bencpeters

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by bencpeters 3y ago
I don't think that's the definition usually used for "independent" when talking about voter affiliation. US politics has a long history of people telling pollsters (and filling out voter affiliation info in actual electi
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by bencpeters 3y ago
What is the TL;DR version of the difference between Singapore math & US math education?
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by bencpeters 3y ago
23 MY owner here - I have been very unimpressed with the automatic wipers in my car, especially in intermittent rain/water thrown up from the car in front, or snowy conditions/lots of salt on the road - they seem to either want
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by bencpeters 4y ago
I don't, unfortunately, that's above my paygrade ;-). It's likely going to be a function of the larger hiring situation at Amazon (we're currently in a corporate hiring freeze), rather than something Prime Air specific.
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by bencpeters 4y ago
Prime Air is not shut down, we're working on it and expanding. Can't post too many details, but we are actively delivering to customers in test markets today. A publically released video from a few months ago: https://w
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by bencpeters 6y ago
Mostly right! Fly by wire doesn't inherently have to do with whether a pilot has the strength to move the controls or not - airliners in the pre fly-by-wire era still had hydraulic actuation of control surfaces, which allow pilots to
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by bencpeters 7y ago
I feel like this irony is at the core of the modern Republican party (witness the fact that more ideologically consistent libertarian types have basically found themselves ignored in the post-Trump era). The cynical way of looking at this (
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by bencpeters 8y ago
I wanted to update my explanation ^ a little bit - it's based on how trim works in smaller trainer aircraft (which are all I've flown). On a 737 there isn't a "trim tab" - instead the whole littler wing at the back
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by bencpeters 8y ago
Maybe not quite 5-year-old, but here's my attempt: The elevator is the little wing at the back of an aircraft that tilts up and down to make the nose go up and down. When the pilot is flying, this up-down is what moving the yoke forwar
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by bencpeters 10y ago
Personally, I find this "turn to anger" a little hollow/self-serving. Nothing Trump has done so far is in any way out of line with what he was saying on the campaign trail - the only people who are surprised by his actions ar
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by bencpeters 10y ago
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by bencpeters 12y ago
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by bencpeters 12y ago
Tangentially related - but if you're a vim fan and want to be able to use the full, in-browser notebook, you can easily set up vim bindings by following these instructions: http://spaceli.wordpress.com/2013/10&#x2F
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by bencpeters 12y ago
Not to mention that most of our reservoirs are clogged full of motorboats all summer... (another Utahan here opposed to silly regulations like no dogs in the Cottonwoods when ski areas dump all sorts of petroleum products, animals and backc
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by bencpeters 12y ago
Don't forget that in some areas of the country, we get snow pretty regularly - in my experience back-up camera lenses get completely covered by road grit in snowy zones pretty quickly - makes it hard to rely on for something critical l
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by bencpeters 13y ago
Around here (Utah), we see TONS of people driving on the steep mountain roads in the winter with expensive AWD/4x4 cars, trucks, and SUVs that they bought specifically for mountain driving yet are equipped with summer or all season tir
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by bencpeters 13y ago
But you're assuming here that "the rich" investing money is creating more growth (and you stated earlier, helping poor people more) than the government would. I think that's a difficult statement to back up in the best o
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by bencpeters 13y ago
You're making the assumption here that the only way that money can be invested in a "job (and wealth) creating venture" is for the rich to make long term investments. Furthermore, you're assuming that taxing the rich mor
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by bencpeters 13y ago
I really like this work: http://www.epi.org/publication/raising-income-taxes/ It basically suggests that: a)top tax rates have historically had virtually no significant effects on overall economic growth b)we are
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by bencpeters 13y ago
One argument I would make is a marginal utility one - the marginal utility of $ decreases dramatically at higher incomes, so even if you have a (comparatively) punishingly high tax rate on the rich, the amount that your tax is affecting the
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by bencpeters 13y ago
If it says no CarWoo dealers in my area, do I get any benefit out of going through the CarWoo dealer contact interface? Or am I essentially just going through the service to give local dealers the ability to call me whenever they want?
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by bencpeters 13y ago
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by bencpeters 13y ago
I'd be interested in finding out more about this. My parents (who live in NH, which gets its fair share of cold days) have a Prius and don't notice any mileage hit in the winter - in fact not running the A/C seems to help thi
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by bencpeters 13y ago
I generally do 2 in the back on a hitch rack, and 2 on the roof on my Subaru right now. (but I realize that car shuttles requiring 4 40lb downhill mountain bikes isn't exactly your typical use case for a car! It's just an importan
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by bencpeters 13y ago
This might not be as much of a problem for most of the target market, but I was really excited about the Tesla X until I heard about the doors - meaning no roof rack options at all. Here in Utah, I would love a nice, capable car in the snow
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by bencpeters 13y ago
I wish i could up vote this more than once... Seriously, does no one on the OS X dev team use multiple monitors!?
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by bencpeters 13y ago
What about my Retina macbook air!? (oh, and a pony)
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by bencpeters 13y ago
Agreed. I would argue that many (most?) higher power applications would be better served by ultracapacitors anyway...
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by bencpeters 13y ago
I agree with you that it's necessary to look at evidence. But the evidence actually pretty overwhelmingly supports the general Keynesian framework for a financial crisis like this. Look at the data on austerity measures/spending vs. growth
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by bencpeters 13y ago
This is a common argument, but it's fundamentally flawed. We're in a very different economic regime right now than we were under GWB, and that makes all the difference. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone on the left who understand

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