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by dzdt 10y ago
Quoting their website: Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Their entire purpose is to use technology to manage information. What does "IT" stand for a
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by dzdt 10y ago
Religion is a much stronger predictor of number of children than any genetic factor. Religion is typically passed on to children, but not genetically!
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by dzdt 10y ago
Peak population will be a huge paradigm shift for the world economy. For the entire history of the world we have relied on growth, and the main deiver of economic growth has been population growth. No more!
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by dzdt 10y ago
I think Matt Levine's take on this is right on: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-09/wells-far... . Senior management wanted employees to do REAL cross-selling to make money, but the metric
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by dzdt 10y ago
Coming from an enterprise background, that number is astonishingly low.
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by dzdt 10y ago
You describe the theory. But look at the stories of people whose money is taken unjustly by civil forfeiture and then say the reality matches the theory.
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by dzdt 10y ago
I think it is bad journalism, intended to boggle not enlighten. The paper mentioned is http://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.0008 , and does not itself make mention of black holes. Presumably the "higher-dimensional" aspe
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by dzdt 10y ago
Normally tl;dr is not appropriate; in this case it is.
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by dzdt 10y ago
The map is interesting. I never knew the Aleutian Islands marked a former continental coastline.
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by dzdt 10y ago
I think this is a much more interesting problem in the sciences than in literature. There is too much high literature for a scholar to read it all. So like everyone else, the scholars mostly read what makes the popular bandwagon by virtue
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by dzdt 10y ago
The placement of the apostrophe is correct and crucial. "America's" would mean "from the United States of America" while "Americas'" means "from North or South America". The Mayan calendar
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by dzdt 10y ago
I am coming to understand that the purpose of almost all zoning regulations is to exclude "undesirable" people from the area. Poor people are considered undesirable. So zoning codes are tweaked until the effect is that high inco
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by dzdt 10y ago
I read the first few pages and will certainly want to dig into the rest. It is interesting insightful stuff from a true expert. Something I never realized as an undergradute math major/ physics minor was to what exent mathematics is a
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by dzdt 10y ago
Pretty tiny amounts of lead are damaging to young children, like age 0-6. It causes neurological damage, decreasing IQ and attention span; increasing aggression. It is such a pervasive effect that researchers find very strong correlation
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by dzdt 10y ago
God those moving graphs are annoying. Does anybody like those?
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by dzdt 10y ago
Its funny. In the early days of consumer PC's the feeling was very much the opposite. There were persistent rumors of "killer poke" commands (some of which were at least partially true) where an incorrect software command c
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by dzdt 10y ago
The article is so annoying! I am pretty damn sure excel doesn't intentionally have any gene-renaming features, nor even has any concept of gene. So what are the scientists doing? Forgetting to put quotes on some data that is gene-na
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by dzdt 10y ago
(2010) not that it matters much... TECO was long dead much earlier.
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by dzdt 10y ago
Except that $100 million isn't how much it would cost, its how much that has been promised. To actually send a probe would take several orders of magnitude more money; the amount being quite uncertain because the technologies are not
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by dzdt 10y ago
They don't want to pay taxes for that. Given the choice, most evangelical Christians in America will pick lower taxes and reduced or eliminated government role in providing social services.
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by dzdt 10y ago
The mindset against medicaid is it isn't the government's job. The circles of responsibility are yourself, your family, your church, you're fucked. That is just life. [Not necessarily my own view!]
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by dzdt 10y ago
Partly because the state charges too little for the guarantees it offers, taxpayers are subsidising housing borrowers to the tune of up to $150 billion a year, or 1% of GDP. The original post makes this claim without any citation. I don&
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by dzdt 10y ago
The stats look really damning. Notice the p-scores : 4e-19 for worlds 2013 and 5e-8 for olympics 2016. And you can see it so clearly in the graphs too. No question, there was a big difference between one side of the pool and the other!
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by dzdt 10y ago
Some of the biggest problems with the US education system are not problems with the US education system. They are problems of poverty that most other OECD countries either don't have or deal with by a stronger social welfare system. K
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by dzdt 10y ago
Why not more fibers sub-sea? I would have guessed when you are going to the expense to lay fiber across an ocean, including a fair amount of dark fiber looks like a good investment.
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by dzdt 10y ago
Holographic video is about 1000000 times as bandwidth intensive as flat images. If we had a million times the bandwidth we would use it!
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by dzdt 10y ago
The pdf link produces a nice mobile experience.
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by dzdt 10y ago
Those are such trivial details! These are the things that matter in day one of using the language, and make no difference for anyone who has made the slightest effort to get familiar with the language. Breaking compatibility for such a si
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by dzdt 10y ago
Interesting speculation. Any references to support this?
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Channel surfing. I don't get it either, but my I know lots of people who do. Streaming services are great if you want to pick something and watch it start to end. Not so great if you want background noise and the ability to quickly

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