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Local NIMBYs and landlords love constrained supply. They leverage zoning codes, claims about aesthetics, parking and traffic concerns, and worst of all affordability percentages to constrain local supply so that their home values and rental incomes will rise. This happens with so much political strategem that the only obvious thing about it is how vested and deliberate it is.

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What extensions in particular do you use that you can't find equivalents on Firefox?

If you're interested in "walking" around yourself, here's the streetview: https://goo.gl/maps/gxHkcvg4LWB2

Mentioned in the article: As an accomplished programmer and a bit of an anarchist, Audrey Tang is a super interesting government minister. I just came back from regularly scheduled office hours, which I find really rad for a minister to have (both walk-in and by appointment office hours are available).

I wanted to compliment her g0V org on a great rewrite of the online dictionary published by the Ministry of Education: really clean URLs, using open data for translations, publishing the original data under a nice license, behind a CDN – and she commented, oh yeah I just deployed an update (!). https://www.moedict.tw/

Many years ago, Audrey also elucidated Chinese language Twitter users living in 2x the density of English users, which foreshadow's Twitter's decision in lengthening limits to 280 chars for English but not for Chinese: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875414

About g0v and a list of projects: http://g0v.asia/

You're in luck. You get the version 12 months before the subscription ended, so the version released before the 1 year mark.

Is this realistic?

Can you be more specific on why you think the t-test is invalid when the data is non-normal? Duration data may be non-normal, but given finite visits and a reasonable number of visits, sampling for the mean surely is.

But why pay the doctor less than the hospital for the same treatment? The doctors can figure out themselves whether it makes more sense from a cost perspective to join a hospital, a clinic, or to remain independent.

How overbooked does Amtrak get? Maybe Amtrak should be selling subscriptions. Or bulk discounts, but the passes are per person and expire end of the month.

What's an example of 0 having a sign being useful?

Agreed. And you can't even do that test with a scam, which was my point.

There's a very important difference that you're missing. In the scam you're applying you're random machine over all possible results. In the sabermetrician example, the random machine is being applied across methodologies of picking prospects, ie bunch of different "moneyball" hobbyists trying out different stats and weights to rank players. The end result is the possibility of the discovery of a very good methodology that has found stats that traditionally are not important.

I know what you mean, but technically, it's: (Rebounds + Steals + Blocks) * (40 mins) / (minutes played)

How is this anywhere the same?

In a scam, you don't have any way of making any future correct predictions--it's just random. This analyst has a reasoned system that can be tested against past players and against future prospects. Sure, there's going to be someone out there that picks Jeremy Lin. But the trick is, can you correctly identify players who are already known to be good based on their college stats, make the right call on Jeremy Lin, and go forward and continue to make good calls on draft prospects?

I'm not saying this sabermetrician generally makes good calls; I haven't looked. But dismissing his call as the result of a series of Bernoulli trials is completely missing the point.

Isn't this some kind of explicit, well-organized, distributed bribery? Legislation for dollars?

Not saying it doesn't happen anyways. But not sure how this helps.

Edit: Ha. Okay, completely missed the parody disclaimer.

One thing that Chrome doesn't do is even when there are zero windows open, you still have to hold down Command-Q to quit. If no windows are open, there doesn't appear to be any danger in quitting right away--after all, the major mis-press is when you try to hit Command-W to close a window and instead hit Command-Q, but if there are no windows open, there's no reason to be hitting Command-W.

Why would it be good to avoid passing around the request object?

That would leave app makers susceptible to a major player with large amounts of capital that can sell at a loss until all other players are driven from the market and then raise its prices once it has gained pricing power.

Book publishers appear to have wizened to Amazon's game here and have refused to allow Amazon to use discounts to drive other sellers out of business. Many publishers have moved to an agency model where Amazon takes 30% and the publishers set the retail price of the books.

I mentioned Walmart because they sell some furniture too, though the article points out that IKEA doesn't really have true competitors. You're right, Walmart has avoided quite a bit of tax, and that would be unfair relative to other big box stores or supermarkets. However, I don't think the magnitude of tax savings is anywhere near that of IKEA running in the guise of a charity.

In any case, I'm certainly not arguing for Walmart. I'm merely pointing out that these tax avoidance schemes lead to unfair competition when not all players have access to the same schemes. It should be a level regulatory environment for everyone.

Magnitude, not true-false.

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I'm a packrat myself, but I guess something like S3 where you actively pay for storage and transport shows you very clearly the cost of being a packrat--there may be value in what you keep around, but it's not free to keep around, and it's not free to move it to storage.

What's terrible about IKEA's whole tax avoidance scheme is that it gives an unfair advantage to IKEA over Target, Walmart, etc. who are all presumably paying expected amounts of corporate tax and additionally, by virtue of being public companies, provide a great amount of transparency versus IKEA.

Another example of a business built in part on a tax loophole--Amazon.com and its online brethren whose customers generally don't pay sales tax. That's a huge, unfair retail advantage compared to Barnes & Noble and other brick-and-mortar stores, especially since retail margins are generally so thin.

Don't keep us in suspense, what are you storing?

Clarridge denies Pinochet caused thousands to disappear or be murdered under his dictatorship. He also calls Amnesty International a propaganda mill. Judge for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgCyDsvi84

The end of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgCyDsvi84#t=2m20s

Reminds me that I can't handle the truth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hGvQtumNAY#t=1m36s

Contrast that with for 60 years before that, we had this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

Later extended to cover all Asian immigrants.

There was certainly demand to emigrate to the US, but it was forbidden. This act alone I think goes a long, long way to explaining why Asian Americans are a fairly recent phenomenon and "weird" to American culture.

This could be fixed with an on/off button on the fobs, no? It takes some of the convenience out of the fob, but it would still be somewhat easier than fiddling around with a physical key, though quite a bit of convenience is lost.

Another way would be to attach the key to something like a smartphone. The car finds it location via GPS and stores it on a server somewhere. If the fob receives a signal from what it thinks is the car, it asks the smartphone to confirm its location is near the car's location. The fall-back in case the smartphone is out of battery or the car did not post its location would be this vulnerable method where the fob simply responds if it has received the message from the car.

Isn't this PubSubHubbub, but not? What differentiates your protocol from PuSH?

So all the merchants that can't buy an ad aren't trying to subtly insert ads as content currently? Advertisers only have one choice now--try to get a mention, try to get a link, perhaps as a source--do whatever it takes to get into the content of the article.

If Wikipedia sold ads, they would have the alternative to buy an ad instead; I don't see how the problem of advertisement-as-content would be worsened when given a choice to buy an ad. If anything, I think it's the other way around.

Ah, you're right, thanks.