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by declan 12y ago
Yep. I’ve heard complaints about “filter bubbles” before, but have always found these to be entirely theoretical — not a critique of an actual implemented system. In reality, as <chris_va> says, a “filter bubble” is different from a “
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by declan 12y ago
> on your exact interests is the goal of a great curation. You might be interested in signing up for the beta at http://recent.io (disclaimer: I quit my job at CBS/CNET earlier this year to found this company). We releas
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by declan 12y ago
Same here. Flytenow would make this a more attractive proposition by agreeing to pay my attorney fees if the FAA takes action against me because of a Flytenow flight. That would include representing me before the FAA in administrative proce
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by declan 12y ago
This was a survey of 771 Australians, almost all men, working in construction[1]. Also "coworker support" is a big factor[2], the authors concluded. It's entirely unclear to me whether the results have any applicability to th
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by declan 12y ago
Yep. Instead of "expensive Uber rides" during a snowstorm, you get "no Uber rides." (A shortage, in other words.) Thanks, Albany! Well-done.
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by declan 12y ago
> there appear to be common two ways of allocating scarce resources in situations like this: either through price, or... But the quantity of the resource (Uber drivers) is not fixed. If you allow a higher surge price, you get more driver
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by declan 12y ago
Excerpt from that survey paper you cited, which reports that economists agree that "rent control is bad": ...I find that the preponderance of the literature points toward the conclusion that rent control introduces inefficiencies
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by declan 12y ago
> it skews heavily towards the wealthier I'd say it skews heavily toward those with the greatest demand, as the previous post said. If you have average financial resources and needed to get to the hospital in the middle of a snowsto
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by declan 12y ago
It's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008025 I don't pay close attention to the way HN does these things, but I recall that NSA was one of the terms that the HN moderators chose to penalize. Or they cou
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by declan 12y ago
Um, which federal agency do you think files the paperwork in court on behalf of the NSA? (Hint: It's the other federal agency mentioned in the Intercept's headline. Second hint: This agency is home to the National Security Branch,
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by declan 12y ago
Ah, didn't know that. I'm a non-NYC dweller and thought it was a separate borough.
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by declan 12y ago
Um, I think you left off a zero. :) If you use that Corcoran link you provided and restrict your searches to townhouses in the $2.3-$2.7M range with 5br, you get only Harlem, not Manhattan: http://tinyurl.com/nvftwqm
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by declan 12y ago
>where are their kids care givers going to live? San Jose, East Palo Alto, parts of Redwood City, Pacifica, etc...
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by declan 12y ago
And howdy, neighbor! Yep, if you were to buy your house today you might be talking about $15,000 a year in property taxes alone....
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by declan 12y ago
>I thought there was still plenty of cheap land in the Bay Area, but people all want to live in the ritzy bits. There's lots of vacant land on the SF peninsula, but no cheap land. There is cheaper land (not the same as cheap land)
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by declan 12y ago
>What's the hierarchy of the upper-upper end neighborhoods? It's not as much a hierarchy as different areas appealing to different types of people and families, with a big property size/walkability dividing line being I-28
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by declan 12y ago
> The devotion to open-space around Stanford/Palo Alto actually comes out of the backlash to all the highway construction in the 50s and 60s. And here I thought it was because Stanford owns over 8,000 acres and is exempt from paying
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by declan 12y ago
>Maybe that's true, but do you know this or are you speculating? I spent a few years covering 2A topics for CBS News.com (this is before I left to found Recent.io). This is true in my experience. As <brudgers> says, you can be
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by declan 12y ago
This BoomCalifornia.com article is well-written but misses a pretty big point: these are in large part choices that SF bay area governments have made to limit new development. The article does discuss SF, true, but SF has only perhaps 10% o
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by declan 12y ago
>The Bay isn't the real world by a long shot. Neither is Manhattan. From the NYT in 2009, and prices for schools and child care and real estate have only gone up since then: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/0
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by declan 12y ago
Well, I live within a five-mile radius of Stanford on the SF peninsula in a single-family home I bought a few years ago. I can tell you what I've seen in my own neighborhood. These $1.5M single family homes (and those would be far lowe
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by declan 12y ago
The intercepts referenced in the Post article date from 2009 to 2012, and during substantially all this time Facebook chose not to force SSL by default. Facebook did not enable SSL by default until about only half a year before Edward Sno
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by declan 12y ago
You're right about a key element being a (broadly defined) set of common values. But hunting also includes a broadly defined set of common values: appreciation for the land and conservation, love of marksmanship, support for 2A rights,
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by declan 12y ago
And what are the chances they get all the Android Ruby stuff to work perfectly in the initial release? As opposed to 6 months later after the bug fixes are deployed; hope you didn't have a release window for that fall 2014 app! (Perhap
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by declan 12y ago
Thanks! I wasn't aware of that announcement. Last month's blog post says: "If you have a RubyMotion app for iOS or OS X and want to port it to Android, you can even share some of the code." ( http://blog.rubymo
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by declan 12y ago
Interesting point! I like your way of thinking, though (this is the curmudgeon in me), I'd also suggest looking at some 'crisis situations' and legislative responses: * Porn exists on the Internet! LET'S PASS A LAW BANNI
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by declan 12y ago
tptacek's advice makes sense. I'd especially stress his point #2, which is to leave yourself the option of going elsewhere than Orlando. Let's be generous and say Orlando has 1% of the tech jobs you're qualified for; if
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by declan 12y ago
Sure, if resources were unlimited. But they're not, so you have to pick and choose. You're right that option #2 can work: EFF has represented me and a dozen or so other plaintiffs in a case where we won at the Supreme Court, and t
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by declan 12y ago
This is a solid decision that will curb abusive searches and help other Fourth Amendment litigation, including ongoing cases involving warrantless cell phone tracking. (That's because many of the concepts about the importance of mobile
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by declan 12y ago
No, the previous statement accurately captured the U.S. government's position: "Most people "all over world" are not US citizens and therefor not covered by bill of rights "that our founding fathers fought for"

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