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by KMag 4y ago
I agree with you there. It's just the snarky tone of your higher up post seemed to indicate an over-simplified view of the anti-choice stance. I disagree with them, but they aren't necessarily stupid or insincere.
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by KMag 4y ago
Personhood simply isn't a scientific question. There's no objective scientific criteria for personhood. Maybe it's purely a legal question, but that's a problem given the current makeup of the Supreme Court. If it'
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I just moved back to the US after roughly 10 years in Hong Kong. If they pay you enough to move in and move out, don't worry about it (unless your kids are in school).
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Ssh... I'm still hoping it's affordable to have a vacation house in Minnesota when I retire.
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> I assumed it was a decision relating to a woman's reproductive rights. But, you realize it's largely a question of axioms, right? Two sides are talking past each other because they take their axioms for granted as self-evide
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My understanding is that Austin is actually politically moderate, though the strong authoritarianism is much more troubling to me than the heavy political slant.
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Thanks; great info! However, I think it's long past due for me to move the keys to my kingdom onto a paid service. However, maybe I'll leave one of my vanity domains on Google services. (Roughly 70 people worldwide share my sur
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You don't have to agree with their axioms to understand how a small number of simple axioms lead to their beliefs, right? The hard truth that few people talk about is that very few people believe in banning early abortions of unviable
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Time to figure out how to convince people that a database auto-increment primary key is the mark of the beast.
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More generally, once you realize your state is authoritarian, it might be too late to cover your tracks. Always protect your privacy, even when you think it'll be fine.
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The Volker Rule legally limits them to holding zero dollars on their own books beyond what they can reasonably expect (RENTD) to quickly turn around and sell to potential clients.
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When I worked for them a decade ago, it was an in-joke that internal surveys were anonymous, but you needed to be logged in to fill them out. One year, my manager said he was in a meeting where they told him that he was the only manager in
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by KMag 4y ago
Which is why I'm particularly worried about Google getting involved with healthcare. "We're sorry, the malgorithm has denied you access to your health records. Go ahead and sue us, but good luck surviving long enough to see
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I'm talking about cases where society's best outcome isn't a Nash equilibrium, but due to deception about the rewards of different actions, the socially optimal solution appears to be a Nash equilibrium. Some citizens would
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What if it turns out that for many actions, the game-theoretically optimal strategy for the individual isn't optimal for the society, and people's gut instincts are reasonably close to game theoretic analysis? In other words, wha
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Let's not confuse theologians with most theists. Most theists (and most atheists, for that matter) haven't delved deeply into the foundations of their belief systems.
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I think they're rather asserting that the scientific method is built upon materialist axioms, whereas religions are almost definitionally come with non-materialist axioms as foundational. It may seem self-evident that purely materialis
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You're conflating scientists and the scientific method. Down this road lies "No true scientist"/"No true Scotsman".
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Isn't it still the case that nearly all med schools in the US are capacity constrained anyway? There's no sense in pandering for extra students you can't take on anyway, especially if it harms your program's reputation.
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Sorry, I thought we were talking about restricting ourselves to using strictly a basket of vanilla options.
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Maybe Dad was just being modest when he told me that he couldn't have gotten into med school without an undergrad degree these days. Also note that I was talking about competitiveness of admissions, not competitiveness of the classes.
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by KMag 4y ago
I think perhaps micro-managing layered limit orders to try to squeeze the last penny out of multi-kilobuck index ETF purchases might be the right way to gamify responsible investing, though that does have the danger of soaking up hours duri
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by KMag 4y ago
> You’re basically describing options. Well, with vanilla options, you'd need a basket of options to both reasonably closely replicate performance of a broad index (the "responsible vehicle" part) and also a small percenta
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Having not looked into it, and just pulling this out of my rear, presumably the assumption would be that if it has low correlation to other cryptocurrencies, then it improves the stability of the basket of backing cryptocurrencies. Even if
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by KMag 4y ago
The thing I never understood was why they didn't just invest in treasuries. Yield on the US 10-year is currently north of 3.3%, closer to 2% for a while. That's under inflation, but if you're a small start-up holding 100s o
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In my experience, it doesn't seem to be the chance of big returns, but rather the gut feeling of actively "doing something" to invest, vs. a very passive simple strategy of dollar cost averaging a low-fee broad index ETF. I
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In my experience, it seems that a lot of people have an un-stated gut feeling that "doing something" must out-perform passive dollar cost averaging a broad low-fee index ETF. If we came up with some obfuscated mathematical dance t
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by KMag 4y ago
See DEC's FX!32 (running x86 WinNT 3.51 binaries on WinNT 3.51 workstations with Alpha AXP CPUs) and HP's Project Dynamo. There are probably even earlier examples, but FX!32 was roughly equivalent to Rosetta, and shipping product
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That being said, it's good that there's discoverable information there. At my previous job, Symphony[0] chat was set up to launch at startup for all employees. I remember when the icons I call "Pyramid of Infinite Fun"
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I know barely enough Greek to sound it out, but "αὐτόματος" is "automatos", which probably gives enough information to anyone not interested in following the link.

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