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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Amsterdam and Jersey City aren't really similarly situated. Drug tourism comes with some problems, and if you can get beautiful canals, the Dutch Masters, and Anne Frank House tourists instead you'd much prefer those. But if that&
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
> I do realize that many commentators on HN believe that university research is scam, does not create value, and graduate students who choose to do a PhD are willingly making irresponsible financial decisions I'm not taking that pos
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
> You cannot just write laws to force Universities to zero out graduate tuition and forfeit all the revenue either, as the Universities would just hike up administrative overhead, cutting a bigger slice from the PI's research grants
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
You only partly receive benefits based on having paid in. You can also receive benefits based on a live, dead, or even ex-spouse having paid in. Or a live or dead parent. Given that some people don't qualify at all it isn't a part
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Social security is a pretty strange program in no small part because it doesn't know what it wants to be. It tries to be everything to everyone -- a mandatory savings program for the middle class, an anti-poverty program for the elderl
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Provision: Under the provision, the AMT would be repealed. If a taxpayer has AMT credit carryforwards, the taxpayer would be able to claim a refund of 50 percent of the remaining credits (to the extent the credits exceed regular tax for the
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
This isn't art. There are no points for originality. If open source projects borrow the best parts from each other, that's a good thing.
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Healthy is just another market sector. And not an especially lucrative one. I imagine that's particularly true in Plainfield, IL. Manhattan has a weekday lunch time population of about 4 million (about 6500 per idealized square city bl
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
You may want to take a calcium citrate supplement too, as long term omeprazole use has been linked to calcium depletion.
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Even if the monthly payment for a 30 yr fixed were to stay the same the buyer would be better off with a lower price. American mortgages have no prepayment penalty, so the buyer has the possibility of refinancing at a lower rate sometime ov
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Surely city charters don't stand as barriers to municipal consolidation when the tool at hand can modify the state Constitution?
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
I live all the way on the other side of the country. I don't have a dog in the fight. I just suggested that the Bay Area could be reorganized into a single municipality through the initiative process if the voters of California decided
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Why not? The subdivisions of California are creatures of state law, either statutory or constitutional. An initiative can modify statues or the constitution. There are three limitations on them (Art. II, section 8, (d), (e), and (f)) but I
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
California has a initiative right? Couldn't it be done through a statewide ballot measure?
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
This is a pretty one sided account. The CFPB didn't spring into existence because some unelected bureaucrat decided it should exist. The structure that the DC Circuit Court of Appeals found unconstitutional likewise wasn't the des
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
That would really strongly encourage vertical integration. Consider a company that owns oil wells, pipelines, refineries, and gas stations. It never pays sales tax on its petroleum products. Only the final consumer does on the gasoline he b
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
This is kind of an annoying way of presenting an argument. I'd rather be able to read and look at the animations at my own pace. That aside, to the main point, I don't think it is really an argument against lowing nominal rates, b
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
If you compare: Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google (Alphabet), and Microsoft on the one hand to JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs on the other, the tech companies have 2.6 times the market cap, 1.6 tim
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
The users are deciding. We are flagging these stories because we don't see the value in endless flamewars over the same subject. If you can't get enough of debates about sexism in SV there are lots of other places on the internet
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
How do community colleges or high schools ensure that they don't get stuck in the 1980s? Teaching is, or at least could be, its own profession with its own duty to stay current. We are really debating a line drawing exercise. Scholars
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Exactly. They aren't the picked upon underdogs no matter how many of us might still think of them that way. They are major power centers in our societies that can and do go toe to toe with other major power centers. These major power c
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Good point about the gyros and accelerometers. I'd think you could do decent lossless compression given that the frames should very similar. I suppose though that once you are doing sophisticated compression you aren't that far of
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Being faculty doesn't necessarily mean teaching undergraduates. There are "course buyout" programs in a lot of places.
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
The American research university is two* institutions uncomfortably sharing an organization -- one has as its mission undergraduate and professional education and the other cutting edge research. Some of the staff involved with the latter p
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
If you have burst mode and can get the raw frames, then shouldn't you be able to recreate the effect in post-processing? With the severe power constraints of a mobile phone a co-processor makes sense, but I'd think a general purpo
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
If I were in charge of hiring for law schools it would look very different. There'd be lots of people with practical experience. But I'm not in charge and those that are never hire anyone with practical experience for tenure track
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
Maybe this is a little churlish, but while I agree that we should say that a person that finishes out his prison sentence should be considered to have paid his debt and from then forward be on an equal footing, I think that should be equal
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
As I understand it the main advantage of the TPU is that it is built around an 8 bit pipeline. It's counter-intuitive to me, but apparently many deep learning NN can be flattened down to layers with only 256 states and still perform re
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
I ordered a spring mattress off the internet 7-8 years ago. I want to say overstock, but who knows. It wasn't a very good mattress--too thin. Even so it was giant when it was delivered. It's hard to see how a nice queen spring mat
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by bradleyjg 9y ago
What's the general approach to the fix? Insist on a new handshake if a client sees a duplicate message #3? Just keep going with the old sequence number? It seems like vendors need to eventually come to some consensus on how to change t

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