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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I've read a lot of the discussions regarding Pinker's work in both books (but particularly his position in Better Angels), and I've always found his position to be slightly disconcerting. Pinker attempts to make a specific ar
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Observing certainly influences the election if the non-observed state of the election would involve voter intimidation, ballot box stuffing, or any other corrupt practice. Hence we can distinguish between interventions aimed at subverting t
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>You are technically right that if someone from outside tries to influence the result of some election that would be meddling with the democratic process No, he isn't. If someone from the outside is influencing the system to preserv
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Somewhere, someone said to their business partners "Why, what if we decided to chew through the useful economic life of someone else's assets without telling them?" and the people in the room said "Sure, lets go get it d
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
No, she's saying that if the input data is itself skewed, then one method of fixing the model you generate is to apply corrections to the calibrating parameters. Imagine we have a 50/50 population of purple and orange people. We k
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>In this case auto insurance rates are ... a mechanism that imposes [the stereotype] on new drivers. The argument for restricting discrimination on a gendered basis relies on the socially instructive nature of vehicular insurance to teen
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>Feminists have argued Do you? Because you're going to actually have to make this argument for me - I don't think I've ever seen feminists say that capital accumulation mechanics are the cause of misogyny.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Because differential treatment between the sexes doesn't aggregate and self-amplify negative economic outcomes across generations to create distinct economic disparities between minorities?
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Smallco can do interchange plus too. It's more daunting, but almost always a better option. 2.0% blended does actually cover premium segment cards on a per transaction basis even at the top-end shelf rate depending on how you've s
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
To be most accurate, those aren't the payment processing fees either. They are the blended rate, which include interchange, the payment processor's cut, the assessment fee, etc. Most people don't know what a blended rate even
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Nothing better than torpedoing your own RFP to get people chomping at the bit to give you more free stuff.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Cool, thanks for the reply. That makes more sense. How much volume do you guys handle?
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I didn't start with a complaint, just an observation. The CEO made it clear those rates are essentially a tax paid by unsavvy engineers that haven't shopped for rates because they aren't actually interested in setting competi
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
No, it isn't? Those are the prices for two providers that aren't even close to lowest-cost providers in the space. They compete on service, not price. I can get .9 to 2.0% (depending on the industry of my business) off the shelf f
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Holy shit, those are titanic interchange fees.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Taleb is a deeply intuitive, sharp individual - this is his weakness. Like all the smart kids in school who rushed through math problems and wrote out the final answer rather than all the work to get there, he often skips key steps in his c
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
No? In that statement, Taleb uses his conclusion as a premise. That doesn't make his reasoning stronger.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I always feel bad when I read some of Taleb's work and come away empty. The guy is clearly smart, but I feel like he skips too many steps in his mental algebra and then misses his own mistakes altogether too often. >This gives us, t
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
This is accurate for niche drugs, but the business model for producing generics isn't solely one in which small players exist. Large omnibus generics manufacturers almost always have a larger industrial base and better chemical enginee
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The process for introducing an insulin-gene plasmid, then selecting for and breeding the resulting recombinant bacteria is 101 level biochemistry that a Masters student could do in almost any decently equipped laboratory. Isolating the chem
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Even if each of these steps was economically viable (which they aren't), this still wouldn't cure cancer. Diagnostic and screening advances are so useful because plenty of these cancers and cancer related disorders run subclinical
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I'm curious; what do you mean by database of cancers? If you mean actual tissue-banks with specific cancerous samples isolated and identified for testing, then they exist. If you mean just databases of genomic data related to cancers,
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>I would imagine downloading a 'pirated' copy of the work is not piracy when you already hold a valid legal license to that work, by definition. You are not necessarily in the clear; it depends on type of license you have, and
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I know you mentioned it - you just weren't correct. Hope the clarification was helpful. Here's some additional reading if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
You walk into my house. I have the right to compel you to leave. You try to stab me. I have the right to compel you to stop with reasonable force. You arbitrarily try to deny my passport application because you don't like my face. I ge
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>You never have a 'right' to compel another person to do anything. There are plenty of instances where you have the right to compel another person to do things.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
"Copyrightable aspects" include elements present in the public domain work. These don't get retroactive coverage from the copyrighted elements of the series. Sherlock is public domain, despite being present in later works. Th
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
You're conflating copyright and trademark, believing that the protections and terms offered in one transfer to the other. They don't.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
And you think they'd honestly and with a straight face tell you what they're using ephemeral pictures and self destructing messages for? Lets be real here.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I don't believe this is fair - user consent is clearly marked by the standard as an alleviating requirement. Without any user input, one must believe consent is imputed upon all users absent a statement to the contrary to justify a &#x

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