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by rlanday 9y ago
People respond to incentives. If you make it easy for homeless people to sleep on benches, that's what they'll do. If you make it difficult, they'll go somewhere else. It absolutely is solving the problem as far as keeping th
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by rlanday 9y ago
What is East Menlo Park? Do you mean East Palo Alto?
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by rlanday 9y ago
Concorde is open source and I believe holds the record for largest instance of TSP solved optimally (85,900 cities): http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde.html Note that the licensing terms do restrict its free use
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by rlanday 9y ago
If I'm running a Burger King restaurant and a McDonald's opens up down the street, should McDonald's have to compensate me for my losses?
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by rlanday 9y ago
Open source projects are guaranteed to be maintained forever?
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by rlanday 9y ago
It's fortunate that you only rode BART once as a kid, otherwise you probably would've suffered life-long hearing loss. That thing is loud...
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by rlanday 9y ago
That's the worst case, huh? You're sure that people aren't going to continue living longer past retirement age, having fewer kids, and entering the workplace later and later since a Master's degree is rapidly becoming th
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by rlanday 9y ago
The United States has basically already solved this problem. Just make housing, healthcare, and college tuition incredibly expensive so no one can afford to have more than a small number of children.
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by rlanday 9y ago
They're not a taxi company. They do not take street hails and as such, their regulation needs are different. For example, there's no need (or at least less need) for the government to regulate fares since people trust the Uber app
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by rlanday 9y ago
The tip money only goes to the drivers, right? So it presumably will help to retain drivers, but won't give Uber itself any extra money.
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by rlanday 9y ago
"Pork" and "beef" are only used to describe the food items. I don't think being unwilling to acknowledge that the food you eat once came from living pigs and cows makes you morally superior to someone actually invol
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by rlanday 9y ago
I know, right? Personally I prefer to get all my meat from my employer's cafeteria where no animals had to be harmed.
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by rlanday 9y ago
Well, not really; given enough fools who think they can successfully beat the marker, even in the absence of any actual ability to do so, some number of them will manage to for a few years by making riskier bets than would be optimal. So if
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by rlanday 9y ago
The most likely explanation is that virmundi is confusing profiting off the bull run of the last couple of years that's made everyone a bunch of money with actually being able to beat the market.
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That does not solve the problem of existing binaries.
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> I suppose if people apply multiple times and are accepted later and then go on to do well on the job, you can count them as false negative in the first interview. Isn't it more likely that they were correctly rejected multiple tim
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by rlanday 9y ago
Levandowski may indeed be facing criminal charges (separate from the civil case against Uber), hence his unwillingness to testify.
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That's a good point, the amount of variation changes over time. I'd be extremely surprised if the current amount somehow fell all the way to zero though. There's apparently some speculation (according to the Wikipedia article
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by rlanday 9y ago
Intelligence is essentially what separates humans from other animals, and why we believe human lives to be more morally significant than the lives of other animals. To acknowledge that some people are smarter than others is essentially to a
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by rlanday 9y ago
Natural selection to increase intelligence on a group level is impossible unless there's variance in the group for natural selection to operate on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_fundamental_theorem... &
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by rlanday 9y ago
The idea that there are no genes for IQ is completely ludicrous. Humans are clearly smarter than every other animal; this is entirely because we have different genetics. Additionally, the only possible way humans could've become smarte
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by rlanday 9y ago
There's reason to believe that the combined effect from all these different gene variants is approximately linear. Effects caused by multiple variants interacting are difficult for natural selection to operate on because of the way sex
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by rlanday 9y ago
You might be living in a bubble if you think only married couples have kids; in the US, a whopping 40% of births are to unmarried parents: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarried-childbearing.htm
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by rlanday 9y ago
Believing that NYU is an Ivy League school betrays a lack of understanding of the American class system.
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by rlanday 9y ago
Who wants to buy a social media platform that's not growing?
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The management company can probably manage and maintain a large number of properties more cheaply per-property than a homeowner can maintain a single property. So even if the management company is turning a profit, that doesn't necessa
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by rlanday 9y ago
If you want to live somewhere for 15 to 20 years and guarantee you won't be kicked out, you should buy the place. Not everyone renting wants to live somewhere long-term.
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by rlanday 9y ago
You're going to collude with ~100 random strangers to prevent anyone else from taking the offer until it gets to the level you want it to get to, and then agree to split it somehow? Ha ha ha.
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by rlanday 10y ago
Can they somehow ensure this 22 orbits in advance (e.g. using Titan's gravity to change the trajectory slightly on each orbit)?
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by rlanday 10y ago
Facebook does have a PAC which many of its executives contribute to: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2016&strI...

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