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The adoption of slavery can reduce employment rate to 0 quite effectively.

Nah, it's generally not very economical to do so. They serve primarily as a evening/weekend social hub, much like a restaurant. If you want to get plastered, you're much better off doing that in a private residence, in my experience.

> And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money.

Doesn't this imply fairly clearly that he believes the Bay Area is not plagued by these two things?

It looks like a typo. "You're right" was intended, not "Your right".

I enjoyed one of the replies,

> The reason balance of the system is important: if it's going to be used for payments, you don't want to have large changes in the value of the coins. It would lead to distortions, I believe, by continually increasing the "purchasing power" of a single coin.

Stability of the coins' value is desirable for long term use.

"This is a nice neighborhood you've got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it..."

Haha, were those 'folks around' you on the west coast, perhaps?

I find it a bit humorous that Peter Thiel is "bullish" on life-extension research while fervently backing a party that is doing everything in its power to make Earth uninhabitable in the near future.

I think they meant that he can argue for those principles rationally, even though he has an ideological bias towards them.

This scene would actually make a really cool test case!

Nocedal & Wright [1] is generally considered the definitive text for reference, at least. Very clear and complete from what I recall.

[1] https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387303031

In my college experience, it would take approximately 6-8 hours for a game. Usually about 6-7 hours deep, there would be 3-4 players remaining, and 2-3 of those would join forces to eliminate the weakest player and call it a night.

"Data Scientist" should do the trick.

Good article! This part makes me laugh though

>Here's something that, as a kid, I couldn't get anyone to explain to me: "Why can't you signal using an entangled pair of photons that both start out polarized up-down? By measuring A in a diagonal basis, you destroy the up-down polarization of both photons. Then by measuring B in the up-down/left-right basis, you can with 50% probability detect the fact that a measurement has taken place, if B turns out to be left-right polarized."

He must have been a pretty smart kid...

The above poster explicitly responded to one specific line of skepticism and is not telling them to give up all skepticism.

You are the only one trying to make this about "PC thinking".

I'll second Tom Holland. I read "Rubicon" not too long ago. I would recommend pairing it with Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast series on the era for an extremely cohesive and engaging account of the Roman republic's decline.

Unfortunately commercial-grade non-invasive EEG headsets can only reliably respond to things like intense emotional changes and the difference between sleep/awake state, but not much more than that. Awhile ago I had some moderate success classifying the difference between a subject watching an emotional short film vs. stand-up comedy. Mostly they are effective at picking up background noise and muscular movement and not much else.

This is based on my experience with the Muse [1] headset, which has 4 electrodes plus a reference electrode. I know there are similar devices with around a dozen or so electrodes, but I can't imagine they're a significant improvement.

So I think we're still a long way off from what you're describing :(

[1] http://www.choosemuse.com

Last May I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro 13" on sale for $1100 from Best Buy. Humorously it had a higher user review score on their website than the 2016 model (4.6/5 vs 4.5/5) and was ~$1300 cheaper.

From everything I've heard, I lucked out on that one!

> According to Reid, she was the victim of “hackers”: somehow, nefarious disinformation agents managed to hack not her blog (which is now deleted), but rather the Wayback Machine and its digital archive. They penetrated the Wayback Machine and then, according to Reid, added some anti-gay content.

This excuse seems entirely implausible, right? There would be massive negative consequences if the Wayback Machine were breached and able to be altered like this.

I know Booz Allen Hamilton launched a company-wide initiative with General Assembly for a data science course [1]. From my limited understanding of the content, I believe it is aimed at providing a very rudimentary introduction to the field for the more businessy/consultant types. And to demonstrate that BAH is "data-driven".

[1] https://www.boozallen.com/s/insight/thought-leadership/accel...

That is what he implied.

Yes, last year at my university we used Baby Rudin for the undergraduate real analysis sequence, and Tao's books for the graduate level sequence.

Especially since the cabin footage shows the person in the vehicle was only glancing at the road every several seconds.

I finally got back into RSS and started using Digg Reader less than a week before getting the notification it was shutting down.

Sigh...

What even are the options for free RSS readers these days?

However in this setup, anyone can bring a smartphone in and take a picture of the screen when it displays anything that separates your id from a fake one.

Sounds like you might be on the right track if you can get over that hurdle somehow.

Can you elaborate? Do you mean the advantages given to the benefactors of inherited wealth cause society to suffer?

In addition, driving in the comfort of your own car with your own music is genuinely more enjoyable than working in a greasy fast food kitchen.

No dice? Sounds like they'd be better off playing Diplomacy instead.

That's one of my favorites: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

> You are being fooled. Those meals and buses are to keep you at work.

It would be extremely naive to think otherwise at this point, so I'm sure the parent is aware and enjoys the benefits despite the ulterior motives behind them.