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knughit··on How Black People Are Being Shut Out of America's Weed Boom
If your only baromrter for morality is "caught and convicted o a crime", your pronouncements on how to build a society (including how crimes are defined, investigated, and prosecuted) aren't very interesting.
knughit··on How Black People Are Being Shut Out of America's Weed Boom
Ignoring up problems won't fix them.
knughit··on FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking
If they are publishing a paper, their methods (including custom source code) are ready for release for peer review. Ftheit software sucks, thet should not rely on it for scientific results.
knughit··on After Cash: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses a Bank Account
The Swiss approach was built on fees collected on money stolen by repressive governments like Nazi Germany, so it's not completely reasonable.
knughit··on Venture Capital’s Answer to High-Priced Housing: Dorms for Grown Ups
People are locally rational about preferences, but are horrid at global optimization. That's the root of every social problem.
knughit··on Venture Capital’s Answer to High-Priced Housing: Dorms for Grown Ups
Funny how people call college dorm living "the best time of your life" but post-college is "grim"
knughit··on Venture Capital’s Answer to High-Priced Housing: Dorms for Grown Ups
The dorms are a partial solution, not the problem.

Urban living means sense living. The best bet is to go for comfortable dense living.

knughit··on FBI Wants It to Be Impractical to Deploy Strong Encryption Without Key Escrow
With the key inside the warehouse, no one can get in.
knughit··on A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
It's just figurative language.
knughit··on A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
Yes but why is Bob's harder? Answer without enumerating the full list of possible flip sequences
knughit··on A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
Explain the difference?

Are you saying that HH causes an early failure for HT , instead of a potentially longer success HHHT? If so , it is poorly worded, to be ambiguous about how to count failures. (In the 4-6 variation, there are no failures)

knughit··on A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
They conspire in base 2 as well, they conspire to be equal. :-)
knughit··on A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
Primes have no inherent relation to decimal, so all prime patterns in decimal are mathematically meaningful.

This is fundamentally different from observations about, say, how 2 and 5 relate to decimal expansions.

P.S. never say "base 10", it's a tautology. Say "decimal"

knughit··on The Oxford maths interview, shaking up admissions
Ed Frenkel told a great story about how Soviet Russian oral exams were used to discriminate against Jews by giving them harder questions and demanding more sophisticated answers.

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/28/295789948/the-real-problem

knughit··on Why Is Vertical Rhythm an Important Typography Practice?
In summary:

Snap to grid

Snap to grid

Snap to grid

knughit··on Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries
I suppsoe there is a hormone for washing dishes and doing laundry also.
knughit··on Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries
You'd need to show that our incredibly complex artificially created environments are built with biological gender differences at their core, or acknowledge that a huge part of human existence is learned behaviors.

The fact is, huge amounts of "gendered culture" have swapped genders over the centuries.

For example, everything you learned from a book, or from spoken language is not part of your innate biology. Only a part of how you gravitate toward that material may be biologically gendered.

knughit··on LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees
It's because revenue isn't meaningful, profit is.
knughit··on Twenty years after Pokémon launched, its impact on Wikipedia remains
Wikipedia is copyleft, and has a preemptive immuninty to ads. Is wikia?
knughit··on An engineer replaced four monitors with Meta glasses
There are applications where high resolution is interesting but high frequency is not.
knughit··on 52-hertz whale
Unlikely that broken electricity generator would be as loud as a whale, and survive 30years without repair.

Also, would someone choose to generate AC in a marine application?

knughit··on 52-hertz whale
Because it vocalizes at an nonstandard pitch for its species, like deaf humans do.

And because it appears to be unable/unwilling to live in a pod with other whales, perhaps due to its inability to communicate with them vocally.

knughit··on 52-hertz whale
Are you proposing that this creature might be a hippo, or were you showing off your knowledge of recent re-orderization? Do non-cetacean ungulates call like cetaceans?
knughit··on 52-hertz whale
Remember that it is rare to be close enough to a whale to experience the full pressure
knughit··on The Dog Thief Killings
You believe that ones own zest for life is unworthy of protection, but ones zest for another's life is worthy? Why?
knughit··on How to Make Users Think Your App Loads Faster
Or even better: in production, 0ms.
knughit··on How to Make Users Think Your App Loads Faster
Users don't care whose fault it, they care that experience is bad.
knughit··on How to Make Users Think Your App Loads Faster
It doesn't counter decreasing patience, it sets expectation and then exceeds it instead of falling short.
knughit··on How to Make Users Think Your App Loads Faster
On medium, it never is useful. Disable it via your content blocker.
knughit··on Tesla engineer lived in a van for 5 months and paid off his $14k student loans
Suppose you have a job like this and you are looking at saving $15k/yr plus 8% student loan interest by being intentionally homeless.

Looking at your 5yr career trajectory, is it worth it, financially? (besides the character builder aspect, which is cool)

I did a lot of stuff to save money when I was younger , and now I have enough assets that I wouldn't mind paying my past self rent to avoid some hellholes.

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