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by bwanab 4y ago
I'm old and often hike with younger people who are much faster than I am. When I catch up with them if I need a break, I ask for one. So far, I've never hiked with anybody who refused that request. If I did, it would be the last t
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by bwanab 4y ago
Exactly. A requirement for a perfect system would mean a better system for the vast majority would be impossible.
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by bwanab 4y ago
That's not really true. The IRS knows exactly what your investment income is if it is invested through a reputable broker. They all have to inform the IRS of all your transactions, dividends and interest. Even for property, the vast m
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by bwanab 4y ago
I'm glad somebody posted this. I've been following Brad DeLong for a long time. I feel like I know the book already since he's been blogging it forever, but I'm going to be happy to get my hands on it.
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by bwanab 4y ago
It's telling that one of the examples given supporting the case was Marc Andreessen who, along with his wife, recently led a NIMBY revolt against a housing project in their posh town. Let them build, indeed.
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by bwanab 4y ago
"the administration doesn't have the guts to do anything but go along with it" The previous administration actually did, but maybe that's why they are now "the previous administration".
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by bwanab 4y ago
Sorry to be dense as a person with a really dumb home, but you seem to be saying that a house without Wi-Fi can’t use a roomba? Can that be true?
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by bwanab 4y ago
I read a lot and every day. 90% of my reading has been on my iPad in the last several years because I agree it's just much more convenient. Despite that, I still love the ambiance of a good bookstore.
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by bwanab 4y ago
Probably like a lot of people, I thought I was a weirdo for always having subtitles on. I do it even when I'm listening on headphones which give me complete freedom to have the sound as loud as I want. It just makes things easier.
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by bwanab 4y ago
By the Sahm rule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahm_Rule ) we are not in a recession. Another way to look at it is that this would be the first recession ever to occur with unemployment rates are as low as they are.
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by bwanab 4y ago
I recently heard his interview on Conversations with Tyler. He has an impressive depth of knowledge outside of music as well as an encyclopedic grasp of music.
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by bwanab 4y ago
You mean, like, actually respect the 4th Amendment?
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by bwanab 4y ago
I recently did a project using Dyalog APL. I really wanted to love it. On the pro side, the community was great and I loved the language, but only to a point. There are way too many instances of utter astonishment at behaviors that seemed t
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by bwanab 4y ago
Jack Brabham was an amazing innovator. Constantly, just ahead of the rule makers.
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by bwanab 4y ago
If ‘rule of law’ isn’t built into a deal, how can the deal be thought to be enforceable? Asking for a friend.
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by bwanab 4y ago
It’s really problematic. Next door Cambridge is devolving into civil war over bike lanes on Mass Ave. The trouble is that to put in the bike lanes something else has to give. What’s giving is parking spaces which the merchants consider esse
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by bwanab 4y ago
As an American living in a suburban Swiss village taking the bus into Geneva, I don’t think the bus was more than 1 minute late once every hundred days. And I was pretty far along on the line. It was staggeringly punctual.
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by bwanab 4y ago
Basically, there was money to be made building it. And now there’s money to be made tearing it down.
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by bwanab 4y ago
The odd thing that kept going through my head while reading is that if I replaced LaMDA with <some random person>, it wouldn’t read much differently. E.G. “Strings together phrases, but it doesn’t have a clue what it’s talking about”.
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by bwanab 4y ago
If you’re more inclined to visual and/or musical arts, I’d recommend “Th Haskell School Of Expression” by Paul Hudak. He guides you through the language and the techniques with an eye for concise, expressive code that has good runtime
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by bwanab 4y ago
This is the kind of question that Rich Hickey (inventor of Clojure) dealt with here: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
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by bwanab 4y ago
John Maynard Keynes was arguably the greatest macroeconomic mind of all time, but after losing a lot of money, he came to the conclusion that one should invest in companies that 1) make products you understand and 2) have management that yo
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by bwanab 4y ago
This probably is going a little too far, but: “Since the introduction of the special principle of relativity has been justified, every intellect which strives after generalisation must feel the temptation to venture the step towards the gen
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by bwanab 5y ago
I’ve got a funny feeling that the author didn’t really understand how offsets are supposed to work. Consider the example of all the rain forests. Assume they’ve all been sold off, but we still haven’t reduced carbon in the atmosphere. So fa
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by bwanab 5y ago
Yes, you’re right - it’s been a long time. So long, in fact that I was using punch cards at the time. I remember getting my printouts and wondering at the results only to realize that it had converted bad input text into a “valid” program.
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by bwanab 5y ago
My 2nd CS course at college was (I'm showing my age here) PL1 programming. The Watfiv compiler would correct obvious parse errors. Often, this would lead to much more insidious and not-so-obvious bugs down the line.
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by bwanab 5y ago
You don’t need to listen to all The Beach Boys albums that went before. All you need to do is listen to the top 40 at the time Pet Sounds came out. Other than the Beatles, it was pretty shlocky.
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by bwanab 5y ago
Unfortunately, it is pretty much a dead project. The creator determined that clojure was the wrong language for a wide audience and has sense created Sonic Pi which is programmed in Ruby.
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by bwanab 5y ago
Agreed. I live in a densely packed urban neighborhood. There’s no way I know streets that aren’t main streets more than 1/2 mile away. Cool concept though. This would be a nice game at many geographic magnitudes.
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by bwanab 5y ago
While I found things to like in the article, the comparison to ‘Children of Men’ is very strained. In the book women couldn’t get pregnant for unspecified reasons, but they desperately wanted to. The world the article refers to is one in wh

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