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I think a total household income of ~150-200k is right around the cutoff for 4 people to live in Palo Alto together. You can split that up however you want though. In my case, that…

I rent in a house and split 4 ways. My share of the rent is a little over 1k.

I live in Palo Alto making about $55k and live fairly comfortably; my actual living expenses are probably closer to $25k. It would be hard to have a family, but I get by just fine …

Facebook and vid.me as well. And twitch for streaming.

It's one thing to lie, it's another thing to lie about something that could easily be found out and possibly get them sued. The risk/reward ratio seems way too high for Facebook to…

> A Facebook exec's claim doesn't count as proof. How about an official statement from Facebook itself over a year ago[1]? If it was true, people could find out by decompiling the …

It's still up in the air I think - you can see from his blog[1] that others in the the committee prefer a syntax more like meta::type interface(const meta::type source) { // … basi…

If I understand you correctly, the way you'd address this is by using counterfactuals. See this course[1] for an overview and this paper[2] which talks about the bias problem in th…

Communism is not authoritarianism (except maybe in practice). Lots of communists are essentially anarchists.

> You genuinely think the type of people who subscribe to subreddits like coontown and fatpeoplehate are going to have their mind changed by people on the internet? Yes, because I'…

"Real income growth" is the growth in income post inflation.

Lots of clubs/community orgs are like this. The community soccer org for the city I grew up in had lots of turnover in the management due to voting.

A friend of mine got an offer from a startup in Palo Alto that he wanted to negotiate. He literally walked across the street to another interview and had a counter offer when he me…

Actually, there was a bunch of blow back and the main researchers behind the result stepped down. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21656-leaders-of-cont...

> if these folks were earning more, someone else wouldn't be doing that job, so the overall earning that the set number of jobs would support wouldn't change one way or the other f…

Very cool! Good binding libraries between C++ and Python have been super useful for my projects in the past, and I'm glad to see something similar developed for Rust. For anyone re…

You need a TLS connection to get the NIST beacon, which requires a seeded rng. That seems like a chicken and egg problem.

> IMO, what these adversarial examples give us is a way to boost training data. That's basically the idea behind GANs.

I think the more fundamental connection is that when goods are perfect subsitutes for each other, under perfect information you always choose the "cheaper" good (where "cheap" is d…

PORC is one of the largest police advocacy organizations in California state. SAM is funded largely by private individuals (yes, "individuals" not "individual", although its single…

The biggest funders of the anti prop 64 campaign ("Adult Use of Marijuana Act") were private individuals and police unions.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w23532?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_mediu... Total payroll fell, so your explanation is not consistent with the data.

"the average low-wage worker in the city lost $125 a month because of the hike in the minimum." This is the bad news.

Okay, I think we're talking past each other at this point so let me be as clear as possible: the original comparison was between TSVs and logic in DRAM. Both of these are a way to …