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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Try to look at the forest instead of any individual tree. The ex-Mozilla CEO donated to an anti-gay marriage SuperPAC; the entire existence of that SuperPAC was 100% dedicated to opposition to gay marriage. Google donated to a candidate tha
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Why isn't there some sort of coalition between local news sites that allows e.g. a paid subscription to oregonlive.com to allow you access to m[ichigan]live.com, nj.com, and other "local" news across the country? Sinclair Med
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
I remember a common saying that's bandied about Hacker News: a 10x quantitative difference is a qualitative difference. Well, America's violent crime rate is 10 times higher than Europe's violent crime rate, so make of that w
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Spurious correlations generally don't go in the opposite directions of the direction of causality. If you travel around the world in a snapshot in time, you find that there's a positive correlation between density and rent prices.
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The problems came after the first stages of development, but I'm open to being convinced. Is there a single example of urbanization resulting in lower prices, lower costs-of-living, lower rates of homelessness, less economic inequality
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Agreed. As a resident of Ann Arbor, MI, I am an opponent of all the high-rise developments. I've seen general prices rise, I've seen traffic start jamming, and I've seen days with much lower air quality. I prefer to see citie
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
I'm surprised that nobody in this thread has brought up economist Bryan Caplan's 2nd most recent book, "The Case Against Education". This economist has looked at economic research on the effects of education, such as: *
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Can't that be tested by banging on the safe to try to set something in motion?
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
>I'm personally undecided on nuclear fission, but compared to coal it could be the lesser of two evils? Hesitance towards nuclear power is part of the reason the public doesn't take climate change activism seriously.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
That faint praise will transform into real praise once millions of BBC readers feel compelled to join those thousands already in Wikipedia's version of facebook.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
...except Assange would have been transferred to America to stand trial over Wikileaks before he would even have a chance to stand trial over the rape accusations.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Amtrak absolutely can. Simply by raising their prices. The iPhone revolutionized mobile phones and greatly expanded the interconnectivity of the world. And yet nobody is demanding that the general public should subsidize Apple.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
I'm going to play Devil's Advocate and argue that screentime probably does have an impact on one's mental development. Training a child's eyes to focus for long periods of time on a singular object a foot away might not
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Well the next question is: what is it about income that positively affects cognitive development? I doubt it's the smell or taste of dollar bills; more likely that money affords better parenting techniques, including but not limited to
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Deja Vu is the feeling that a current event is identical to an event from memory. This is actually a Baader Meinhoff moment for you.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Common sense states that it's okay to talk about politics insofar as it relates to workplace productivity.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
I have repeatedly heard scientists say that planting 1 trillion trees will singlehandedly set climate change back 10 years. I've done the math on that myself and found that such a plan is about 5000 times more cost-effective than drivi
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
Far away points have properties resembling infinitesimally close points, as long as the function is continuous. Now when there's a lack of continuity, then we run into a problem.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
1. I'm a big fan of John Baez. 2. I'm getting the impression from this article that solving the Riemann Hypothesis is similar to solving P=NP in that a solution can be used to attack RSA encryption.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
One way to easily corroborate this hypothesis is to check the acceptance rates of men and women that apply for STEM fields. This reminds me of the UC Berkeley lawsuit, where it was found that women were more likely to be accepted into almos
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
It's more like fixing a leaky pipe by adding a patch that will last for centuries, that can pollinate itself and produce additional patches in the future, and that can be removed and used as a building material for a new house.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
If climate change is truly the harbinger of the apocalypse, and if it needs to be stopped at all costs, then the flight tax would have to be infinite. On the other hand, if a tree can be planted to capture 1 ton of carbon for 50 cents each,
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
On the other hand, if the economy grows at 3% per year, then humanity will be 12 times richer by 2100 than if the economy slows down to 2% growth due to heavy government interference. Compounding interest and economic growth has been the pr
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
>Think of the materials and industrial waste to produce 1 nuclear power plant versus all of the battery, solar cells, and turbines to equal the same in power and scalability. Please, also think of the carbon footprint of those materials.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
This whole debacle makes me feel uncomfortable as a Trump supporter working on a startup.
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
What's the advantage of using this over OpenCSV? Or over using open("spreadsheet.xslx",'r').readline().split("\t") to shove everything into a Python dictionary? Right now, as a side project, I am using bul
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
This feels reminiscent of the current issue of long-term data storage. Flash drives are volatile and can lose your data any minute. Solid State drives are slightly less volatile, and a hard disk has magnetic fields that will last decades, b
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
>3% tax on revenues earned on digital services in France A tax on revenues ???? Not on profits, but on revenues, which do not deduct operating costs???? It looks like France is continuing its reputation as a reverse tax haven, IOW a pla
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
I would like to understand the science behind how bacteria can live under the 50 gigapascals of pressure that one would find in the base of a skyscraper. My intuitions currently tell me that finding life underneath such mechanical stress is
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by ddxxdd 7y ago
So an investor that can anticipate an increase in, decrease in, or general level of a) market risk, b) a market's risk premium, or c) available market capital, can predict market movements. Just because CFAs use fancy names for market

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