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by dreeves 16y ago
It does seem tricky for the car to properly account for the presence of a cyclist using just the cameras and radar and whatnot. What if as a cyclist you carried a special RFID that robot cars would all be programmed to recognize?
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by dreeves 16y ago
For years, even decades, I've heard this cited as if it's a legal can of worms that makes the whole notion of automated driving a political impossibility, so to speak, in the foreseeable future. Sure, it would save a lot of lives, the argu
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by dreeves 16y ago
Great story! It's another good antidote to the "but you can never be too safe" reaction. As your story shows, maximum vigilance about your child's safety requires that you not instill a fear of strangers. Strangers should be viewed as
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by dreeves 16y ago
This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Prompted by news of an abduction in Missouri a while back, I wrote this: http://messymatters.com/strangers Excerpt: I love this quote from security expert Bruce Schneier: Remember, if it’s in the
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by dreeves 16y ago
> OK, so lets say this is a bad idea and you should instead > not have any savings in that case, and make all of your > savings into payments on your mortgage interest. You're > saying we could model that by assuming you
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by dreeves 16y ago
Say the home-buyer can just barely afford the mortgage payments and their renting alter ego can just barely afford rent. Then necessarily the renter is getting a much nicer place. Holding the niceness of the place constant, the renter wil
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by dreeves 16y ago
Quoting myself from http://messymatters.com/buyrent again: In fact, landlord profits are probably a very small part of the equation: on par with the cost of collecting your rent and arranging (not paying for) maintenance. We can check thi
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by dreeves 16y ago
There's something like that (though on a different timescale) called Christmas Club accounts. You can deposit money but you can't take it out until December. I understand it was quite popular in the 70s. The idea is to force yourself to
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by dreeves 16y ago
If you owe more than the house is worth then theoretically you should default and walk away. I know that question has been debated endlessly and I don't understand all the practical implications like what it means for your credit rating, o
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by dreeves 16y ago
I believe that it would necessarily be irrational to ever "need to stay for a few years more" because of the state of the housing market. (I do agree in general that you're more mobile as a renter, I just think think you've overstated it.)
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by dreeves 16y ago
I don't believe this is really a factor. Paying down the principal faster saves you the 5% (or whatever your mortgage rate is) interest on the amount of your pre-payment. It's tantamount to investing that money at a risk-free 5%. That mi
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by dreeves 16y ago
I think I can make intuitive why the "rent is forever gone" argument is wrong. Another way to state that argument is "after I pay off the mortgage I own a house and live for free whereas if I'd rented the whole time then I'd own nothing an
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by dreeves 16y ago
Edit: I see I'm in the wrong thread. Everyone else is over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1585850 Here's what Lance Fortnow just tweeted: "Much ado about an unverified proof. The word 'must' is troubling. I'll let others c
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by dreeves 16y ago
I wrote about this a year ago: http://messymatters.com/buyrent (I'm so proud of that article! I think it's literally the most popular thing I've ever written. It was even translated into Spanish.) Short version: Neither choice is a no-br
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by dreeves 16y ago
Can you elaborate? I'm confused. Email is already pure social...
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by dreeves 16y ago
Making these changes and emailing you. Thanks so much for the help! That's a cool UI idea to force an action on every email.
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by dreeves 16y ago
No specific client, though I mention gmail in the appendix. That's a good idea for implementing snooze! The only thing missing is that you can't easily choose the amount of time to snooze. I don't know how you could approximate the other t
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by dreeves 16y ago
That's super cool that you've hacked up two of these features already. Want to share the scripts? For re-ping though I think I'd rather it to be one of the compose headers so it would be part of composing the mail rather than having to ta
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by dreeves 16y ago
Thanks fragmede! Specific responses: * Man, it never occurred to me that the straw poll looks like an ad but you're totally right. Not sure how to fix that. * I agree about Delete vs Archive but that's not actually my list. * Good point ab
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by dreeves 16y ago
Awesome, yes, I think these are quite easy to hack into existing mail clients. As I mention in the article, I hacked up Snooze in Pine. I think your "delay for n days" feature is indeed what I (and http://HitMeLater.com , it turns out) ca
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by dreeves 16y ago
I'd love to get any thoughts from you all before publishing this.
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Proposed email features: snooze, re-ping, auto-expire(messymatters.com)
6 points by dreeves 16y ago|14 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
This seems a good time to mention interpolique: http://recursion.com/interpolique.html I'm curious what people here think of that idea, ie, preventing string injection attacks at the language level.
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by dreeves 16y ago
This idea is exactly how my and Bethany Soule's pet project, kibotzer.com, started. It has worked great for a bunch of family and friends (although they often yo-yo back when they stop reporting their weight to kibotzer!). A tweak to your
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Interpolique: A new mechanism for preventing string injections(recursion.com)
4 points by dreeves 16y ago|1 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
Commitment devices. Bethany Soule and I just committed to staying on all of these "Yellow Brick Roads": http://kibotzer.com/fitfam . We did so by each auctioning off a security worth $2000 in the event we fall off any of those roads bef
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Casual sealed bidding, aka rot13 for numbers(messymatters.com)
1 points by dreeves 16y ago|0 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
As to the question of whether Google could exploit their search data to predict the stock market: http://messymatters.com/searchpred (summary: not really)
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by dreeves 17y ago
Somewhat orthogonal but apropos: http://lesswrong.com/lw/am/how_a_pathological_procrastinor_c...
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by dreeves 17y ago
Correction: Wenn hinter fliegen fliegen fliegen, fliegen fliegen fliegen nach. It's actually quite sensible in German. Transliterated, it's "When behind flies flies fly, the flies after-fly the flies." Translated it would be more like "

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