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by mjn 12y ago
Denmark spends about 0.7% of GDP on the "SU" student support system [1]. The same proportion of American GDP would be $110 billion; $24 billion would be a mere 0.15% of GDP. So I don't think there's a feasibility issue;
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by mjn 12y ago
A little less than that, but yes, students get a stipend during the period when they're full-time university students (bachelors or masters, up to 6 years maximum). It's currently 2500 DKK (€350) for students who live with parents
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The App-Filled Future of Luxury Is Avoiding People(theatlantic.com)
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by mjn 13y ago
Looks like a good choice, covering quite a few strengths. Unlike many "external" hires plucked from industry to lead university divisions (which doesn't always work out well), Moore is as much of a CMUer as a Googler: He was
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by mjn 13y ago
Where are these mythical cities where you can walk everywhere, though? I've lived most of my life in the U.S. (29 years), and I still spend about 2 months a year there (I moved abroad in 2011). But few people anywhere I've lived
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by mjn 13y ago
> He or she would be living in one of the nice cities, surrounded by people with similar values and education, enjoying quality-of-life metrics that are significantly higher than the broader American averages. Where would that be, though
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by mjn 13y ago
Could be what I'm looking for and how far I'm willing to drive to get somewhere, but as a subjective feeling, Copenhagen feels like it has a bigger concentration of intellectually stimulating "stuff" happening on a regul
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by mjn 13y ago
> the potential tax savings of incorporating in the US Whether there are tax savings at all also depends on your specific situation. If you're an employee , income taxes are almost certainly lower in the U.S. than most of the rich
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by mjn 13y ago
Very interesting. I didn't know a GNU APL existed. Looks like it's a quite recent, from-scratch implementation mainly by one author, with its first release only a few months ago, in September 2013: http://lists.gnu.org&
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by mjn 13y ago
> Being a libertarian is a very different thing from donating $1000 to an anti-equal rights campaign. If you mean that people should be able to think whatever thoughts they want without me conducting paparazzi-style investigations to fin
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by mjn 13y ago
> They are pretty mutually exclusive. I don't disagree per se, but do you apply this generally , disqualifying people with any expressed anti-egalitarian politics from leading a pro-egalitarian organization such as Mozilla? Would y
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by mjn 13y ago
Ah ok, that makes sense. The article was a bit confusing because it keeps talking about the Mozilla board, which in an unqualified sense to me implies the top-level board controlling the entire Mozilla organization. Whereas they seem to m
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by mjn 13y ago
Have they already appointed replacements? The Mozilla page listing the board members doesn't list any of these three people as board members, and instead lists these 6 people as comprising the board: Mitchell Baker, Brian Behlendorf, B
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by mjn 13y ago
I like William Gibson's comment about this article: https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/449650461881008128
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by mjn 13y ago
Yes, the article conspicuously failed to "run" any "numbers" on this point (or on any point, for that matter). What are the risk profiles among different age groups? What kinds of distributions of risks are there? How
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by mjn 13y ago
The announcement that this post is summarizing was submitted a few minutes ago separately: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489371
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by mjn 13y ago
> Funding seems pretty impossible if you're unaffiliated, though. In CS (I am unfamiliar with other areas), I'll agree that the really big grants usually go to academic institutions, big defense contractors, or consortia of t
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by mjn 13y ago
There are a reasonable number of people in my area (mostly, game AI and AI-for-game-design) who either left academia, or never were in it, but still attend conferences and publish papers. Those outside academia typically publish a bit less,
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by mjn 13y ago
That's one reason I prefer TSV... the other one is that you can't use any of the regular Unix tools reliably on CSVs.
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by mjn 13y ago
It's true that Glacier is a bit tricky, but you can easily cap your retrieval costs (with a bit of margin) if your use-case allows you to choose a maximum retrieval rate , rather than thinking in terms of retrieval amount . If your
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by mjn 13y ago
Alas, I don't think this works with the standard Unix tools, which is the main way I process tab-delimited text. Changing the field delimiter to whatever you want is fine, since nearly everything takes that as a parameter. But newline
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by mjn 13y ago
> perhaps not a researcher, the best would be a grad student This reminds me of one of the other frequent failure points of having authors each write a chapter: they write a chapter that is really more of a survey paper about their fav
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by mjn 13y ago
The U.S. has no property taxes in that sense (a tax on all owned property, more commonly called a "wealth tax"). Some states have a tax called a "property tax", but it applies only to land and buildings ("real prope
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by mjn 13y ago
This is getting common in Denmark, I think due to two reasons: 1. It's very common for students to work 1 or 2 days/wk while in university, so companies (esp. tech companies) are already set up for it. This is because the way univ
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by mjn 13y ago
I guess to me economic equality of citizens is also part of basic equality. I can quibble on how exact the equality needs to be, but people should be qualitatively equal, and as a very loose lower bound should at least being able to liv
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by mjn 13y ago
Under those principles, significant parts of Israel have the right to secede. Will the international community support the secession of East Jerusalem? So far as I can discern, the governing principles are more complex than just identifying
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by mjn 13y ago
You are happy to implicated in some bullshit libertarian experiment to see if it crashes and burns, harming many people, but are offended about being implicated in some bullshit Christian experiment to see if it crashes and burns, harming m
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by mjn 13y ago
On the scale of techies trying to ruin people's lives, I'd put the level of these donations pretty low down the list of concerns myself, even if I don't love them (Peter Thiel's right-wing donations worry me more, for ex
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by mjn 13y ago
Joyent has one as well (not OpenStack-based), with an interesting "integrated compute" option where you can send code to run over stored objects without spinning up an explicit compute instance: http://www.joyent.com&#x
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by mjn 13y ago
Fwiw, "sonification" (rather than "audibilization") is the semi-standard term for the audio version of "visualization". There's a good bit written about it, including a recent book: http://sonif

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