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>If politicians get to call the shots in any way, it's going to run way over budget. Pretty much every single time. I'm reminded of that $2M bathroom at a public park in NYC. This …

Due to an autoinflammatory condition, I've taken ~1800mg daily for periods of 6 months several times. I don't like the idea of going on opioids for longer that a couple weeks, but …

This the Ad Coelum Doctrine in legalese. I don't think it makes sense either.

Sounds like you're interested in computational aeroacouatics.

>People don’t like being told they can’t drive wherever they want, but Lores says that while people claim it as a right, in fact what they want are privileges. This strikes me as t…

I think it's arXiv:1804.06355 "An Exponential Speedup in Parallel Running Time for Submodular Maximization without Loss in Approximation"

There are no lenses which are transparent at 13.5. This means you have to use mirrors instead, and even that's a challenge. 13.5nm was selected because it can be reflected by speci…

>However, markets are socially constructed because they depend on property rights that are socially constructed, and there are many different ways that markets and property rights …

What percentage of the 100 applications include a personalized cover letter these days? >It's a number's game. You must send a fuckload of resumes ... So you recommend not botherin…

I've been afraid of this for years. I guarantee you that there exist (or will exist) highly profitable consultancies which specialize in faking evidence. Just think about how easy …

I saw it yesterday too. I'm interested in attention models, but I'm not a skilled enough practitioner to say anything meaningful about them yet. Someone linked me the author's more…

I use DuckDuckGo because of infinite scrolling and the ability to navigate your search results with the up/down arrows. It's not privacy, but usability. It's insane that these feat…

Of course the omnipresent Gwern makes an appearance in the comments.

If I were better credentialed, I would definitely be looking to get into semiconductors right now. It's an exciting time in terms of manufacturing processes, and I think some of th…

Am I alone in thinking this isn't heresy? A country or federal state is just a company with a monopoly over law in a certain geographical region. Facebook's "monopoly" is at least …

I don't have many data points on Seattle, but I'm reminded of this article from a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12459698 Seattle was also one of those citi…

I just published a repository that de-obfuscates the archive from OED's Windows CD-ROM version. I don't know anything about the markup language it uses and I don't know anything ab…