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by xvedejas 6y ago
Well, because of NIMBYism, most US cities can only legally build urban housing in industrial or formerly industrial areas that lack mobilized neighborhood associations. So we're going in the opposite direction, thanks in part to zoning
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I wonder if this hypothesis was pre-registered?
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It seems likely that the more efficient our processors become, the larger share of the world's energy we'll devote to them [0]. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, if we're getting more than proportionally more util
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My health insurance isn't taxed, or at least effectively not anywhere near what my top salary bracket is. Our tax law means there would be no short-term advantage for either me or my employer to shift that compensation into cash. If my
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Orlando and Puerto Rico are both part of the same country.
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Stupid CSS Part 1: Double-Click Handler(fishbotwilleatyou.com)
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Indeed, DNA controls the conditions of its own expression using sequences called promoters (and other moving parts). Follow your curiosity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoter_(genetics)
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by xvedejas 6y ago
There were also some follow-up games with Egyptian and Greek themes (called Pharaoh and Zeus) which I recall being similarly fun. And looking it up just now, there's also one I missed, called "Emperor" and set in ancient Chin
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I am just a year younger and also had an unfortunate family death at the end of 2016. I have a lot of the same feelings. My current resolve is to quit my job around the time the pandemic ends, and start taking more risks with how I choose t
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by xvedejas 6y ago
California will never be like it was in the 90s again. The nature of the place is to keep changing.
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The Norwegian city of Tromsø has just 70k people, and a whole network of underground tunnels with two roundabouts. It's very useful given the weather, and less destructive to the island than new overland thoroughfares would have been.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Can you explain what you mean by uniformity? I am having a hard time understanding your point; a long random bit string which is sampled from a uniform distribution will, indeed, have a pretty high likelihood of a short run of zeros or ones
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Is "having standards for what Google pursues for publications" really censorship? I think we'd need additional evidence to say so. If this isn't the first paper Google has stopped when an internal anonymous reviewer give
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by xvedejas 6y ago
To push back a bit: SF proper must have the best bus system of any city in the US. It's possible to get pretty much anywhere in a reasonable amount of time, even late at night, with just a quick bus ride or two. I won't say MUNI i
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Yeah, that's objective. It's just not a great model.
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No, the distinction is clear. If your assigned probability is something that someone else can reproduce using the same steps given the same information, then it is objective (yet contextual). Your examples each have a clear reasoning behind
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Your example suggests to me the opposite: Probability is a real and objective way to describe the information you have. "Garbage in, garbage out" still applies when you have no information.
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Security almost certainly doesn't patrol the tunnels with any regularity (they're uncomfortable to be in, after all), especially after the recent switch to contracted security. Maybe they'd patrol the entrances on occasion. T
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by xvedejas 6y ago
You're right, I spoke imprecisely. Some point on top to begin with, any other equatorial point you want with a quick spin.
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On the contrary, it makes the most sense to place some point of the equator on top, so that you can rotate to look at any part of the globe you want, surely?
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You must have very different preferences than what I have. I live about 5 miles from my (former) office in SF, and it was also one of the cheaper options to do so.
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It won't cut it for the average commuter, but it'd cut it for the median commuter. Really it only needs to cut it for, say, the 10th percentile commuter to have a really big market.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
On the contrary, I'll argue the partisanship is not due to the size of the nation; if it were, you could draw simple geographical lines separating the different regions, and the further apart two regions are, the more likely they would
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Why would a candidate engage in criticism of their own party, when that is the surest way for the candidate to get primaried? Our two-stage election system does not reward self-criticism. Consider how that might change if voters were allowe
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by xvedejas 6y ago
A nitpick on technical language: what you describe is a _positive_ feedback loop. A negative feedback loop is one that is able to calibrate its output by applying corrections to fluctuations. On the other hand, a positive feedback is one wh
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Well, that's my point. If you can't detect it, it's not a difference.
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We have a lot of evidence of how people perceive color, and the differences of perception. There are tests that measure the ability to distinguish color. Some people are only colorblind in one eye, and report perceptual differences that are
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A relative of mine had the issue you describe, and was able to fix it by sitting on her bed and quickly falling sideways, thwacking her head into a pillow. I believe this was the doctor's suggestion, and it worked to dislodge whatever
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I recall trying to set my Google+ profile picture to a 64x64 totally transparent PNG, and getting some message that pornographic pictures were not allowed. I imagine that many kinds of out-of-distribution images will not be well-classified
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Well, it's not that the number is prime. There are many numbers which don't back up at the same time every day that aren't prime, like 25hrs or 22hrs. Numbers which are more complex fractions of a full day will take longer to

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