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by stolio 12y ago
Yes, yes, we all hate DRM. Cars are more complicated: you don't own the air that goes in one end and and comes out the other, you don't own the roads, and you don't own the property and lives you may destroy if you give a va
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by stolio 12y ago
Personal automobiles are NOT a sunk cost. You can sell your car, the portion of the cost that is "sunk" is small. It's really expensive to drive for a living, especially in a nice car. Obviously you can make a ton of money
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by stolio 12y ago
> Cataldo said if drivers are smoking, or offering rides in unkempt vehicles, consumers will decide if they want to hire them. Remember this only works if there's an "arbitrarily large" number of other drivers competing fo
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by stolio 12y ago
Looks like they can reproduce it at will but they can't figure out why it happens.
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by stolio 12y ago
A little research reveals A) people are very emotional about wolf classification and B) some argue the 24 subspecies of Gray Wolf should be consolidated: http://howlcolorado.org/2010/04/22/detangling-the-subsp
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by stolio 12y ago
There's also tragedy of the anticommons. Remember the Vogons from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? Your solution to the wolf problem involves figuring out how to assign ownership to every molecule of air and every rock on the se
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by stolio 12y ago
In the past when livestock owners had to contend with wolves they'd often use mountain dogs who would live with the livestock, sometimes they'd wear "wolf collars"[0] It's pretty intense and I have mixed feelings a
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by stolio 12y ago
This is ridiculous. I've tutored them so I know, these rich kids with helicopter moms are hands down working harder than everybody else. They're taking AP courses they're not even interested in because that's their work
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by stolio 12y ago
> Brian Greene who wrote The Elegant Universe says he thinks Einstein's original papers would've been round-filed if submitted today. I'm not sure that tells us very much, the field has changed a lot in the past 110 years.
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by stolio 12y ago
The fact that there was a close grouping among physicists at the time works in Einstein's favor. Poincare could have easily realized E=mc^2, he was right there, but he didn't see it. Looking at the same questions and reading same
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by stolio 12y ago
I don't know what she did for math but Noether's Theorem in physics, that symmetries in nature are connected to conservation laws, is impressive. No idea how far up the totem pole that puts her.
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by stolio 12y ago
Under "More Info" it says it's built with: Hardware. Maybe it's a secret, but is it custom hardware? Could a Raspberry Pi handle this kind of image processing?
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by stolio 12y ago
I still think that's a bit simplistic and maybe politically motivated. Of course groups have different feelings towards their members and non-members. First study: why in the world didn't they report their findings of how black p
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by stolio 12y ago
Do very many people do this thought experiment and say "Wow, I'd totally let the European guy keep the codes to disarm the bomb, but I'd torture the brown one."? edit: It's a serious question. The claim is that peo
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by stolio 12y ago
Our entire economy is predicated on the notion that people get money by doing good things for society and the money is their reward. In that sense more money should correlate with more service to society. (Whether it does....) We're
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by stolio 12y ago
I prefer to live in a frictionless world :) It looks like it was rope on metal ( http://jaccuzzi.ch/photos/700/1722_264_03.jpg ) with a coef. of friction of 0.2. My gut says the friction force will be at most half
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by stolio 12y ago
I don't see the flaw. Causing unnecessary pain and suffering is not compatible with being humane. It's as simple as that. There are better solutions with fewer side effects for every use case of a shock collar. If not every sing
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by stolio 12y ago
This reminds me of the article on bullshitting the other day. On the one hand this is useless play time that wastes resources. But it's also quite a big project. Everybody who took part in planning and executing it gained a lot of
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by stolio 12y ago
To be fair those walls were designed to take horizontal wind loads, too. 100mph wind translates to 0.17psi[0] which is ~220 lbs/square yard (of course you assume the force happens halfway up, not at the top of the wall!) If the ropes
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by stolio 12y ago
> ...platform directly under the bridge so there shouldn't have been any sideways force. No net sideways force. Any +X force on the left wall will have a -X force on the right wall. If there's a tension T in the ropes across
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by stolio 12y ago
currently #13 on the front page
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by stolio 12y ago
For a humorous look at what happens if we assume correlation causes causation there's Spurious Correlations: http://www.tylervigen.com/ My favorite: "Number people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool corre
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by stolio 12y ago
That's a complex system of overlapping and competing subgroups hopefully functioning together as one large group. I would expect that to be more complicated.
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by stolio 12y ago
No. Shock collars are exactly how dogs get such complex psychological problems that they're abandoned in the first place. They're not humane, if you force a shock collar on another human it's legally considered a torture dev
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by stolio 12y ago
Then you've almost completely misunderstood me. My whole argument is that men's vs. women's football is a bad area for teamwork comparisons because of the wildly differing cultures, costs, risks and rewards involved. And wh
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by stolio 12y ago
> If anything, you're making an argument that female football players have a more "pure" reason behind playing football. (Though I would never make that claim, so as to insult our male counterparts that are just as passion
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by stolio 12y ago
Individual success for a member of an NFL team is the difference between $22,000,000 and $405,000. Per year. That's a massive incentive to act as an individual. It great that you enjoy what you do, but a better comparison would be ki
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by stolio 12y ago
Mia Hamm only proves my point: female athletes don't face the pressures or incentives that males face. When she was playing women's professional soccer in the U.S. the league even existing was considered a success. Her salary pe
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by stolio 12y ago
First, women playing football have a common enemy: the evil men who tell them they can't, the patriarchy! A common enemy is great for team dynamics. I can't imagine a spot on the team is sought after by girls the same way it is f
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by stolio 12y ago
My guess is that what make a group successful in the short run, like if you throw a group of strangers together and tell them to do tasks together in a monitored environment for 5 hours, may not be the same things that make a group successf

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