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The problems are not fundamentally of local scope. Consider for example the coal mining towns that have been left in a state of ruin by the shift away from coal. There is no local …

The US doesn't have a shortage of land or housing. Rather, the concentration of jobs in big cities induces localized shortages. UBI would actually make it feasible to move to areas…

At the end of the presentation the presented mentions that this is structurally identical to loopy belief propagation... Isn't that a big issue, since they inherit many of its trac…

The problem is much bigger than the existence of these gig economy services. The deeper issue is that demand for unskilled labor has become weak enough that, for many people, this …

This was built through incremental edits from a Python proof-of-concept, which you can see here: https://github.com/yeahpython/ascii-renderer/blob/master/fun... It doesn't have any…

It's because I just changed the game to support arrow keys :)

I'd highly recommend learning some improvisational theatre. It requires a lot of the same skills that being charismatic does. Taking an improv class in college was a revelatory exp…

"Two people enter into a series of transactions, and both have the same probability of winning some amount of wealth from the other, just as in a free-market transaction." I don't …

I think the reasoning is that optimizing the training performance is "easy", whereas optimizing the test performance is "hard". If you can guarantee that test performance will be c…

This extension seems decent: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-wasting-time/...