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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I'm super glad that my sophomoric musings didn't have this kind of reach, but it does seem odd that someones can.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Because it's has a huge ROI for society. Is there some criticism or implied alternative in your comment that I'm not getting?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I agree completely, but I can't wrap my head around why chat is so big in China despite this. Any ideas?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> Also the left are against this, because they could not run around calling people "fascist" anymore. By the same reasoning, you wouldn't like to see a UBI because then you couldn't bash unions or McJobs anymore. Some
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
If the US had a EU style "right to be forgotten", could Chancellor Katehi use it to make google forget about this?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I don't care for their python implementation of ggplot, but that looks really shinny. I will definitely check that out.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Every time I try to do some data crunching in a python notebook, I find that I really miss the variable explorer from spyder.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Why does Germany have a law against insulting other countries' heads of state?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
There is something very simple that the government could do, that would instantly transform the housing market (and it will never happen). The government should stop securing >10 year mortgages. Banks wouldn't make these loans if t
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> the military seems to know about things 10 years before Silicon Valley gets ahold of them I think it's more accurate to say that the military (and academia) are working on technology X for at least a decade before it's mature
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Designer's guide to DPI(sebastien-gabriel.com)
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Why pitch this to google? If you think there's a useful tool here, why not built it and own it yourself?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
My interest is certainly peaked about the 10% off coupons.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
In case you are not just being smug: Are you familiar with the tragedy of the commons[1]? It does a good job of capturing the strategic dynamics at play here. One very effective solution to the tragedy of the commons is for everyone to get
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Suppose there are 500 craftsman working together on a project because it too big for a smaller group to handle. How do they divide work? Especially when it comes to the work that everyone wants to do, or the work that no body wants to do? H
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
The globalization process has nearly run it's course. In the near future we're going to need to pick one: tariffs, redistribution, or poor-people-with-pitch-forks.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
What are the alternatives? I'm honestly asking. How can I coordinate the activities of 100+ people to a common goal, without providing intermediate goals to individuals?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
The answer from the article: "... kids who found what researchers call an “identity project,” essentially a passion or hobby that helped motivate them, ... onto college or decent jobs. ... [however] Many of the kids who [had passion pr
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
One of the stats they show is gini coefficient. Is There anything counterintuitive about that statistic that I should keep in mind? For example, do high income areas have a high gini (simply because of the construction of the statistic)? o
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Can someone explain the history of the US worldwide tax regime? Why is the US so out of step with the rest of the world on this?
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Design in Tech Report 2016(slideshare.net)
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Can I get some context on this? This is not the panama leak that's been blowing up today, right?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I wonder if they knew this was coming.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Are there any ongoing human space habitat design/construction projects you really like?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
But I think we could craft a talking point version of this argument that unsubtle busy people could understand. "The FBI is trying to compromise your data security, for the sake of their job security."
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
My biggest Takeaway from Heinlein's Starship Troopers was that a stable society has to be very good at subverting the energies of ambitious people into prosocial activities. And the only way to do that is to make sure prosocial activit
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> a comment on HN should not be the right place to design a really fair publication metric. Where is? Because I'm interested in this question ad really disappointed in everything I've read.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Do they grade all congress persons and their opponents?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
They're not. If you put a synthetic genome in to a cell that's just had the genome removed, that's very different then starting with pure molecules and building something that will boot.
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S.E.C. Orders Exxon Mobil Shareholder Vote on Climate Data(nytimes.com)
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