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by JackFr 3y ago
> Also her gaze in the picture is quite unnerving. Photographers know their business.
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by JackFr 3y ago
The title on the DOJ release is misleading. It's not the breeding that was the crime. Trafficking in endangered species and fraudulent veterinary documents I think were the actual crimes, which he committed in support of the breeding
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Humanoid Locomotion as Next Token Prediction(arxiv.org)
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The technique was only possible because of better pits. Landing on your neck in a pit of sand and sawdust isn’t advisable. A foam rubber cushion makes a huge difference.
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Pedantic nitpick: > Matt Glassman — a congressional scholar at Georgetown who has spent most of his adult life studying the Hill — wanted to know the answer to an obscure procedural question. “When was the last time a ruling of the chair
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by JackFr 3y ago
The problem is to non-academics, it’s all a bunch of Just-So stories and Whig histories, so it’s difficult to judge and the more compelling writer is gonna win.
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But that gets back to Diamond’s motivating fundamental question. Why were the Spaniards colonizing the Americas rather than the Incas colonizing Spain?
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Does the Norwegian rat count as having been domesticated?
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by JackFr 3y ago
An interesting section of GG&S addresses how zebras have never been domesticated (for a number of reasons) despite superficially seeming quite similar to horses. My point is, I guess, it’s hard to know and counterfactuals with hypotheti
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by JackFr 3y ago
Wait, why did Cheney want to invade Iraq?
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There is some valuable intuition in that the value of an option can be broken into three components, the intrinsic value - that is the difference between the asset price and strike price on the option, the time value which is dependent on t
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It’s not insider trading as there is no material non-public information involved. Were the information false, it would likely be actionable market manipulation. But because the information was true, from the perspective of the authorities n
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A thermometer, a barometer and a radio.
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> Sure, integration tests "save" you from writing pesky unit tests, and changing them frequently after every refactor. The DB migration has "ADD COLUMN rateLimit INT" The application class member is annotated with &qu
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by JackFr 3y ago
> 50% of the time, monty opens another door and it has a car and you win immediately Why would you think you won? You didn't choose that one with the car and you aren't offered the opportunity to switch to the open one, only t
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by JackFr 3y ago
Is gpt4 as good in non-English uses? It's not clear to me that it would be particularly important or advantageous, but does Mistral being based in Europe and polyglot first make it interesting vs. gpt4 in some dimension?
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Money is anything which: is a store of value; is a medium of exchange; is a unit of account; is a standard for future payment. It needs to be durable, transportable, divisible and difficult to counterfeit. Famous example - cigarettes in a P
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by JackFr 3y ago
It is exactly Keynesianism. It is Krugman's baby sitting co-op. https://slate.com/business/1998/08/baby-sitting-the-economy....
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Healthcare in the United States. The insurers have somehow created which ensures their survival at a real cost. Attempts to rationalize the system have failed because of the focus on getting everyone health insurance rather than health car
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I did too, but it was 25 years ago and quite honestly there was a different attitude about developers accessing production. Today if a developer can bring down the operation accidentally, that’s a problem with the org more than the develope
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At a company with a modern, mature process this simply should not be possible.
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I deleted a years worth of trades on a production database for a bond trading system in 1997. They were restored within an hour, but it made a lasting impression. Different color scheme on prod consoles. Always use “BEGIN TRAN”.
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He's like an actually smart version of Nicholas Nassim Taleb. Arrogant, egotistical and dismissive but at least he has real math chops.
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Well, no. If the applicant is denied they pay nothing.
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> we offer a compelling complementary paid service In case you ever forget the difference between complementary and complimentary, that's it right there.
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Wouldn't it be easier to fly into Reno, NV and take the bus to Bishop, CA?
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I think the Vatican's perspective would be that it's a theologically meaningless and mostly ill-formed question.
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And that ignores the five centuries of the Roman Republic, before the empire.
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Loved Seveneves, but it is one of the best examples of his not having an ending.
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Well yes and no. A large fraction of law professors don't have academic degrees past JD which despite having 'Doctor' in its name, is not the equivalent of a Phd. On the other hand they likely would have a large number of p

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