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by xvedejas 9y ago
How did you determine that? There are infinitely many solutions that follow all laws of Newtonian mechanics. The burden of proof is yours to show uniqueness of a solution here, which I'm certain you cannot do with the canonical Newtoni
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Except Newtonian mechanics doesn't say anything about causation, it simply says which equations are valid solutions. Most people find it counter-intuitive, but it's totally possible for multiple solutions to exist in the Newtonian
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by xvedejas 9y ago
Except classical physics doesn't really tackle causation, and you'll find that Newtonian mechanics is not deterministic: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/
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by xvedejas 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift "an increase in autonomous saving leads to a decrease in aggregate demand and thus a decrease in gross output which will in turn lower total saving."
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by xvedejas 10y ago
Fair point. I guess there's another assumption, that the rings are built at a constant rate. In fact, if we make the typical assumption that the economy grows exponentially (which might hold for all but the longest term models), it cou
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by xvedejas 10y ago
That's also assuming that the thickness of each ring is constant. If they increased the thickness by a certain percentage relative to the previous band, then you'd have exponential growth.
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by xvedejas 10y ago
I think most proponents of UBI agree that the value should be tied to inflation, updated on a regular schedule (I advocate monthly). This would guarantee that UBI doesn't go "out of date".
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by xvedejas 10y ago
Wow, this is a great example of dishonest statistics. The rate of lung cancer deaths peaked somewhere around 1985-95. This being the population that began smoking back in the 50s and 60s, by my estimate. You can't use raw numbers her
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by xvedejas 10y ago
I'm curious where you have gotten this trend from, because it seems to be the opposite of what I can find. Compared to Romney, Trump only did slightly better with whites. Trump did much better with minorities. http://www.nyt
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by xvedejas 10y ago
There are several different ways to implement UBI (look up "negative income tax" for one example). None of them actually result in someone earning more by working less, the marginal income seen given marginal nominal income still
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by xvedejas 10y ago
That's not how Land Value Tax (LVT) works, at least under the economic theories I'm familiar with. And there's this quote[1]: "Because the supply of land is essentially fixed, land rents depend on what tenants are prepar
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by xvedejas 10y ago
Is this an accepted psychiatric phenomenon, or just some Freudian bullshit?
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by xvedejas 10y ago
Why? "Fuck" is not as bad a word as it used to be, especially depending on context.
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by xvedejas 10y ago
It seems my friends who vote on intuition are the ones likely to already vote -- by getting higher turnout you might actually reduce their proportion of the vote. Don't shoot yourself in the foot on this one.
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by xvedejas 11y ago
That's true because these values have units attached to them. Look at the fine structure constant for a counterexample though -- it is a unitless ratio of measured values which is not quite exactly 137; this is true regardless of what
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by xvedejas 11y ago
Well, two things: first, they have to provide source to everyone (regardless of whether they bought the product or not) if they are releasing the product at all. Secondly, if they are statically linking with GPL-licensed code, or otherwis
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by xvedejas 11y ago
There were no names on those tombstones yet. That said I specifically went and took pictures of some "in-use" tombstones as well. Those were more interesting, some display a perspective of family history you don't normally se
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by xvedejas 11y ago
I recently took a walk around Colma. The cemetaries were in fact the least creepy part of that town. Walkways leading nowhere covered in racially charged graffiti, lack of sidewalks along the roads, and sprawling parking lots occupied the a
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by xvedejas 11y ago
There's a membership fee after the first three months of $10/mo or $95/yr
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by xvedejas 11y ago
Location: San Francisco / Los Angeles Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (10 years), C (6 years), Java (6 years), C++ (5 years). Resume: http://wavelessboat.com/resume.pdf Education: California
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by xvedejas 11y ago
Well, there's more to a successful company than this. Simply being an established company can have benefits that outweigh this, perhaps very strongly so in Korean culture.
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by xvedejas 11y ago
What makes you say this? Have you ever lived in California? I live in the San Gabriel valley, and while it's not perfect, "melting pot" is an apt description, certainly compared to places I've lived in other states.
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by xvedejas 11y ago
Well, there's the opposite argument: "Wouldn't successive lightning strikes be less likely due to reduced local electric potential?" It's not readily apparent to me which of the effects will be larger.
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by xvedejas 11y ago
The desire to have a community and shared culture doesn't make one elitist. The GP could have as easily said they found bookish people they could relate to by becoming a librarian. Would that have sounded elitist or was the MIT name-dr
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by xvedejas 11y ago
What exactly is the difference, though? Isn't the expression of an idea just itself an idea, but a more specific one? You can't mean the physical expression, for instance, because that is the area covered by laws against theft. Co
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by xvedejas 11y ago
Even if men and women are different, I'm not certain that prescribed gender categories for toys is really aiding that anyway. Isn't it more convenient for both genders to not miss or avoid a toy because someone has labeled it as n
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by xvedejas 12y ago
This might be the stereotype but I don't think it's true at Caltech these days. There hasn't been a single undergraduate suicide at Caltech in at least the last four years. Mental health resources have gotten much better (tho
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by xvedejas 12y ago
As a Senior at Caltech: I fear that a large reason Caltech students tend to be able to make money is because you don't come to Caltech for the name, you come to it because you care about science, math, or engineering. Plenty of us were
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by xvedejas 12y ago
I would suggest having both a "top cities" list as well as a "top regions" list, which would have SoCal vs NorCal or some similar groupings of cities.
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by xvedejas 12y ago
Unfortunately the Caltech administration over the past four years hasn't made things easier. Banning benign traditions and kicking people out of their houses for no reason doesn't help with the stress levels.

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