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by moultano 8y ago
It's equivalent to saying each person should get a production budget, that every person in the world should have an equal income.
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by moultano 8y ago
Not meaningless, but I agree it says more about industry composition than how green their energy is.
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by moultano 8y ago
Production creates emissions, not people. A more informative ratio is tons/GDP US 5087M tons, $19.4 trillion GDP -> 262 tons/M$ EU 4152M tonnes, $17.1 trillion GDP -> 242 tons/M$ So still worse, but not as bad as that.
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by moultano 8y ago
Organizations do not always communicate well, and sometimes things only reach the CEO via the press. Do not assume that the whole organization, or even just its executive, agrees with or knows about everything the organization does.
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by moultano 8y ago
Information theory does not require graduate level math. Even if it's entirely new to you, you can pick it up with a few days on wikipedia.
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by moultano 8y ago
Facebook's app is popular. Reddit's app isn't.
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by moultano 8y ago
They're racists in the most literal sense. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered... “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think
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by moultano 8y ago
The gains are more modest at 40 than at birth, but still significant. https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Life-e...
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by moultano 8y ago
I don't think this is what they are actually using, but path tracing can be reduced to a really huge sparse sampling problem. This means that given any predictive model of how much paths through the scene will add light to a pixel, you
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by moultano 8y ago
You can't "repeal" local zoning at the state level. You can only place restrictions on that zoning. So yes, we need state laws that limit the power of local governments to restrict housing construction.
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by moultano 8y ago
I'd like to see SB827 for office space instead of transit. The density of residential zoning near these big suburban campuses should at least equal the density of the campuses themselves.
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by moultano 8y ago
If I knew I'd be moving there. The only thing keeping my friends and I in the bay area are each other and the lack of a clear alternative. If another locations starts to get serious traction I'd expect a phase transition.
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by moultano 8y ago
I think you could get away with swapping out upper level algorithms and systems courses and swapping in statistics and ML. I've used my OS class 0 times in my career. The class I've used the most was the second level statistics cl
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by moultano 8y ago
I think social media critics forget the days when everyone felt like they were wasting their life obsessively checking their email or refreshing the news. This has been there from the beginning. The only difference now is that we pretend th
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by moultano 8y ago
If there's any gene out there that causes babies to sleep through the night, it's probably under enormous selection pressure. Parents carrying that gene would have twice as many kids.
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by moultano 8y ago
I'm confused both by your proposal, and your resistance to this one. Commuters and "people with less wealth who have a stake in the community" are exactly the same group of people. What other criteria would you use?
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by moultano 8y ago
So police, teachers, firefighters, gardeners, construction workers, tradesmen, who work in a community and commute from outside it shouldn't have a say in the policies of the community? Most bay area cities don't have any of those
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by moultano 8y ago
Related: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/25/nightmare-90-minute-s... Real "local control" would let people commuting to Cupertino from Stockton decide zoning in Cuptertino.
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by moultano 8y ago
It's a classic prisoner's dilemma. If everywhere built housing, traffic would get better everywhere, but no one individually has an incentive to build it because on its own it makes traffic in the immediate vicinity worse.
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by moultano 8y ago
Building more housing decreases traffic as people move to shorten their commutes. Building offices without housing is what increases traffic, which is what most cities in the bay are currently doing.
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by moultano 8y ago
It didn't make it out of its first committee.
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by moultano 8y ago
If they permitted their land to be upzoned, the value of it would rise even faster than it already is, so I don't think financial incentives are the crux of the political opposition. Old home owners in the valley don't want anythi
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90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housing shortage intensifies(mercurynews.com)
127 points by moultano 8y ago|294 comments
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by moultano 9y ago
I'm getting little pangs of joy just remembering battlezone. Such a wonderful game, and it still holds up.
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by moultano 9y ago
If you can remember the example queries I can pass them along to debug. (You can check your search history if you have it turned on. https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity )
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by moultano 9y ago
Are you in a wetter area? I mentally associate them with river valleys so naively I wouldn't think they'd be drought tolerant at all.
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by moultano 9y ago
I get why they aren't in supermarkets but it's so sad that they've dropped out of food culture almost entirely. They're so abundant in the woods around Cincinnati that they are hard to miss. I remember seeing one on the
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by moultano 9y ago
I should know better since I work for Google, but you're getting results localized for Australia which are all "papaya." I get results localized for the US which are all this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by moultano 9y ago
That's a totally different pawpaw! The fruit that Australians call pawpaw, Americans call papaya. Edited original post to avoid confusion
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by moultano 9y ago
This reminds me of the paw paw (not to be confused with the papaya which Australians call pawpaw) https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/15/550985844/th... It's a fruit that seems tr

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