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by frongpik 6y ago
The gov is able to limit density within the office buildings, so it should be able to limit density within the county limits. I agree, though, that such an initiative would be against the interests of just about everyone, except the future
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by frongpik 6y ago
"pass on whiteness"? Never heard this phrase before.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Using the word racism so liberally devalues its meaning.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Ban building new office space in overcrowded areas. Big corps will be forced to build their offices elsewhere, in remote areas with plenty of land, workers will follow and so do small businesses.
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by frongpik 6y ago
There's too few building permits being issued these days.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I doubt you can make a free country out of a pile of greedy people who also want to control others. It's not just India, it's like that almost everywhere today: a bunch of sociopaths at the top, the clueless crowd in the middle wh
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by frongpik 6y ago
I was trying to say that the reason we have this paradox of "pirated bytes" that simultaneously causes losses and doesn't cause losses is that we try to impose rules of the material world onto the world of ideas. I'd arg
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by frongpik 6y ago
There's clearly a trend: the more people live in a country, the more paranoidal and authoritarian its rulers. They are afraid of their people and want more control. That's understandable.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Interesting. Mr. Hoover must have been familiar with how past civilizations put a great deal of attention to this kind of calculations and left traces of their presence using similar techniques. However those past civilization also knew tha
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by frongpik 6y ago
I like to say that an american marriage is a startup: you find an investor, pitch an idea, do some business activity, bring new board members (kids) and sell your share to move on to other opportunities.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Imho, the presence of i in the schrodinger equation has a simple origin. The equation describes evolution of a wave and waves can be conveniently described with amplitude and phase components bundled together. With such description a wave c
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by frongpik 6y ago
Meh, that's a weak argument. The software industry wants to benefit from the fact that data can be copied for free (a unique property of our world), but also wants to put a sticker price on each ephemeral "copy" as of it&#x27
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by frongpik 6y ago
Let them ask you "who are you?" and "what's your name?"
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by frongpik 6y ago
In corporatese, "lack of diversity" means too many white and asian males, and generally if you're concerned with too much quantity of something, that's because this something is deemed bad. The relevance is very direct.
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by frongpik 6y ago
That's pretty much the MLK's point about slaves uniting against the pharaoh.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The funny thing is that if they really tried to combat the privilege - the rich families connected to the ruling class - the privilege would combat them into the ground, so they wisely chose a weak opponent that vaguely resembles the rich (
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by frongpik 6y ago
I remember times when the equality rhetoric was about "if we just do blind auditions, the racial disparity in orchestra will go away." That didn't happen and the rhetoric has taken a more aggressive stance: "give all rac
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by frongpik 6y ago
It will bother the PU chief, though.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Imho, Apple just wants money. FB will agree to pay 15 billions/year to keep tracking enabled, similar to how Google pays Apple to keep their search the default option.
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by frongpik 6y ago
One day I was so frustrated with silly stuff on the reddit frontpage that I started nuking memes/funny/etc. posts with uBO as if they were ads. The problem was that I ended up with an empty front page.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Someone needs to write the new version of "Moral Mazes". The original one described a noname chemical corp (DuPont?) full of execs that had sold their souls. Now someone we need something similar for Amazon.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Bitcoin, imho, is a clever way to redirect excess energy production into a trustless payments system. The fact that individuals have used personal gpus is an abveration. It will be governments running btc network on excess energy from nucle
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by frongpik 6y ago
Unless antimatter is stored within some medium. Wikipedia mentions a few exotic particles, one of them is a pair of electron and positron revolving around each other.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I haven't been downvoted here for a while, so let me annoy HN a bit. In the standard physics model, quarks are inseparable because the magic force that binds them only grows when you try to pull quarks apart. Don't ask why, the ma
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by frongpik 6y ago
Iirc, in a conversation with Feynman, Wheeler speculated that positrons may be hiding inside protons and that's why we don't see many positrons around.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I call it the modern Ptolematic system.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The US in general is a low density country and is a popular destination. Does it mean it should pay to whoever expressed the desire to immigrate to the US?
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by frongpik 6y ago
Well, their wish to move into a desireable area has no power over those who already live there. The bay area problem is easy to solve, though: tie the number of office space permits to the number of single family houses. With such a law, a
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by frongpik 6y ago
Call it racism, if you want. Homeowners conspiring to protect their neighborhood from people who aren't up to their standard isn't different than a country setting up an army to protect its borders from low quality foreigners.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Few of them pay what fang pays, though, and even fewer have the same brand recognition. If by 30 she gets bored, with conservative investments into broad market funds, she'll have a few millions in assets and the luxury to choose betwe

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