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by rlanday 7y ago
The US spends plenty of money on education. If the data on this site is accurate, local, state, and federal spending makes up about 6.35% of US GDP: https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending vs. it looks like
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by rlanday 7y ago
That was back when an elite degree meant that you had valuable social connections and not that you spent $80k a year watching ungraded lecture videos in your parents’ basement.
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by rlanday 7y ago
I don’t see how the college bubble continues as-is after this. What we had before was basically a common knowledge problem. Everyone knows college is a ripoff and, aside from a small number of degrees, the students are mostly just getting s
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by rlanday 7y ago
The recession after the 2008 financial crisis was the worst economic downturn in nearly 80 years. We are unlikely to see an event of similar magnitude for several decades.
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And what proportion of the time are you having a heart attack when you see a doctor?
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by rlanday 7y ago
I believe the main reason Apple wanted to drop support for 32-bit apps is so they no longer have to support the Objective-C 1.0 runtime, which must’ve been requiring more work to maintain than they wanted to invest.
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by rlanday 7y ago
Chronically underfunded with taxes going up repeatedly beyond what was initially promised?
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by rlanday 7y ago
Whose healthcare did the Republicans decimate? People get worked up any time the system changes (e.g. Obamacare caused some people to lose their health insurance plans and in-network doctors); many Democrats were voted out of office after t
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by rlanday 7y ago
I cited a government website showing that the population is off by over 200,000 people. I don’t know if you’ve ever lived in New York, but it’s full of world-class bullshitters, so much of what you hear about New York is bullshit. Bill de B
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by rlanday 7y ago
Google’s currently helping to perpetuate the myth that New York is a growing city and its population is at an all-time high of 8.623 million. In reality, it’s a dying city, and the current best estimate is 8,398,748; every bureau except St
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by rlanday 7y ago
The network exists for non-pooled rides as well. Riders don't have to wait as long if there are more drivers, and drivers don't have to drive as far to pick up a ride if there are more passengers. The increased efficiencies allow
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by rlanday 7y ago
The technology only seems "not that innovative" because they've been around for a decade. The whole concept wouldn't be possible without widespread smartphone adoption which occurred in that time. The real problem with t
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by rlanday 7y ago
Uber's business model has the same problem as Groupon's, which is that they don't really have economies of scale. Every market requires a new team of people to run promotions to attract drivers and customers and match supply
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by rlanday 8y ago
> The headquarters of Google in Manhattan. More quality New York-centrism from The New York Times :P
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by rlanday 8y ago
Nearly all of the subway lines were built many decades ago when construction costs were much cheaper. It’s basically impossible for San Francisco to ever build such a comprehensive system at this point. Consider that they just spent $2 bill
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by rlanday 8y ago
To a very close approximation, the only place I’ve ever seen a nuclear family with kids in New York is Trump Tower.
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by rlanday 8y ago
Yes, it does. Ignoring cities with fewer than 75,000 people, it’s the fourth most dense city in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... Automobile-based suburban sprawl is the only funct
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by rlanday 8y ago
> Microsoft is a relative underdog now (among the tech giants). Microsoft is currently the largest company in the world by market cap.
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by rlanday 8y ago
Why does “math anxiety” get such special attention? What about “foreign language class anxiety” or “essay-writing anxiety” or “being forced to read old books I don’t care about” anxiety? Is it because journalists tend to like those activiti
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by rlanday 8y ago
You can either implement the functions accurately or inaccurately. Implementing them inaccurately is a slippery slope. Intel botched the hardware implementations in their processors not only for large inputs but also for inputs nearish to m
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by rlanday 8y ago
You need more digits than that to accurately compute double-precision trigonometric functions (if the input is close to pi, you need enough accurate digits left after performing range reduction). This paper claims you need 2/pi accurat
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by rlanday 8y ago
The average person makes far more trips by car than by airplane.
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by rlanday 8y ago
That’s not really true. Tariffs are clearly a form of tax. Both taxes and fines are used to discourage undesirable behavior. One difference is businesses typically assess on their own how much they owe in taxes, whereas the government tells
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by rlanday 8y ago
Most of the tax breaks Amazon was going to get are, in fact, offered to all businesses. The reporting on this has been absolutely awful (as most journalism is).
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by rlanday 8y ago
Well, no, actually it turns out there’s only going to be one HQ2 after all. NYC got complacent.
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by rlanday 8y ago
States already compete on the basis of tax rates. That’s a very good thing. If you don’t like paying taxes out your butthole in California or New York, you can move to Texas or Nevada. It would be awful if the federal govenement told every
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by rlanday 8y ago
Ok, but those people were wrong, since Amazon ended up pulling out of New York. New Yorkers have an extremely inflated sense of self-important and think Amazon just has to be in New York, when that’s clearly not the case.
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by rlanday 8y ago
I think the effects of loss of biodiversity are often overstated. Humans mostly depend on a small set of domesticated animals; as far as I’m aware, no one is seriously suggesting that cows, pigs, sheep, or chickens are going to go extinct,
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by rlanday 8y ago
At this point it’s looking like we should just spend the money on air conditioning, sea walls, and disaster relief and call it a day.
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by rlanday 8y ago
Google's currently in Chelsea and is expanding in Hudson Square, not the Upper West Side.

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