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by brenschluss 8y ago
The paper seems to have some egregious and basic errors. Take a look at the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04184.pdf On page 2, it says (in discussing Special Case 1): "If sex A is relatively selective and will
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Yes, but that technology existed before the 1900s. Banham has a great graph that illustrates the sudden mass adoption of lightbulbs/refrigerators/air conditioning within the span of 10-20 years from 1910-1930.
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by brenschluss 8y ago
The easy answer is to have autonomous driving be region-locked. To only work in regions that are tested, and to have those regions slowly grow as automakers slowly gather data from people driving around. I think this has unethical implicati
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by brenschluss 8y ago
This makes sense from a branding / insurance / shiriking responsibility perspective also. “Our newest Toyota uses a state of the art NeverHandsTM system!” After a few bad car crashes: “We at Toyota have decided to discontinue our
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Reyner Banham's The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment [1] argues that it's three factors: - Elevator (making high-rises socially possible) - Air conditioning - Electric lighting (making windows less necessary to fill i
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by brenschluss 8y ago
10,000km of new paved roads per year? At an Indian scale, that seems pretty minuscule.
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Usually most of these questions are asked with horrible methodology and pseudoscience wrapped around bigotry. I would like to see someone answer the ‘question’ of “why women dont code” and “why mass shooters are mostly white men” with the s
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Which society is as “clearly gender egalitarian society”?
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by brenschluss 9y ago
A crucial aspect of this story is that government employees are a coveted job in Korea, with a good benefits and salary and a healthy pension. There are separate tests that people have to take in order to apply for gov jobs, and the competi
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by brenschluss 9y ago
I wonder if there’s a rule of thumb for pricing the ideal item. Like: double the cost of the cheapest equivalent and you have a good quality pair of boots. For example: you can get cheap boots for $80, that will fall apart in a year. Double
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Because: 1) people post positive news, but not negative ones; 2) you follow many people. Imagine you have 365 friends. Let’s say each friend has about 5 amazing days per year, but the rest 360 days are pretty dismal. If we assume that each
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by brenschluss 9y ago
The Army Corps couldn't help: >Long added that the Army Corps doesn’t have the power to control development on land the agency doesn’t own. >“That would require the act of politicians, and they’ve chosen not to do it,” Long said.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
The fact that the cryptocurrency will not be "one member, one vote" but operate as an influence will just create positive feedback loops that amplify dominant voices and weaken less dominant voices. Which is already how the logic
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by brenschluss 9y ago
'Fair & transparent' and 'blind' are two different things, and neither are subsets of each other. A 'blind' hiring process _can_ be akin to, faced with a densely connected graph, focusing only on the most i
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Which source? Systematic problems have no current source; the causal graph is densely connected, so fixing those issues has to happen at all fronts.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
But you don't get to account for systematic bias, such as who has had opportunities and encouragement to even apply in the first place.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Unless data privacy is an issue; if you started your company with questionable means, keeping your data and internal comms completely private could be a (paranoid) priority.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Maybe, like, wanting to make something good and be proud of it.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
So that more activists will turn towards using Telegram actively.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
I wouldn't use language like "Quick Quote" - I associate "quote" with "We'll call you back on the phone in a few hours or days". Just write "Pricing", etc.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
This is really very fascinating and I'm looking forward to testing it out. Question for the author: I'm a firm believer that, the more a tool is really good at some things, the more that tool is not good for other things. (A reall
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by brenschluss 9y ago
> i think most people that have an opinion on visual programming have not actually ever used a visual programming language in earnest. Yes. I have used a dataflow language for 3d modeling - Grasshopper - for 5-6 years. I can't agree
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Good call, But pricey than the alternative, which is to not cut a pattern at all, or to cut a unique pattern. Also, at this kind of scale, people easily balk at a reasonable sum; if it costs, say, $100 to waterjet one 4'x8' sheet,
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Hence the rise of the pop up store. 99 cent stores, beauty supply stores, and Halloween supply stores work this way too - easy move in/out, generic and cheap merchandise used by a wide audience that doesn't want to buy online, and
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Yes. Supporting local businesses and non-chain brands is one of the best things one can do from a demand/user side of things.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
That's because this is, like a commentator below said, a mix of aesthetics, politics, and technique. As an architect and software developer I will bet my hat that the architects knew exactly what was going on, but said that it was bas
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Yes, absolutely. Also worthwhile to note that it's based on Thomas Schelling's model of segregation: http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg...
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Sure, it may be an educated guess, but we have to try. It's better than the alternative, which is to assume that any job that pays (and thus is from a company that earns profit) has equal impact or externalities with all other companie
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Couchsurfing does this already, with a long history and good track record. I don't see what this project does that's any different, or better.
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by brenschluss 9y ago
Could you rent out a closet in the duplex at a high rate and throw in the cabin for free?

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