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It's Google's A/B experiment framework that runs on production traffic and allows you to slice by various attributes and apply experimental models to the slice.

True - my example of painting roads was just incidental. More creative variety of state sponsored jobs would probably make it a better option. A lot of countries already do forced …

There's a difference. With inheritance, the previous owner of the money is willingly giving up their possessions to the inheritor. Free will, willingly done. With UBI, it's basical…

No, I do think there's value in giving people a reason to work. As a by-product of work you are forced to socialize with a different group of people; the chores you do get you out …

kiba above doesn't seem to know exponential growth. Self-replication leads to exponential growth. Creating more satellites here locally only gives you linear growth.

Of course we'd kill other species. Look at our own past, just 400 years ago FFS. What happened to the Native Americans? Then look at the species of animals that we're driving to ex…

Thank you for articulating this. It's an interesting perspective I hadn't seen before and will have to ponder over the degree to which it manifests itself..

You can actually just do return big_object_ptr; Instead of the std::move. The compiler will complain if it can't do RVO because unique_ptr prohibits a copy, so you're safe :)

It was testimony from the said taxpayer-funded university that killed the patent. "While UC lawyers cooperated with the plaintiffs, two UC Berkeley-trained computer scientists were…

List pets = Arrays.asList("cat", "dot, "bird"); Bad usage does not equal bad language.

Yes they would. Its the same reason ftp servers, backup servers and NAS would exist no matter how fast the connection speed is. Its about availability, backups and more holistic ac…