voodoomagicman

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by voodoomagicman 11y ago
And furthermore - if employees do buy up residential real estate, they now have an incentive against rezoning to allow higher density (and increasing supply -> potentially lowing the value of the very expensive assets they just purchase
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by voodoomagicman 11y ago
The battery costs $3000 - that is likely a cap on the cost of the work involved in producing it.
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
Are you sure this is right? There must exist more than 25 coal plants in the world? Do we expect to hit this budget w/in a year? Is this coal plant much bigger than most others?
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
I dislike Facebook because social networking is a natural monopoly and they have managed to grab ahold of it.. they have replaced some of the open and decentralized nature of the internet with the centralized and closed service they control
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
check out zennioptical.com, you can find frames with lenses included for 10-30 dollars.
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
what neighborhood is that?
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
I have tried this as well - it was definitely not as simple as taking the double integral. In my experience moving and the stopping the phone would always end up with the two accelerations not exactly canceling out so that the calculated p
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
I agree - I definitely think its worth exploring a few. A good first framework to try is Backbone.. Backbone would not be my choice if I were starting a serious new project today, but because it is small, simple, and has very approachable
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
Can anyone argue that it would not be a good thing if Kim Jong Un were assassinated? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_North_Korea
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
I had to look it up, but a B-Corp is a 'Benefit Corporation' - it voluntarily takes on a legal obligation to consider social good as well as profit in its decision making process.
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by voodoomagicman 12y ago
Another interesting application is as a display. A display w/ a lens array to pixel configuration matching the one of the sensor is able to re-create the light field for 3d viewing.
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
Imagine a pink phone w/ a flowery case and a software ui styled to look like starcraft controls.
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
I had the same problem - I was able to fix it by going to about:flags and disabling 'enable experimental ui for notifications'. This prevents chrome from using the native osx notification center, and instead uses a bell icon in t
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
The thing is there is not a clear way to have a market control the creation of new money - the choice is between central control of the money supply and a fixed money supply.
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
But how many people buy cars? Dealerships profits / car salesmen's wages come at the expense of car buyers as much as car manufacturers.
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
In this case it is clear he is talking about utilitarian expected value rather than personal expected value. He receives no personal benefit by uploading the paper, but reading it provides value to others at ~0 cost to anyone.
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
The income range for the middle 3 quintiles is actually about $20k - $100k. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_... )
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
does anyone know what the library he is using is in the example ruby code?
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
The idea is not to slowly fly to orbit and back - it is for the stages to fall to earth and then decelerate from terminal velocity to a gentle landing. The reason for these tests is to develop the technology required to do that. According
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
what have you ever done that is worthwhile?
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
What you are missing is that my spending is your income, and your spending is mine. As a thought experiment, if everyone were to stop spending entirely and pay down debt at the same time, no one would have any income. In a more realistic s
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
I just deleted my Kickstarter account and let them know that I will not be backing projects unless they change this policy. I urge others who care about science, the environment, and the human condition in general to do the same.
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
For lots of people, considering the cost over five years after gas savings and incentives, the leaf actually works out the be the cheapest car available.
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
I write ruby and javascript all day, and while I make plenty of errors, I find that they are rarely related to types. What are you working on where you regularly run into these? I hear this argument often enough that I assume there is som
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
Missiles that can are much more expensive than baloons
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
Do you realize there is actual back breaking work - and coding isn't it? And that making $100k after 5 years is still about twice the median income for a family, and goes a lot farther in places with a low cost of living than it does in Ne
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
Wow, it is also wrong - the tesla does have many of those features.
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
I think you answer your own question here: "Bottom line is what do I get by buying an Electric car exactly even assuming it is the same price as the gas vehicle? How important is the gas savings when you weigh that over the lack of utility
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by voodoomagicman 13y ago
The most similar BMW and Audi are the 7 series and A8, they are priced pretty comparably to the Tesla before any fuel savings.
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by voodoomagicman 14y ago
I think it is an analogy to brownian motion - the random movement of particles in a fluid.

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