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Comment · 8 years ago
>This is when the government had a vision and the nation had a collective aspiration.

The moon program was always controversial and it came close to cancelation several times.

Comment · 8 years ago
So you order the $30 mod chip that will definitely exist.
Comment · 8 years ago
How risk is propogated through correspondent banking relationships is (I think) not common knowledge.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is basically the left take.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/mental-health-psychiatry-clas...

'The rise of psychiatry was funded by America’s Gilded Age industrialists. Their aim: to cast society’s ills as problems of individual "mental health."'

Comment · 8 years ago
>There is just one domestic commercial bank in the country and it is at risk of losing its only correspondent banking relationship with another bank in the US.

Is that a statement of fact, or a threat the IMF is making?

Comment · 8 years ago
You can see the key behavior by fixing one end of a belt, and moving the free end.

You should find that there is a way to apply and remove double twists in the belt without twisting the free end.

Comment · 8 years ago
It's actually not even bad if people don't know how to read and write. It's great for tech stocks, and everyone will dictate beautiful letters with their phones.
Comment · 8 years ago
This method works because both languages corpuses talk about the same things. Life, death, love, war... they happen to people speaking all languages.

To translate whale song, you need data that corresponds to what the whales are singing about.

Comment · 8 years ago
Are you confusing unsupervised with model-free? Unsupervised/supervised doesn't say anything about the priors baked in to the model.
Comment · 8 years ago
And the ships. Drop an anchor and demand ransom to cut it free.
Comment · 8 years ago
The difference between current demand, and the increased demand that would exist at a lower price.

I just mean, there are lots of people that would move to SF if they could afford it. This mass of potential immigrants will counter an attempt to just build your way out.

Unless you mean a real substantive change to the city e.g. building 30,000 apartments/year.

Comment · 8 years ago
These all seem a guaranteed flop at the consumer level.

Limited FOV is going to kill it for almost everyone. I think they would sell more at double the price, if they doubled the FOV.

Comment · 8 years ago
>The solution to the housing problem is to build more houses.

There's way too much latent demand for housing in booming cities to just build your way out. Without rent control, there will be people not benefiting from the boom that are just bled dry by rising costs.

Comment · 8 years ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

See the cold war era for a quick rundown of US interference with socialist governments.

I'm saying... when the US instigates and funds a civil war in country X, you can't then say X's government lost power because of their economic policies.

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