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by quinnchr 10y ago
So control theory is ok for unmanned aerial drones but autonomous driving is just too far? Control theory can't handle noisy domains? Guarantees of safety (more accurately stability) is the entire point of lyaponov analysis, and it&#x2
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Deaths due to starvation [1]: 0 Deaths due to homelessness (2010)[2]: 700 Deaths due to lack of medical care (2009)[3]: 45,000 What's different is the magnitude. Although the United State's patchwork of services for the homeless i
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Why would corporations not just move consumption offshore too? What happens when Ireland has 0% sales tax on software?
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by quinnchr 10y ago
This is silly, there are plenty of counterexamples. See Santiago, Chile and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for examples of large multi-ethnic cities with efficient, safe, and clean public transportation systems. This is specious reasoning at best u
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Isn't CGAL a dependency for PostGIS? When would you choose to use CGAL directly rather than something built on top of it (e.g. PostGIS or pgrouting)? My use case is mostly for routing and I'm currently using a heavily modified ver
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Except it's not an emotionally driven discussion, it's an issue that has been studied for decades. Saying "it's an issue of class not race" is not a hot take on the issue, it's a distraction that had been quant
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Except we do know, we have a pretty darn good idea. We know how many people self-report mental illness. We know how many people actually seek treatment for mental illness. We know the self-reported rate of mental illness amongst other popul
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Yes this is true of any mental health issue in any population, we can only rely on self-reporting. If you have any sources that show "almost all" homeless people in SF are mentally ill, I'd be interested to read them. From wh
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Actually, only 35% of San Francisco's homeless population has some sort of Psychiatric condition. According to a survey of SF's homeless the biggest barriers to finding work (as of 2015) were: 28% said no permanent address 2
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by quinnchr 10y ago
True, but as far as I know California has never funded homeless programs at the state level. The only thing listed in the 2015 budget is: "Housing Support Program — The Budget contains $35 million General Fund for CalWORKs Housing Supp
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Funding source isn't really relevant. NYC has a guaranteed right to shelter [1], they'd be providing the same services regardless of state funding. [1] https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/30/wealth-p
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by quinnchr 10y ago
The average homeless person in the US cost tax payers around $40,000 [1]. In 2015 SF had a homeless population of 7539 [2]. Meaning they're spending on average of about $32000 per homeless person, $8000 less than the national average.
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Nope, it's still true. From: http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%... The number of chronically homeless individuals and families in San Francisco continues to decline. In 201
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by quinnchr 10y ago
Actually most homeless people can be helped. The chronically homeless only make up about 15% of the homeless population. The vast majority of homeless people are homeless for months not years, and the many programs to aid them in finding ho
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by quinnchr 10y ago
The government isn't a single entity with a single goal. There already exist federal agencies with the goal of increasing security (see http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/ ), while others like the FBI
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Biological sex isn't binary either, there are far more configurations than just XX and XY.
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by quinnchr 11y ago
If you're still benefiting from those criminal actions, then yeah you probably should feel guilty. Redlining had a very direct and profound ( http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-ra
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Low income households spend an exceptionally high percentage of their income on housing ( http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/hou... ). Meaning they are particularly sensitive to price
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by quinnchr 11y ago
No, actually gentrification can occur in developing countries as well. Finding ways to rationalize the negative effects of gentrification is the first world problem.
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Gentrification effects an upward pressure on property values. Property values determine property tax. You're right, that's not technically rent, but it is one of the predominant mechanisms by which people are priced out of neighbo
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Interesting, I'm familiar with information theory but not in the context of financial markets. I'm a little confused though because I assume you're referring to the channel coding theorem (mixing a signal with random noise),
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but how are randomness and the emh related? AFAIK random walk theory assumes the market is unpredictable and is consistent with the emh while other theories like the adaptive market hypothesis assume the op
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by quinnchr 11y ago
And yet Mandelbrot thought the market was random. Now I'm not sure who to believe, one of the most important mathematicians in the last 50 years, or a dude who left the academic community to start a hedge fund.
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by quinnchr 11y ago
I'm struggling to a think of a subpoena that wouldn't involve being compelled to work. Subpoenaing unencrypted customer data still requires work on the company's part. When does a subpoena become a burdensome amount of work?
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Actually, for a brief period under Andrew Jackson's presidency we did pay off all our debt.
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Ha, maybe you'd like to include the very next line from the wiki article: "UN observers noted that they observed bodies near doorways, and bullet marks on the doors of demolished houses, and later concluded that residents may have
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by quinnchr 11y ago
"Ariel Sharon, who led the attack, later wrote in his diary that he had received orders to inflict heavy damage on the Arab Legion forces in Qibya: 'The orders were utterly clear: Qibya was to be an example for everyone'. Ori
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Actually Israel has a long history of state sponsored terrorism, see Irgun and their incorporation into the IDF at the dawn of Israeli statehood. In fact they haven't just supported terrorism, they've used direct military action t
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Where are you finding your information for the 10% number? I'd be curious to see. From what I've read formal financial institutions typically charge ~10% which is why poorer people tend to use hawala in the first place. "El Q
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by quinnchr 11y ago
Except the unbanked have been transmitting money across the world outside of banks for a few centuries now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala I'm not so sure Bitcoin is a ground breaking change for the unbanked

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