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by greeneggs 7y ago
Yes, inequality only makes people unhappy if it is visible. Ergo, instead of asking developers to incorporate affordable housing, we should be encouraging more gated compounds. I could put a /s here, but it could well be literally true
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by greeneggs 7y ago
You can't force people to give serious answers, but you can incentivize them to do so. My guess is that the results would be dramatically better if the respondents were paid for correct answers.
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by greeneggs 7y ago
It isn't just a problem for rich people, it is a problem for everyone who can save money. A growing population means that everything can grow accordingly (businesses, infrastructure, …) so there are good investment opportunities. If
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by greeneggs 7y ago
Here's the paper: "A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota" Robert A. DePalma, Jan Smit, David A. Burnham, Klaudia Kuiper, Phillip L. Manning, Anton Oleinik, Peter Larson, Florentin J. Ma
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by greeneggs 7y ago
It isn't so simple. As a manager, it is easy to incentivize "deliver as many packages as you can" (e.g., pay per package). It is not so easy to incentivize "deliver 83%[=1/1.2] as many packages as you can." F
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by greeneggs 7y ago
Do you know what kinds of results are possible with a standard consumer 3D printer? (A PLA printer?) The page says, "Any layer lines in the print end up transferring through to the glass, which makes polishing a lot more difficult,&q
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by greeneggs 7y ago
The Los Angeles Metro solved the clock problem by showing the day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, …) in a large font, with the time hidden away in a tiny font [1]. The time is usually wrong, but nobody can read it anyway. It's been lik
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by greeneggs 7y ago
The interface is impressively bad. I think it is the only program for which I had to Google how to close a window. I am glad that they are taking it seriously. Unfortunately, as a casual user (opening it maybe once or twice a month), this
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by greeneggs 7y ago
The closest I can think of is mobile home manufacturing. Berkshire Hathaway has 52% of the market (up from 17% in 2007). https://concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org/industr...
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by greeneggs 7y ago
Safeway might be required to devote equal shelf space to each of the 24 varieties of Triscuit [1], or perhaps at least the same minimum amount of shelf space to each variety. Nabisco doesn't want some competitor to grab that shelf spa
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by greeneggs 7y ago
For example, in California, UC tuition is ~$14,000/year and the state subsidizes $12,098/year per student. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/21/report-asks-w...
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by greeneggs 7y ago
Can you cite your sources? It is especially important when you are making potentially provocative claims ("doom and disaster", "shit tons of legal immigration"). In (fiscal year) 2017, the US admitted 1.1 million immigr
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by greeneggs 8y ago
I'm a big SpaceX fan, and I don't think most people are stupid. For more people to care, SpaceX needs to launch more significant payloads. A communications satellite is humdrum. Shooting a car into space is about as cool as dum
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by greeneggs 8y ago
Here's an NY Times article about the project: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-... The author, Seth Fletcher, also wrote a book about it, "Einstein's Shadow: A B
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by greeneggs 8y ago
I replied in a sibling comment. But I'll say it again: Dalio did not donate any money to Cotton. Two of his employees did. The OP was misinterpreting the data.
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by greeneggs 8y ago
The data you cite are rather misleading. Those are not contributions from his firm, Bridgewater. They are contributions from employees of Bridgewater. For Tom Cotton, from 2007 to present, the only donations were from two Bridgewater emp
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by greeneggs 8y ago
This is unfair. If done appropriately, making a plane behave the way pilots expect should also make it safer. A "worse aircraft" with a better UI can actually be a safer aircraft.
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by greeneggs 8y ago
> Only the profit is privatized. It has always been thus. This is false. Just the other day we had a discussion on another Alzheimer's drug failure [1]. From the linked article, "Biogen and Eisai will discontinue two late-sta
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by greeneggs 8y ago
This link says that in 2017 EVs accounted for 1.2% of the US auto market in sales numbers [1]. (But half EV sales are in California, so elsewhere the numbers are even worse.) In 1987, US average fuel economy was 22.0mpg. In 2018, it was 2
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by greeneggs 8y ago
It is largely incorrect to blame loss of US manufacturing jobs to minimum wage legislation. If a company is paying $20/hour in the US, well above the minimum wage, and can outsource an equivalent job for $6/hour, that's just
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by greeneggs 8y ago
Please read the article: > A monarch count led by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in November found only 28,429 of the iconic orange-and-black insects wintering along the California coast. That figure represents an 85% d
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by greeneggs 8y ago
There's a great visualization of the routes here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/11/world/boeing-...
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by greeneggs 8y ago
No, New Horizons (the recent mission to Pluto, and in 2019 to Ultima Thule) was run through APL, the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, not JPL at Caltech. Don't confuse the two; APL is actually becoming quite a ri
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by greeneggs 8y ago
> Solid waste is as much pollution as smog has been in large cities. Clean air laws have changed the whole environment in cites like Los Angeles.It's time we start doing the same with solid waste. As much as smog "has been&quot
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by greeneggs 8y ago
The Pythagorean theorem only holds on a flat surface, not on the inside of a sphere. For small angles, it won't make much difference, but these angles are big enough to matter. Using this solid angle calculator to compute the solid an
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by greeneggs 8y ago
> Metro’s rough estimates suggest a 20-cent fee on each trip could bring in $401 million over a decade, while a $2.75 fee could raise $5.5 billion. Hmm, $401 million / 20 cents * $2.75 = $5.51 billion. Is there some "law"
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by greeneggs 8y ago
This is a rather poor argument. US exports in total are only ~13% of GDP. The trade deficit is only ~2 or 3% of GDP. That's a tiny secondary effect.
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by greeneggs 8y ago
Maybe you would have more luck if you cited better sources. I clicked on your link and just got a page of dozens of Excel files. Which one are you referring to? On P7, it says median income in 2017 was $31,786. In 1974 (as far back as th
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by greeneggs 8y ago
If a mad scientist mastered the technology and introduced a gene drive to make humans dislike broccoli, say, how long would it take for us to detect the attack? Could we undo it? Since CRISPR modifications have side effects, would we feel
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by greeneggs 8y ago
Looks like a fun art project, thanks! As you say, there aren't too many tools needed. If you were doing this on your own, though, not part of a class, where would you get the glass? It looks like you had a nice variety of interestin

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