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by gbhn 11y ago
If its true that such jobs would reduce unemployment substantially, then a number of potential workers might already be recipients of other government programs, meaning the marginal cost is not nearly as much as the salary. Implementing suc
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by gbhn 11y ago
How about this: For the hundred thousandth time, a generation of humans will be confronted with the necessity of incorporating into their society a group of beings which they created and which they love, hate, fear, trust, and, most of all,
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by gbhn 11y ago
There's an API for the github issue tracker. I'm kind of surprised that with all the other tooling built around github that there aren't really nice issue trackers that would provide better management and triage workflows and
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by gbhn 11y ago
No, this is just about right. The evidence they have points sharply to there being a ninth planet. Now they're saying "here's where it might be, we need help finding it!" Once someone has a photo and an orbit, that'
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by gbhn 11y ago
For weight, the sides of a rocket are very thin. Think tin can. Vertical is OK but horizontal can't work.
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by gbhn 11y ago
Isn't the other side of the coin, though, that in these types of systems you can actually get a lot "wrong" and they still work? That is, in the example of a sand pile, if you get the rate of adding sand "wrong", it
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by gbhn 11y ago
Many people think Musk is in the top percentiles of "using money well." While I think it is always appropriate to want the government to run better, it's probably not fair to set such a high bar for it. One might just as easi
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by gbhn 11y ago
I think it's even more dramatic than that. Wealth conveys the ability to explore alternate experiences with more efficiency. What I mean by that is the ability to either fund "vicarious" experiences. ("If I worked on thi
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by gbhn 11y ago
Agreed. To me as an outsider, this escalation bug looks a max bug, definitely dwarfing any particular admin console vulnerability, and that the processes the researcher claims to have followed were pretty much necessary to show it. Whether
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by gbhn 11y ago
To me, a lot of the more interesting areas of type research basically involve embedding logic into types. So types for sequencing of operations, types that constrain the data in them, etc. Those are awesome in that they enable static analys
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by gbhn 11y ago
But this is a fundamental problem: The learning approach might need 100s of examples of drivers reacting to a bicycle on a sidewalk while turning right into a parking lot to get the right training input. Or perhaps it can learn from example
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by gbhn 11y ago
Or just do what a driverless car would do: call the authorities or turn around and proceed by another route.
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by gbhn 11y ago
My (inexpert) opinion is that the kind of computer language researcher or practitioner interested in exploring how far you can go with type systems is dissatisfied with Go. But there are many types of static analysis which accomplish simila
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by gbhn 11y ago
Thank you! :-)
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by gbhn 11y ago
Math is a great example of how notation is sooo important. Doing math with roman numerals is.... possible, sure. But for pretty much any math that's worth anything, it's just a bad notation. It obscures what's going on and ma
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by gbhn 11y ago
I think this is the most apropos objection: 18F is trying to trial a reliable source of contracting for small-scale IT work. If it turns out that volunteerism is reliable, then awesome! 18F just discovered that by spending time to nail down
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by gbhn 11y ago
Perhaps a good intuition pump is this: after every guess the person claiming to have found Waldo gets to position three things: the book, the waldo mask, and the covering cardboard. This then means the subsequent trials don't reveal an
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by gbhn 11y ago
My perception is there's dissatisfaction with Chinese trade in many parts of American politics. So that there's an eleven-figure (or so) protection system in place seems like it would trigger howls of outrage and condemnation, and
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by gbhn 11y ago
"The Chinese have dealt with that issue by protecting their market." Can anyone explain why this ends up not being a bigger international trade issue? It seems to me like it would be a giant flashpoint, but it seems not to be.
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by gbhn 11y ago
Something this article ignores, and which is ignored by most articles on HFT, is that the process is ilegible to the public. "No no we're doing you a favor!" is not reassuring when the activity consumes a bunch of resources o
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by gbhn 11y ago
The article addresses this: some cities attempted laws against YP deliveries, but they were thrown out on free speech grounds.
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by gbhn 11y ago
It's also worth noting that power projection is also different because of different balances of other interests. The kinds of things other countries want to do is different, and the lengths to which the US is willing to go to affect th
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by gbhn 11y ago
This was my first reaction too. :-)
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by gbhn 12y ago
I felt like the author not only decried projects where the kids have access to parental help, but projects where the kids have access to good facilities. And motivation. I'm not sure what's left to measure if we attempted to remov
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by gbhn 12y ago
I think what he's suggesting isn't that the logs don't line up, but that AT&T may be purposely switching the phone to use the data roaming opportunity. Even though carriers gouge each other horribly on roaming, the margin
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by gbhn 12y ago
My understanding is that early SOU papers weren't delivered as speeches, but were mostly technical reports intended for what today would be regarded as people like the OMB and similar congressional bodies. More recently they're ve
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by gbhn 12y ago
I don't know anything about this case, but it could be there's a bunch of air trapped inside the bar with the tungsten, assuming the forgers didn't alter the outside dimensions of the bar.
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by gbhn 12y ago
I'm interested in reactions to this idea: a virtual "shadow Congress." The plan would be to get broad participation in an unofficial election process which would elect representatives to "shadow Congress." They&#x27
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by gbhn 12y ago
I'm certainly no art high roller, but my understanding is that the art world has a long history of patrons like this, who have eclectic tastes, large networks of trusting collectors, and an eye for the new. Everyone hates them, until e
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by gbhn 12y ago
Except politically if course, where returns were abysmal.

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