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by rspeer 8y ago
How simplistic. America has enough land . Vast swaths of it are empty. What we don't have enough of is density in the places where people actually want to be, and that's not a natural limit. You could make more density, if it w
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by rspeer 8y ago
10% of the expensive houses sitting unoccupied also drives up prices. People are flipping moderately-priced houses because they have a chance of becoming the new expensive ones. There aren't two different housing markets.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Cars are expensive but aren't investments; they're depreciating assets. In Tokyo, housing is a depreciating asset too. In the US, housing is an appreciating investment because we've made that a political axiom, and because ho
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by rspeer 8y ago
I'd probably encounter the bad kind of comp bio if I actually worked in that field, but a tool made by computational biologists for reproducible research has also been very useful in my work: the build tool Snakemake [1]. Snakemake is
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by rspeer 8y ago
I sense some sarcasm. Do you want it to be symmetric? Then it would not be the thing we know as racism. Again, this isn't an abstract rule of a game, it does not get its validity from applying the same way to everyone. Racism in our so
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by rspeer 8y ago
If you think that Jeong's tweets are equivalent to actual racism, you don't understand what racism is and how it affects people. Racism is not just a matter of politeness. It is not arbitrary rules of decorum that you have to foll
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by rspeer 8y ago
Here's a couple views on Peters and his map projection. An article from "The Map Room" [1] on the argument about Boston public schools having adopted that map, which really dominates Google results right now I guess, but even
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by rspeer 8y ago
There are cartographically reasonable equal-area or nearly-equal-area projections. Why are we still talking about Gall-Peters? Peters was a charlatan who knew very little geography (he didn't even want to give credit to the geographer
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by rspeer 8y ago
Dang, you're right, I should have known that. I apologize for my bad math. It would be the 10000th root of 10^31415, and at this point what I'm saying is probably entirely unrelated to how it's really implemented.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I wonder if they're using a fraction type to store decimals (a reasonable way to avoid floating-point error), and when the 10^x function is implemented naively on this type, 10^(3.1415) becomes 10^(31415/10000) = (10^31415 /
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by rspeer 8y ago
Oh come on. Tech does not need barriers to entry. It just needs debugging and improving one's code to also have a low barrier to entry.
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by rspeer 8y ago
The legacy admissions will create a dampening effect on diversity, averaging it out with whatever it was 30 years ago.
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by rspeer 8y ago
The Netflix Prize was not concerned with the asymptotic complexity of the algorithms. It measured them only by their results.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I am not sure where you're even going with this. It's like you're trying to have a different argument about privilege. Harvard-educated people don't have more male children. Making sure that Harvard students keep comin
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by rspeer 8y ago
Your family member that you trust gave your seed words to the government, under duress. In a world that relies on not trusting anyone, you are screwed no matter what.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I recognize that in a literal sense you can claim to support diversity and also have legacy admissions. What GP meant is that you shouldn't , because it makes the claim a lie. Legacy admissions promote exactly the opposite of divers
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by rspeer 8y ago
Got it. Would you say that cryptography can create a system where you can trust a set of people, without having to trust one single entity, and without destroying the planet with PoW? And can you give me a better example to use next time? (
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by rspeer 8y ago
Yes, I know that's the argument for PoW, but PoW completely sucks in every way compared to trusting somebody. If the government of Venezuela takes all your computers and puts you in jail, what happens to your Bitcoin?
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by rspeer 8y ago
You know a lot more about this than me, so I'll defer to you. All I meant is that: * there is cryptographic consensus involved * there is no single point of failure Therefore it's a counterexample who people who claim that everyth
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by rspeer 8y ago
Your argument against simple verified ledgers was "but the government of Venezuela!". The simple solution is to not put the government of Venezuela in charge of your ledger. Make it require multi-party consensus if you want, to re
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by rspeer 8y ago
If you had these amazing sci-fi genetic algorithms that constantly make money, why would you run them on the world's most inefficient form of computation? Why wouldn't you pay for normal, efficient computers, and keep much more of
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by rspeer 8y ago
I'm sure the CEO in question is spending money that came from investors, not from customers.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Why do proof-of-work fans believe that the only alternative to trusting nobody is trusting everybody ? You get out of the proof-of-work mess by trusting one entity, and it doesn't have to be the government. And to use proof-of-work,
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by rspeer 8y ago
So... uh... why wouldn't someone just fake a photo and not use your blockchain?
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by rspeer 8y ago
There are languages in India with tens of millions of speakers whose digital representations are still poorly implemented, partially because the speakers of those languages rely on English instead of their own language when using computers.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Good note, but the fact that ς doesn't round trip isn't locale-dependent.
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by rspeer 8y ago
> So then it's just a matter of including a set of fonts that covers every character Have you ever tried to literally do this? You won't succeed. The Google Noto font family is getting there, but I think they're only caugh
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by rspeer 8y ago
This seems intended as an argument against my post, but I agree entirely.
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by rspeer 8y ago
It will be hard to satisfy your demand for proof, because there's no good way to search "tweets you've seen", but I have seen it happen. Person A starts a thread. Person B who A doesn't know says something dehumaniz
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by rspeer 8y ago
I think the moral compasses of Twitter moderators are quite fallible, but the most extreme way that they could fail would be to stop doing their job. Society has a better moral compass, in aggregate, than the content allowed by the combin

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