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Nice idea in theory; in practice, it might be tricky to have the organizational incentives aligned to make sure such a course is rigorous enough to be useful, rather than yet anoth…

Please don't confuse the US with our government! (or, rather, with the subset of people in our government who happen to be talking at a given time---there are many levelheaded, eff…

Google the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. It makes it trivial for American entrepreneurs to move to NL

Yes.. GP is correcting _Egyptian_ to Palestinian

My networking lab class (at a top5 school) used AWS, with the reasons that it's more widely used and better documented than GCP or Azure. Tip: You get more free credit (by like 50%…

Pandoc doesn't go from PDF to anything afaik

My sister is in Tulsa and has a _very_ nice 4+2 (or maybe 3+2, idr, but it's a well-built, big house on an acre); it cost her $250k. Where I live (central Illinois, 200000 person m…

Having two objectives (eg, offense and defense) doesn't preclude sometimes making decisions that trade a setback in one of the objectives for an advance in the other.

Thanks for the replies!

> Once you have an accurate model for a lot of classes it's much easier to add new ones with just a few samples. This is pretty cool. Do you know of any good references for stuff l…

I know very little about US law and even less about German law, but I think GP was referring to contracts of adhesion, which are less enforceable in the US too, afaik; even if the …

"Real" is a technical term from economics and roughly means "after controlling for price increases".

A little off-topic, but clicking imgur "direct" links on mobile redirects you to the standard m.imgur.com URL now? Eww.

Regrettably, in the world as it is, we need--extraordinarily--competent people working on our weapons of mass destruction, too (in particular, nuclear command and control). Not a j…

2005 must have been nice: "Online, the answer tends to be a lot simpler. Most people who publish online write what they write for the simple reason that they want to. You can't see…

Check BOAZ BARAK's Harvard class for a references list

I think the sense in which GP is using the word is substantially stronger than that--or, maybe, it depends on what you mean by "rights" and "opportunities". (You could probably fin…

> Wouldn't it be better and less wasteful if people owned scooters? Isn't the, well, _whole point_ of the sharing economy to reduce waste by not having everyone own things they onl…

If you type fast, you can probably get a whole username (or personal name, or street address) in without seeing the red warning. (That said, it looks like it _will_ show "not secur…

And, frankly, many strong undergraduate programs, perhaps especially ones which are also very large (my school has 500 person class size even in your second-to-last and last years,…

Clicking around a little on the OP site's gallery led me to http://blog.geocities.institute/ and, in particular, to the post on the front page as of today, "9/11 and Vernacular Web…

The FT also publishes articles of extraordinary quality. Their political reporting is some of the closest-to-center out there. (But I agree the instant paywall is a bit rough.)