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You seem rather less informed on the topic than you think. To start, as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_city will verify, the switch in the USA to car-centric cities began in the 1920s. By the 1930s, about hal
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Whether a car is a luxury or not, really depends on where you live. European cities started on a scale designed around the limitations of human walking. Even before they built out mass transit systems, living without a car was doable. Addin
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This is why https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2015/10/29/our-firs... concluded that the best university in the USA is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Lee_Universi
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There is only one efficient solution that can be described as bottom up, and that one is in fact dynamic programming. A top-down solution in this case is in fact strictly worse. Why? Because while both take similar numbers of operations, in
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There may be a lot of ways to write the recursive solution. But adding caching to any of them will give you a top-down dynamic programming solution.
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Bottom up dynamic programming algorithms require some cleverness. All of the ones listed can be solved with a top down dynamic programing algorithm. Which just means "write recursive solution, add caching to memoize it". For some
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Assuredly you have encountered the idea that an organization with a culture, incentive structure, and specific financial incentives, will act sufficiently like a living being that people find it helpful to talk about it as one. While unders
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> It is frustrating how these things are always discussed. I did not discuss things in the way that you say you are frustrated with. If I had, then I wouldn't have said that your duty to the company will sometimes meet a higher duty
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It is a principle that applies to every kind of employee. If you are an employee of a company, you have a duty to do what the company wants you to. This duty may be overridden by a higher duty, such as the fact that you need to follow the l
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The reasons for that line get at a fundamental tension. As David Wheeler famously said, "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many indirections." Over time
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The shuttle is the only rocket system that put part of the rocket above the payload. Were it not for that fatal design flaw, both fatal flights would have been survivable. The first because the explosion would have done less damage. The sec
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Yes, but the problem is that optimizers will sometimes change join conditions without warning in production. There is a real need to be able to take key queries and say, "don't change the way you run this query". Most databas
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Your comment made me imagine someone writing a virus, then suing everyone who wound up with a copy for copyright violation. Is it absurd? Yes. On the other hand, absurdity has never slowed a lawyer...
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Whatever we think of archive.org's position, modern AI companies have clearly taken the same basic position. And are willing to devote a lot more resources to vacuuming up the internet than crawlers did back in 2011. See https:/&
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I found this claim unbelievable, but it is mostly true. It isn't quite the whole egg, it is just the yolk. But that's still a very large cell! http://cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/appliance-science.
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The distinction between the space A and the tangent space of A becomes visually clear if we consider a function whose domain is a sphere. The derivative is properly defined on the tangent plane, which only touches the sphere at a single poi
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Google Plus correctly identified a major problem. Unfortunately the solution that works for most people is to have multiple identities on multiple social media sites. So FB with one circle, work relationships on Slack, several channels on D
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In every technology wave so far, we've disrupted many existing jobs. However we've also opened up new kinds of jobs. And, because it is easier to retrain humans than build machines for those jobs, we wound up with more and better
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The problem that I had with that approach is that the pain of the painful thought caused me to shy away from what was central to it. Instead I have found that targeted gratitude has enabled me to bear the pain, while I face the pain, unders
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For most of us, certainly including me, a lot of those electric fences are alive and well. They are powered by thoughts associated with pain. Anything that triggers those thoughts, triggers that pain. We are not even aware of how our thinki
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Yes. All that they know about these books is propaganda leading to outrage, and a protection that keeps their world-view from being exposed to contrary ideas. As I said, their identity is such that they need to avoid engaging with these wor
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It is rare for that message to be delivered to either side, for the simple reason that the reaction to it tends to be bad. It comes as no surprise that you would have never seen such messages delivered to conservatives if you don't s
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They might not deserve it, but they will take rather more of your time and effort if you don't try to exert it until after ICE is breaking down doors and disappearing your friends and family without due process.
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Reading exercise for you. Re-read the comment that you replied to, and find out where I said the same thing. Most of these would-be book-banners do not actually want to create a totalitarian state. They honestly believe that they live in a
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There are quite a few ex-nazi types who stand as a testament to this statement being false. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_white_supremac... for some relatively well-known ones. I do grant that it is
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No, I've identified the enemy perfectly well. The actual enemy only has power because useful fools are willing to follow them. Treating those useful fools as enemies is a key part of the dynamic that grants the actual enemy power. I am
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We live in a democracy. In a democracy, you don't get to deny people the vote simply because you view them as children. And, sadly, these "children" have around half the votes. If you are personally not capable of attempting
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No, people in extreme poverty are not getting fat. But poor people do in great numbers in many countries. For example there are many obese Americans on food stamps. Thanks to social services, the number of Americans who are in extreme pov
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There is a lot of evidence that engaging emotionally with literature will shift people's values. In a way that engaging with intellectual ideas does not. These are not just literary classics, they carry a specific culture forward. Peop
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And yet, to an amazing extent, they aren't. If you look back in 200 years, poor people starving to death was simply an accepted fact of life. Today, poor people get fat. Do their lives suck? Absolutely! Just look at the craziness aroun

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