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To be fair, that's actually one of the things that I've liked about it. Pushing me to study more on a week-by-week basis is at least theoretically valuable, no?

Wasn't he literally banned on Twitter after posting a "stand down" video that afternoon?

Unless, of course, it's illegal for normal citizens to own foreign currency.

If foreigners can only own foreign currency, and normal citizens can only own local currency, then it makes it a lot harder to bribe the locals!

Michelle Obama, yes.

I think you missed point 8, "The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now."

> German is probably easier for European-language speakers to learn though.

This is a bit of an understatement. Japanese is a category-V language, taking an estimated 88 weeks of full-time study to learn, while German is a category-II language taking just 30 weeks.

These two things can happen in parallel, unless we need to change how we design bridges to account for being rammed by neopanamax ships.

> If flying is not profitable enough, then we need to plaster the country in passenger rail.

These solutions are targeted at 15+ hour flights - I don't think anyone's building high-speed rail from London to Sydney anytime soon.

It also might be worth pointing out that while the Senate structurally favors low-population states (which in the US are more likely to be conservative), the Republicans currently have a higher proportion of seats in the House than the Senate.

1.5 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle miles driven in the USA, so I'm not that that far off (depends on occupancy and average trip length)

9,999,999 times out of 10,000,000, so is driving manually

Would UBI lead to more control for them, or for government? I have to imagine the latter.

One of many reasons that FDR was the worst president in US history.

Only if the attacker only transferred funds to one wallet.

I could also see a sophisticated attacker holding off on draining wallets until the amount contained started to drop or increased past a threshold. Draining funds as soon as a user attempts to setup the app gets you a few suckers but also means you'll be reported quickly. Giving everyone a failure message while recording the recovery key might let you go significantly longer before discovery.

Deadweight losses exist, and it is also possible for things that the union demands of the employer to cost the employer more than they provide in benefits to the worker.

Their corrections may be correct, but it's still always nicer when the magnitude of the signal is larger than that of the corrections to the data.

> Students without parents that are college graduates are also at a disadvantage no matter what their potential is.

It is possible both for SAT scores to predict a person's potential to contribute in cognitively demanding fields AND for there to be a strong correlation between SAT score and parental income/zip code/etc. In fact, this is true even of a theoretically perfect measure that can somehow peer into the future of every prospective student were they to be admitted.

Is there some reason you expect that the children of people who did not go to college will have the same level of potential as those born to college graduates? Would this hold true of the children of professors, or Nobel winners? Is there any place for 'nature' in your worldview, or is it purely 'nurture'?

How long does it take for a bullet to reach 1500 yards? Around 2 seconds. How confident do you have to be in the movement of your target to hit them with a 2 second lead? Very. (Or you can follow the CIWS methodology and throw quite a few bullets at once)

The effective range isn't limited by the ballistics of the weapon (The 20 mm shells it fires will easily go 5+km), it's limited by actually hitting the damn thing you're aiming at.

Only when they buy back their domains business from Squarespace.

The problem isn't in retraining a pilot to fly the new plane. The problem is that this pilot is now no longer interchangeable with legacy 737 pilots, and cannot fly a legacy 737.

This means that if you have a hardware issue, you can't swap the plane without also swapping the flight crew.

Also the rover is really, really slow - a few hundred meters on a good day.

Mexico City is a wonderful place to visit, if you stay in the nicer areas! (It's the biggest city in North America - there's a lot of both "nicer" and "not-nice" areas) I remember the Museo Soumaya being pretty spectacular when I was there a year ago, and Chapultepec Castle was pretty cool too.

Personally I didn't find the National Archeological Museum to be quite as spectacular as the feature article did, but it was certainly worth spending a few hours there! The restaurant on site was also worth a mention - it went the "authentic dishes from different regions of Mexico" route and did it quite well.

How many Americans are there in Mexico, and how many Mexicans are in the United States of America? Bonus points if you compare "legally" and "illegally" separately! I think that there's a lot of Americans that would take the "everyone goes back home" trade in a heartbeat.

(Complaining about tourists is a time honored tradition among locals everywhere, of course - it's just a bit ironic to me here)

I agree that their SRE team is good, well motivated, and transparent. That does not mean that they are the first priority for resources, or that it's the easiest line item to spend on.

Because in the end every organization is vulnerable to being eaten from the inside and worn as a skinsuit by parasites. Especially charities.

Why would they spend money on improvements to the site when they could spend money on other things instead?

I think he might still have a slight grudge against the New York Times.

Can't really blame him, though.

> making it faster than fiber over long distances

This does not mean you should use it if you have fiber available at your house. This means you should pay for transit over it if you need to have low-latency overseas connections, for instance for HFT or piloting drones.

Levelized cost of electricity is the most favorable metric for intermittent / non-dispatchable generation sources, though!

And reverted by anyone, if the edit doesn't meet standards - like relying on an unapproved source to correct a claim.

And that's if the article isn't locked or otherwise restricted!

And how many of them are radical religious nutjobs? I think it is plausible that "can spend decades learning a scientific craft" and "wants to kill everyone on the planet" are mutually exclusive personality traits.