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by bokonist 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs
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by bokonist 16y ago
Attention conservation notice - this article is more of a summary of the debate of over culture and poverty, a sort of "who said what when". I found it interesting because it mentioned a couple books I didn't know about that I now want to
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by bokonist 16y ago
Added to these 60s-era trends (some of which have mercifully waned) came two further developments which are still very much with us today and which moved the elite universities further away from the pursuit of excellence and merit which wa
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by bokonist 16y ago
Many low density towns get away without a sewer system, houses can use a septic system instead. In low density towns you can build horizontally, which uses less human, energy, material resources than building upwards. In a low density tow
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Extreme Sheep Herding(wimp.com)
4 points by bokonist 16y ago|0 comments
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21,000 stranger abductions / 74 million kids under 18 = .000289 = 0.03% chance of being abducted per year (1-.03%) = 99.97% chance of not being abducted in a given year .9997^14 = 99.6% chance of not being abducted in 14 straight years (fro
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by bokonist 16y ago
As a profit maximizing CEO, I would have to mollify your concerns, otherwise no one would move to the city and I would make no profits. When buying property in Hackertopia, the tax rate would be fixed at the time of purchase. The propert
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by bokonist 16y ago
21,000 is actually higher than I thought. Very roughly, the average kid has a 0.5% chance of being abducted by a stranger by the time they are 18. That's much higher than I would expect, I personally don't know of anyone who was ever abdu
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This comment is neither funny or related to the article. I was hoping the top rated comment would be something that thoughtfully engaged or critiqued the original post.
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Only 21,000 (oops, originally wrote 58,000 which was wrong) were stranger abductions ( http://www.ygoy.com/index.php/child-abduction-statistics/ ). Only 115 were "sterotypical kidnappsings" ( child is detained overnight, transported atleas
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by bokonist 16y ago
Utilities (power/water/internet) would be funded like any other real estate development. The cities revenues come from real estate taxes. I do think that most cities spend their money in a wildly inefficient manner, and if they were run as
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by bokonist 16y ago
A 3-bedroom modular home can be $74k to construct ( http://www.nhmodularhomes.com/prices.htm ). But I've just realized that doesn't include permits, foundation, plumbing, etc, which adds another $75k ( http://www.nhmodularhomes.com/cost
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Hackertopia: Creating a City as a Startup(intellectual-detox.com)
21 points by bokonist 16y ago|23 comments
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For 1) I don't have any further new arguments. For 2) - To summarize, your objection is that only the elites would only care vote, thus the elites would oppress the masses? But if the masses noticed they were getting oppressed, wouldn't th
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by bokonist 16y ago
Slogans & sound-bites are designed to efficiently (i.e. at low cognitive cost) deliver a message which will inform a voter Have you ever been in the back office of a typical political campaign? All slogans and ads are designed foremo
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by bokonist 16y ago
I'll go one step further than you on social security, and argue that even your take is not quite correct. The so-called dependency ratio is not a real problem because most people in the economy no longer do productive work. Our standard of
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by bokonist 16y ago
1) In the first round of the election, with 18,000 candidates and 18,000 voters, the impact of each vote individually is negligible. In scenarios where an individual vote is of negligible value, votes generally do not vote out of crass sel
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by bokonist 16y ago
I'm reminded of a few quotes. First, Sir Henry Maine in his "Popular Government": "The old Italian toxicologists are said to have always arranged their discoveries in a series of three terms—first the poison, next the antidote, thirdly th
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by bokonist 16y ago
You could hook some javascript to the page's onscroll event. The javascript would send ajax calls back to the server that record which comments have actually been seen (although there is no way to judge if the comment was actually read).
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The ideal measure would be number of upvotes of a comment divided by the number of views of the comment. That way you wouldn't get punished for making comments late in a thread or on a less well read post. Unfortunately measuring this sta
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by bokonist 16y ago
I'm surprised the article wasn't talking about the Microsoft Kinect interface. Kinect is hitting the mass market in a month and the UI is completely navigable just by waving your arms. It doesn't have enough precision to do something like
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by bokonist 16y ago
Did you have fun? Did you still have time to chase girls, take part in any clubs/intramurals, or pursue hobbies? Not that it's awful it you didn't have time - I just want to understand the trade offs required with this strategy.
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I'm not disagreeing with the argument of OP, just the language. Isn't your comment a general indictment of American democracy in general? Why have an elected congress making policies then?
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You'd ultimately need to de-politicize the entire branch of government. You mean de-democratize the entire branch of government?
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Imagine a jester from King George III’s court, charged in 1790 with writing a comedy about the new American Republic.... It annoys me that in a piece attacking Sorkin for having a cartoon vision of the world, Lessig uses an analogy with a
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by bokonist 16y ago
London is also much less safe than it was 100 years ago. Actually, all of England is much less safe. A good treatment of the subject is Peter Hitchen's A Brief History of Crime http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Crime-Peter-Hitchens/d
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by bokonist 16y ago
The U.S. has always had a ~10X higher crime rate than the western European countries, going back over a hundred years. The best explanation of why comes from a writer in 1920, Raymond Fosdick who spent years studying both the American and
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by bokonist 16y ago
Mandatory retirement is banned by the 1986 Age Discrimination Act. Perhaps universities could try and get around it by offering newly "tenured" professors a thirty year contract, rather than "tenure". But that might be inviting a law suit
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by bokonist 16y ago
Hacker News is a place to share news and discuss the world with technology minded, intellectually curious people. YCombinator is a seed stage venture capital firm. The founder of YCombinator started and runs Hacker News, but there is no ot
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Did Roger Ebert Destroy American Film Criticism?(mensnewsdaily.com)
14 points by bokonist 16y ago|19 comments

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