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by gohrt 11y ago
It's long been hip to blame SimCity for creating bad urban design. However: SimCity reflects ideas as much as it plants ideas: zoning existed before SimCity. SimCity promoted intermingled Commercial and Residential zones (traffic was
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by gohrt 11y ago
> but they are almost always in some shopping mall or similar commercial enterprise, rather than in truly public spaces. why would that matter at all?
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by gohrt 11y ago
The whole linked site -- http://applymagicsauce.com/ just seems deeply unethical for a University, regardless og where it sits on the spectrum of [abuse of human research subjects] to [selling snake oil]
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by gohrt 11y ago
Not in the USA, it isn't. http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/HSN/VM/ CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSN.VM.C.6 (+) Use matrices to represent and manipulate data, e.g., to represent payoffs or incidence re
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by gohrt 11y ago
Democracy is tyranny of the majority.
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by gohrt 11y ago
R cannot compile Haskell code.
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by gohrt 11y ago
EclipeFP exists. The main problem is that there aren't good ways for Haskell analyzers to communicate with a Java/C++ UI in memory. So you get clunky+slow network/IPC APIs (or worse, communication via filesystem) for stuff th
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by gohrt 11y ago
MAS apps are banned from accessing the Internet?!
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by gohrt 11y ago
Not necessarily relevant to meat, but, if your intestines are too long, then you might be at risk for over -digesting something , dehydrating it into a hard mass that is difficult for the rest of the sytem to process.
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by gohrt 11y ago
It's also a very scary and dangerous phenomenon -- that was one of the major historical lessons of the German side in WWII.
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by gohrt 11y ago
It's strange that you think that an investor who owns 7% of a company is "being serious" by declining to do any diligence about illegal behavior undertaken by management.
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by gohrt 11y ago
In USA: "marry ketchup bottles" http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB961626630107390259
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by gohrt 11y ago
Looks like the authoer coded himself into a corner and gave up, and is trying this instead. Not inspiring faith in the prospects for Eve.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The average persons more powerful weapon against police misconduct is Jury Nullification. Refuse to convict defendants until the police start obeying the law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
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by gohrt 11y ago
We didn't come here for a weekly 2-minutes hate about Apple UIs.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The bail amount should be a function of the defendant's means. That's the entire point of bail -- a collateral to make the defendant feel incentivized to show up for court.
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by gohrt 11y ago
There is no legitimate reason to make the the arrestee pay the bond fee in this case. The state (taxpayers) should pay.
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by gohrt 11y ago
http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ explains the issue well, but I hestitate to recommend it becuase it uses that horrid "Myth: Fact" antipattern (with the Myths in bold!) that has the psychological effect
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by gohrt 11y ago
"logical" choices that are divorced from situational reality, are bad choices.
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by gohrt 11y ago
That is an absolutely horrible visual presentation of information.
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by gohrt 11y ago
https://www.iana.org/time-zones "America/Chicago" is a standard timezone name.
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by gohrt 11y ago
"privileged" and "diverse perspectives" are terms from recent "social justice" theory -- which is newer than "progressive". It's of course very slippery to try to attach labels to any informal po
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by gohrt 11y ago
I believe "neoliberal" (socially liberal, fiscally conservative) is the label for the "so-called progressives" you are arguing with.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Can mods change the poorly written misinformation-plagued blog article link to the source paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/07/28/1502134112
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by gohrt 11y ago
What have you learned about how to talk to the press? Bad coverage like this reflects back negatively on the research and the institution, sadly. Uni PR offices are famously bad at twisting and over-selling research results.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Police aren't that philosophical about it. They divide the world into "us" and "them" like the rest of us (crudely, inaccurately, unfairly), and trip on the high-powered tools they have to attack "them". P
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by gohrt 11y ago
Real World Haskell is obsolete and is about libraries, not the language. The "Effective" stuff is language-level lessons like: * http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/ * https://twitter.com/haskell
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by gohrt 11y ago
That's intentional and good. Bleeding-edge packages are a headache to manage, due to complex dependencies. You should really wring everything you can out of Platform, and feel like an advanced Haskell programmer, before dealing with Ca
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by gohrt 11y ago
Cabal itself is fine. The problems are (1) Haskell is a compiled language, so you need to compile everything locally (2) Libraries are unstable, because they are young and authors are too creative, so dependencies are unstable. Maven, and w
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by gohrt 11y ago
That doesn't make the business look any more professionally managed.

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