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Will_Do··on New Jersey legalizes direct Tesla sales
They're amazingly common in the U.S.

The idea is that car manufacturers would be able to undercut dealerships on prices and thus bankrupt the dealerships[1].

So it's just classic protectionism. The question why the law should protect entities that everyone hates is the baffling part.

[1] http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/eag/246374.htm

Will_Do··on Pi Day
Where is `{:=02}` documented? I've never seen this before and it's pretty awesome.
Will_Do··on Study: Teen Cannabis Users Have Poor Long-Term Memory in Adulthood
This seems to be a simple correlational study with the added bonus that abnormal hippocampi is also correlated with pot usage.

There isn't even an attempt to establish any sort of causality here yet the article uses the word 'affects'.

Will_Do··on Alarming number of spam false positives in Gmail
I'm beginning to think that we should have two different spam filters.

One that is with p > .995 spam for all the viagra pills and lasik and everything.

Another should be for the emails that are probably spam but not certainly.

For the record, I just went over the 151 spam messages I've received over the past 2 weeks and had 0 false positives. That's pretty good.

Will_Do··on Machine Learning for Programming – Peter Norvig
I would think it would rather be the last white collar job to be replaced.

I can imagine careers like hair dressers, artists, nurses, etc. lasting throughout the singularity even if computers could technically do these jobs as well.

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