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by enoch_r 13y ago
Half a century of paparazzi and celebrity gossip has now deflated the delusional silliness in Hollywood--it's time to bring that style of hard-hitting journalism to Silicon Valley.
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Do you think that diplomats in foreign countries should have any channels of communication that aren't monitored by the host government? I suspect that most diplomatic cables aren't classified to keep US citizens in the dark--they
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People in the military have the right, and legal duty, to refuse unlawful orders, including orders that violate the international laws of war. They do not have the right to unilaterally decide to violate a lawful order because they think
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The BLS says that prices have increased about 3% every year since 1993. Many people claim that this estimate is obviously too low. I'm claiming that it's reasonable. To test my claim, you suggest naming products or services that h
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by enoch_r 13y ago
First, the CPI absolutely does include housing, energy, and medicine[1]. Second, it's incredibly hard to accurately measure such a nebulous concept as inflation (because there's no such thing as a "general price level"
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> The cost of healthcare alone makes subsistence living impossible. What? It's perfectly possible to receive "subsistence healthcare" in today's society--just never go to the doctor or take any medicine. If you want t
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by enoch_r 13y ago
Here's a real photo of coach from 1966--it's a 707, not a 747, but it looks much closer to today's commercial flight experience than the mockup. http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/cms/binary/
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by enoch_r 13y ago
While the author is annoyingly dismissive of Musk, the tribal responses here are unusually defensive and uninformative. It seems like our identities have expanded to encompass Elon Musk as well as Bitcoin (pro and con) and the NSA. http:&#
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That is a totally unreasonable interpretation of my comment.
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That isn't the lesson of the 3/5ths compromise: The founders were hashing out how each state would be represented by Congress. They decided each state would have representation proportional to its population. The problem: some sta
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by enoch_r 13y ago
There are quite a few other bright red flags here. For example: - the author claims that the growth of net exports is incompatible with a stagnating economy, because the economy is "export-centered." In 2012, Japanese exports were
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The problem is that if the performance gap is imaginary while the pay gap is real, then someone could take advantage of the situation for enormous profit. If other employers falsely believe that some much more expensive hammers will be bett
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Does being "logical" require that I never accept an elevated risk in order to do something I love?
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> The city block you're living on probably only needs one stand mixer, one waffle iron, one clothes iron. You could all just share one of these rarely-used appliances between you. Why don't you? If I can press a button on my iP
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by enoch_r 13y ago
I'd recommend the Coursera crypto course: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
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The initial request/redirect response is insecure. So a MITM can intercept the redirect response and replace it with his own content. That content could be, for example, a 200 response status and HTML pulled from the attacker's HT
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by enoch_r 13y ago
About 75 groups were specifically targeted for having words like "Tea Party" or "Patriot" in their names, and none had their tax-exempt status revoked.
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But a cracker can't "notice" that your password was a hash of "something" without knowing exactly what that "something" was, because the output of the hash is pseudorandom and isn't distinguishable from a random string. Sure, they could ass
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by enoch_r 13y ago
So, I built something almost identical for myself[1] but lately I've been switching to 1Password. Why? Essentially, it's difficult/impossible to create passwords for all the weird/stupid requirements people think up (no more than X characte
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by enoch_r 13y ago
The author's claim is that, if we split the price of our meal evenly, we'll all be better off than if we each pay for our own portion. It may be true that splitting the price encourages us all to eat more, and pay less attention to price. T
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by enoch_r 13y ago
Your Cato link is not a "full-throated endorsement of oil subsidies," it is a discussion of whether government interventions in energy markets benefit oil companies on net, and if you'd done a cursory google search for "Cato oil subsidies
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by enoch_r 13y ago
It probably isn't much different--but after reading about Soylent, I bought a few six-packs of Ensure just to try out the "don't feel like cooking/eating and would ordinarily eat something bad for you? drink a meal!" concept. I ended up cra
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by enoch_r 13y ago
I use Expandrive pretty regularly for development involving S3--it's much more convenient than most of the other ways to manually sync or transfer files to/from S3. I can just treat the bucket like a folder on my HD. It can also replicate t
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by enoch_r 13y ago
You're looking at one year of wealth creation here, and dancing around the obvious third variable: time. Old people are much more wealthy than young people[1] despite having comparable or lower incomes. [1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2
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This just isn't good statistics. The fact that the vast majority of hysterectomies are performed on women doesn't tell us anything about the probability that a randomly selected woman has had a hysterectomy; the fact that the vast majorit
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> As shown in the EPI graph below, in 2009 less than two thirds of employed computer science grads were working in the IT sector a year after graduation. How horrifying! Now present the relevant statistics for history majors, economics
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by enoch_r 14y ago
Borrowing from Arnold Kling's "three axes", generally speaking: - Libertarians evaluate things on a freedom/tyranny axis. - Republicans evaluate things on a civilization/savagery axis. - Democrats evaluate things on a fair/unfair axis. I th
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by enoch_r 14y ago
It looks a bit silly to accuse me of not understanding what EMH is while simultaneously changing your working definition of its applications from "market-traded securities" to "liquid markets." I accepted your scope for EMH and showed that
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by enoch_r 14y ago
That's probably a better way to put it. I guess the point is that EMH doesn't apply to BTC for some of the same reasons it doesn't apply to cars--both cars and currencies get much of their value from utility that's unrelated to the income f
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by enoch_r 14y ago
> According to the efficient-markets hypothesis (EMH), which still dominates the analysis of financial markets, this should be impossible. The EMH states that the market value of an asset is equal to the best available estimate of the v

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