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by bcgraham 8y ago
> Should a small town be able to charge a $50,000 per year rent to put up a cell tower? Yes, absolutely! > I don't think cities should be able to stifle the industry. Portland, OR couldn't stifle the industry if it wanted to
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by bcgraham 8y ago
Many (most?) of the risks governments are trying to mitigate are fundamentally geographic - interpersonal violence, spread of fire, spread of disease, etc.
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by bcgraham 8y ago
Old joke. First kid asks, "What's punk?" Second kid kicks over a trash can, points at it, and says, "That's punk." First kid kicks over another trash can and asks, "Is that punk?" Second kid says, &qu
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by bcgraham 8y ago
The secret sauce of Vanilla was the sense of place and sense of community. You don't need the old patch. You need persistent identities and travel time. Small populations, no server or faction transfers, and walking to dungeons is the
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by bcgraham 9y ago
The flip side to this is having a legislature who will never have career lawmakers, and so will never have the kind of experience or insight one gets from doing something as a long-term career. It also invites people to run for legislativ
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by bcgraham 9y ago
That probably never happened. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17970
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by bcgraham 9y ago
You're correct. They sell a product.
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by bcgraham 10y ago
I was persuaded by the proposal. Do you still prefer directly exposing the monotonic clock? If so, why?
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by bcgraham 10y ago
This is a cool project. But when I was in school, if a classmate of mine came in with this, it would have really rustled my jimmies. Some kids have much better resources than other kids.
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by bcgraham 10y ago
He talks about the time estimate in the book. He says he understood the need for a time estimate, and so gives the one he thinks is best. But the important thing is that he feels confident it will happen before artificial intelligence that
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by bcgraham 10y ago
More than 500 murders a year in NYC is untrue.
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by bcgraham 10y ago
"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine." - Picasso, supposedly Talking about this stuff is only natural. As for t
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by bcgraham 10y ago
Stick with Anathem. Bang for buck, it's a really economical opening. The book is fabulous.
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by bcgraham 10y ago
King's On Writing is a wonderful book, but the part I most remember is his answer to the question, "Who is talented?" He said: "If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it
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by bcgraham 10y ago
Their target market is taxi & livery drivers in NYC, who they seem to have been very effective in reaching. Look at their homepage[0] - does it seem to be trying to speak to you? [0] https://www.gojuno.com/
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by bcgraham 10y ago
I live in NYC. During an Uber ride, I was talking to a driver about Juno. Between my understanding of him and my recollection, some of this may be incorrect. They've recruited a lot of the NYC Uber drivers. They've been paying the
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by bcgraham 11y ago
This comment stuck in my craw a bit, so thanks for provoking some thought. :) Your model isn't modeling Vitamin C consumption, right? It's modeling scurvy. I would guess the model could also tell you about when there are too few s
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by bcgraham 11y ago
In one of the NYC rooms I did, the last clue was about the order of the numbers in the combination - e.g., "put the numbers in backwards" or "arrange the numbers highest to lowest."
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by bcgraham 11y ago
RT's Tomatometer or Metacritic's Metascore are not measures of film worth as a kind of "atomic weight." Tomatometer, in particular, is a statement about how many reviewers gave a positive review, without regard to each r
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by bcgraham 11y ago
The salaries are spent, and the workers accumulate skills, contacts, etc. The guy is an expert in his field. Do you think he is going to read your comment and think, "Christ, why didn't I think of that?"
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by bcgraham 11y ago
Your example is just the type of literary reading that turns off students. When they encounter it without a more gradual learning curve, what they actually learn is both: 1. The king has no clothes. 2. Semantics isn't important in the
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by bcgraham 11y ago
I always assumed he used a version of Roko's Basilisk, which explained why he overreacted and tried to purge it when Roko wrote about it - it was his secret weapon.
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by bcgraham 11y ago
An idea is to include a function in the library called MustNewServer() that panics instead of returning an error. A usability perk of having single return is that the function can be chained, i. e., ws := gowork.MustNewServer(key).Add
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by bcgraham 11y ago
I understand where people are coming from when they say Stephenson's endings aren't up to snuff, but I disagree. His endings are usually like the ending of the first Matrix movie. Things are about to get very different for almos
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by bcgraham 11y ago
> An estimated 90% of artists, intellectuals and teachers were killed This is having the longest-lasting reverberation through the country - Pol Pot all but eliminated the local human capital. 50% of Cambodians are under 22 years old. Th
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by bcgraham 11y ago
Not sure about UK, but in the US, they're occasionally overengineered because materials suppliers have a lot of say in determining the safety factor (think smoky rooms with bags of cash).
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by bcgraham 11y ago
I don't think your statements about subjective poverty are true. Subjective poverty is only a zero-sum game within a single social "game." If there are more games, there are more winners. Lots of little ponds means you are mo
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by bcgraham 11y ago
This one from zedshaw immediately came to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805807
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by bcgraham 12y ago
For deeply nested structures, it'll always be a bit of a hassle. In your toy example, you can use struct literals to get to the guts of the object quickly. https://play.golang.org/p/VE90fwT0sE
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by bcgraham 12y ago
I would expect that a lifeguard watching someone drown would qualify as depraved indifference and would be tried as second-degree murder (in most US jurisdictions).

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