lenticular

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by lenticular 8y ago
No, it does not. The claim is that crime increased due to out-of-area people coming to a Wal-Mart. People congregate in a Wal-Marts. The proportion of in- vs out- of-area people may differ, but there are a lot of people there. This means cr
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by lenticular 8y ago
You said the crime increased. It has in most places in the last few years, not just where there is Wal-Marts. It also fluctuates everywhere constantly. There was understandably an uptick of shoplifting at the Wal-Mart due to its existence,
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by lenticular 8y ago
They didn't, actually. Severe poverty was widespread on a scale we don't really see today. Not having SS, especially, lead to extreme destitution being common among the elderly.
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by lenticular 8y ago
So the presence of a store lead to people shoplifting in said store? I suppose if the Wal-Mart were not there, the shoplifting wouldn't have happened. Perhaps we shouldn't have stores then. Do you have any evidence of a crime incr
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by lenticular 8y ago
What is the evidence that (1) this rise in crime rate occurred, and (2) was due to people conveniently combining their shopping trips with their crime trips?
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by lenticular 8y ago
I'm always fascinated by the latently-racist claims that public transit brings crime. There's never been any evidence for it, but that doesn't matter.
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by lenticular 8y ago
It moved downward at a similar rate. It had nothing to do with policing, broken-window or otherwise.
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by lenticular 8y ago
Was this documented statistically, or just something people perceived, along with an increased presence of dark-skinned people?
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by lenticular 8y ago
I think this author is a bit too easily offended. Software engineering is a good job but we're not better than anyone else.
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by lenticular 8y ago
You can define monads in OCaml just fine using the module system, but there's no do-notation. I think there is a PPX extension to give that, though.
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by lenticular 8y ago
I've had bad luck with ORMs in general, mainly because they fall apart whenever I need to do something complicated. The abstraction is just too leaky. However, I've had really good luck with Doobie, a purely functional SQL library
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by lenticular 8y ago
From a geology point of view, many of these features all over Mars are pretty clearly fluvial in origin. They have very specific characteristics, different from aeolian (wind) landforms such as dunes, which are also present. There's r
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by lenticular 8y ago
That's not necesarily true. The NDA means that Amazon has more information than the cities as was pointed out, so the cities are absolutely at a disadvantage. There's really no circumstance where information asymmetry is a positiv
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by lenticular 8y ago
No, you're not. This also conveniently ignores the additional costs to services.
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by lenticular 8y ago
If there's one silver lining to this HQ2 spectacle, it seems to have really soured a lot of folks on handouts to large corporations over often illusory or exaggerated promises of jobs and investments. We've been through this in Se
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by lenticular 8y ago
That's the latest line since transaction costs of bitcoin have become out of this world. But it's more volatile than any non tin-pot dictatorship currency. It's vulnerable to hacking, hardware failure, or fraud by exchanges.
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by lenticular 8y ago
They have a >40% profit margin, so it would take a lot to bankrupt those bastards.
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by lenticular 8y ago
Even with insurance, folks often wind up with six figures of bills out of pocket treating cancer. That's a huge amount for the even most frugal of the lower or middle class.
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by lenticular 8y ago
We are heading into very dangerous territory. While there may be some natural warming, the effects we see now are overwhelmingly anthropogenic, and thus can be mitigated by emissions controls. Your suggestion to the contrary is not at all s
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by lenticular 8y ago
Yeah, this is just fluff ignoring prior art. ML and all sorts of other fancy modeling is nothing new for power grids.
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by lenticular 8y ago
Your confidence is severely out of tune with your knowledge in this field. You can't claim you have any quantifiable knowledge either, since the EMH holds very rarely.
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by lenticular 8y ago
I'm a former physical scientist, and I am very critical of statistical practices in the sciences. Also, biology and biomedicine is just as bad, so don't act like like the super-smart physical scientists are somehow superior. Rigor
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by lenticular 8y ago
The efficient market hypothesis almost never actually holds. Ask any economist.
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by lenticular 8y ago
I've noticed many programmers have difficulty with nuance and shades of gray on policy or social issues, which are complicated, fuzzy, and irreducible to simple rules. I think this might be a reason why the field has such a strong libe
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by lenticular 8y ago
We already have reaped the benefit with crime. There's very good evidence that phasing out of TEL was a major factor in the drop in crime starting in the 1990's. At that time, people who had been exposed to lead began to age out o
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by lenticular 8y ago
The dual of this story is Thomas Midgely, who not only introduced tetraethyl lead into gasoline, but also invented CFCs. Later, after developing paraylsis due to polio, he invented a system of pulleys that could raise and lower himself to h
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by lenticular 8y ago
They enforce the contract on the blockchain , but that's pretty much irrelevant, since breaking a contract usually doesn't involve anything a blockchain solution would control. As an example, fradulent fish is a huge problem in t
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by lenticular 8y ago
Mathematica is literally the worst PL I've ever used, especially since you effectively have to use their built-in editor that doesn't even have multiple undo. Of course, it is the least-worst symbolic system out there currently. B
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by lenticular 8y ago
Reading through some of the past posts, he seems to have quite a stoic view of his situation (saying he's 'along for the ride'). Indeed, there's nothing he can do about it, it makes no sense to stress about it. I hope I&
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by lenticular 8y ago
Yeah, I was under the impression that widespread double-dealing was basically an open secret in finance.

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