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811.
by manicdee 8y ago
All you people claiming that the only way to reduce housing costs is to build more housing are missing the other only way to reduce housing costs. Remember, there is not only supply but also demand. We need to reduce population growth to be
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by manicdee 8y ago
Also note: research on vitamin D has suggested that it’s not vitamin D that provides the benefits often touted, but the fact that you are outside getting exercise.
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by manicdee 8y ago
I can imagine a neat divide here between “MacBook” (based on ARM, 15 hour battery life) and MacBook Pro (based on Intel i7, 6 hour battery life, optimised for VMs).
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by manicdee 8y ago
You won’t get where you are going faster just because a lane has no speed limit. There’s a reason the other lanes are moving at 5mph or less. Congestion isn’t about what happens on straight stretches of road, it’s about what happens at exit
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by manicdee 8y ago
This is why evil will always win, because good is dumb. Or more precisely, evil people will happily violate entire tranches of law while the good people are stuck prosecuting one case at a time, painfully establishing precedent by precedent
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by manicdee 8y ago
What if the reason click through are so low is that there is little demand created by marketing and only a relatively low rate of unexpressed demand? In my case, when I want something I will go find it. I spent three months looking for revi
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by manicdee 8y ago
I use the Pomodoro Technique and Rescue Time. Pomodoro forces a context change, every half an hour. This way I don’t end up yak shaving for half a day when all I needed to do was realise that this solution would require yak hair, go find a
818.
by manicdee 8y ago
Curious that the announcement came from the PM and not the Minister for Home Affairs.
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by manicdee 8y ago
When the machines can predict high click-through rates, humans will be obsolete. What is even scarier is when ads don’t generate click-through rates at all, rather success will be measured by “subject A saw this propaganda” correlated to “s
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by manicdee 8y ago
At which point there’s no reason putting this thing in orbit instead of launching it as a regular ballistic missile. To hit one target on the ground you are going to need thousands of rods in orbit to ensure that one is available to use on
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by manicdee 8y ago
I get “high” on chillies. The capsaicin numbs my lips and mouth, the “heat” overwhelms most other senses (even my tinnitus changes pitch) and stops me feeling a certain amount of pain. The resulting mental state is basically selective senso
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by manicdee 8y ago
Forest fires and logging are net carbon emitters.
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by manicdee 8y ago
That is an ambiguity that is fine to write the story about. At least when the headline readers start posting the headline on Reddit others will know that there is an ambiguity to clear up.
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by manicdee 8y ago
This report shows nothing since the dataset was heavily redacted, the author cherry picked clean-looking data from a garbage dataset, and the auhor’s “findings” are entirely dependent on assuming the data is accurate having just spent the e
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by manicdee 8y ago
How much better is “check the user is looking at the road” than “check the user has hands on the wheel”? Is the improvement in driver attention measurable?
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by manicdee 8y ago
What’s the size of the error on this estimate given the quality of the input data? At one significant digit are we talking an error margin larger or smaller than the entire data set?
827.
by manicdee 8y ago
The NHTSA were using different data, since they had the non-redacted version. The author uses the redacted version, doesn’t attempt to find an explanation for anomalies, proceeds to analyse data based on faulty initial assumptions, and comp
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by manicdee 8y ago
Spotify telling us, "you have to let us run unvetted third party software on your device to listen to music for free" is completely different from, "here is an ad-supported music streaming option."
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by manicdee 8y ago
Yes, all rents will rise, but most rents will rise less than the rise in income until rental vacancies hit 0%.
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by manicdee 8y ago
"unsolicited" being the operative word that you omitted.
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by manicdee 8y ago
In a nation that has its own fiat currency, the money does not come from someone making an effort. It is printed, invented. Taxes only control inflation.
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by manicdee 8y ago
The Finland trial replaced existing unemployment insurance with a no-conditions payment of about the same value. No extra expense, in fact it would have been cheaper to administer since there was no compliance paperwork to process and polic
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by manicdee 8y ago
Yes, the rents in popular areas will rise. Since people have a basic income to support them regardless where they are living, they can move to areas with lower rent (thus increasing the rent — and net rental income — of the area they move t
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by manicdee 8y ago
> The main incentive to work is that you need to work to make a living. No. The main incentive to work is to have something meaningful to do with your time. Every experiment with UBI has shown that — given guaranteed support income — peo
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by manicdee 8y ago
> How is it possible to pull this much money out of the American economy without crashing it? UBI actually injects money into the economy. Accompanying UBI would be reducing minimum wage to zero, managing inflation by increasing income t
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by manicdee 8y ago
This experiment was performed in 2017. The basic criticisms of it are: - participants selected only from long term unemployed - Finland was still in a period of austerity following recession (low hiring rate) - tiny sample population - l
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by manicdee 8y ago
Just remember that "too few houses" is the same problem as "too many people." Why doesn't anyone suggest that there are too many people and that we need to control population growth to rates below zero?
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by manicdee 8y ago
Bruce Pascoe, "Dark Emu" This book really highlighted for me how we literally rewrite history to suit our own prejudices, and finally taught me what "history is written by the victor" actually means (including claiming v
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by manicdee 8y ago
At the very least the money spent building the new experiment churns through the economy more efficiently than, say, tax cuts for rich people.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Are you trying to say something, or did that word salad you vomited up only exist for the purpose of satisfying your need for attention?

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