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by xvedejas 6y ago
It's not necessary to attend university to learn things you didn't know existed, or to learn things that seem less important in the moment. Whenever I've taught myself something out of interest, when I've seriously set a
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San Francisco: A Forbidden Fantasy Comes True(humantransit.org)
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I work in computer vision; "understanding" here is meant to mean there is a statistical understanding. The model better represents the distribution of things that look like real images. I must say these examples are incredibly goo
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by xvedejas 6y ago
To quote Scott Aaronson: Admissions to the top US universities—and hence, most chances for social advancement in the US—will henceforth be based entirely on shifting and nebulous criteria that rich, well-connected kids and their parents sp
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I agree with you that eating meat is fine and ethical, but I also think that finding new alternatives that compete with existing supply chains on sustainability and efficiency is also an ethical imperative.
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Fully automated ones, I'd guess.
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At least in California, counties have zoning ordinances and permitting requirements too.
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Now, I'll grant it's only very specific corridors, but the densest parts of California do have passable mass transit. The majority of Californians don't have access to this, but the most crowded parts do.
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LA's high housing price is one of the top social issues that people who live there face, due to low supply. I think a little bit more urban character in exchange for lower rents is a fair price to pay. I lived in the LA area for five y
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by xvedejas 7y ago
What kind of weather event are you thinking of? I think airplanes are typically designed to withstand high winds. The weather in this region is dry, and that's really the only word that can describe it. On top of that, we're at th
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by xvedejas 7y ago
This sounds like quite the opposite of the future I (optimistically) think we're moving towards: reclaiming our streets for pedestrians and cyclists.
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And that's not to mention compliance enforcement required on the government's side, which I imagine isn't so easily scaled up at a moment's notice.
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Just a thought: when the government starts giving out lots of money with strings attached, you get a lot more jobs doing administrative compliance tasks. I'm thinking of, for instance, universities and the growing numbers of administra
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I sincerely don't know. I have one economist friend and he's iffy on the subject, claiming that minimum wage helps certain low-income groups and hurts other low-income groups. Based on that I don't even think you could catego
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by xvedejas 7y ago
But when we're measuring the "world economy" it's not like we're measuring the heights of the stacks of gold behind scrooge mcduck's coffers, right? These numbers represent things like society's ability to
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I dunno, we might want to start getting some sources in on this. This is the one article I've seen beforehand that discusses how much economists endorse the idea of a minimum wage ($15/hr specifically) and it casts doubt on your v
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Facebook?
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Switching from wood to coal for home heating does improve air quality, at least. That's the one benefit I'm aware of.
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Are "rise" and "fall" not perfectly acceptable neutral alternatives?
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There's also an open source digital synthesizer named Helm
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Those are very long meetings! I consider myself lucky to work somewhere that 30 minute meetings are the norm, and if longer ones are needed we try 45 minutes before taking up a full hour. Being strict about ending on time encourages efficie
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by xvedejas 7y ago
But my sanitizing gel says it kills 99.99% of all bacteria and viruses!
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Drug metabolism is often better modeled by two (or sometimes more) different half-lifes for different stages of metabolism. So typically plasma concentration will diminish quickly but be followed by a long tail. In the case of caffeine I th
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I think this implies that IP addresses are expected to be a worse investment than property? Landlords would probably be more willing to sell their land if it didn't appreciate. Conversely higher rents would be needed in order to justif
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I understand that land is finite, but you'll need to explain further how tech is at all similar, or else I'm not sure it's a good metaphor. Monopolistic platforms aren't great, and I'm also no fan of competitive ine
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Right, so you reduce crowding by shortening trips, not by adding service. Ideally we do both and get lots of people using public transit for short trips.
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SF is building one new subway, and its ride-able underground portion will be just over one mile long. I agree it's something being done, but it's such a small drop in a large bucket of needs. We shouldn't wait for a public tr
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I'm not sure that the roads really support more peak traffic at this point. Rather, we can reduce the traffic and train crowding by building more housing near jobs so that workers need not embark on 50+ mile super-commutes each day. Ho
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by xvedejas 7y ago
As far as I can tell, it is a myth that building high-income-targeting housing does not help, in aggregate, low-income earners. See the concept of filtering, which is well-studied and sees two effects: 1. middle-high-income households movin
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You're going to have major problems no matter what when there's demand and no political ability to build. A Land Value Tax can still in this situation put the landlord surplus back into city welfare/projects without raising r

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