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by sid-kap 9y ago
Does anyone know if the large tech companies that give free lunch, microkitchen food, etc. to their employees also give these benefits to their service workers (janitors, etc.)?
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by sid-kap 9y ago
Which requires more energy—lowering the temperature by one degree using an AC or increasing the temperature by one degree using a heater?
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by sid-kap 9y ago
I like the new Autoplay toggle. Autoplay is honestly the most annoying feature I've ever seen in a top-20 modern website. Anyone have theories as to why it received such amazing enough A/B-testing results that they decided to keep
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by sid-kap 9y ago
Google, Facebook, and Amazon? Many of my friends believe that Google's new Austin office might lead to other tech companies to move here, but that's just speculation.
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by sid-kap 9y ago
Whoa, didn't know he was still updating it! Last year he announced that he was done working on it: http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/docs.html
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by sid-kap 9y ago
It's really hard to accommodate both in one place. Quality high-frequency, low-cost (to ticket-payers and taxpayers) transit requires a certain amount of density. Otherwise you won't have frequent bus service within walking distan
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by sid-kap 9y ago
These are looking at the densities of entire metropolitan areas, which doesn't mean much. In the NY-NJ metro area there are lots of high-density cities, like Manhattan at 70,000/sq. mi.; Brooklyn, Union City, Hoboken, at 40,000&#x
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by sid-kap 9y ago
If anyone's looking for a good source of information on transportation costs, I highly recommend http://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism and http://twitter.com/2AveSagas . They cut through the BS of the mains
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by sid-kap 9y ago
I know this is petty, but I kinda hope they build this on better technology than MediaWiki. MediaWiki has lots of annoying pitfalls. For example, there is no native support for threaded conversations. Also they have 2 or 3 different math sy
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by sid-kap 9y ago
> Last year, the share of coal in total power generation dropped to 9 percent, down from 23 percent in 2015 and 40 percent in 2012. How have they done this so quickly?
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by sid-kap 9y ago
Is the US the only state whose federal bank (the Fed) controls the inter-bank lending rate (called the federal funds rate in the US)? What are the pros and cons of the Bank of England not setting Libor in the same way?
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by sid-kap 10y ago
This is probably the best thing you can do in a town that is not even close to dense enough to support public transit (population density 361/sq. mi., 20 times less than a Silicon Valley suburb). Better than nothing because it uses tax
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by sid-kap 10y ago
TeX source for the book is available at http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/ . I believe this is the latest version.
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by sid-kap 10y ago
Nope, Hangouts also has the ability to send SMSs through Google, even from your computer. AIM and Yahoo Messenger also used to let you do this from your computer. It doesn't use your phone number. I think this is the distinction jimmie
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by sid-kap 10y ago
I don't see the pun. Can you explain it?
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by sid-kap 10y ago
The comparison between Stack and Python build tools is striking: > No messing around with virtualenvs and requirement files. Everybody builds with the same dependency versions. No more “works on my machine” and “did you install the lates
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by sid-kap 10y ago
Can you elaborate---how is the standard deduction related to housing/mortgage interest deduction?
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by sid-kap 10y ago
True. In practice, though, this isn't a problem. Most Scala code I've worked with just pretends `null` doesn't exist, which is a fair assumption if you're interfacing with well-behaved Scala libraries that never return n
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by sid-kap 10y ago
As awful as this is, it seems completely legal since the executive agencies operate at the mercy of the President. The President has the authority to tell the EPA to stop researching climate science, or to even disband the EPA. Have we neve
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by sid-kap 10y ago
Can we stop making references to the trolley problem with respect to self-driving cars?
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by sid-kap 10y ago
Insync is also very good.
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by sid-kap 10y ago
I think it has more to do with how close the intersections are. Even in no traffic, you have to stop at a light every minute or so.
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by sid-kap 10y ago
If you don't mind, could you elaborate a bit? How was being around academics/children of academics beneficial to you? Did you end up going into academia, and did your experience with academia differ from the other experiences pres
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by sid-kap 10y ago
Is social media really more of an echo chamber than traditional newspapers/TV stations? * Most of the liberal stuff in my FB/Twitter feeds are from NYT or Washington Post * Back in the day, consumers of traditional media probably
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by sid-kap 10y ago
Aren't coastal areas more prone to flooding?
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by sid-kap 10y ago
Reminds me of something from Aristotle, although he said the converse: > ...evidently all lawful acts are in a sense just acts... > But since unfair and the unlawful are not the same, but are different as a part is from its whole (for
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by sid-kap 10y ago
It would be cool to maintain a fork of the book with updated figures. Is the tex source available anywhere? EDIT: What seems to be the latest version of the source files is hosted at http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustai
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by sid-kap 10y ago
btw, you've linked to a 2012 version of the book. Since 2012, they've added another author and changed the name of the book. I have no idea how much the content changed. Anyway, here's the latest version of the book: http:&#
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by sid-kap 10y ago
MacKay talked about this in Without Hot Air ( https://www.withouthotair.com/ ). If I remember correctly, he said that the energy use per-person in a (full) commercial aircraft flying from A to B is half as much as the energy
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by sid-kap 10y ago
Minor nit: GHC has a LLVM backend (in addition to an assembly backend and a C backend), but the assembly backend is the most commonly used. (The LLVM backend is known to produce better-optimized code, but the compile times are slower.)

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