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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Difficult to define it, but we can be pretty sure we're nowhere close with our current tax policies. In theory you set the tax rate to counteract the net negative externalities. It's estimating those externalities that's the
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Hilarious.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Take a natural language processing course if possible
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Happier, more productive employees?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Cool site, but are there no English translations? Could be good for my (non-computer) language learning, though!
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
This really doesn't make sense. He's treating all possible theories as if they're disjoint events in a single random variable, but most of them would be better modeled jointly as separate variables, most pairs of which would
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The author acknowledged significant advances in cancer treatment, including one he called a moon landing in its own right (immunotherapy). No need to cast aspersions on his mental state---I think he's clear-eyed yet not despairing, fac
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The midwestern states host 60 million Americans and such cities as Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Omaha, St. Louis, and Wichita. Surely you aren't serious in sugges
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Can somebody help me understand why "Oriental" is considered so offensive? It seems about as offensive to me as calling Europe, etc. "the West". Perhaps it's just guilty by association with colonialism and outmoded
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I think they meant "Don't eat when you aren't hungry" rather than "Always eat when you're hungry". The first seems obviously true, while the second is something that I don't think anybody argues. The
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Having a Slack instance for the Decentralized Web is so full of irony! Cool stuff, though. Interested to see where this goes. (And yes, the profile images that kept going in and out were annoying. At least slow them down!)
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
For me it's like a short-term bookmarking system with a more convenient UX.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
In my view your dismissal of 1950's whites against interracial marriage as "bigoted assholes" is itself a bit of presentist bigoted-asshole-ism. If our approach to people in the past who held opinions we find detestable is to
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
GOSUB got me pretty far!
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
All I know is the mobile browser version of the Google News experience now sucks. All links open internally. No more opening links in other tabs. It's disrupted my habit of opening a tab for all the interesting headlines and then readi
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Price electricity differently through the day according to its scarcity and people might eventually adjust their routines to reduce evening usage.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
"The Consolation of Philosophy" is one of my favorite books, so it's exciting to learn about this musical interpretation of it. I hope I can listen to the upcoming rendition soon!
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I think those waste places you drive through to get to small towns can be starkly beautiful.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
It's manifestly false that "it would not permit searches or seizures that are not already legal." Currently if all I have is a warrant issued in Venue A then it is illegal for me to do a search in Venue B on the basis of that
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
You crossing a bridge actually lowers that bridge's utility to others---eventually it will become too full and nobody else can cross at a given moment. You using Facebook basically creates value for you and others, including Facebook i
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
From 2015. Related press release: http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/11/20/strange-quantum-... In my naive reading this seems highly significant. But I really can't back that up.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Suddenly headphones become an attack vector. That's my main concern with using USB for everything. Imagine a headphone virus that attacks your iPhone when it's plugged in via USB. Imagine a charging station that slurps all your da
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
That concerned me a bit, too. Seems like potentially a source of safety problems?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that was his SSH connection dying after he killed the remote server. But yeah, it's hilariously/depressingly contradictory. Worse than useless, since you don't know if something went right, or something w
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Isn't it an unsolved problem whether or not physical reality is deterministic?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
> The researchers, led by Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Stanford University, analyzed more than 1.4 billion federal tax returns, as well as mortality data from the Social Security Administration, from the years 2001 to 2014. In
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
The author's obvious disdain for rural Americans makes it hard to see through to his main point, that urban centers' power should not be inhibited by state governments. I don't think that point stands up to scrutiny. Are stat
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I guess this is ad hominem, but FWIW the author has also written what strikes me as an islamophobic book: > Paul Sperry is a former Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetr
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Exactly what I wondered. Not just in hiring, but in who they accept patronage from. If you have to bake a cake for a gay couple do you also have to let men ride in your car-sharing service? Not sure how that works.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
And if we as a society believe that art history really is important, then we should subsidize jobs that employ art history majors. But the student loan part of the process can sort itself out privately.

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