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901.
by seoaeu 6y ago
At various points they show people joining remotely via video chat. Perhaps the people in the control room self selected based on covid risk?
902.
by seoaeu 6y ago
People generally rent homes rather than just land. When zoning doesn't interfere, landowners maximize their profit by creating as many homes on each parcel of land as they believe they'll be able to find tenants for. A land tax mi
903.
by seoaeu 6y ago
And competition drives it down.
904.
by seoaeu 6y ago
Land values are already captured in property taxes. There's certainly places where property taxes are too low and not doing enough to encourage better usage of the land, but that's straightforward to solve (though admittedly often
905.
by seoaeu 6y ago
> What on earth does not equitable mean in terms of distributing losses? That is literally explained in your quote. An inequitable distribution is one where a higher percentage of individuals in specific minority groups suffer losses com
906.
by seoaeu 6y ago
As best I can tell, C and C++ are the only languages where people are actually happy that there are multiple implementations.
907.
by seoaeu 6y ago
Because you aren't using an adblocker. Seriously, you should really consider uBlock Origin or similar. Google doesn't honor Do Not Track, so you should feel no obligation to honor their desire for you to look at their ads.
908.
by seoaeu 6y ago
Is "users will become advocates" a real thing that meaningfully drives market share at this point? Sure there's anecdotes floating around of this happening, but I've never been able to tell whether it actually has an imp
909.
by seoaeu 6y ago
"There was nothing wrong except for the lack of consent" is really rather missing the point... In other contexts that's the difference between acceptable behavior and a felony.
910.
by seoaeu 6y ago
Even worse, the experimenters didn't actually provide real coins. They just sent around links to a website that they said was simulating a biased coin. Participants presumably had no actual way to know whether the flips were actually 6
911.
by seoaeu 6y ago
> Did they know that it was biased towards heads? "Prior to starting the game, participants read a detailed description of the game, which included a clear statement, in bold, indicating that the simulated coin had a 60%
912.
by seoaeu 6y ago
> But there's literally no reason you can't just come out and say, "I wasn't getting benefits, and I need benefits." Honesty works there. The problem is that (a) you should have noticed the lack of benefits befor
913.
by seoaeu 6y ago
> Take wind turbines: they've found that harvesting wind actually increases the temperature in an area. Do enough of this, coupled with channeling the energy into heat-producing machines, are we sure this isn't gong to contribu
914.
by seoaeu 6y ago
So you're saying that BTC will be a good currency once it stops being deflationary?
915.
by seoaeu 6y ago
> Point being: people want to sit on their couch and enrich their net worth without doing any work If you have more debt than you do cash in your back account, then inflation can enrich your net worth without you doing any work.
916.
by seoaeu 6y ago
> because the population would struggle to see it [deflation] as an enemy due to the fact that it's desirable at the individual level. Deflation can be ruinous at the individual level. If you are in debt (like many of the poorest me
917.
by seoaeu 6y ago
> * $100 billion on public schools You consider that pork spending? Education is one area that pretty much everyone agrees that the government should be spending money on.
918.
by seoaeu 6y ago
The math almost always just doesn't work. I don't think I've ever seen a issue bounty of over $1000, yet all but the most trivial issues are probably going to take at least a few hours to resolve. For issues that attract sign
919.
by seoaeu 6y ago
You don't need to know whether a specific advocacy effort will work, only to estimate whether the overall expected value is high enough. And we know that when advocacy succeeds it can have upsides many many times the cost put in (and t
920.
by seoaeu 6y ago
You can individually choose to donate to political causes. Obviously anyone but the wealthiest can't single handedly influence large scale policy making, but lobbying and advocacy can have an outsized influence. Edit: Consider that lob
921.
by seoaeu 6y ago
Yeah, in some ways it is kind of weird how much discussion there is about Rust's borrow checker compared to how much time practitioners actually spend dealing with it. I see less about string handling (this post being an exception) but
922.
by seoaeu 6y ago
In C, strings can hold invalid unicode. However, in Rust a str is guaranteed to be valid utf-8. For added confusion, Rust has a `char` type which is actually 32-bits. You can create arrays of them, but the resulting string would be in utf-3
923.
by seoaeu 6y ago
The pause is to figure out exactly which groups are affected, and to decide if/how to update guidance. They are presumably working as fast as possible on that. Don't forget that the doses aren't going to go bad, so it is just
924.
by seoaeu 6y ago
Um, what? I must be misunderstanding you because rape isn't OK just because the perpetrator has plausible deniability about whether it was intentional. Doubly so when there is a strong case he knew or should have known something someth
925.
by seoaeu 6y ago
For a lot of people on that list it was work. And as for whether it was an appropriate for that discussion, the university in question has since unambiguously communicated that it wasn't.
926.
by seoaeu 6y ago
That was the question RMS asked, but it is oblivious of a way more relevant point: the girl was a victim of human trafficking . Regardless of age a sex slave cannot consent. Not to mention how clueless you have to be to discuss age of cons
927.
by seoaeu 6y ago
It took him weeks to make a public statement and that is what he came up with?!
928.
by seoaeu 6y ago
Yeah, when your role has a large public relations component, botching things this badly really undermines undermines the argument that you're the best person for the job.
929.
by seoaeu 6y ago
Yes, international law establishes the legality of actions which accidentally result in fatalities. I'm not sure how that is relevant to intentional killings by Hamas though
930.
by seoaeu 6y ago
This feels like the central limit theorem. Accumulating a bunch of random variables is going to produce a normal distribution, and a normal distribution has an infinite interval.

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