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by judk 12y ago
Google+ already does something something similar, but not exactly. Ideas are obvious, implementation is everything. This product may or may not be a better implementation, and worth paying for. Inventors of advanced camera algorithms tend t
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by judk 12y ago
I don't understand why otherwise savvy techy people ate so Luddite about vertical video. Adding an extra 200% of worthless landscape to a video of a person is an ancient plague that smartphones provided a cure for.
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by judk 12y ago
The important distinction is congestion. Users should pay auction prices for contested resources (how much someone else would have to pay to get access). Windfall gains should then be used for general welfare spending for the community (may
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by judk 12y ago
Forcing people to waste time is just wasteful. Everyone should pay, and certain desrving people (however that is decided) can get financial support or nontransferable credits (bit these have practical challenges)
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by judk 12y ago
time spent looking for parking is waste , aka deadweigt lost. Better to transfer money (zero sum) than waste time (negative sum)
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by judk 12y ago
Classic book: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Pa...
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by judk 12y ago
It's not complicated. Uber charges more, so drivers are happy. If you offerd a cabbie a big tip, he would happily accept credit. Uber gives the benefit of pre-setting the higher rate without negotiating. But many people prefer to pay l
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by judk 12y ago
Interestingly, the supporting claim about rich people consuming not much more than poor people, is massively less true now than it was centuries ago.
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by judk 12y ago
Arbitrary weird GUI control that doesn't work on mobile and doesn't have an accessible fallback mode, even though the information content can be easily expressed with short simple text: yep.
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by judk 12y ago
Do you really have no idea? Do you believe in a likely lower bound for the time gap between reincarnations? And an upper bound for when the first one was? Or do you believe that both of these could be arbitrarily small (large, resp.)?
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by judk 12y ago
When will Haskell have a standard library that provides fast embedding, so programmers don't have to resort to creative tricks to get working algorithms at readkanky
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by judk 12y ago
Data without context is low information content. Your snark is misplaced.
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by judk 12y ago
Arbitrary choice in the face of uncertainty isn't wrong though; it is an aprroxumation technique. "Room temperature" is arbitrary, but 75F is better than 100F or 0F
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by judk 12y ago
Because "organic" is a meaningless label in USA, so USA "organic" is like the rest of USA produce.
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by judk 12y ago
Sugar is a very tasty plant.
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by judk 12y ago
And when you think about it, you realize that this bizarre rules is a statement that FDA inspectors believe farm operations are so unsanitary across the board that they refuse to use a standard farm restroom. That tells me all I need to
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by judk 12y ago
Your personal attacks on cookiecaper are disgusting.
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by judk 12y ago
Does the EULA say they can cancel rides after you commit? If so, they aren't such a better choice than a taxi.
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by judk 12y ago
You are ignoring marginal cost. If surge pricing covers relatively-fixed expenses of car mainetance etc, it enables slow-business hours to be marginally profitable at a lower price than otherwise.
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by judk 12y ago
Thank you for bringing facts to a mindless rage party.
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by judk 12y ago
This article misrepresents the facts, and the headline is false in two different ways. (False claim about surge pricing, unsupported claim about "economists") The linked Slate article is more accurate. Mods, please switch the lin
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by judk 12y ago
An implication with a false premise is a boring sort of true statement.
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by judk 12y ago
For example, the scientific "fact" that Caucasians are a superior races than Negros and Mongoloids.
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by judk 12y ago
Sean, you are white with a western name, so the anti-Red pile on doesn't apply to you. Don't worry.
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by judk 12y ago
The photo credit is Brandon Downey -- the Googler?
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by judk 12y ago
Mathematica is decades ahead of LightTable
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by judk 12y ago
I am worried that Sage will get stuck in the mud as its Python code base grows, without a powerful expressive functional core like Mathematica's Lisp-ish core language. For example, see the discussion in this page about simple associat
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by judk 12y ago
This would be a massive improvement.
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by judk 12y ago
It fits the tradition established by the quicksort that isn't really a quicksort.
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by judk 12y ago
No, typical Haskell programmers avoid talking about performance issues, because those highlight how awkward it is to write high- performance code.

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