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Have you done any thinking about hard mode? Getting trapped in a 'deep' pattern (?ight: e, f, l, m, n, r, s, t, w) too soon seems like a problem. But this is way outside my bailiwick.

That's a big fast 'citation needed' for the initial claim.

I'm not sure where this idea comes from, but it's wholly false, at least at the myriad of colleges I've worked with, and generally true in urban settings [0]. Housing is often a loss for the university (hence the explosion of PPP to try and recoup those losses). Instead, especially at places like UCSB, it's landlords in the area that are a large financial burden for students. At my last university, rental occupancy within a 5 mile radius was at 98%, which exerts a huge upwards pressure on rent. Students were BEGGING for more housing, because campus housing was on-par or lower than the area, and comes with many other benefits related to travel and campus resources. Furthermore, college housing often provides a 9 or 10 month lease option, which can save a lot of money over an annual lease.

Additionally, there is regular evidence [1][2] that living on campus helps with retention rates, which is critical to avoiding the 'spending money, never getting the credential' problem plaguing higher ed. In this light, even if campus housing were somewhat more expensive, the benefit in completion could easily outweigh those costs.

Munger looks terrible, but there's a HIGH demand and LOW supply for housing at UCSB, and at urban colleges in general. It's not a cash cow for many, if any, campuses. Certainly not public ones.

0: "'When you look at the metros that have exceptionally high cost of living expenses like New York, Boston and San Francisco, there has been research done that those areas can be significantly cheaper for a student to live on campus,' says Amy Glynn, vice president of financial aid and community initiatives at CampusLogic, a firm that advises higher education institutions."

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...

1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236730093_The_Causa...

2: https://www.ucf.edu/news/students-living-on-campus-experienc...

How did ratings replace tips in an actionable way as a consumer?

Reminds me of CodeCombat https://codecombat.com/play/level/codewarrior (which also allows multiple languages)

I like how Ken Jennings dealt with the 'Go complexity' analogy:

"Go is famously a more complex game than chess, with its larger board, longer games, and many more pieces. Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence team likes to say that there are more possible Go boards than atoms in the known universe, but that vastly understates the computational problem. There are about 10^170 board positions in Go, and only 10^80 atoms in the universe. That means that if there were as many parallel universes as there are atoms in our universe (!), then the total number of atoms in all those universes combined would be close to the possibilities on a single Go board."

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/03/...

Remember the "more wood behind fewer arrows"? That's slim Google. Alphabet is Larry & Sergey missing the more arrows.

Really? Lots of people regularly switching their detergent?

"Spotify Free, Unlimited, and Premium accounts are for personal, non-commercial use only."

I can't imagine it's being done illegally regularly. It would be way to easy to identify by stream behavior.

"MandlebrotSetPlot" feels a bit too cheat-y

I was about to link this story back to Path of Exile folks given what's happened there. When I saw your post, I looked at your profile - nice that you're here!

For what it's worth, you should consider locking not on attempt to log in, but on successful login from abroad. This was an old problem in some Windows networks: accounts would be locked with 5 failed logins. People discovered they could lock out friends' accounts (or ahem the president's) by failing a login 5 times.

(P.S. If anyone's looking for a great way to waste more time than they should, Path of Exile is a pretty great game.)

As these get smaller and smaller, we get closer and closer to a dog pod grid:

  Aerostat meant anything that hung in the air. This was an easy trick to pull off
  nowadays. Nanotech materials were stronger. Computers were infinitesimal. Power
  supplies were much more potent. It was almost difficult not to build things 
  that were lighter than air. . . .

  Given that it was so easy to make things that would float in air, it was not 
  much of a stretch to add an air turbine. This was nothing more than a small 
  propeller, or series of them, mounted in a tubular foramen wrought through 
  the body of the aerostat, drawing in air at one end and forcing it out the other
  to generate thrust. A device built with several thrusters pointed along 
  different axes could remain in one position, or indeed navigate through space.

  Each aerostat in the dog pod grid was a mirror-surfaced, aerodynamic teardrop 
  just wide enough, at its widest part, to have contained a pingpong ball. These 
  pods were programmed to hang in space in a hexagonal grid pattern, about ten 
  centimeters apart near the ground (close enough to stop a dog but not a cat, 
  hence "dog pods") and spaced wider as they got higher. In this fashion a hemi-
  spherical dome was limned around the sacrosanct airspace of the New Atlantis 
  Clave. When wind gusted, the pods all swung into it like weathervanes, and the 
  grid deformed for a bit as the pods were shoved around; but all of them even-
  tually worked their way back into place, swimming upstream like minnows, pro-
  pelling the air turbines. The 'bines made a thin hissing noise, like a razor 
  blade cutting air, that, when multiplied by the number of pods within earshot, 
  engendered a not altogether cheerful ambience. Enough wrestling with the wind, 
  and a pod's battery would run down. Then it would swim over and nuzzle its 
  neighbor. The two would mate in midair, like dragonflies, and the weaker would 
  take power from the stronger. The system included larger aerostats called nurse 
  drones that would cruise around dumping large amounts of power into randomly 
  selected pods all over the grid, which would then distribute it to their neigh-
  bors. If a pod thought it was having mechanical trouble, it would send out a 
  message, and a fresh pod would fly out from the Royal Security installation be-
  neath Source Victoria and relieve it so that it could fly home to be decompiled.

If were're doing great first lines, I think you have to include:

Shakespeare's Hamlet: "Who's there?"

Kafka's Metamorphosis: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

yes, there are no '57 * 86' examples, which would be counting intersections for quite some time.

If you can't see why that makes sense, I'm concerned for you. You may disagree that it's the right approach, but to say it's not sensible strains credulity. (As to the idea that individual contractors were well-enough connected with each other to guard against the manufacturer's ability to screw them seems unlikely in 1930...but your foray into anarcho-syndicalism hardly seems the point of this thread, aye?)

These laws were established in the 1930s when factories would establish franchisees in (what was to them) low-value regions. As they grew more valuable, they would move into the region with factory-owned dealerships & start gouging franchisees. Since then, lobbying power has undoubtedly extended dealership power further than what's generally beneficial. But the starting point, it seems to me, made sense.

For a fairly balanced (but not up-to-date as far as the status of legal challenges) starting point: http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/tesla-plans-short-cir...

The way the stores are currently set up (or: at least the one in San Diego), the employees can't sell you a car and they don't make any commission or 'referral bonus' or such. It's literally a car, a partial battery assembly frame, and some logo-ized mugs & shirts. Hence there's literally 0 pressure because nobody there can sell you a car. The gal I spoke with was very well informed (even knew the OS that ran the car's dashboard!) but wasn't even bringing up her own 'talking points' -- she gave me a cursory overview & then answered all of my questions.

Texas wanted to be admitted to the union as a slave state. But the Missouri Compromise established the 36°30' parallel as the northern limit of slavery for new states. So Texas gave up its claim and the territory became "No Man's Land".

http://monkeys.arelikefacebook.com/ less-than-stellar image retrieval

It's the Shepard–Risset glissando, for what it's worth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

"It's Mary's birthday in 3 days - send her a birthday cupcake?"

I would probably click "yes" if it's < $5.

Not for every FB 'friend', but there's a 'sufficiently close' threshold where, yes, I'd click that button. Even better if it's day-of fulfillment. And I bet I'm not alone.

I was really hoping he'd respond to the law school student along these lines: "Well, where in your class did you graduate, and why did you think you'd have job prospects as a lawyer? Unless you're in the top 1/3 of your class at a good law school or top 5% of your class at an OK school, getting a job is hard in today's market. Part of the reason law school (and school in general) is so expensive is because we've removed a lot of the risk from the loan side of the equation. We give you 7% money, guaranteed against default, and the schools jack up the prices. That combines with faulty transparency in which some law schools hide employment rates. My guess is that a lot more people are going to law school than should be, and we need to fix the incentives to keep all parties honest about their prospects."

When adults are acting like 10-year-olds, maybe it's the perfect solution.

Piqued your interest, just as an aside

Pique your interest, just as an aside.

This might be a bit of a nit, but it happens enough: the quote that begins that article is misattributed. It's from Daniel J. Boorstin. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Misattributed

Counterpoint: I love that you wore it, I think the content of the article makes it hard to come to a negative conclusion (especially the comments about stopping development), and most anything that supports dieselsweeties.com is a good thing!

Donald Sobol is probably, apart from my parents, a big reason I have a mind that works. R.I.P. Encyclopedia Brown. Your 25¢ per day + expenses brought justice to those who had little other hope. And bravo for expensing an occasional sundae to the adults, too.

And of course how could they call it the FIRST Battle of Bull Run when there hadn't been a SECOND ONE YET?

Wow that live stream update is a nightmare - I keep trying to read what's happened and things get pushed down almost immediately. A clickable (or w/e) "18 new posts" would make it usable.

For what it's worth, I use Cardio Trainer for tracking + social sharing. Friends "cheer" me on via Facebook, and I can progress my workouts using a myriad of tools they have. It's unclear what this does beyond that.

For what it's worth, if there were an app that helped me know WTF to do when it comes to building muscle tone/size, I'd happily pay for that. To an averagely fit guy (5.5 miles in 60 minutes or so, 2-3 times a week), the weights side of thing is infinitely more complex than the cardio side of things (which amounts to "keep your heart rate within this range for a long time").

Yes, thanks. I found a few other recordings this time searching Google (http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/011894_harp_ITH.html), so who knows why it failed before.