though it's perhaps worth noting that the dominant form of transit in the overwhelming majority of American locales is in fact the private automobile.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "... because the entire transportation structure was designed for cars. If everyone else is driving a three ton steel machine, you need to drive one too, and better get one with airbags and a four-star crash rating." It&#
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "...my respect for Harper's, and perception of them as a serious publication, just skyrocketed." Really? I have always thought of Harper's as first among equals in the respectable, serious-journalism cohort. I t
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Taxis generate undesirable congestion..." Jane Jacobs rolls in her grave when you say stuff like that. The overwhelming majority of transportation engineers will tell you that taxis alleviate congestion by raising asset
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "One of these statements are incorrect" One _or more_ are incorrect :)
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by avn2109 12y ago
Manhattan island will inevitably be protected by Dutch-style hydro infrastructure. What the construction thereof will do to my tax rate is another matter entirely.
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by avn2109 12y ago
FWIW I live in Hamilton Heights (aka. lower Washington Heights) and I am bombarded by yellow and green cabs at all hours of the day or night. And it's really easy to hail them because nobody else is interested.
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by avn2109 12y ago
I have been loudly referring to it as "awwwww sex" since my college days and don't intend to stop now.
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by avn2109 12y ago
In defense of the redesign, it has improved the data-ink ratio and removed annoying gradients/visual noise on several slides (looking particularly at the chart on slide 22 here). Though Tufte would throw a fit at those circular charts.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "and to pass a difficult examination." Well, I wouldn't call it difficult. If you paid attention at all in those years of school and apprenticeship, you'll waltz through the exam without even studying.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Mark Rippetoe changed my life. I second this recommendation. And I've only learned to squat and bench properly so far. Looking forward to (if you'll forgive the pun) picking up the other lifts.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Agreed. Mark Rippetoe's diet will make you gain body fat. In his defense, he mentions this several times in the book, writing things approximately like, "People are in love with their visible abs. This diet will break your affair
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by avn2109 12y ago
Eloquent and persuasive. I wasn't totally convinced of this after reading your comments above, but the arguments here are well nigh insurmountable.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Ye olde copy and paste, methinks.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Good point. I did indeed mean traffic analysis, not "timing attack."
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by avn2109 13y ago
But crucially, this will still be vulnerable to timing attacks, if I'm not mistaken.
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by avn2109 13y ago
I think that's because the playbook for a successful totalitarian regime is a function of human nature, and regime stability is probably maximized by a fairly specific set of parameters. Eg. optimize by turning the propaganda visual st
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by avn2109 13y ago
FWIW I still get that annoying "real name" popup almost daily on YouTube. I'm going to try the fix mentioned below (blacklisting all cookies from YouTube)
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by avn2109 13y ago
Yet the parent's point stands quite as firmly at 35% as it did at 75%. Intuitively it doesn't seem just for systemic friction to enrich undamaged parties so thoroughly.
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by avn2109 13y ago
A guy in my lab loves F1 and he claims to get same-day HD torrents of races/qualifiers/etc. Every time I look over at his desk, I am impressed by how non-bootlegged they look.
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by avn2109 13y ago
I am about to be job hunting in the city. Can you name some names to save me a bit of trouble down the road? Who should I avoid?
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by avn2109 13y ago
I am a Mechanical Engineer, and almost every Mathematics student and most Physics students that I know could do what I do. But I could very rarely succeed for a week in any of their lives. From this I can only conclude that they are smarter
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by avn2109 13y ago
Have read this myself, and can confirm it's pretty solid stuff. Also, the writing style has an admirably high information density. He cuts to the chase.
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by avn2109 13y ago
>>"...surely the 3rd parking pass for a one person household should be much closer to market rate than the first parking pass." I daresay that all 3 passes ought to be bought at market rate. That's sort of the point of
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by avn2109 13y ago
The image of a car intentionally "breaking" rather than hitting a cyclist warms my bike-commuter's heart. Sadly I think you mean that the car will "brake." </pedantry>
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by avn2109 13y ago
FWIW my best undergrad classes were taught by endowed lecture chairs, e.g. professors who were paid extra by the university to stop caring about and doing research and instead focus solely on teaching.
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by avn2109 13y ago
Here's a vote strongly in favor of exercise, but against steady-state cardio such as jogging. [0] [0] http://www.simplyshredded.com/cardio-for-fat-loss-high-inten...
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by avn2109 13y ago
>> "Wonder if there's any reason they haven't tried this experiment on humans." Institutional Review Boards.
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by avn2109 13y ago
In general I'm with you on this one, but maybe the Nordic states? Or maybe extremely small states a la Lichtenstein, where the complexity and amounts of money involved in governance are so low that corruption hardly pays off at all.

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