SolaceQuantum

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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Shareholders are not the ones who lose the most when the ravens come to roost.
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
"I don't really see how friendships and relationships in general don't align with that sort of model. Can you reduce them to purely mathematical transaction values? Of course not." This is why you cannot use a mathemat
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
" If it accurately describes the situation and enables you to think about it and get ideas by transferring what we know about other markets/interactions etc, isn't that better than putting human interaction, mental health et
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
I actually looked into american made clothing: Jeans. American-made jeans are anywhere from $160-300. I can also buy some jeans at Levi's for $60-100. It is not as small as you depict and also not as large as you are responding to, but
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Classes may not be equipped for streaming at all. Additionally, chromebook and internet may not be helpful for children living in dangerous housing where their chromebooks may be stolen or pawned for food (after which internet means nothin
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
School districts of families that cannot afford internet also are school districts that are so poorly funded that subsidized internet and cheap chromebooks are not an option. Additionally, schools may be the only time these kids are able to
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
> It's actually true that rising wages result in higher rents. Do you have a study you can point to, since this is trivial?
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Employment cannot solve poverty problems for the disabled, the sick, the people taking care of their children/parents/siblings/etc, or the people who are better served spending the time in getting a degree.
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Arguably, framing someone's life behavior as functions of usefulness is antithetical to the need to engage in recreation. The following of TV is useful if your social sphere is amongst other people who watch TV. It builds a canon in
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
"e. They joined the union with the intent they would negotiate on their behalf." They didn't have a choice. The union then negotiated against their interests.
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Systematically it sounds insane that the TAs are wholly responsible for grading but they don't get to teach the class, and they don't get paid enough to live. How can you expect a TA to grade appropriately if they are starving? I
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
The UC System has been defunding their academic positions and putting billions of money into upper management positions for generations. [0] "UAW local 2865, a labor union representing UC student workers and teaching assistants, recent
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
The business as an organization has a responsibility to value the humanity of the laborers they employ, which includes understanding that the greater benefit of paying wages is that now everyone has more money to spend on the business (assu
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
I think this is a really poor-faith strawman and doesn't contribute anything positive to the conversation. Please reconsider how you approach people you disagree with.
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
I suspect because its an opinion piece, not actual news.
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Digital mortgage servicing platform Brace raises $10M to fund growth(housingwire.com)
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Actor’s guilds don’t specify a ceiling to wages, only floors. We could do the same here.
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
People who don't want to interact with society or be helped by society can... not interact with society or be helped by society. They can go out in the woods somewhere or develop a religion that gives you excemptions. You can also orga
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Does that actually happen?
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Wait I'm confused, is this country requiring people take time off to become entrepreneurs?
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
But we already have existing data that says that people who are given free money don't just become unemployed, and the only people who do take the free money to be unemployed are parents and teenagers who are trying to parent and study
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
And I am arguing that approval ratings and protests may not be highly correlated or have causational relationships with the amount of social services.
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
The approval rating doesn't seem to be much better than US Gov't[0]. Also, the US is also constantly protesting too. What do you think Black Lives Matter, the Google Walkout, the Amazon protests in NYC, the current and ongoing unr
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
What’s wrong with more data? Levels skews only to US based salaries while Glassdoor weighs older salaries excessively (thereby skewing lower).
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
I actually do in fact read a few news sources to get a pulse on local happenings and call my representative upon situations like becoming a sanctuary city.
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
" of course you're affected when the government decides on a new policy ... but how does knowing about it on the same day or in the same hour mitigate that?" It saves people a nasty surprise when the policies they relied up
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Would you be willing to link to some papers and cite some specific algos to play with? The above cited specific algos. What are the new versions of these named algorithms?
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
"The simple idea is to do stuff like train your model on randomized subsets of your data and then compare its performance to using all the data you have." How do you do this when you cannot verify that your data, in subset or in
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
How would one reach a threshold of precision if the data on which precision is determined is missing or faulty?
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by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
As long as you're not the scapegoat you're in a position of power relative to the proles, though.

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