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by rquantz 11y ago
I'd imagine any deal to separate the city from the state (and it would have to be a deal, there would be no forcible exit) would include the city's purchase of that reservoir. Again, this is not about thinking we're better ma
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by rquantz 11y ago
Yes, of course I know it will never happen (or rather, because never is a long time, it won't happen while the current political system is in place). I'd be perfectly fine with subsidizing upstate if they let us fund our own infra
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by rquantz 11y ago
how can we keep the system running with the atrociously-limited amount of money we get from the state I've been saying for a while that NYC should cecede from New York State. We send more money Upstate than they send down, and in ret
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by rquantz 11y ago
Theoretically, yes. In practice, no. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13drill.htm...
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by rquantz 11y ago
The topic at hand is "why Silicon Valley companies do not hire black people." Connect the dots?
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by rquantz 11y ago
And of course that's what you jump to. I certainly do think there should be affirmative action in the medical profession, and there is . I don't for a minute believe it is necessary to have been coding since you were 12 in order
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by rquantz 11y ago
Did you not realize that US education is on par with a third world country in a lot of regions?
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by rquantz 11y ago
People of lower economic circumstances may not have had access to computers prior to college.
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by rquantz 11y ago
Only if by undermining democracy you mean undermining the word itself. Teaching people that the people cannot govern themselves, that democratic institutions cannot be trusted, and that leaders are born, rather than elected, are all helpful
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by rquantz 11y ago
Jurassic Park used something like 3 minutes of computer generated effects. Most of the dinosaurs you see on screen are actual puppets and robots. Edit: the internet says 4 minutes
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by rquantz 11y ago
Some did, but for a lot if them it was just culture and metaphor. That's why they were always remixing and rebelling the stories. Edit: just to be clear, I'm not talking about about belief in the existence of the gods, I'm ta
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by rquantz 11y ago
Or perhaps he sees democracy as imperiled and in need of defending. In that view, efforts to undermine the public's confidence in democracy could be seen as evil.
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by rquantz 11y ago
He says he takes mythology very seriously. Is that really a bad thing? Star Wars is a common dream that a huge percentage of humanity shares. It's the raw material of our imagination at this point. It's as legitimate to take serio
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by rquantz 11y ago
I thought the effects looked amazing. Since the turn of the millennium we've had movies switch over almost entirely to digital effects, but pure cgi still just doesn't look really real. It's missing some ineffable emotional
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by rquantz 11y ago
Wow, artists have a rich inner life? Yo-Yo Ma feels happy, but also sometimes he feels sad? Isn't this just describing a human being?
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by rquantz 11y ago
I think GP is saying it actually is different this time.
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by rquantz 11y ago
I think you identify a lot of the causes of page bloat here, but I'm not convinced developers are blameless. Things we do: - Load all if jQuery when we just need a few functions - Load all of Bootstrap when we just need a grid sy
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by rquantz 11y ago
I can imagine this happening for most libraries, but considering that paper is a longer lasting medium than digital, I certainly hope there are a significant number of actual book libraries still peppering the landscape a generation from no
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by rquantz 11y ago
What is the demographic makeup of your residents? Crown Heights is a diverse neighborhood, but I'm betting Common is skewed white, young, and wealthy? I can easily imagine this being a place for start up people who do nothing but work,
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by rquantz 11y ago
That's it, I'm clearing my Christmas cookies.
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by rquantz 11y ago
I believe in Santa terminology it would be "elfin" boots on the ground. This is the North Pole, not Middle Earth.
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by rquantz 11y ago
We just have to ask Bill Gates
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by rquantz 11y ago
Not actually, because in reality the coldest dates are different every year, and may change with global warming to boot. Start talking about meteorological seasons, and we can start arguing about what data to use. Does every climate region
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by rquantz 11y ago
Well, it's not like starting winter on December 1 isn't a lie as well – average "meteorological winter" starts Dec 8, a week later. The coldest quarter is also, of course, different every year, and not known until after
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by rquantz 11y ago
Sorry, autocorrect. That was supposed to be limited by the zero lower bound. You can't get below zero (or not much below anyway).
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by rquantz 11y ago
The Fed is in a jam, though, because it faces asymmetric risks. If it raises rates too soon, its scope to cut them, should the economy then sour, is limited by the fact rates cannot fall far below zero. If it waits until inflation is stron
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by rquantz 11y ago
In fact, the problem has been that rates aren't low enough, they are united by the zero lower bound. The natural interest rate would be several points in the negative.
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by rquantz 11y ago
But children's paintings generally do not actually resemble abstract paintings. They tend to lack things like depth and composition.
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by rquantz 11y ago
Nope, and I'm not criticizing his work based on this article (I defend him elsewhere in this thread). But the GP's comment was over road to the point of being nonsensical. I just wanted to point that out.
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by rquantz 11y ago
I think this video is relevant: http://youtu.be/67EKAIY43kg There is a common idea when faced with abstract or conceptual art that "I could do that," or "my kid could do that." Usually though, you couldn

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