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The headline that the Post chose seems intentionally vague. I also didn't see any quote supporting the idea that scientists are 'floored.' One scientist was quoted as saying, "It's a very interesting time." A m
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There is a surprising phenomenon in microeconomics called the Alchian–Allen effect[1]. Quoting from Wikipedia, "[W]hen the prices of two substitute goods, such as high and low grades of the same product, are both increased by a fixed p
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I wouldn't read too much into the fundraising emails as they're designed to attract donations from people already intending to vote for the candidate. The race leader has an incentive to minimize their advantage or even pretend to
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It was through the angry backlash to a tweet that I discovered Stephen Fry. About eight years ago, Stephen couldn't get a Windows laptop to connect to wifi. His Twitter outburst and the reaction of Windows fans became grist for the tec
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Do you mean that it does not exist or that it cannot exist? I've heard this exact phrase before, "reverse racism is a myth," and it seems like an example of a thought-terminating cliché.
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I think you can ignore the effect of shadows from cars. If you look at satellite images of highways, the percentage of the road covered by cars is actually quite small (<5%, by length, I would estimate.) The reduced efficiency due to not
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The US drone fleet was not more secure at that time. In 2008, recordings of drone feeds were discovered on the laptops of Shi’ite militants. Four years later, less than half the drone fleet had been upgraded to use encrypted video. http:&#
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When a new rule is introduced, the early panels can be easily solved by trial and error. However, it's a mistake to continue until you can articulate the rule. That means experimenting with a panel even if you accidentally get the corr
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If the pot is split at an random point between 0 and 1, then on average, 75% will go to one player and 25% to the other player. (It doesn't matter which player is which or how many points the players began the round with.) The equilibr
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Some countries have less inequality, but also have less average wealth. People do not migrate to those poorer countries seeking to be richer than their neighbors. Instead, people tend to migrate to areas of higher wealth, even though it mea
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> I like to say if your income is consistently growing at ~10% every year, when the economy is growing at 2-3%, you're likely making someone worse off. That is like saying, "The average age of the country is growing at 0.1% per
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In the strange economy that this simulation proposes, every economic interaction is a zero-sum game. Some or all of the participants' money is placed in a pot and then randomly redistributed. This economy looks a lot like a poker tourn
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You get to choose the license that works best for you. http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/DualLicensing/
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Another fun article from the same author from 1984, "VALUE OF [Desktop] WINDOWING IS QUESTIONED." http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/25/science/value-of-windowing...
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They are very simple, imaginary machines. They only have one general purpose register, a single non-addressable register to which you can copy or swap the value in the main register and four I/O registers for communicating with adjacen
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Just as during WWII, during WWI, the British had a very sophisticated interception and decryption program[1]. Its capabilities were also kept secret for long after the war and the Germans remained largely ignorant of how thoroughly their co
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GM has good reason to make risky decisions, since the taxpayers will likely be asked to support the company a second time if it runs into trouble. As a taxpayer, I would like them to be as safe and stagnant as possible, but I have no say in
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I don't like her analogy in which she compares solar panels to smokestacks. As she points out, smokestacks were not a complete solution to air pollution because they merely moved the problem somewhere else. Solar panels are in no way c
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> a threat which cost millions of dollars It was the reaction to the threat which cost millions of dollars. We should be careful to distinguish between the costs of terrorism and the costs of our reaction to it.
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I learned the importance of trichromacy when a friend and I came across a patch of wild strawberries. I'm partially red-green colorblind and for every strawberry I found, my friend found ten. They were almost invisible to me. It's
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There is a subreddit dedicated to such photos. Many of the top submissions are quite good. https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/top/?sort=top...
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> Rupert Scofield, who runs FINCA, one of the largest and most prominent microlenders, said randomized controlled trials work well in medicine but don’t make sense in evaluating development aid. He said that for years, his response to cl
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Another way to put that is that it would encourage saving and investing. In the long term, that's better than encouraging spending, since the money would go towards growing the economy. (Assuming it isn't invested in beanie babies
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I don't think that is an accurate characterization. A time use study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston[1] found that the time a male worker spends at the workplace decreased from 51 hours in 1965 to 40 hours in 2003. The average ma
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> The director or executive officer may amend or terminate the plan in specified circumstances. Under this system, would it be possible to contract with two brokers, telling one to sell shares and the other to buy the same amount? If so,
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I found one quote in an op-ed in the Yale Herald regarding the controversy especially surprising and revealing. > They [Erika and Nicholas Christakis] have failed to acknowledge the hurt and pain that such a large part of our community f
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This reminds me of a popular German graduation prank. Three goats are set loose in a school building. However, before the goats are released, the students paint the numbers 1, 2 and 3 on them to facilitate an orderly recapture procedure.
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Another interpretation, since these are voluntarily reported on a CV, is that the people citing OS X and Haskell are more likely to be trying to differentiate themselves. They want to be seen to "Think Different." In the likes col
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One interesting consequence of this is that the further west that you look within a timezone, the less sleep people tend to get. > Examination of ATUS activity logs shows that workers experiencing earlier sunset also go to bed earlier an
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One feature that I really wanted when I used Pandora was the ability to create groups of stations that stay out of each other's musical territory. Add a bias against songs that are a better fit on other stations in the group and a bias

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