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So control theory is ok for unmanned aerial drones but autonomous driving is just too far? Control theory can't handle noisy domains? Guarantees of safety (more accurately stabilit…

Deaths due to starvation [1]: 0 Deaths due to homelessness (2010)[2]: 700 Deaths due to lack of medical care (2009)[3]: 45,000 What's different is the magnitude. Although the Unite…

Why would corporations not just move consumption offshore too? What happens when Ireland has 0% sales tax on software?

This is silly, there are plenty of counterexamples. See Santiago, Chile and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for examples of large multi-ethnic cities with efficient, safe, and clean public …

Isn't CGAL a dependency for PostGIS? When would you choose to use CGAL directly rather than something built on top of it (e.g. PostGIS or pgrouting)? My use case is mostly for rout…

Except it's not an emotionally driven discussion, it's an issue that has been studied for decades. Saying "it's an issue of class not race" is not a hot take on the issue, it's a d…

Except we do know, we have a pretty darn good idea. We know how many people self-report mental illness. We know how many people actually seek treatment for mental illness. We know …

Yes this is true of any mental health issue in any population, we can only rely on self-reporting. If you have any sources that show "almost all" homeless people in SF are mentally…

Actually, only 35% of San Francisco's homeless population has some sort of Psychiatric condition. According to a survey of SF's homeless the biggest barriers to finding work (as of…

True, but as far as I know California has never funded homeless programs at the state level. The only thing listed in the 2015 budget is: "Housing Support Program — The Budget cont…

Funding source isn't really relevant. NYC has a guaranteed right to shelter [1], they'd be providing the same services regardless of state funding. [1] https://www.marketplace.org/…

The average homeless person in the US cost tax payers around $40,000 [1]. In 2015 SF had a homeless population of 7539 [2]. Meaning they're spending on average of about $32000 per …

Nope, it's still true. From: http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%... The number of chronically homeless individuals and families in San Francisco continues …

Actually most homeless people can be helped. The chronically homeless only make up about 15% of the homeless population. The vast majority of homeless people are homeless for month…

The government isn't a single entity with a single goal. There already exist federal agencies with the goal of increasing security (see http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/ ), w…

Biological sex isn't binary either, there are far more configurations than just XX and XY.

If you're still benefiting from those criminal actions, then yeah you probably should feel guilty. Redlining had a very direct and profound ( http://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar…

Low income households spend an exceptionally high percentage of their income on housing ( http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/hou... ). Meaning they are partic…

No, actually gentrification can occur in developing countries as well. Finding ways to rationalize the negative effects of gentrification is the first world problem.

Gentrification effects an upward pressure on property values. Property values determine property tax. You're right, that's not technically rent, but it is one of the predominant me…

Interesting, I'm familiar with information theory but not in the context of financial markets. I'm a little confused though because I assume you're referring to the channel coding …

Maybe I'm missing something, but how are randomness and the emh related? AFAIK random walk theory assumes the market is unpredictable and is consistent with the emh while other the…

And yet Mandelbrot thought the market was random. Now I'm not sure who to believe, one of the most important mathematicians in the last 50 years, or a dude who left the academic co…

I'm struggling to a think of a subpoena that wouldn't involve being compelled to work. Subpoenaing unencrypted customer data still requires work on the company's part. When does a …

Actually, for a brief period under Andrew Jackson's presidency we did pay off all our debt.