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by dbatten 9y ago
Additional observation: it's also interesting to me that the term seems to be having a resurgence of late? It started out largely being an accusatory term used by the American political left to disparage biased and/or incorrect in
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"Whole Foods did not respond to several requests for comment on this story."
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You can just as easily paint this in a pragmatic light, rather than a sinister one. "We're going to clear some forest here where it's in our way, and to compensate, we're going to plant some additional forests elsewhere
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by dbatten 9y ago
Interesting... looks like a lot of countries with parliamentary systems use proportional instead of geographic representation... but not the UK or Canada. Today I learned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_repr
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Is it? I'm admittedly fairly ignorant on how other countries run their election systems, but... geographic representation seems uncommon (lots of parliamentary systems) and sophisticated solutions to drawing districts within countries
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Data Scientist with a Master of Public Administration degree here (don't ask). My proposal for solving this has always been to frame it as an optimization problem. You have a certain number of census tracts (essentially, neighborhoods)
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by dbatten 9y ago
Swinging back on this, because I find this stuff interesting. I don't necessarily disagree with anything you say here. But I'm still not sure it gets at the crux of my question. If local control of land use systematically creates
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by dbatten 9y ago
Overall, this seems like a good policy to me. However, I'm not sure I like the means used to achieve it. Do we really want to set a precedent where the state government comes in and overrides local regulations about things like zoning
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by dbatten 9y ago
While undoubtedly tragedies in their own right, Ukraine, Iraq, etc. are tiny conflicts in comparison to major industrialized economies making total war on each other in the years before nukes existed. By the most liberal estimates, the Iraq
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by dbatten 9y ago
I'd personally suggest some low white noise for this purpose. Used all the time in offices already.
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It's amazing that Google invests so many resources in making a feature like this so awesome, but then they don't have the sense to realize that nobody wants trees rendered as awful looking 3d blobs when they switch to satellite vi
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by dbatten 9y ago
People (myself included) seem to have an inordinate fascination with tunnels. I mean, there's a fascination with things that are dilapidated/old, and a fascination with places you're not allowed to go. But tunnels in particul
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by dbatten 9y ago
What makes this really stupid is that Mozilla is compromising user trust for what is undoubtedly a tiny payment from Mr. Robot. At least Google and friends are the wealthiest companies the world has ever seen as a result of their data shena
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by dbatten 9y ago
Really? I can't speak for the country as a whole, but in my area (Raleigh/Durham, NC) the major healthcare providers have been battling each other for years over when, where, and what types of new hospitals they can open. These la
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by dbatten 9y ago
Historically that's kind of true, but we also count Japan, South Korea, and several Arabic-speaking countries (e.g., Kuwait) among our closest allies... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally
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by dbatten 9y ago
Serious question: what is HTBQ+? Googling doesn't seem to turn anything up.
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by dbatten 9y ago
What happens when you refuse to do any repairs/upkeep and the house goes to pot over 10 years? What happens when you don't maintain insurance coverage and you burn it down? Etc.
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by dbatten 9y ago
I agree with almost all of your examples... except for 3d. While almost everybody I know would say they prefer seeing a movie on a big screen (even though the phone/tablet is sometimes more convenient), I don't know _anybody_ that
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by dbatten 9y ago
I think the argument is stronger than that. It's not that tax avoidance is morally justified, it's that corporations have a fiduciary responsibility as stewards of their shareholders' investment to maximize the return on that
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by dbatten 9y ago
These "articles" with embedded scroll-hijacking garbage have got to stop. I really wanted to read about slot machines but I'm not suffering through that. Does this need to be a new hn flag? This is the second of these today.
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by dbatten 9y ago
Does HN have any domain experts that can comment on how reliable this research is? I got super excited about the Queen Nefertiti / King Tut secret chamber theory a year or two back (which used similar methods, it seemed), and was reall
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by dbatten 9y ago
Your description makes it seem more nefarious than it is. This guy runs a blog about companies that he thinks are over-valued, and he shorts their stock. He's transparent about all of this. His readers / investors / the publi
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by dbatten 9y ago
Serious question: Is this even actually a thing that happens? I mean, obviously, it stands to reason that the right actor with the right investment portfolio and control of the right media outlets could pull something like this off, but it
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I really wish the Census would publish more normalized data sources. For example, the American Community Survey summary file is effectively a giant table with thousands of rows (representing different geographies) and thousands of columns (
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This list seems very Western. Are there Eastern developments that should be added?
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You mean, with a coupon book good for 2 free credit reports... except with ridiculous fine print that will prevent 99% of people from using said coupons...
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This is the genius of small-claims court. Equifax has to either send a representative (which would cost them more than $1000), or they lose by default. You don't actually have to prove anything.
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by dbatten 9y ago
This happened to me with Expedia. They advertised a lower rate on a different room at the hotel I was looking at... Didn't catch until after I checked out that the advertisement was for a different day than my search results. (Because
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The thornier ethical/political problems surround the embryos that are discarded... A living organism with human parents is, at least in some sense, a human. To "discard" one on the basis of a disability while giving another a
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by dbatten 9y ago
The uncomfortable conclusion I've come to recently: the world (and especially the US) has come to terms with a nuclear-armed North Korea being the least bad option in this whole ordeal. Sure, we still need to pass sanctions and throw a

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