Majromax

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This article is not as strong as the headline implies. The "models" being mentioned are supply/demand models of price-setting, not the general equilibrium models that inform policy. The Bureau of Labour Statistics is already
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That doesn't necessarily make the algorithm unstable. See for example: >>> import numpy as np >>> x0 = np.random.rand(1) >>> x_rnd = np.round(100*x)/100.0 >>> for i in range(1000):
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> To me it sounds a bit dubious that you can both have a valid reason for keeping personal information about someone and not have a valid way of verifying that you are actually communicating with them. Suppose I run a matchmaking site th
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What numerically unstable algorithms are ever performed with geolocations? Moreover, given the author's point that real measurement errors exceed the false precision of published data, if such a calculation were performed and did provi
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> Amazon also keeps relability and transit time metrics on all of its shippers. I wonder how reliable those metrics are. I've repeatedly been told by Amazon support that I need to wait for about 24 hours before complaining about a
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> Something about how the delivery person ended up at the wrong location and didn't know where to go, versus bad actors. That's still a "bad actor." A driver is ultimately responsible for knowing the area they'r
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> the fact that Amazon is instructing their delivery people to circumvent building security to leave packages at people's door is concerning. Oh, I'm sure that Amazon never instructed delivery agents to ignore building securi
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> Would we say, well, no we can’t sensor that, that would be government censorship? ... yes? We would say that. That's exactly how we draw the line now. For example, nobody would demand a stadium offer naming rights to the KKK,
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> Because it allows them to maximise the returns? That's also the major difference between a sovereign wealth fund, designed to provide income to the state, and an economic development fund. It also raises real political risks: it t
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> I think anything below 20% in taxes simply means a country's public functions will suffer. Honestly, the biggest difference between nations isn't so much in income/payroll taxes, but in the VAT. The US simply doesn&#x27
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> One step would be to move it away from an insurance model and raise the cap on contributions. Another would be to modestly increase the contribution rates. This is essentially what happened in the mid-90s with the Canada Pension Plan (
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> Why is there no mention of IR (heat) radar? As far as I know, its impossible to hide a jet engine heat signature. The heat signature of what, the exhaust? That's very low density, so emissions from the exhaust itself will be negl
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> Hang on a sec, you're assuming that the water is smoothly accelerating at 9.81ms^2 for the entire 2km way down. No, that's the raw potential energy calculation. For power, you use the basic relationship that P=FV (force times
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> If true, then when slavery was ended we would presumably have seen a stagnation in the economic fortunes of the USA, which I don't think has happened. Something like that did in fact happen -- the post-civil war period coincided w
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> I agree, SSN's are a poor form of authentication. What's missing from these conversations is realistic approaches to fixing it. SSNs are a poor form of authentication because they're ostensibly secret but re-used everywh
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> They are competing in the free market. Users are free to not use their software and there are many other choices. Users are not free to use other software on Apple hardware . The operative question is how we define the market. Is the
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> I want to Apple to be the benevolent dictator of what software is on my phone, And I am willing to pay higher up prices, and put up with missing features in order to protect their revenue stream in exchange for that. You could still ex
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Many creators don't want to use music claimed by the big names, but they might not have a choice. For example, footage used in a review (say a clip of a TV show) necessarily comes with any background music. If the TV show is using l
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> Maybe I'm wrong but it feels a bit simpler than people being evil or malevolent. It's more like squeezing a juice out of a lemon: at first, it only requires light pressure to get the juice, but as you want more and more juice
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> I take you at your word. It's just hilarious that a post urging empathy for executives floats to the top while it's bootstraps for everyone else. [EDIT: in other upvoted HN posts, not necessarily yours.] In some ways, having
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> This is why I find the Irish government's strategy puzzling: they continue to insist on a measure that has been a proven deal-breaker for an orderly withdrawal, I don't think the Republic of Ireland has a good alternative. I
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Note that as of this writing, the submitted link appears to be a tracking link from an e-mail campaign.
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> I also fully support the idea that people should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with their work product. (within the limits of the law, of course) Do you want ham-fisted regulations? Because that's how you get ham-
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> For example, Tesla seems to save replays of when its vehicles would have behaved significantly differently compared to how the driver actually behaved, and this data is supposed to be quite useful. I don't think such a system wou
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> The added insurance costs for luddites will price them out of the market. What added insurance costs? It's not like adding self-driving cars to the road will make manual driving more dangerous. No safety technology could make i
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> If you need for people to restructure their laws and cities solely to accommodate your new technology, To be fair, this did happen -- with cars. But that also sets the bar: to warrant re-architecting cities, an advance needs to be as s
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> Humans can drive that fast in such low visibility, but we (often) have enough brains not to. I think your "(often)" is doing a lot of work in this sentence. There are many unsafe conditions that don't require an icy roa
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You're looking for Goodhart's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law ): "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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> The dataset is biased. Otherwise woman~nurse wouldn't have been the second hit for the query. Had the dataset not been biased it would have been able to produce the analogy "woman is to doctor as man is to nurse". I thin
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> If we eliminate king from the result list I would assume it's plural is removed as well. In fact, the plural isn't removed. You can see the effect by analogizing A:B :: A:?. For man:king :: man:?, you get [kings, queen, mona

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