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Artificial lemon flavours that you find in candy and cough syrup taste much more like “sweet lemon” than the typical lemon found in North America. It is sweet when eaten within the…

Many tools used in chip design are controlled with Tcl. It provides a stable repl for these heavy, multi-threaded, efficient, C++ programs.

See quantile regression and hinge loss functions.

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You may wish to check out the MIT Pantheon project which ranks people not just by page views, but also by the log of birth year and number of languages that their biography has bee…

The distincion between creating value and hacking the economic system is interesting. “Think of Alan Turing, whose genius provided the mathematics underlying the modern computer. O…

Yes, but they will link you to a mobile number and then require that you confirm your number on grounds that they cannot identify you from your login. Gmail did not have my number …

OpenBSD is very good at suspend/resume, particularly for non-bleeding edge laptops that developers have had a chance to use. I've had better luck with suspend/resume on OpenBSD tha…

You have framed this question in terms of your freedom to contract in order to restrict distribution. Although many think contractual freedom is paramount, that is not necessarily …

Why don't you just read the readme? The additional features are at the top, and examples in the body.

It should be noted that these predictions are not based on the lawyers' pleadings, but on the facts and law sections from the judges' decisions.[1] There is definitely a possibilit…

The mobility between quintiles is not particularly interesting; it is far too coarse a measure. The changes in inequality that we see in the US, Canada, and the UK affect the relat…

Just like public utilities don't have a monopoly on the provision of power, because, hey, every home-owner can buy a diesel generator. With the level of substitution you are descri…

To increase supply, increase height limits, reduce setbacks, and get rid of zoning regulations that have nothing to do with health and safety.

This is NIMBYism at its finest. Those who immigrated to Toronto first own prime real estate near commercial centres. New working families have to move out and commute long distance…

Lack of construction is certainly a problem in Toronto, which has a default 10 meter height limit for new residential construction. All new buildings taller than a house require mu…

Please don't cherry pick an (unmentioned) directive in a one-line rebuttal; try to challenge the comment's core arguments.

There is quite a bit of anger and little fact in this comment. GiveDirectly has been running UBI programs in East Africa for years now. They have an all-star cast of economists exa…

I think you meant to say "In Europe civil law dominates".

I did a similar simulation of income/wealth distributions using US income tax rates over the past century. It was a gloriously hackish combination of a Lisp tax-rate parser, auto-g…