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Huh. I thought the camel/needle's eye thing was about a small narrow gate into Jerusalem. You can get a camel through it, but it needs to get down on its knees and crawl. Apparentl…

Yes, a quick google turned up these: Antibiotic Resistance from the Farm to the Table. September 11, 2014. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/from-farm-to-table.html . Acc…

Traffic flows better if played as a collective game, where the objective is to help the others get through it along with helping yourself. This strategy, if followed by enough peop…

> I doubt that the state will be more efficient in building houses than private enterprises can if allowed to do so Depends. If the profit is in more expensive housing, than privat…

and cross-referenced with your location at all times, all of your shopping habits, your viewing and reading habits, and every person you communicate with? In an easily searchable d…

Excuse prior rant. New rant beginning here: The real public school horror story is that today, in America, a "good school" is defined as one where your child won't get shot. I leav…

The biggest US public school horror story is how we have taken a great instrument of social progress and decimated it. Public schools in countries where schools are treated well ha…

> Yes there is, it's crime. Street lights deter crime. > Also simply driving safety. Driving with just headlights causes more accidents than on a well-lit street, since visibility …

> Sure, they didn't have to pay with money, past a certain point they didn't even use money, but they paid with (much) shorter lives. Money is just the cost of self-determination. …

They thought about it a lot, that's the origin of astronomy and math.

Original to Jeff or not, "A Thousand Brains" does a decent job presenting an interesting and highly plausible model of how the neocortext may function. Your comment would be very v…

and more specifically, between chemical-based information processing systems and Von Neumann architectures for binary information processing. Agreed, a widespread fallacy of catego…

>The US government loves outsourcing technical problems and hates developing that stuff in-house. No, no they don't. They would love to build in-house, but are constrained in what …

How many of these are police officers (in non-emergency situations)

>the sand from the Sahara Desert Most people forget that the Sahara Desert is man-made. Back during the Cathigenian period, the southern Mediterranian was the breadbasket of Rome, …

> the government Agree with your general sentiment; the article headline may be a bit of clickbait. The challenge is what arm of the government has jurisdiction for what cause of h…

everything dies, it is part of nature's way. If, however, someone were to massively accelerate a specific individual's death, we would typically consider that a crime. I would like…

So as I understand Fischer's stance on using stats, you are supposed to start with a hypothesis. As in, you have a mechanism which could cause the effect. The stats are there to pr…

Linear regression. Right away! https://twitter.com/i/status/1349453230762196992

Thank KYC/AML for that. Money is not data, it is a complex social construct. Moving money requires interacting with that social construct, i.e. government regulations. Yes, crypto …

or a private data vendor if you live in the US

Even better if you use it to control your smart-home. GaaS-lights!

and pilots have a lot more training

not sure the safety argument has factual support; the sound would need to project forward from the motorcycle, wouldn't it?

Hard as gold, perhaps? That creates other issues. Volatility, for one.