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by blululu 6y ago
This exactly the sort of epi-scientific anecdotes that I really appreciate about Nautilus Magazine. In many ways understanding the process of knowledge formation and transmission is more important than the information exchanged. As a genera
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by blululu 6y ago
For a more mathematical analysis of how this process plays out in terms of representation, I found this article to be very helpful: https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-28R1.pdf *It is also worth notin
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by blululu 6y ago
In general I like the idea of random sampling an an efficient means of democratic process. The trouble is that democracy is better at deliberating than promulgating laws. I think a better approach would be to have elected representatives cr
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by blululu 6y ago
Not exactly true. In every trial in the senate, the guilty votes come exclusively from one side, but the not guilty votes are historically slightly more bipartisan. For both Clinton and Johnson, all the guilty votes came from republicans, w
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by blululu 6y ago
For the most part, yes, Greyhound is a solid service. I have been across more than 20 states on Greyhound buses and it is generally a great service that provides excellent value. That said, I also have about 2 drinks worth of seriously mess
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by blululu 6y ago
Greyhound: a tour of the worst part of every city in North America. During less lucrative times in my life I used to ride on Greyhound (and Bolt & Megabus) semi-frequently. It is a good deal if you don't mind spending an extra 6 ho
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by blululu 6y ago
Surprisingly I don’t think gif making tools have improved very much inspite of corporate interest from giphy(FB) and tenor (Goog). That said no shame in spending too much time making a gif. During quarantine I made a gif using watercolors t
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by blululu 6y ago
Satellite records go back to 1979 [ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/alarm-as-arcti... ], but there appear to be ground based observations from earlier years that corroborate the abnormality o
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by blululu 6y ago
Cool Concept. Certainly harder to pigeon hole tiles than with the rectilinear variant. Also would be nice to automatically click the edges when there is an empty region. Overall great work.
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by blululu 6y ago
It's not so simple. The newer buildings were constructed at a much higher cost than the old ones and they are priced accordingly (and with less flexibility to go down in price). In spite of the price tag and the 'luxury' appe
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by blululu 6y ago
Maybe not the intended purpose but this is a great resource for playing a round of slides roulette with friends over a video call. It’s an improv game where you go around and assign people with a random slide deck to present to the group. T
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by blululu 6y ago
Lockdown -> O(1) traveling salesperson solution. I think constant runtime is technically not polynomial hard... But seriously this is very cool. Glad to see progress in mathematics.
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by blululu 6y ago
I believe it was a mercury mine back then (not a paragon on responsibility) and it was much denser than it is now. We got rid of the heavy metal runoff; there is no reason to simply defer to precedent.
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by blululu 6y ago
This is a false equivalence. The obvious difference is that states are bound by a shared legal, financial and political system. The externalities are internalized.
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by blululu 6y ago
The parent is a sarcastic exaggeration but it is not totally false. The IMF has changed a lot in the last 20 years, but they had a streak in the 80s where they would force third world countries to scrap their social welfare systems to pay o
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by blululu 6y ago
On a different thread this morning someone bemoaned the lack of statistical education - a sentiment that is widespread among people who have studied and worked with statistics and probability. It is really exciting to see pedagogical tools
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by blululu 6y ago
In some sense yes, but the bill doesn’t come until much later. A city can run a deficit for a long time before its debt payments become its biggest budget item (or second after its police department in many cases). This leads to cuts, auste
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by blululu 6y ago
This is not guaranteed. Recall that in the 90’s Orange County - then a relatively affluent region - had to declare bankruptcy. Just because there are people who could foot the bill, does not mean that they will. If the surplus of wealth is
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by blululu 6y ago
This is demonstrably false. Basic interventions have proven effective across the globe. Reducing the growth rate can cause the case count to decay to zero. Interventions do not need to be 100% effective to succeed in controlling a problem.
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by blululu 6y ago
A cyberpunk Kowloon walled city in the ring sounds cool. But consider that Cupertino has fought tooth and nail to prevent an abandoned shopping mall from being converted into legit housing. Seems unlikely that they would go for it.
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by blululu 6y ago
FWIW I usually do appreciate citations/links to scientific research. Online discussions can devolve quickly and a culture that demands quality information to back up statements is more resilient to a lot of common issues with online di
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by blululu 6y ago
One thing that is maybe helpful to consider in the modern era is that Moore's law's meaning has unraveled as we have reached smaller scales (hence the basic arguments over what it even means). Originally the law relates to the tra
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by blululu 6y ago
It is always a little surprising how naive people are when it comes to recycling. The majority of the cost and difficulty comes in sorting. Back in the good old days most US municipalities used to require people to sort their recycling by
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by blululu 6y ago
>>"All of this and more, for £200,000 a year." Unless the British Government is giving out some windfall of equity this is the compensation package of a mid level software engineer at FAANG. For anyone remotely qualified for
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by blululu 6y ago
TLDR: We do some math https://xkcd.com/1838/ On a more serious note I think there is a lot of sophistication and that is being left out from this very simplified explanation. To say something like 'we show things
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by blululu 6y ago
A lot to unpack here. China's response to Covid is maybe not the best, but Taiwan provides an excellent example of how a democracy can responsibly react to a crisis. The author's point that western governments have become woefully
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by blululu 6y ago
If you use a camera app like Halide, then you can manually turn off the Automatica white balance correction that assumes that this scene lighting is impossible.
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by blululu 6y ago
This article rings true, but I can't tell if it's a chicken or the egg problem. Are firms with long on boarding processes less effective because bad habits are setup and normalized at the start, or are they dysfunctional from the
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by blululu 6y ago
This is a surprisingly nice type face. It looks blocky when blown up, but it is really clean for small text. It took me a second to zoom in on the text and realize that the article is written in the typeface itself. I'm curious is ther
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by blululu 6y ago
Without getting into the political aspects of this issue, I really appreciated the sophistication of this article. The author was able to provide a nuanced perspective that generalized into a meta-commentary about media and culture in gener

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