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No. Self-driving car will be more space-efficient than non autonomous cars, but it's especially true on highways and for parking. It's still an order of magnitude less efficient at transporting a vast number of people in the minim
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Crossrail (or, as it has been renamed, the Elizabeth Line) is a regional rail line, not a high speed line.
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Paris is almost 3 times denser than San Francisco.
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Natural selection works in context. Any trait that is selected is selected in context, there is no absolute right or wrong in natural selection. The fact that a trait has been selected says nothing of its intrinsic value or its utility in a
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A distraction from what? There is nothing incriminating in the released emails. We learned that: DNC personnel liked Hillary Clinton better than Bernie Sanders and that Hillary Clinton was saying to bankers what she is saying in public. Whe
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1. Discrimination in the workplace is more pernicious than people reacting to public speech. 2. Political contributions are public speech. That's why they are protected by the Constitution. People have a right to answer to public speec
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I would love to have a good read on the Soviet, then Russian, space program. They've been the only ones to do a station to station flight, for instance, or rescue a mute space station.
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Campaign contributions are public. His contribution to Prop 8 was always public. You can access all campaign contributions above $100, it's just a matter of downloading a file. Edit: the Supreme Court judged that political contribution
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Brendan Eich was damaging his company's reputation and, ultimately, economic prospects, by taking a public stance against marriage equality. His resignation is not a moral issue, his public support of the marriage equality ban was econ
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"Build Better Products" [1] by Laura Klein, will be available on Nov 1st. Laura Klein was recently a guest on the Lean Startup Podcast [2]. She brings an experimental, iterative, approach to design. [1] http://rosenfeld
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It's not completely arbitrary. Language still has meaning, but there is room for interpretation. Think of it as a model of the world. To launch a rocket you need a pretty good model of how physics works, but you don't need to simu
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They are called precedents.
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Ambiguity is a feature of natural languages, it's not a bug. It's because of this ambiguity that you can pass a law and assume other laws will update their meaning accordingly. For instance, civil rights. A law is an abstraction,
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What laws of nature? Gravity?
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Care to elaborate on that?
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Because Japanese debt is owned by Japanese households, yes. But if it decreases their standard of living, it's not a contradiction, it supports the point. They will pay the price of refusing immigration.
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Imagine what 15 billion brains can do.
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Medieval economy relied heavily on wood consumption, in a very unsustainable way. Forests were cut down way faster than they could renew and, if no technological change happened, they would have hit a wall pretty violently. But they didn&#x
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Don't worry, they got plenty of other ideas like this.
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There is value in conveying your message clearly.
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SpaceX is clearly focusing on one problem only: transportation. Because it's the transportation costs is the major roadblock to develop a commercial space industry beyond LEO. That's a smart move to foster an ecosystem of companie
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Invisibilia ran a great episode on "the personality myth"[1] and I think it shows the difference between BMI and "personality tests". BMI might be worthless but it measures something that objectively exists. Is it useful
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You are right, but an important part of providing insights from data is actually providing the insights , meaning the interface problem between the data science and users is crucial. For many industries, this problem is not well-solved at
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People seem to have the same attitude regarding cities. San Francisco exemplifies this to the extreme: many people will criticize any change to the city that has come after the end of their teens / the year of their moving to the city.
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That's a good point and I accept your suggestion. But if we are never likely to even see the beginning of the asymptote, we can just treat it as infinite. And people understand "virtually infinite" more than "potentially
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You're right, but it's a moot point for all practical purposes. Of course there is a limit, but if the limit is so high that we'll never reach it, it's as if there's no limit. The point is, if you can be millions of
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Yey, I wasn't talking about "infinite substitutability" here. Although it's part of the equation. I'm talking about productivity. How you can derive way more value now from the same quantity of resources than you co
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I think this is the fundamental misunderstanding about growth, one that is generally carried by post-growth and deep ecology people. The growth we're talking about here is growth of economic value, not growth of resource consumption. Y
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It's about basic geometry, not cost. You simply cannot fill the streets of San Francisco, Seattle or New York with all the people who would take the bus (not even speaking about trains), with 4 people per car max (often 1 or 2), and no
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Uber will never outlast urban public transit. Because bigger vehicles and fixed routes are simply more efficient at transporting a lot of people in dense environment. It can easily replace inefficient minibus lines in the suburbs though, an

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