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I think he is referring to the F-35 only here. On military discussion forums it is the consensus that the F-35 is superior to everything else out there with the only exception bein…

There is some contiguousness but they are mostly spread all over the city. Take a look at the red properties on this map (zoomable): https://whydontweownthis.com/2014/mi/wayne/detr…

I worked on online casino software for several years and we had a number of bugs like this. They would usually involve someone writing a client to hit our API directly and fiddling…

You could buy a slower Xeon for around the same price if you really needed more than 64 gigs of memory. http://ark.intel.com/products/75269/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-... And it suppo…

I agree there is a lot of fraud and greed in the cryptocoin community which makes it risky for people new to it or the naive. For people who have done some reading or hung around f…

Premining and instamining (where they just start the coin with x coins in the devs wallet) are fairly common practices among new cryptocoins. They are usually frowned upon by the c…

Love the story, reminds me of the early days of Primecoin where I had my first exposure to cryptocurrency code. I spent the first two months of it fighting to stay ahead of the cur…

It looks like they may have added some growing possibly linear function to the unemployment rate instead of a constant starting in 2009. All the better to push their fear mongering…

She doesn't mention what methodology and practices she used to reach her conclusions. Did she study the same type of bugs in the same type of environment and climate in an area tha…

The issue is that by providing housing subsidies more money would be put into the demand side of the rental market. This would most likely cause rents to rise as there is now more …

Houses typically appreciate at better than 4% a year over 20 year time frames, although this is very location dependent. If they had bought in almost any city in the US with a popu…

I'm not trying to be snide but imo hoping the economy will improve by someone finding a growth engine is wishful thinking. I would like to see tax policy and government spending fo…

I have some C# enterprise type work coming up and am looking for advice or links to good information about what a great C# stack looks like. Specifically I'm wondering what good op…

I agree with your points, I have seen people use similar justifications for why they have not improved their lives. Which is unfortunate but I think it's the wrong battle. Many mor…

Does anyone know what causes the tax revenue form corporate taxes to double in the mid 2000's? Chart on page 5.

When I worked at Thoughworks there were several people who were terrible for this. Many of them senior. It significantly reduced my respect for the company and I left as soon as I …

Or you could get something like Manhattan, which seems more likely than a repeat of Dubai in 2009.

Scott's post is from January 16th and was updated on the 26th, as far as I understand he is using the latest results: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1643