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by elgenie 6y ago
It’s actually fairly straightforward for this kind of thing. What it’s saying is that Google would desperately love to use the US‘ anti-trust standard of concentrated market power being a-OK as long as consumers aren’t obviously being hurt
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by elgenie 6y ago
Weather, altitude, blue turf, hockey boards, shooting background, etc I'd generally lump in under comfort and familiarity. However, structural advantages do exist. The best example is actually MLB, where each team's field is shape
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by elgenie 6y ago
Home field advantage lessening but not disappearing is as expected. There are two major sources of home field advantage (basing on US sports): * What fans influence: subconscious referee biases (not wanting to be booed for a close call), he
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by elgenie 6y ago
The issue with helmet design is likely the same one football players face: that the place the impact absorbing material needs to go is between skull and brain. There’s no wearable helmet that’s going to change the result of skull being dece
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by elgenie 6y ago
If you mean zoning that requires first floor retail or whatever, sure. But mixed use zoning also means zoning that just doesn't ban small business, multi-family housing, and single-family housing coexisting on the same block. The c
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by elgenie 6y ago
Investors from outside of the community may not have interest in anything other than returns. “Investors” from an autocracy where future property rights can’t entirely be taken for granted may not be interested even in that; they could just
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by elgenie 6y ago
Nope, with that too [1]. It seems to come with the territory. [1] https://business.time.com/2013/03/19/why-the-better-business...
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by elgenie 6y ago
If society is set up to serve up what's coming to people that lie, cheat, and steal, then and only then do they get what's coming to them. McCarthyism style snitching would be making vague and unspecific accusations towards ones p
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by elgenie 6y ago
Until a few hundred years ago, a quarter of children died before reaching a year of age. Traditions of not naming children until they reach a certain age milestone are likely outgrowths of societies processing that reality, as opposed to
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by elgenie 6y ago
Perhaps there's some other story that's capturing the attention of the health-focused reporters at the BBC and there wasn't during Wales' rollout? Hmm?
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by elgenie 6y ago
Though it has nearly 85% of the UK's population (and organs).
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by elgenie 6y ago
“Founded a startup” is absolutely but trivially correct because every company is a startup by any definition in the immediate aftermath of its founding. The question is just about what criteria make sense for declaring that a company has gr
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by elgenie 7y ago
That preprint [1] is a great example of how far ahead of the skis you can get with motivated reasoning, bad math, and no peer review. They recruited people over Facebook at a time that California's COVID tests were backlogged (with ads
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by elgenie 7y ago
Feinstein was re-elected in 2018 and so won’t be up again until 2024, when she’ll be 91. It’s quite likely that she won’t ever face the voters again.
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by elgenie 7y ago
On of the classic ways that oligopoly and monopoly power can be abused is by engaging in temporary price wars to drive any smaller competitors so that prices can later be jacked up and monopoly profits reeled in. That's what's hap
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by elgenie 7y ago
It's an acronym for munging some data ETL = extract, transform, load
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by elgenie 7y ago
Blowing up the TPP and the "phase one" trade deal being signed shows there's no actual strategy being executed. Also, trade deficits aren't a meaningful issue in and of themselves.
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by elgenie 7y ago
Since “orange man” was president in each of the last three years and all three featured a larger trade deficit than pre-“orange”, this is just total nonsense. Also, assigning credit (or blame) for jitter in a giant flow doesn’t make sense u
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by elgenie 7y ago
“eyes open” vs “eyes closed” is a face detection problem, not a recognition one.
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by elgenie 7y ago
The US had no laws restricting immigration, period, until 1882. The national origin quota system didn't exist at all until the 1920s. Ethnic diversity has been part of the fabric of the US since before it was a country. Per census figu
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by elgenie 7y ago
“Praise, correct, praise” is less fawningly known as “shit sandwich” and appears incredibly patronizing to anyone who is either aware of the method or possesses minimal skills of observation.
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by elgenie 7y ago
The technical term in the literature would be wildland-urban interface [1], and Santa Rosa should be pretty easy to find on this 2010 map of the WUI [2] when you zoom in on the Bay Area . [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by elgenie 7y ago
This is equivalent to asking why competing firms don’t simply agree to collude to stop innovating and fix prices, except in this case the colluding parties lose by paying a toll as opposed to reaping monopsony profits. Given a meaningful in
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by elgenie 7y ago
The status you personally ascribe to various positions is obviously up to you. Estonia is sovereign, but whether it’s “independent” from the Eurozone on which it relies for economic sustenance (they get back 5x what they put into the EU bud
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by elgenie 7y ago
Would you be as surprised if given equivalent technological achievements the mayor of, say, Oklahoma City or Richmond VA, did some horn tooting on qz.com to try to drum up outside investment and interest? Estonia’s population is between tha
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by elgenie 7y ago
That’s … not a bug. A buggy assertion would be one that fires when the input is correct. Assertions aren’t formal verifiers or replacements for a test suite.
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by elgenie 7y ago
Not the main point, but it should be noted that the Darwin Awards are wide open to candidates with outstanding self-sterilizations, not just people that remove themselves from the gene pool by dying (hilariously). https://darwina
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by elgenie 7y ago
One of the express purposes of this change is (drumroll) to make bus service better as the L train is being repaired.
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by elgenie 7y ago
Not in the US, though. Even the city centers that predated the widespread adoption of automobiles were by and large redesigned towards cars. Then in the 50s and 60s whole city neighborhoods were razed for interstates.
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by elgenie 7y ago
Stroustroup's version of this (about C++, of course): “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” The problem is that, even if true, this chestnut doesn't say anything about wh

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