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by grandalf 10y ago
There are a few places where the split into counties obscures the contiguity of the population, such as greater NYC (the five boroughs, part of NJ, etc.) and greater SF (includes Oakland, Berkeley, etc., down to San Jose). The same is true
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by grandalf 10y ago
> How many cities would we need to add together to get to roughly 50% of the population? While this is an interesting question, it's not the one that we should ask: Instead, what is the lowest number of flights a candidate needs to
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by grandalf 10y ago
Gerrymandering is considered a bad thing, but one might reasonably ask why we ought to care about geographical subdivisions of voters at all, why not just allow a pure majority vote within a broader administrative unit. This is, incidentall
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by grandalf 10y ago
This is the right logical point to make. When we impose a political boundary due to a specific geographic boundary, we crystalize a bunch of winners and losers (compared to if we'd chosen a different geographical boundary). In the sam
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by grandalf 10y ago
> They're a continuation of endless, open, 'possible', unfounded allegations, questions, and speculation. I'm not entirely sure what this means. My intention was to better understand your mental model, which appear
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by grandalf 10y ago
> For everyone else, the opportunity cost of leisure time is close to 0, but they might be willing to pay for services for other reasons. If you define leisure time as the time not spent in paid employment, the opportunity cost of leisur
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by grandalf 10y ago
True, I think Uber and Lyft are very unlikely to do it. As a consequence, drivers are extremely disloyal and many have two phones, one running each app and they pick on a ride by ride basis which app to use. I think it's getting easi
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by grandalf 10y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't tip and tries to avoid the service fee. The problem is that often most of the desirable delivery times disappear unless you've opted to pay the fee. I agree these are dark patter
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by grandalf 10y ago
I agree that companies like Uber and Instacart should be doing a lot more to foster employee loyalty. Who knows, maybe the future of these semi-infrastructure businesses is actually as co-ops, with workers earning a stake that can be worth
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by grandalf 10y ago
Hah. I wish I were getting paid to do this. Maybe I do particularly dislike grocery shopping. Everywhere I've lived it's been a real drag: Midwest: In the store with lowest prices you spend half your time shopping and half waiting
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by grandalf 10y ago
Download the app, Instacart might be there. I know it's in a lot of the Chicago suburbs.
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> But the problem is they get traction by operating at a loss, so when they try to run profitably they inevitably fail as people bawk at the prices. Well, in a competitive environment like Uber vs Lyft, both companies subsidize the servi
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by grandalf 10y ago
I was thinking mainly about the entertainment value of using scarce recreational funds to have groceries delivered, but as someone else in the thread pointed out, there are cases where taking a taxi to get groceries (as I did in college) is
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by grandalf 10y ago
Imagine if people routinely traveled to a shop and spent 20-30 minutes collecting mail addressed to them, then traveled home. If mail happened regularly enough, this would be a very inefficient arrangement. Why is grocery shopping any diff
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by grandalf 10y ago
> People who live in the suburbs without cars. I've ordered lots of Instacart in NYC and Chicago. I used to have it drop off a few things at the office for lunch, and a few to go in the fridge for lunches later in the week. Conside
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by grandalf 10y ago
Exactly, I rarely add anything from the checkout lane area, but I'm often enticed to buy unplanned stuff from the ethnic foods aisle, and now and then I'm taken in by the end-cap displays featuring product pairings, especially if
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by grandalf 10y ago
Yes, that is exactly why people part with money in exchange for things they could do equally well on their own.
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If they don't it's a big mistake by Uber. But at least the infrastructure is in place for collecting detailed ratings and feedback.
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Say the average wage is $10/hour. If it takes one hour to go and do that shopping, I break even by paying someone else that $10, if I value my leisure time as equivalent to my wage. More likely, most Instacart customers earn much more
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by grandalf 10y ago
I'm a customer of Instacart and a big fan of the service. It has saved me so many hours. The contract between a customer and Instacart is very simple: The customer picks out groceries and they show up at the door an hour or so later.
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At least you qualified that statement with most. Are they bad for the feet? I think they are similar to just being barefoot, and because they are so easy to slip off, I end up barefoot more often than otherwise.
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by grandalf 10y ago
The article I link below is one example of the substantial smear campaign waged against Hans Blix during the buildup to the Iraq war. There were many, many other examples of this, led by neoconservatives in the US and Britain: http:/
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by grandalf 10y ago
Fair response. I agree that we all must make judgments. I might be overly biased by my post-hoc analysis of the reasoning behind the Iraq war fiasco and my notion that the broader, geopolitical themes provide most of the inertia for US&#x
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by grandalf 10y ago
I ask the above question seriously, and I think your point about botnets brings up some interesting issues: - Why must all of the actions attributed to Russia be part of a larger "campaign" - Which of the actions could have also b
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by grandalf 10y ago
Of course! My point was that even if you acknowledge some possible gray area, it's still a stupid thing to do.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I have no interest in promoting Trump or Russian propaganda. I have serious disdain for Trump (and for humanitarian abuses committed by Putin (and by the US)), the only thing I would characterize as wise that he's done is to question s
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by grandalf 10y ago
Do you think the bots reflect a level of sophistication or apparent financial backing that makes them clearly the work of a nation state?
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> The fact you think it's amateurish The report contained a lot of information in it that suggested it was thrown together by a person unfamiliar with ITSec who was copying and pasting filler material until the report was long enoug
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by grandalf 10y ago
OK, so then which of the following is true? It's important to separate a (justifiable or not) ad hominem attack from a stance on the strategic options available to the US. a) Flynn acts completely in his own, corrupt interest b) Consid

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