kharms

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by kharms 9y ago
The only motivation I can think of is that Musk's resources are limited and if he spends more time/money on SpaceX less gets spent on Tesla. Still, super weird.
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by kharms 9y ago
The most interesting tidbit for me was that Apple is the third largest ecommerce company. Very impressive.
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by kharms 9y ago
I saw this in action yesterday. Someone posted a brief anti-monsanto comment on reddit and 2 minutes (literally) later there was a three paragraph reply, with maybe 10 sources linked. https://www.reddit.com/r/law/c
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by kharms 9y ago
Why do you recommend seeking out right-leaning groups?
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by kharms 9y ago
I'm skeptical of this idea that the porn industry is discriminatory. Do you have any stats to back that up?
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by kharms 9y ago
Most immigrants I know, including myself, get sent "shopping lists" by our families abroad because the US is a notoriously cheap place to be a consumer. Especially compared to poor countries.
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by kharms 9y ago
They looked at a related issue not too long ago. https://www.classdefenseblog.com/2015/12/supreme-court-holds...
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by kharms 9y ago
When such discoveries are made who "owns" that real estate?
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by kharms 9y ago
Cool. I’d love to see you in Boston!
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by kharms 9y ago
>this will only establish anti-competitive policies as an accepted norm Wouldn't it have the opposite effect? Quebec subsidized a local industry and lost.
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by kharms 9y ago
Sounds like he forgot it after taking it out to be x-rayed,
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by kharms 9y ago
> Our writers show up announced Why?
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by kharms 9y ago
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91696-new-nice/ This episode of radiolab goes into some theories about the process of fox domestication and hypothesizes that something similar might have occurred in humans. I don&#x
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by kharms 9y ago
I read that in the WSJ article that first revealed the security breach. https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-... >The hackers appear to have targeted the contractor after identifying the files
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by kharms 9y ago
"Everything else is speculation" ignores the well sourced "speculation" about Kaspersky's next step: letting the FSB know about this contractor so they could target and breach his machine. It's speculative in t
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by kharms 9y ago
Trips to Mars have a launch window every two years, so the inter-planatary BFR launches will remain a BFD indefinitely. :) Edit: citation http://athena.cornell.edu/mars_facts/sb_launch_window.html
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by kharms 9y ago
Good to know! :)
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by kharms 9y ago
Car insurance is also a mandate. It works well. The healthcare situation isn't because it's a mandate, it's because of inelastic demand. A situation that's not comparable to gun ownership.
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by kharms 9y ago
>That would just be a way to make people who are young, not white, live in higher crime areas, etc, etc pay more. Except for the racial discrimination that all sounds reasonable, and racial discrimination is avoidable[0]. Car insurance c
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by kharms 9y ago
I don't think the title represents the content very well. "Gun control" is a rather broad topic and her research is clearly narrowly focused on item-specific sales restrictions. Personally I'm a proponent of mandatory gu
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by kharms 9y ago
This site is entirely unreadable on an iPhone 6s. Not exactly a credible source. The problem seems to be the code blocks.
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by kharms 9y ago
Better Touch Tool is introducing a great pay model where you get 2 years of updates from the purchase date. https://www.boastr.net/bettertouchtool-paid-upgrades/
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by kharms 9y ago
If the money went to the Uzbeki people no one would enforce the law. The incentive for US/Dutch enforcement is that they get the fine dollars.
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by kharms 9y ago
>We should keep in sight what's the goal of targeted advertising - is to deliver relevant a message to the right users. No, the goal is to make more money. Relevant is a sometimes side effect. The "right users" might also
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by kharms 9y ago
I mined up a fair amount in 2009/2010, then lost them all my after computer got fried in a power surge. If lightning had struck a few houses over, would I have cashed out or held? I suspect I would have cashed out most of them around $
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by kharms 9y ago
Interesting. One of the theories I've heard regarding a possible decline in educational quality in the US was that in the 50s, the most qualified women became educators due to a lack of other jobs, while today they become CEOs, etc. On
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by kharms 9y ago
Fun! Solving the wrong problem though - problem with light pollution is the effect on the environment and human psychology, not on astrophotography.
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by kharms 9y ago
I'm quite sure that the US goal was not to arm Islamic extremists and topple the Afghan government, but rather to arm the resistance against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. That they ended up being Islamic extremists was besides th
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by kharms 9y ago
Those salaries don't look unreasonable to me, but suppose one finds them high - according to this[0] study, NJ has the second best public schools in the nation. This support the theory that higher teacher salaries lead to better outcom
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by kharms 9y ago
I've not spent much time in academia, but it was my impression that p-hacking is driven primarily by ignorance rather than willful deceit. If that is indeed the case, it would indeed limit p-hacking as there's usually a finite num

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