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by xvedejas 8y ago
They are planning to do this with Market Street in San Francisco. I attended an informational meeting (open to public) about this and other nearby streetscape improvements. Many of the people present were afraid bikes will be running over p
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by xvedejas 8y ago
"Ranked Choice Voting" is not a single voting system. There are many ways to implement such a voting system where voters rank their candidates in order of preference. Some of these systems, like Instant Runoff Voting (IRV, basical
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by xvedejas 8y ago
All experiments require repeat measurements for confidence. None of this means that passive methods are impossible, which is what you were saying earlier.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
This is not true! There are techniques to determine causality passively. Here is one such example, which takes advantage of the behavior of noise to choose between "temperature causes altitude" and "altitude causes temperatur
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I have managed to achieve friendships with the best aspects of both situations you mention, by renting a large house with five of my college friends right after school. We met due to shared interests and we routinely have deep conversations
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by xvedejas 8y ago
But your example is a law against witches/gays, not a law against _unethical_ witches/gays. I don't think your example is a fair analogy. The first sentence does in fact imply to me that there must've been some number of
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by xvedejas 8y ago
The fact that such a code existed at all suggests that someone thought it was necessary. There must've been a fair number of unethical hobos.
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Is the article making much of an argument? It's a wikipedia article and is therefore written in an encyclopedic tone. Do you disagree that illegal numbers exist?
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Your argument is an example of Whataboutism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism ) Your examples can be completely correct, and generally pertinent, but still have no weighing on the question of what credit to gi
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by xvedejas 9y ago
I already have global entry / TSA precheck. My preference is still for Amtrak for certain journeys. Consider that flying SF to Fresno costs hundreds of dollars each way. Amtrak costs $30.
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by xvedejas 9y ago
That's just about the distance that I prefer to take Amtrak over driving or flying (mostly I travel SF <-> Fresno). I can get work done, unlike when driving, and I don't have to deal with all the pains of getting to the airp
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Others have pointed out that this has happened, with cities like DC and Brasilia, but I have yet to see an example of a new city that wasn't built in a car-oriented way. If you want a fundamentally walkable city, you have to make some
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Building high-rises (well, 8+ stories) in the middle of low-density residential areas is something that happens in Japan, and I find it charming. Why are we enforcing the aesthetic wishes of some people but not others?
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by xvedejas 9y ago
And, interestingly, you can always prevent the paradox with toll roads and congestion pricing.
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by xvedejas 9y ago
To keep things clear: the notation you'd typically want to use with IPA when taking about sounds (phones) is [e], as in this case, and use /e/ (with forward slashes) when taking about phonemes. Not to nitpick on you specifica
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Slower rises are still better than faster rises
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by xvedejas 9y ago
I wonder how well capsule networks could deal with this, considering they're more robust than traditional CNNs towards other sorts of adversarial attacks. My guess is that one-pixel changes are going to do very little to alter pose inf
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by xvedejas 9y ago
The fact that a human isn't fooled by the attack (we can still recognize the 32x32 images for what they are), points to an interesting gap in the abilities of conventional convolutional neural nets.
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by xvedejas 9y ago
The problem, at least for some, is giving up the discretion to decide what "being a jerk" is. Once you've let others decide the list of things that are jerkish, you've also given them the power to put their idea of polit
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by xvedejas 9y ago
I also wonder if this is a prudent assumption. Existential threat is really hard to measure. If we want to know the average lifespan of a modern republic that has existed for about 250 years already, we don't have many data points to c
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by xvedejas 9y ago
It does a bit of both. Cigarettes become both more expensive for everyone, and there exists incentive for a black market which is necessarily cheaper than the legitimate market (otherwise why have it?), but still more expensive than a tax
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Even from the perspective of personal preference, I think it's fair to say that, at least in the US, there is a wide variety of sparse cities for people to choose from, and only a few actually dense cities. This leaves those preferring
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Those other increases in cost do not simultaneously open up supply, though. When there can be more landlords renting out their properties, prices will fall in response. I agree it is counter-intuitive. "Because the supply of land is es
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by xvedejas 9y ago
The effect of a tax on land works differently than other taxes do. Because the land value tax will free up supply (which was previously held for speculation), the result could just as easily be that rents drop. This is the entire reason tha
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by xvedejas 9y ago
I found it to be quite painful for about 10 minutes (the length of the aspiration procedure). Once the procedure is over, I would describe the sensation as "annoying, not particularly painful" for about 48 hours.
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by xvedejas 9y ago
So maybe bubbles are created by quick changes in the financial landscape, whether due to government or technology?
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by xvedejas 9y ago
They do have people manually re-balancing the stations (I've seen them loading up a trailer with dozens of bikes around 2nd and Brannan). How often they do the re-balancing right now, however, that I don't know.
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Same with Fremont. A terrible missed opportunity.
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by xvedejas 9y ago
But also these interests can often be aligned (preserving open space and minimizing infrastructure costs). The best way to guarantee open space will stay open is to make sure to build higher-density, and not just in the city, after all.
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by xvedejas 9y ago
There is an explanation in the article as to why a causative force is not required to obey Newtonian mechanics. At every moment that the ball is moving, there is indeed an external force due to gravity.

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