chad_oliver

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by chad_oliver 8y ago
That's not entirely true. You can keep any version that you've paid one year worth of subscription for. That means that if you subscribe for three years then cancel your subscription, you'll always have access to the version
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by chad_oliver 9y ago
The best approach is to have congestion pricing applied to all roads, but with each road (or road segment) having its own price. After all, 'hundreds of cars driving down a residential street' is a case of demand exceeding supply,
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Considerations on cost disease [2017](slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by chad_oliver 9y ago|0 comments
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by chad_oliver 9y ago
It has definitely succeeded. For example, New Zealand uses this model, and we're actually in the middle of rolling out fiber to almost every house in the country. Okay, so technically in New Zealand the last-mile infrastructure is owne
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Accounting for Computer Scientists(martin.kleppmann.com)
4 points by chad_oliver 9y ago|1 comments
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Gitlab raises $20M in Series C round funding led by GV to complete DevOps(about.gitlab.com)
1 points by chad_oliver 9y ago|0 comments
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by chad_oliver 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree. Children don't ask to be born, and they don't get to agree to that trade-off. Parents are responsible for the children they bring into the world. That said, parents don't always get a choice. Some
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by chad_oliver 9y ago
Was that meant to be parody? That's an honest question; I'm not sure whether you're serious or not.
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by chad_oliver 9y ago
He explicitly doesn't assume that: > I swear I'm not (a) claiming this is necessarily in reality the case
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by chad_oliver 10y ago
New Zealand too. If you want to make calls while driving, you have to have a hands-free system. It baffles my mind that there are countries in which people can legally interact with their phone while driving.
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Washington's Sunni Myth(warontherocks.com)
3 points by chad_oliver 10y ago|1 comments
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by chad_oliver 10y ago
But that's exactly the point. Search volume isn't the same thing as usage.
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
You have to accelerate the rocket back to the launchpad if you want to land on solid ground -- there's no convenient landmasses at the right distance. That takes fuel.
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
What problem were they meant to solve? (That's a serious question. I'm interesting in hearing how other people view the purpose of an urban highway.)
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
I live in New Zealand, which has a centralised purchasing agency for pharmaceuticals (called Pharmac). The TPP doesn't require New Zealand to disband Pharmac. It can still negotiate reduced prices on behalf of the Kiwi public. The only
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
Why not? That's a serious question; I'd love to hear your opinion. It seems to me that if they freely consent to sell their kidney, then they'll only do it because it's a better option than not doing it. Sure, in a per
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
Perhaps, but there is no way that the TPP is going to produce at 10% increase in GDP per capita. I'm generally supportive of free trade agreements, but in the case of the TPP, all the low-hanging economic fruit has already been picked.
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
Why would anyone ever want that? Because people have different opinions about what is best. You are absolutely entitled to think that a more populous Ireland would be a bad thing, but you're being downvoted because you can't seem
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
You might want to read the execute summary of this report [0]. It was produced by a panel whom the New Zealand government commissioned to examine the effect of legalising prostitution in New Zealand. The results are perhaps more ambiguous t
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
New Zealand seems to be similar, with the added bonus that we only have a handful of universities so there is no distinction between 'good universities' and 'the rest'.
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by chad_oliver 11y ago
I think you're confusing external identity (how other countries see us) with national identity (how we see ourselves). Gallipoli was hugely influential in defining how New Zealanders and Australians thought of themselves and their nati
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by chad_oliver 12y ago
Australia and New Zealand are very much part of the West, because that label is far more about cultural and political alignment, rather than geography. New Zealand and Australia are just as 'European' as Canada or the USA.
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by chad_oliver 12y ago
As you probably know, the stack is made up of stack frames, and a stack frame is added each time you go 'deeper' by calling another function. A stack frame is removed every time you get to the end of a function and return. So, yes
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by chad_oliver 12y ago
Yeah, I love that problem. If you want the maximum effect with the minimum effort, introducing the printing press would be a good move. However, technological change isn't really sufficient -- to do the most good, you'd need to ha
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Launching New Products(kalzumeus.com)
2 points by chad_oliver 12y ago|0 comments
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by chad_oliver 12y ago
The best way to make friends is to find some sport or social club and join in. Friendships should develop over time, as you see people frequently in a relaxed setting. A good idea here is to join a social sports team -- in New Zealand I&#x2
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by chad_oliver 12y ago
It may not be directly associated to the democratic process for electing a government, but I think you'll find that it's still closely related to democracy in general. Democracy is fundamentally anchored on the idea that the legit
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by chad_oliver 12y ago
Also: "A chunk of helium ice would behave as a single, solid, oversized, and stupefyingly slippery atom, which may be capable of passing ghost-like through certain materials. But that's another matter altogether."
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Rwanda’s Twenty-Year Transformation(forums.ssrc.org)
1 points by chad_oliver 12y ago|0 comments
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by chad_oliver 12y ago
To be fair, a visual mirror is just a special type of wall.

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