Frost1x

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by Frost1x 5y ago
It's interesting reading the comments on HN because, although everyone isn't making say $300-600k+ TC/yr here, I think it's safe to assume the TC distribution shifts the median earner here safely above the median US earn
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by Frost1x 5y ago
There's a lot of non-scientific papers produced from the sciences, they're just heavily laced with jargon, complexity, or intentionally limited scope to make publication viable and hide the shortcuts behind them. When I was young
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I agree completely, but there are two common/popular perspectives to insurance value add. One views it as a risk pool for catastrophic events like you describe. Another views it as a service that prices risk for you to help you pay it
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The conflict of interest is that they have financial incentives for you to believe failure rates are worse than they are. Insurance may need accurate assessments for a sustainable business model, but their business model also relies on peop
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The problem with this, specifically the assumption that RL gives an equivilance to natural selection and evolution, is that RL typically assumes a computational environment it interacts in while natural selection and evolution assumes the p
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Globally is the key word here. I'm not familiar with bottling industries in the south west, but in general, if you're taking a scarce resource from a locality and distributing it elsewhere, it should be clear how that can quickl
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>Maybe instead of flipping the entire society upside down you should simply improve the law to prevent such scenarios. It can be done. Which is what I continually advocate for. We need to patch these flaws and add mechanisms to patch fut
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by Frost1x 5y ago
"Edge cases" and "conditions" are some of my trigger phrases. Given enough time or users, they are inevitable and passing them off as rare to avoid dealing with them, especially when you're aware of their existence,
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by Frost1x 5y ago
To be fair, NWS does a poor job at presenting their own data. Some services do add their own models to NWS but the vast majority just re-wrap NWS forecasts. NWS data visualizations and the websites aren't the snazziest things but they
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by Frost1x 5y ago
While you're not at all saying this, it would be silly to try and analyze private and unacknowledged wealth, primarily because it would be more difficult to evaluate the wealth. The tax returns need some relative value to compare again
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Wealth becomes a proxy for power, freedom, liberty, and so forth in our society. The most obvious example is that the very wealthy do not have to work. Their wealth snowballs at some point through investment vehicles and others manage their
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Definitely the significant difference. It's not just that the ultra wealthy can stash money in these sort of asset havens and avoid taxes, it's that they can somehow use them as liquid as cash. Your average person may have access
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by Frost1x 5y ago
There's a delicate balance between keeping authoritarian-esk institutional scientific momentum in check and borderline conspiracy level framing of things. You should remain skeptical, you should question results, and you should be capa
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>Also I think it's pretty disingenuous to assume that MS wants to see computer courses taught in school to drive down the cost of labor. So, what's another good explanation as to why software heavy businesses want more software
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by Frost1x 5y ago
You're not entirely wrong. There are plenty of people for or against wearing masks regardless of what the science says, almost cultish. We had it before the pandemic and we have it now even with highly effective vaccines. It happens on
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>nuclear power plants are usually very likely to incur in cost overruns (a recent example being [0]), supplemental to an already significant expense and a very long term investment that most politicians do not seem to be very fond of. I&
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>Me and my teammates also become more efficient when we work together in the same physical space than remotely (we've tried bunch of things like perpetual video calls, among other things). I tend to agree with this, and I've wo
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Nope, most schools are not open year round. That's why child care is such a booming and lucrative industry. Many rely on other family members (especially retired) to look after kids, sometimes friends but usually family. Religious comm
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I used to work with a few orthopedic surgeons over a couple years and discovered a lot of the tools used during surgery for bones or hard materials in the body really aren't all that different than what you'd find at a hardware st
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The trick to that problem is to pass the burden of proof on the one producing the BS (as it should be), which is similar to what Bertrand Russell does in Russell's Teapot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell&#x
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Someone passive aggressively gives you with a backhanded compliment to set you up for failure. They stroke your ego, build you up in front if people, then offer a trove of BS that needs to be accomplished that only you are capable of accomp
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I use LinkedIn as a professional identity placeholder and online resume for HR groups. I ignore pretty much all the posts because much of what I've sampled has been trash. I think anonymity is the real key here. It gives power back to
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by Frost1x 5y ago
You can use the same sort of polite etiquette in well crafted form to undermine these polite attacks. It takes quick thinking and usually works best in the form of an open ended question that sets the BS in its place. No one says anything e
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>It's strange how the same people who scream "TRUST THE SCIENCE" the loudest seem to ignore your body naturally producing antibodies to Covid after you've been infected and recovered. It's not strange at all. Hum
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Not OP but I'm guessing OP is referring to the Voyager Golden Record attached to the first Voyager probe, specifically the playback instructions using hydrogen atom to derive time units for playing the record: https://en.m.w
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>Men partaking in _any_ kind of sex can get HPV and not know it. True, it's definitely possible to overlook or ignore, although symptoms of HPV are far more likely to be observed anywhere else than inside the anus or vagina.
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If it's really abstractable it shouldn't be difficult to refactor. It should literally be a substitution. If it's not, then you have varied cases that you'd have to go back and tinker with the abstraction to support. It&
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>Our impending antibiotic resistant apocalypse is of course terrifying. This is my main concern. We as a species seem to always be so sure we can engineer our way out of a catastrophe by focusing on reaction to problems vs prevention of
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The intimate relationship is one component of monogamy, there's also having a steady nearly guaranteed sexual partner with low risks. Ideally you're both monogamous so unless one had STIs before entering the relationship, it'
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>Splitting the difference by not changing the salary at all seems fair, and nicely lines up with the agreement you already have in place. You're not splitting the difference if market rates change. If pay is going up for marketable

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