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by hencq 9y ago
All I'm saying is that just because the market might prefer to burn lots of coal to do so, that might not actually have the best outcome for society.
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Well the market also says it's worth burning a lot of fossil fuels to move around and heat our houses. The market is just not great at factoring in negative externalities. As for the other things, most people don't use Bitcoin as
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by hencq 9y ago
This is what bothers me whenever I hear people rave about the future that driverless cars will finally make possible. They basically list your win-win list: far fewer cars, more pedestrian areas, etc. That might all be true, but we don&#x27
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There are a lot. I thought this one was really funny [0]. This one I found very interesting [1]. Somewhat different, is the Hello Internet [2] podcast, which is by Grey and Brady Haran who you might know from the Numberphile youtube channel
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They address that right? > The idea is to stick to standard materials wherever possible and therefore the tubes are made of ordinary stainless steel. The suitability of steel remains to be determined. Corrosion may be a problem, and it i
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> To anchor bike lanes to groups of people like techies and hipsters is absurd. Completely agree. The phrase "this is why we can't have nice things" comes to mind. I can sort of understand the backlash against corporate sh
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by hencq 9y ago
If I read it correctly, they're actually trying to contrast it to the previous example, so it's an example of a good infographic. The website is not exactly clear about this though (ironically).
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by hencq 9y ago
Where I work we have the same policy. However, with that come its own problems. For one, you introduce more variance and complexity this way. There's actually a lot to be said for having only one supplier. It's not for nothing tha
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by hencq 9y ago
Very interesting. It touches on something I've been thinking about lately. The book Why Nations Fail [1][2] makes an argument very similar to yours that there are two factors that determine (economic) success of a nation: 1) inclusive
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by hencq 9y ago
Doesn't Dart call it optional typing too?
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by hencq 9y ago
As far as I understand it, there's core.matrix which is intended as sort of a universal Clojure API for linear algebra. There are different implementations of the core.matrix API, like the pure JVM vectorz-clj, BLAS based clatrix and e
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by hencq 9y ago
To me it signifies another nail in the coffin of the American-led rule based world order. In the 20th century the US carefully established an international framework based on the rule of law. In a mere four months that has been thoroughly u
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by hencq 9y ago
Haha, that reminds me of the speed-up loop: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
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When I was in high school, several of my classmates had jobs as tomato pickers. The interesting thing was that some of them got paid per tomato while others got paid by the hour. The ones that were paid per tomato definitely seemed to work
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by hencq 9y ago
You could argue that mandatory minimum wages are a poor way of raising incomes. It's basically putting the burden solely on employers. Some people argue that this means businesses become less competitive, which leads them to hire less.
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by hencq 9y ago
In most (all?) lisps that's actually exactly what would happen. It would try to call the function '1' (and throw an error since 1 is not a valid function). If you want to have a list you'd typically have something like (
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by hencq 9y ago
You can pick a guess for the code and evaluate it against every potential code and see what the reply would be (like BBWW). E.g. I pick 1122 and run it against all possible codes. If you group the number of results for every reply you essen
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by hencq 9y ago
They mean second largest GDP, which Japan was for a while before being overtaken by China.
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The 'reporter' "was a principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab until 1999. For 25 years he worked in areas of plasma physics and neutron production related to fusion energy research and development. He
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by hencq 10y ago
It means compare. So typically you'd use it to give a contrasting example. In this case it seems to be (mis)used to mean 'see' though.
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Waymo's safety-related disengages drop to 0.2 per 1000 miles(medium.com)
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by hencq 10y ago
Yeah, too bad that people were apparently confused about it. I think an HVDC grid will be key as renewables take up a larger share of electricity supply. It might not be windy or sunny here, but it probably is somewhere else.
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by hencq 10y ago
Completely unrelated, but the green stars reminded me of the chapter from Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman where he's judging math books [1]: > Finally I come to a book that says, "Mathematics is used in science in many way
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by hencq 10y ago
I'm surprised how short sighted these car manufacturers are. The German government seems right here: Germany derives a lot of value from owning (large parts of) the supply chain of the car industry. However, the car industry itself als
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by hencq 10y ago
I no longer do anything with Ruby anymore, but I used to for a while (purely as a hobby) around 2004. That was a wonderful time. Rails had just arrived and there seemed to be a lot of experimentation and quirkiness around the language. _why
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Basically a way to reward shareholders. They're more or less equivalent to dividend, but considered more tax efficient, because capital gains tax is lower than tax on dividends.
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It's really unclear to me why TTIP and CETA have these. I can sort of see the logic for TPP, because many of the countries involved there don't have a reputation for having solid court systems. However, the US, Canada and the EU a
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by hencq 10y ago
Though it must be said that NASA apparently never signed off on the strut explanation. So conceivably it was never the strut, in which case it could be the same issue. Then again, I assume the people working on this are much smarter than me
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by hencq 10y ago
I actually completely agree with all your points. I didn't mean to say these are insurmountable barriers, just to provide some counterweight to the argument there are no barriers to entry. One particular weakness you and others called
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by hencq 10y ago
I don't disagree with your main argument, but I'd say there's at least some barrier to entry. The market definitely has some network effects. More drivers in the network makes it faster to get a ride and therefore more attrac

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