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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
They can't detect me slowing down before I start slowing down. So if it's t-4 until impact and I'm still moving at full speed, they would need to start braking now if they can't stop in 4s (assuming the worst case that I
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I don't know if you've been to New York or any other places where people walk, but vectors would absolutely be intersecting on a regular basis up until a fairly short time when the pedestrian would stop. Constantly I walk toward a
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
That was not my takeaway. My takeaway was that these are places where no one is, and thus there is not a significant amount of damage.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Free speech rights apply to more than just those words one would say face to face.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Big supporter of public transit, but this is apples to oranges. Nine times out of ten, the Uber is going to get you where you want to go a lot faster, unless embarkation and destination are both on the same public transit line.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> It's insane . . . Yes. So insane one suspects it may not be true.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> The government could certainly choose to subsidize those students explicitly by providing loans on better terms itself. It's not like there are no other solutions. Sorry if I gave the impression that I was trying to exhaustively e
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> A useful statement would be saying that by making it very difficult to discharge loans in bankruptcy (under certain specific terms), the number of loans increased by 15% and the terms changed by blah blah. I'm afraid I don't
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I wouldn't say I am firmly against this approach, but I do feel that if you have that sort of system, you probably need some control over the types of studies that people can engage in. This is a somewhat unpopular opinion most places,
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> Well, maybe it would have been better this way. I don't deny it. There are considerations in both directions. You could also imagine a system of universal rate setting, where you can only offer loans to potential engineers if you
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> This is literally an extremist statement (i.e. either you cannot get loans or you can) and as such an impossible oversimplification. I find that most times when people say, "You cannot," or, "You can," what they&#x2
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
In most other countries, student loans aren't even a thing, because university is subsidized to the extent that it is free or relatively inexpensive. The size of the bet is absolutely integral to whether giving the loan makes sense, be
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
We've been over this a thousand times: you would not be able to get loans for education if you could discharge them in bankruptcy. They would become a super-toxic bet. They would have to be conditioned on the ability of the student to
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Generally speaking, we're not trying to reduce random factors. We're trying to reduce hereditary factors. There are already plenty of intrinsic hereditary factors (intelligence, appearance, health). We want to limit the ability
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Nobody knows the answer to these questions, and I'd question anyone who represents that they do. "Some time." "Maybe." "Somewhat, perhaps." It would probably be wise for you to increase your washing freque
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Don't most washing machines plug into a 240V circuit?
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
In a way that paywalls don't? I doubt it.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
The idea of a trackless train also appeals. If they had a separate right of way and could get integration with the stoplights the analogy could be extended in terms of utility as well.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
All passive investing is rent seeking under that interpretation of that sentence.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I'm not commenting on the validity of the policy, only one whether rent-seeking is the correct term to describe lending one's property out on AirBnb.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
No, that is not the definition of rent seeking. The definition of rent seeking is: "In economics and in public-choice theory, rent-seeking involves seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth.&qu
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Anticipated by Paolo Bacigalupi in Ship Breaker. Great book if you're looking for some semi-dystopian SF.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
This is not what people traditionally think of as "rent-seeking." Rent-seeking behavior is doing something to get more money without providing any corresponding value. AirBnb hosts do provide value -- just not to the people who li
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I think, for most people, the damages are all that matter. Whether you are theoretically infringing on something is not what you lose sleep at night over. It's whether you're going to be sued and lose a lot of money.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Sure. I was only responding to the New York part.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
NY Case Schiller home price index is flat to slightly down over that period, actually. This is for the NYC metro area. I could be convinced that rent has doubled with housing price flat, but I'm guessing not? https://us.spin
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
For a 20 year old guy? What do you think people get paid?? :) The median HH income in the US is 60k/y. So he is almost making the median, and that's as a newbie, and with no partner. If he had a partner making minimum wage, he&#x2
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> OK, but incorrect/inflexible quizzing about tech questions is inappropriate full stop. If this was an interview for SWE summer intern it'd be a badly-run interview. I would not ask the questions listed in this interview. But,
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I try to keep spares of anything mission critical. I get that computers are expensive, but you owe it to yourself to make sure that your productivity cannot be broken by a single object's destruction or absence. (That doesn't mean
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
Some Republicans at the federal level want to stay out of the way. I don't see any evidence that the fraction is most. If most wanted it, it would be done.

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