JackFr

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by JackFr 3y ago
Also purchased by ambitious parents with visions of college admissions, despite limited (or less) interest by their children.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Hard to believe the studios keep making them. Oh wait, I forgot that movie studios routinely lie about revenues and margins. They are the OG's at hiding profits and engage in accounting shenanigans that make real estate tax lawyers blu
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You can store grain 10 years. You cannot store milk or fruit (even with the best inert gas refrigeration) more than a year at most without noticeable degradation. That has significant implications.
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by JackFr 3y ago
A friend who was an agricultural banker and financial advisor, who would regularly suggest to farmer customers that they could truly be better served financially by taking all the equity out of their farms, put it into an index fund and g
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by JackFr 3y ago
This is not a struggling family farm. These are landowners who farm as a tax dodge or a hobby. For those on the thread who keep pointing out that this is not in Boston and the real estate isn’t worth that much, I would counter that it’s dif
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by JackFr 3y ago
They gave to farm to keep their taxes down.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Which is literally why you have to farm the land. The agricultural rate can be substantially lower than the residential rate. I don’t know about MA, but in NY for 7 acres or more you just need to average $10,000 in sales for 2 years. Intere
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by JackFr 3y ago
> propaganda > agenda I see what you did there.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> Your example of "I can tell when my food is burnt" is a poor one. Can you tell a quality scientific paper? Think of it in these terms: don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. The science isn’t the issue. The money is.
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by JackFr 3y ago
There was a fascinating article in the Economist many years ago about the worldwide predominance of English. (This was pre ubiquitous internet.) The reasons given were 1) British colonialism 2) Post WWII American hegemony 3) No one cares i
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by JackFr 3y ago
No. That was the mechanism the cigarette companies used to deny they were causing heart disease . It turns out there’s really no such thing as a Type A personality. Those were just smokers.
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It’s much worse than not solid, it’s terrible. They’re beating the drum for an RF/EMF mechanism based on self reported usage.
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Competing theory. External life events which are correlated with stress are also correlated with increased number of phone calls. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say my theory is more plausible on its face.
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Couldn't you just put a dozen acceleration couches in the cargo bay of the space shuttle and achieve this? I expect this would be just as economical.
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> would it be possible to come up with our own bill that addresses CSAM in a way that is compatible with our general values in technology Who is the in that 'our'? That's exactly what this bill is for specific values of o
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by JackFr 3y ago
It’s not either/or. You think the parent was covering for the loafer because he was so friendly and kind?
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by JackFr 4y ago
The models used by the rating agencies were open and available to investors. The number of low doc/no doc loans as well as no appraisal loans were tracked and specified. Given the number of loans in a particular category, the rating ag
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by JackFr 4y ago
What specifically did the credit rating agencies lie about? Again, what was the fraud by lenders? You seem to have to taken the view that securitization turns fraud by borrowers into fraud by lenders.
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by JackFr 4y ago
No, it’s not fraud. There was not misrepresentation. The structures were largely straightforward and the requirements for a bond to be rated AAA were no secret. There were good faith decisions that were foolish in retrospect, but in gener
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by JackFr 4y ago
I don't think so. With respect to beer, bread and cheese, we mainly eat the growth medium, and only the organism incidentally.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I remember when tuple spaces were the new hotness and going to a presentation from GigaSpaces at my local JUG. And now I can't even remember the problem they solve or any potential use cases. Weird.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Read this as "Transformers in Scratch" at first and was very curious. Obviously implementing transformers in Scratch is likely impossible, but has anyone built a Scratch-like environment for building NN models?
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by JackFr 4y ago
Professor I had for Real Analysis (the second time I took it) was probably the best math professor I've ever had. He had the most extensive mental catalog of the wrong ways people could understand and the failure modes of students. W
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by JackFr 4y ago
> just wraps a Java blob you can't see I ahve to admit no familiarity with Glue, but if that Java blob is bytecodes, shouldn't it be trivially decompilable?
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by JackFr 4y ago
The Securities Act of 1933 is a tremendously successful law. (And it’s been amended a half dozen times so it’s not really trapped in amber.)
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by JackFr 4y ago
It originally belongs to Herodotus: τοὺς οὔτε νιφετός, οὐκ ὄμβρος, οὐ καῦμα, οὐ νὺξ ἔργει μὴ οὐ κατανύσαι τὸν προκείμενον αὐτῷ δρόμον τὴν ταχίστην.
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by JackFr 4y ago
How do you measure sharpness? It's pretty impressive to say that the linear resolution increased 400x, but I guess at 400x it's barely even clickbait. It's far more impressive to cube it and claim 64000000x improvement.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> And as you mostly use Java on the backend, you're probably running in a container.
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> There is a reason people still read Sun Tzu 2500 years later Because publishers are profit seeking and have marketing departments.
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Aquinas and Aristotle knew: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover

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