mayneack

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by mayneack 14y ago
Except they can't force the (Senate) Democrats to vote on it because they can just not bring it up and it will die in January. Also, while this is framed as an immigration bill, the Democrats won't take too much bad PR in important (Hispani
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by mayneack 14y ago
Last year here at MIT a bunch of people did that. They also sent out detailed instructions with links to remove yourself from the list. Didn't work, but someone killed the list after a few hours. Great times though.
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by mayneack 14y ago
MIT has it and a swimming test to graduate. No idea how wide spread it is
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by mayneack 14y ago
Phoenix is probably does more harm than good to the for-profit or at least disruptive private college community. Their targeting of federal subsidies that often account for ~90% of their income and the stories of them doing things that basi
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by mayneack 14y ago
AFAIK, it's actually significantly easier to fire administrators. My parents are both bio professors, so I've been around academia my whole life. Multiple of their friends at different schools discussed the downside of being "promoted" to a
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by mayneack 14y ago
Look back a few hundred years at Boston. Half of the land is "new" anyway. Granted, I would imagine that it's hard/impossible to do this for a city that already exists and has lots of large, expensive, heavy objects in the way. http://www.
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by mayneack 14y ago
There are different types of biofuel research. He seems to ignore the whole sector that is bioengineering the plants to solve these problems. One example that comes to mind (and I can't find a link to on my phone) involves changing the colo
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by mayneack 14y ago
And then do coalitions form to influence the popular opinion of specific things that might be beneficial to them? In many US states, they allow ballot measures, but they are often worse than the options that would come out of the legislatur
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by mayneack 14y ago
While I realize that you're not saying the contrary, the "will of the founding fathers" isn't exactly anti-patent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause That being said, the Constitution isn't some holy un-flawed document.
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by mayneack 14y ago
One man's bribery is another man's method to reach a real person in the government instead of a feedback form (like complaining on HN about some way you got screwed by google's automatic processes). The good side of lobbying allows for some
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by mayneack 14y ago
In my group that would use it (a college fraternity), we'd definitely be up for putting in the effort for this (lots of utility derived from trash talking, etc). I cannot imagine, however, that we'd pay $15/month for it. A related website
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by mayneack 14y ago
original: http://abcnews.go.com/International/taliban-accidentally-rev...
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by mayneack 14y ago
Original: http://abcnews.go.com/International/taliban-accidentally-rev...
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by mayneack 14y ago
Yeah, there's some services like this, but most of them have size caps (or in that case, deal with small files anyway). While it would be great for browsing on my phone, I'd really take advantage of this for downloading large files that wou
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by mayneack 14y ago
I would assume that most negotiations of a cease fire are done when there is ongoing conflict (when a cease fire is needed).
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by mayneack 14y ago
Now they should get a "download to dropbox" method so it would be just another option instead of "save link as"
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by mayneack 14y ago
It also helps that there are effectively infinite teams when compared to politics. If there was a sport with only two teams, and everyone was expected to be a fan of one of the two (passed down by your parents of course), we might approach
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by mayneack 14y ago
Sounds like Janet Napolitano has the right idea. http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2012/09/napolitano-...
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by mayneack 14y ago
I think that's pretty standard. I have a friend at a much lower level TS position that has 3 separate computers for varying levels of activity.
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by mayneack 14y ago
What else would the point of the "I voted" stickers be?
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by mayneack 14y ago
But he won as compared to all the pure poll averages. One presumes that weighting of polls is the biggest factor in his model now over others, so that sounds pretty good to me.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Edit: missed that part
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by mayneack 14y ago
I would guess the big difference is the timing and non-passive nature of the stickers. Let's say I go to work and see that everyone has a sticker, I've already lost the social value of voting because if I vote after work, no one sees it. Al
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by mayneack 14y ago
It would be fine for something that's primarily data storage like megaupload.
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by mayneack 14y ago
I don't think it's fair to say the president IS the president of the states. The office certainly used to work that way, but because every state elects their electors, it is no longer true.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Yeah, but they can still exert pressure on him.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Yes. Unbiased != more accurate. If, for example, there is a poll you KNOW is doing something wrong, you should down-weight it. A pure polling average there would be wrong. However, once you start weighting polls, people start criticizing th
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by mayneack 14y ago
Yeah, I completely expect 99% of the changes to just resolve to "this is something we can't possibly simulate"
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by mayneack 14y ago
His twitter is more snarky like the old blog. Might change a bit since the NYT said he shouldn't be making bets with Scarborough
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by mayneack 14y ago
I have no idea how much the NYT pays Silver, but they could create some sort of pay scheme such that on any given day, his pay is is a bet on the eventual outcome as a function of the odds he gives one candidate and the time until the elect

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