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by brianchu 14y ago
Let me clarify. I did not say that deterrence is utterly without use . When I said that there is a problem with deterrence, I meant that the current state of deterrence in our justice system is broken. There is a mistaken belief that more
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by brianchu 14y ago
The Aaron Swartz analogy doesn't work. The point that the parent was trying to make was that for your average violent and even non-violent criminal (typically low-income upbringing, living in run-down conditions, living on the "streets" but
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Senator Unveils Bill to Limit Semiautomatic Arms(nytimes.com)
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This is an overly simplistic analysis. Empirically, if you give a poor person $1, they will spend more and save less than if you gave a wealthy person $1, with the effect more pronounced the wealthier that person is. In other words, the poo
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by brianchu 14y ago
Contrary to what a lot of people think, you can change the visibility of likes . This affects Graph Search, Timeline visibility, and also page visibility (I've personally tested these). The Admins of pages you like will still be able to se
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I very clearly made the point that casual gaming != mobile gaming. The rise of mobile gaming does not mean the death of hardcore games. There is no reason hardcore games can't exist on mobile. Console-type hardcore games are already showing
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I think consoles are a dying segment. Casual won't eat console, though. Mobile will eat console, because of 1) greater audience and 2) a shift of console-quality games from mobile to console. We're talking about a platform that more than
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by brianchu 14y ago
Your numbers are wrong. Sure, loan guarantees and lines of credit might have hit the multi-trillion dollar mark. But loans != money the government loses. The net cost of the bailouts is at most $150 billion [1]. And that number is assuming
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On the contrary, it is actually very common for Ivy League schools to offer AP credit, or at the least allow you to use AP credit to fulfill a requirement / prerequisite. Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania all of
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You qualify for aid. If you're 24, you are now an independent student and parent income is no longer factored into the financial aid equation. You are basically low-income in a college's eyes. Education about financial aid goes a long way.
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What do you mean by "quite poor?" To my knowledge, if they're poor, they're poor. I don't know anyone who was legitimately poor that did not qualify for financial aid. EDIT (reply to below): Your point about the estranged parent is valid; a
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That gross income figure applies only in the context of top private schools. UCs don't have enough funding for generous financial aid; I believe out of state students receive even less aid. This is what I was saying when I said that many to
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by brianchu 14y ago
Your math doesn't add up. The total for 4 years is $225,060. Which falls in the range I provided. EDIT (reply to below): Okay, adding the un-cited items adds up to just about $240k (keeping in mind that some of those fees are one-time only)
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Firstly, it's misleading to say that the cost of a UC Berkeley education is $210,000. That's the price is you're an out-of-state resident and you receive no financial aid. In-state residents without financial aid end up paying roughly $12
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Let's be clear, the probability of Apophis colliding with the Earth in the next 100 years is extremely small: 7.4e-06 [1]. And even then it wouldn't be an extinction event. To me this is a non-issue - the odds of a massive pandemic or nucle
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The law already clearly addresses the issue of when invading privacy is allowed. See the concepts of public figure ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure ) and reasonable expectation of privacy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_
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by brianchu 14y ago
I could not disagree more strongly. I believe that for every one case in which what you experienced is true, there are nine cases in which a childhood that consists of a general lack of praise and constant punishment for lack of perfection
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Just because a sample consists of 50 companies and 200 interviews hardly makes that a sound sample, given no information about how those companies were selected, and given no attempt to compare those companies to successful companies. For e
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Understanding that you're a "newbie to economics" I'd like to point out that the concept of the production-possibility frontier is misapplied here. The PPF deals with economic efficiency (whether an economy is producing at its potential) an
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This assumes service industries will remain untouched, which is most certainly not true. Service industries are probably the next industry right after manufacturing to be decimated by automation (the time scale is unpredictable, though). Fo
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by brianchu 14y ago
Some of my design thoughts. I am not an expert, so you've all been warned: I actually like the Exec redesign, except for 1) the awful gold color, and 2) the bottom half of the page. After the 1-2-3-steps the layout gets a little bipolar (no
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by brianchu 14y ago
I've been pretty satisfied with just using Eclipse and PyDev/Aptana Studio so far with Django. Any thoughts on the advantages of PyCharm?
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There was an interesting recent HN discussion on perverse incentives: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4921954 . I suspect there may be many unintended and harmful consequences with this kind of arrangement. By focusing the majority of
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by brianchu 14y ago
For other simple methods of numerical integration, look at the Trapezoidal Rule and Simpson's Rule, two staples of high school (or college) calculus. Since we're talking about gaming, it bears noting that Box2D (and most physics engines, fo
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by brianchu 14y ago
I ran the HTML5 app on my iTouch 4G running iOS 6 (roughly equivalent to iPhone 3GS) and compared it to the native FB app. The HTML5 app had noticeable lag in the swipe transitions. It also crashed once when loading a photo (only once thoug
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That's not how GDP is calculated. In your example, GDP is unchanged. The laptop only affected GDP the moment you originally purchased the laptop from the laptop store, and at that moment GDP went up by the price you paid for the laptop (exc
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This is actually an effective argument for comprehensive gun control. An assault weapons ban would not prevent those two mass killings you cite. But, however, having a comprehensive system where, for example, mental health records are tie
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Schmidt is not really a naturally charismatic speaker. This is a video of when he was a regular manager (I think) taking public speaking classes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA1I6MUOKkU . As you can see, public speaking was something he
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The problem with things like this is that it's doubtful whether this product will be ten times better than the alternatives, which is how much better it needs to be if it wants to displace the entrenched players, which already enjoy some lo
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I don't think there is anything wrong with the idea that one day people will try to optimize their genes, even if it's only self-selecting. Yet: 1) Hereditary factors can only explain a small part of the picture. Eliminating hereditary fact

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