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by del82 8y ago
> Our society was built on large amounts of discretion being exercised by law enforcement This I get. > and the ability to convincingly lie to law enforcement. This less so. Can you elaborate?
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by del82 8y ago
I've used it for a couple months now. It's great, and I can't remember any sites that plain didn't work, though some were pretty ugly. The one thing I miss is tabs, which FFF doesn't seem to have.
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by del82 8y ago
> So, there are clear efficiency and quality gains to be had if the system is specialized. I'd agree that "specialization" is a good thing when it means that educators have the training needed to most effectively deal with
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To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians(bloomberg.com)
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by del82 9y ago
Alas, the billionaires pay almost no property taxes on those condos: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/05/why-billionaires-dont...
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by del82 9y ago
Interestingly, Strong Towns published an article a bit more than a week ago about why mandating ground-floor retail is also not the best way to go: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/8/mixed-up-pr
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by del82 9y ago
> Credit rating is an instrument of control used by banks and credit card organizations to force us into debt we don't want. Wait, how is that?
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by del82 9y ago
> Meaning you make concessions to either where you live or where you work. Isn't that a sign that it's not completely your choice? Well yes, I mean there are many things about my job and my life that aren't completely my c
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by del82 9y ago
It's interesting to view commute time as the employer's time rather than employee's time, and therefore as time that should be compensated. I'd always thought of it as the employee's time, and the employee's de
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by del82 9y ago
Causation goes the other way: Reagan's prioritization of tax cuts over public education led to tuition increases, which lead to an increased demand for loans to pay the higher tuition.
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by del82 9y ago
One quick question: why does it matter that the large corporations in which power is concentrated are geographically clustered? Would the situation be better if ceteris paribus the corporations were more geographically distributed?
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by del82 9y ago
One question I have about Apple is: why should they want to build cars? Or anything else, really, except phones and computers and possibly other personal electronics? Why shouldn't they stick with what they're good at, invest th
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by del82 10y ago
Do laws against fraud violate freedom of speech?
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by del82 10y ago
You're absolutely right that from a dietary perspective, and painting with a very broad brush, Chinese people in general eat healthier than Americans. My spouse certainly eats healthier than I do, though I've been a bit of a bad
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by del82 10y ago
I agree, but it would take more than political reform to make China an attractive landing spot. Pollution and food safety are also big problems, for example, to the extent that my spouse (who is Chinese) and I have discussed and rejected t
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by del82 10y ago
Can you explain specifically how the ACLU is a left-leaning political organization, rather than an apolitical nonprofit?
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by del82 10y ago
Ah yes, that makes good sense. And that helps answer the question I asked in response to pacbard's comment: Even if only one person fully understands all of the complex stuff that's happening "under the hood" of the sp
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by del82 10y ago
That makes sense. But then I guess my question becomes: at what point are you spending so much time and effort learning advanced features of spreadsheets that you could have become proficient in one of the tools with a higher ceiling?
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by del82 10y ago
I mean, you have to look at, validate, and clean your data no matter how you chose to analyze it. Any tool, whether it uses a "real" programming language or not, is going to need to support that to be useful at all, and unless yo
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by del82 10y ago
Honest question: for what sorts of problems and requirements are complex spreadsheet analyses the right tool? As opposed to, say, using the data analysis and visualization capabilities of something like R or Python?
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by del82 10y ago
I genuinely don't understand the drive to make all these sacrifices just to make the computer a couple millimeters thinner. Are there people who look at the previous generation of MBP and said "that's too thick"? If so,
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by del82 10y ago
Just to add another view here: I'm currently a Data Scientist at Capital One and enjoy it quite a bit. I've found management to be open, supportive, and invested in my and my coworkers' success and development. They also al
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by del82 10y ago
It's already required in some industries, e.g. those that extend credit. https://consumercomplianceoutlook.org/2013/second-quarter/ad...
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by del82 11y ago
The Omega Tau podcast on container shipping is fascinating, as well: http://omegataupodcast.net/2014/04/146-container-shipping/
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by del82 11y ago
And if property taxes go up on my landlord, my rent goes up to cover it.
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by del82 11y ago
The Omega Tau Podcast is great: http://omegataupodcast.net/
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by del82 12y ago
I've found that produce picked yesterday at the farm up the street tends to last longer than produce that's been trucked from the other side of the US, not to mention the difference in the amount of energy it took to get it to me.
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by del82 12y ago
> Users are given a choice whether or not to use the product. What did this choice look like? Were users prompted to remove the cert if they didn't want it?