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by lewis500 8y ago
If this guy had grown up in the 1880s, he would be writing articles about how horrible it is that the quaint villages of Brooklyn are covered over by monotonous brownstones, the quaint farmers replaced by rapacious businessmen and hard-dri
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by lewis500 8y ago
The number of jobs involved in this scam is trivial either way. The point of solar power manufacturing is not to make up jobs for people to do; it is to convert our energy to a source that doesn't kill people. If our planet is really a
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by lewis500 8y ago
You will have Social Security. You just might receive something closer to the current level of social security benefits rather than a more generous package. Social Security benefits are indexed to median wages, which rise over time. If they
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by lewis500 8y ago
I wonder how much empowered workers would bargain for wages vs other things they might want. For example, in the US, we public employees do bargain for higher wages, but we also go pretty hard for pensions, job security and lower health co-
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by lewis500 8y ago
Only as I get older do I realize how incredibly bad elements of law enforcement in the US can be, and legally so. Few cops and agents are bad, but it is a system with little filtering, personally or institutionally, of the bad elements. Civ
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by lewis500 8y ago
When I was in grad school I made these to explain concepts from traffic theory: http://setosa.io/blog/2014/09/02/gridlock/ http://setosa.io/bus/ These were major efforts and I
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by lewis500 8y ago
Bruce burrowed into a floating piece of the asteroid and now has a sick man cave. Remember he is the best oil driller in the world.
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by lewis500 8y ago
The diamonds are cooled by ice water
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by lewis500 8y ago
Armageddon 2: Starmageddon. Bruce Willis has to land on the surface of a star, drill down into it and release a hydrogen bomb. The fusion reaction will cause the star to blow up even though it’s already full of fusion. He’ll wear a suit mad
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by lewis500 8y ago
Actually military figures are fine for this expenditure because they are very large per unit, so easy to conceptualize in small integers. It doesn’t matter if you can think about how complicated they are to build or their deterrent role or
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by lewis500 8y ago
About 1.5 aircraft carriers or 3 bay bridge eastern span replacements. I have various costs in my head to conceptualize how much things cost in terms of what we could’ve bought. The last aircraft carrier the US bought cost about $13 billion
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by lewis500 8y ago
Interesting to see this back on the front page after three years. Still remember us sitting in our living room drawing this on paper and arguing about the right approaches. Maybe one day vicapow and I will make a triumphant return to the ex
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by lewis500 8y ago
better public transportation would only alleviate the problem if it goes to places where additional supply gets built. otherwise it will just drive up prices in the places to which it adds accessibility. imagine a teleporter in stockton tha
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by lewis500 8y ago
"if threats of a trade war with China or other countries turn into reality, this will tend to increase inflation, driving up prices both directly through new tariffs on imported goods and indirectly by encouraging less efficient produc
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by lewis500 8y ago
Bless you
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by lewis500 8y ago
I want to know how this does with traffic. Pretty remarkable.
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by lewis500 9y ago
I am pretty mystified why tesla is even running autopilot on their cars. They already have more demand than they can handle, and I don't think anyone buys a tesla because of the autopilot. They are opening themselves up to huge court c
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by lewis500 9y ago
This is how Comcast works too: introductory offer and then the price goes up. So about every two years I call them acting like an over sharing man-child and say my parents cut me off and I can’t afford Comcast anymore.
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by lewis500 9y ago
I always look for the surprising angles in a development of this kind: the knock-on effects. Given 200GW of capacity, in Saudi Arabia, on some days there will be endless electricity. What I'm thinking is that this will lead to innovati
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by lewis500 9y ago
Yes but my point is: they could've just made money for the next fifteen years or so. Then they could've maybe sold the brand, mapping division and data to the company that kills them, or done some sort of merger. Companies don&#x2
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by lewis500 9y ago
The self driving car program seems like reaching for immortality. Just because your company identifies something that will eventually kill it on a long enough timeline doesn’t mean you need to develop that product yourself. Wonder how much
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by lewis500 9y ago
This is very true. When I was in grad school I made a group to teach data vis to grad students. The distribution of learning, in retrospect, was super lopsided: almost everyone who did our activities wasted their time; a handful became obse
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by lewis500 9y ago
Since interest rates are positive now, The number of jobs is currently controlled by the fed. The stronger labor demand is, the more they raise interest rates, thereby reducing job creation. So all of these make work programs, like the huge
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by lewis500 9y ago
This is not what I expected at all. The original news reports based on the police comments made it seem like she was on the side of the road and then randomly darted out. That's not something I would really expect AV's to be able
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by lewis500 9y ago
so cool they are finally gonna let the parents wander around freely.
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by lewis500 9y ago
This is why I switched from cleaning spray to chewing tobacco.
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by lewis500 9y ago
It does not matter what particular country produces one one's steel. What matters is the price of steel. US mills will be able to charge higher prices, so the cost of NYC construction will rise; although in the short run builders have
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by lewis500 9y ago
This is not quite Pareto distributed but it's getting there: "half of all Airbnb rentals that are conducted by only 10 percent of hosts, who earned a full 48 percent of all the revenue earned in the city last year. That’s some 5,0
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by lewis500 9y ago
This whole piece is a good example of how fine writing can hoodwink you. Garbage analysis from start to finish. "Unlike in Europe, where cities and towns existed long before industrialization, much of America’s heartland has no remaini
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by lewis500 9y ago
The difference is in the MO for publishing in a given field...not the conscious venue selection so much. From what I know, computer scientists have a high publication rate, rank conference publications as pretty important and sometimes writ

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