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by robotresearcher 9y ago
As you almost certainly know, the city controls permissions for every building. A city that gives planning permission for a development that is probably going to be destroyed with loss of life in the next hundred years is not serving people
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Since cities usually survive much more than one human lifetime, this is not good reasoning.
2163.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
Earliest citation I could find is a management book from 1962: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/you_...
2164.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
There's a great aphorism with similar meaning: People do what you inspect , not what you expect . edit: Wikiquote attributes to Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (IBM) but earlier instances can be found (see comments below). Lovely bit of langu
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
That approach works even if you are doing an action alone. Stating clearly: "I am pushing my commits to production", or even trivial stuff like "I am feeding the cats". You (a) get a chance to realize if that's a st
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Taxes aren't going to avoid themselves.
2167.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
Yes. He's a student. It's cool.
2168.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
Most students have close to zero programming training of any kind before getting to university in Canada.
2169.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
You might as well give a larger fraction of it to the government. This is not really a controversial position since almost all jurisdictions have some version of progressive taxation. Among other effects, it compensates somewhat for value
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
You are right! I'm sorry, I misread your sentence and missed the 'than' that changes the meaning! My bad.
2171.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
Not in the old days, no. glColor3f( 1,0,0 ); glBegin( GL_POLYGON ); glVertex3f( 0,0,0 ); glVertex3f( 1,1,0 ); glVertex3f( 1,2,0 ); glEnd();
2172.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
I moved to Canada to escape the George W. Bush presidency. I couldn't in good conscience pay taxes to support the Iraq war. I took a 40% salary cut but the next few years dropped the US$ rapidly and made me some of that back. Also my f
2173.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
Particularly if you realize that your late-career taxes paid for the two years of maternity leave your family enjoyed when you were 30 and didn't make a ton of money.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
I didn't say it was practical or likely. I wondered why would anyone build away from land, and this was the only thing I could think of.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
You think so? I think people like to call functions with comprehensible arguments. I don't agree that people like to bind an object to a global variable, execute a global procedure, and unbind it. Does that sound like the API of anyo
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
There might be one reason: all the land on Earth is owned by a nation or protected by treaty. Perhaps a city in international waters could be built without anyone's permission, and outside any nation's jurisdiction. Does anyone w
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Low level graphics programming is tough, specialist work. Imagine a relatively simple stateful API layer over the top of this stuff, widely adopted and with an open spec. We could call it the Open Graphics Library, or OpenGL for short.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
If you don't understand how progressive taxation works, maybe. High taxes on the marginal dollar after your middle-class life expenses are met isn't so bad.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Then remove health costs from the US remainder, equivalent to those provided by taxes alone in Sweden.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
> It's even addressed in the abstract of the paper. Where? edit: located below (italics added) thanks. The environmental costs of launch are considered. I can't see the environmental impact of manufacture considered explicitl
2181.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
You seem to be arguing something completely different to the grandparent comment.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
That's a roughly steady state flow, all else being equal, and wouldn't explain the change.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Depends on field. I paid my last postdoc $90K CAD ($72K USD). It's hard to find good postdocs in AI with the job market right now. For biologists or other oversupplied PhDs, salaries are much lower.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Suggest a title change, since almost none of the comments address the contents of the article. E.g. "Large cash bounties paid for highly-ranked journal articles in China and other Asian and middle eastern countries". Most comments
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
The main reason to do a PhD is for your own personal drive and satisfaction. Unless you value the work for its own sake, it is unlikely to pay off.
2186.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
That's true. The uptick in Canadian academic hiring is about something other than money, I'm guessing.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Not enough for what?
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Einstein, von Braun, Musk, Brin. Immigrants are more than cheap labor. edit just for a bit more diversity: Madeleine Albright, Schwarzenegger, Ang Lee, Tesla, Fermi, Audrey Hepburn, Sataya Nadella, Jerry Yang, Cary Grant... edit 2, correcti
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
Canada is getting some great talent right now. Americans, Brits, and people who would have gone to the US or UK are coming here. If we can keep them here, this will be a big boost for Canada long term.
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by robotresearcher 9y ago
How on earth do you reach that conclusion? Every person has at least 16 years of high bandwidth sensor data experience before getting behind a wheel, plus millions of years of evolutionary training built into the structure of their brain. A

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