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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
"The algorithm" is easy to game and not fundamentally neutral. Ask Rick Santorum for his thoughts on this.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
This article is among many recently that have been citing Pew's ongoing research into political polarization. That's starting to bug me because although Pew puts out a nuanced 100-page interpretation of their data, most news outl
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Advocating against something is not the same as suppressing advocacy of that thing.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Liberals do not maintain a cottage industry of complaining about the conservative conspiracy to suppress their viewpoints, whereas conservatives seemingly spend 100% of their time doing so. For example there are plenty of dead tree books l
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
But it should be pretty easy to believe that half of people (at least) are gullible. If "Obama bans Christmas" ends up as trending news because a couple hundred far-out whackjobs clicked on it, then your mom sees that in the tren
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Of course there is "conservative news" and "liberal news". Liberal news is things that happened, things that will happen, etc. Conservative news is a made up stories, things that never happened, etc. Example of trendin
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
I guess I don't get it. Does Google Maps reputedly have a feature regarding dog population?
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Seriously? Most late-20th century American subdivisions are built on the scale of a section, which is a mile on each side. Each section typically has a strip-mall type car-centered shopping area with a grocery store at one corner. Due to th
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Mass manufacturing is a thing in America. America makes more stuff than any other country except, quite recently, China.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
You think so? It seems like the rate system is stacked against solar. They just made the top tier cheaper, and raised the bottom tier so that your very first joule costs more. If you had installed solar based on the savings of staying ou
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Did you mean 4/3 kilowatts?
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
That's an interesting interpretation. Historically didn't mechanization increase the demand for slaves? The relevant example would be the demand for slaves in the American south after the invention of the cotton gin.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Ah, that makes some sense. Still, doesn't solar hack the top off that afternoon peak in the summer?
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Sure they aren't the majority, but even having 25% of births be primary cesarean is ridiculous. The rate of cesarean for low-risk births is driven by policy, tradition, and unfortunately also profit motive. Simple changes in policy h
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
When will this "duck pricing" actually trickle down to consumers? I'm on a PG&E rate plan that charges me an incredible $0.75/kWh during the afternoons of selected days. According to the figures in the CAISO paper,
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
You seem to be dismissing the phenomenon of needless c-sections, but it is real. At the birth of my 2nd child the OB started complaining that the birth wasn't "making progress" even though it was only in the 5th hour and a s
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
We had a similar freshman pan-engineering course at Texas A&M that taught both excel and fortran among other things. Probably the most practically useful course in the entire program.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
On the coast we have sudden oak death. In the hills they have pine bark beetles. Bad years for (some) trees.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
There's been a lot of work on these still-in-development systems in the last half year, meanwhile xray has been in production for half a decade. I think that answers your question.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
I don't think that was the point of the article at all. In American playgrounds it is the adults who are speaking loudly, and the children learn that.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
The question is will people use this signal to change course (better transit, sane housing density, walkability, etc) or to perpetuate the wrong course (more tract housing in Antioch, wider freeways, etc).
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Didn't the Air Force drop millions of leaflets on these cities (and others) urging their evacuation? Didn't Truman warn of Japan's "prompt and utter destruction" less than two weeks before the bomb? I mean, maybe
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Not as expensive as a cache miss.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Are you new here? HN has always been very heavy on the libertarian point of view. Many people here think that John Galt is not getting a fair shake.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
These numbers are picked over to distort the conclusion. They include in total tax burden the estate tax but not the sales tax. That's funny in a "haha I dropped my monocle in my brandy again" sort of way but not in a way tha
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
I don't know if you intentionally sabotage your own argument by posting links to those sites, or if you really aren't aware of the self-interest behind their reports.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Indeed. The entire argument rests on what you define as income. If you work for a living that's indisputably income and you are going to pay a lot of taxes on it, especially if you are a moderately prosperous professional making some
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
If we're discussing the ratio of income to taxes, the number on the numerator seems relevant.
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
The article conveniently decides to draw the line at 10%, which is well below where income inequality really starts to hockey-stick. People in the 90th percentile have not seen their share of incomes grow in the last 30 years. Indeed, eve
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by thrownaway2424 10y ago
Rayiner's post has numbers that are made up. Here are actual numbers from University of California economist Emmanuel Saez: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/lecture_saez_chicago14.pdf The top 10% have 50% of the in

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