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   by ebalit 10y ago

   I'm not sure these calculations on the back of an envelope are the correct way to understand the problem, but let's try. US population: 322 millions US national income: 15.78 trillions $ To give a 10000$ UBI to every person in the
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   by ebalit 10y ago

   But you will have the choice. Also, I imagine that a jobless future will be heavily automated. Cheap autonomous transportation might expand the housing area with sustainable commute. Even more so if you can work remotely part-time and short
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   by ebalit 10y ago

   There is more problem with means testing than with needs testing. The government can subsidies wheelchair-adapted vehicles to cost as much as a normal vehicle. Why someone that doesn't need a special vehicle would use the subsidy? The
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   by ebalit 10y ago

   I think it's implied that these advices are for content pages, for the "old web", and not for single page apps.
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   by ebalit 10y ago

   And we shift every point to its corresponding mean. Then, we repeat it until convergence (every point is fixed).
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   by ebalit 10y ago

   daveguy's explanation is correct. It's the simplest form of the Mean Shift algorithm.
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   by ebalit 10y ago

   I just bought the Xiaomi Redmi 3 [1] with 4100mAh. The battery life is excellent. 2 to 3 days of battery is a comfort I missed from the "dumbphone era". 1: http://www.kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-xiaomi-redmi-3
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   by ebalit 10y ago

   You should probably use Jupyter notebook if you don't use it already. It's great for exploratory coding like data analysis. And as the last evaluated expression of a code block is automatically printed, no need for a print stateme
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   by ebalit 10y ago

   A concurrent could book a Uber ride for their customer using the API when and where they don't have any driver. Well, I checked the terms of use of Uber API and competing with Uber is forbidden...
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    In French, a company (entreprise) is feminine. I don't know the rule of agreement for loanwords, though.
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    This proposition by Marc de Basquiat seems to be a lot more than "back of the envelope calculation": http://www.allocationuniverselle.com/doc/BIEN_Munich_2012-09... It's a reform of the French tax system
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    HOGWILD [1] lock-free weight updates are a great example of how forgiving SGD can be. 1 : https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5730
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    Turning it into a profitable business could increase this type of market by investing in the software infrastructure and promoting this type of trade. But I wonder how they plan to extract a part of the value that is traded on this market.
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    It looks a lot like LETS [1], those non-profit through which you can exchange services with other members. There is often a social aspect in these systems and the exchange rate is more related to efforts than to the economical value. 1 : h
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    I find the guideline described in the article to be quite good. If the decision is important (as for hiring), you should get as much information as you can. It would be interesting to know if people are good at guessing the uncertainty of a
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    Riches have more to gain from a working society and more to loose from a failing one. Or as Adam Smith puts it: "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    Discourse is nice to use, especially because of its social login and Markdown features: https://www.discourse.org/
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    I added the RSS feed for popular HN posts from http://hnapp.com to my RSS reader. That way the RSS reader gives me the popular posts since last time. And because I like HN for its discussion most of all, I coded a small WebExten
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    by ebalit 10y ago

    I can think of 3 web-based creation tools that are quite powerful: * SoundTrap for audio editing: https://soundtrap.com * Clara.io for 3d modeling: https://clara.io * OnShape for CAD modeling: https://onsh
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    by ebalit 11y ago

    If I got my definitions correct, natural population growth means without migration. So the parent comment is correct, France population is still growing from procreation alone and will do so until 2045. "Around 2045, natural population