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by nohuck13 5y ago
> 82% of Utah water goes to farmers. Of the remaining 18%, ~ 8% goes to commercial/industrial use ~ 10% goes to municipal residential use (outdoor: 6%, indoor: 4%) [1] [1] https://le.utah.gov/interim/2012/p
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by nohuck13 5y ago
Honest question. What would a well-meaning, well-informed anti-gentrification activist find here to argue with? I assume these people exist. And anecdotally, I'm 100% sure that the anti-gentrification protesters in my neighborhood inc
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by nohuck13 5y ago
> That’s because the primary characteristic of high-end housing is newness. The primary characteristic of high-end housing is the characteristic of being located in an already desirable neighborhood.
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by nohuck13 5y ago
> But this is the whole point, they do attract non-smokers. They should explicitly detract them instead. This is magical thinking. Do we apply this requirement to healthier alternatives in any other market? For example: I really like McD
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by nohuck13 5y ago
What domains is it becoming more common in, in your experience?
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by nohuck13 5y ago
Ooo, would you share? Wild guess: "More Or Less"?
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by nohuck13 5y ago
We're walking into the middle of an argument that's been going on for a while here. "Economic(s) imperialism" is the tendency of economists to write papers topics outside traditional economics. While the people in (say)
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by nohuck13 5y ago
I agree with your main point but I wouldn't say executive orders lack binding legal force. They derive binding legal force from congress or the constitution first telling the executive branch "you go figure out the details here.&
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by nohuck13 5y ago
In the US, executive orders cannot change tax law, since the "power of the purse" is constitutionally reserved for congress. If you're thinking of the Iran nuclear deal, that's head-of-state stuff where the president is
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by nohuck13 5y ago
Yeah but you gotta use the tax code's definition of wages when arguing about the tax code ;) > It would be pretty awesome if companies increased salaries for everyone at the same proportion of their interment of profit. It would be
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by nohuck13 5y ago
> when a company gets to generate more profit the result is an even bigger gap between C-levels and normal employees salaries. This is #4 "spent on wages" no? We already tax wages. A graduated income tax targets specifically th
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by nohuck13 5y ago
"It was only when the pejorative phrasing of “hyphenated Americans” came into vogue in the 1890s, emboldened by Roosevelt’s anti-hyphen speech, that the pressure for the hyphen’s erasure came to pass." So the claim is that 1890&#x
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by nohuck13 5y ago
This is called a "judgement notwithstanding the verdict" in US federal courts. It's also one of the few instances where the _prosecution_ may appeal without violating double jeopardy protections. [1] https://en.m.
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Supersonic and hypersonic commercial flights firmly in view(dw.com)
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by nohuck13 6y ago
Bazel differentiates between the "host" environment (your dev box) the "execution" environment (where the compiler runs) and the "target" environment (e.g. RISCv5) Edit: there's a confusing number of ways
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by nohuck13 6y ago
"Bazel has remote execution and remote caching as built-in features... If I define a build... and then define a server-side Git push hook so the remote server triggers Bazel to build, run tests, and post the results somewhere, is that
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by nohuck13 6y ago
Thanks. For anybody getting a miss and wondering if they messed up the formatting, my US number is coming up now, formatted with a vanilla +1-123-456-7890.
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by nohuck13 6y ago
I don't agree with you but you deserve corrective upvotes; this is a perfectly cogent and constructive dissenting view.
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TensorFlow Quantum: Open-Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning(ai.googleblog.com)
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by nohuck13 7y ago
Later in the talk, he draws a distinction between inherent complexity (the focus of the article) and incidental complexity (which you can fix without tradeoffs). Tradeoffs can be critically important, but the latter kind of complexity prob
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by nohuck13 7y ago
The speaker is Clojure creator Rich Hickey, but the talk is about a mental model for thinking about complexity. Inherent complexity involves tradeoffs. Incidental complexity you can fix for free. "And because we can only juggle so many
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by nohuck13 8y ago
We've had pretty good results with PaperCSS [1]. For bonus points: xkcd-font from the Jupyter team [2] [1] https://www.getpapercss.com/ [2] https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font
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Nasa's Opportunity Rover Dies on Mars(nytimes.com)
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LIGO Detects Fierce Collision of Neutron Stars for the First Time(nytimes.com)
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by nohuck13 10y ago
The article would be pretty boring as "cool new tech does stuff". Someone in the world can be found to attack the short-sighted programmers of ${technology} for not seeing the moral implications! So great! Let's get that g
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by nohuck13 10y ago
First hand anecdotes like that are some of my favorite HN things - thanks! But do you think we as technologists should be thinking about things like that? That feels icky to me. Maybe I'm wrong.
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by nohuck13 10y ago
"It seems that Adobe's programmers were swept along with the excitement of creating something as innovative as a voice manipulator, and ignored the ethical dilemmas brought up by its potential misuse," he told the BBC."
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by nohuck13 11y ago
Section I-Player The player is out-of-bounds when he touches the floor or any object on or outside a boundary. For location of a player in the air, his position is that from which he last touched the floor. [0] [0] http://www.nba
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New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students, Baring an Ethnic Divide(nytimes.com)
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by nohuck13 11y ago
Their interesting feature is that you can imply the probability of a rate hike in December/January/March/... from the yield curve. It's 66% for December: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rat

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