Tsagadai

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by Tsagadai 9y ago
Migration is a significant part of many countries growth. If Australia and New Zealand, for example, did not have such massive migration they would be effectively in serious depression. In both countries migration has added more than 1% to
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
Nothing in economic history has ever indicated that economics is equilibrium seeking. Capitalism is all about growth and equilibrium is stagnation.
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
Steelmaking. That is one of the largest commercial uses after electricity.
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
jph00, I would just like to thank you for the first course and now the second course. I've thoroughly enjoyed both and they have taught me a lot.
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
I don't know which school of Marx's economics you went to but Marx argued entirely by value created. That is, the value of a worker's labour is the value that they should receive.
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
It would probably increase the value of such work. If I get $600/mo I am going to want a lot more than that to work full time doing something messy. Anything that was previously paying below the basic income amount would have to increa
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
The restrictions just make spyware easier to hide. Malicious users will still be able to bust into devices but removing or detecting them will be harder as you will not be in control of the device. What about what that curation entails. Sho
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
RAM really isn't that expensive, even if it is soldered onto the board. I wish more laptop manufacturers would make 16GB available in lower end models and have a true higher end of 64GB or more (instead of just 32GB).
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
Some banks still require activeX plugins. When you are paid into a bank and you only have an online account (not that rare) then you have to suck it up and use really, really insecure access methods (or change banks which isn't always
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
Except fine particulates negatively affect plant growth. Systems are complex and CO2 at levels that will greatly improve plant growth will probably kill most animal life (also mass oxygenation of the atmosphere has happened before and that
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by Tsagadai 9y ago
You can insure against roof damage too, it is a pretty standard part of house insurance.
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
It definitely exists. Consider the pay disparity between men who negotiate well versus those who don't. Now look at HR studies that show women rarely negotiate (no links to studies from me right now but I have heard this anecdotally fr
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
It's telling that MIT still lectures with blackboards while other universities spend oodles of dollars on expensive electric whiteboards, projectors and whatnot.
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
Not that expensive or rare: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682024...
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
If it only works on a Wizbang 200 and cannot be reproduced with the Doodad 3000 then it probably doesn't work or there are other variables missing from their results. Specialised equipment should not affect results (proving that equipm
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
I have tried and failed to reproduce some findings on ML papers. Sometimes graphs are being significantly smoothed or filtered which makes results look better, other times core components of algorithms are not described and the findings can
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
If I have a debt at an interest rate of 4% and inflation is 5% my debt is worth less every year relative to the value of other things. If I have a debt at an interest rate of 5% and inflation is 2.5% the value of the debt is increasing. Thi
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
Unless they want 4k TV content, like pretty much everyone who bought a 4K TV... I don't think it is possible to have communications infrastructure that is "too good".
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
Bit of a necro (raised from a dead thread) reply but worth adding a little more. I gave up trying to pick up all the cues at all. Instead I focus mainly just on conversation. It take a lot of work but it is possible (for me at least) to foc
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
I used to be like you. I am high functioning autistic so social interaction is mentally very hard for me and I feel completely drained after talking to people for an extended period of time. That said, I am now quite extroverted, especially
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
You haven't spent a lot of time in Japan. There are a lot of unemployed older men who have been out of work since the 1994 recession.
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
We work in a field where many decide to take advantage of their employees who are usually young, single and love working on their code. This is a ripe combination of exploiting naivety for commercial gain (if you think you make a lot coding
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
Your post reads like a very bleak argument against the minimum wage. Increasing the median should mean that those above the median also see an increase through economics. If the price something is $X then the price of a premium something is
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
This is my experience too. This sort of open company (from appearances in the original article) is pushing the salary negotiation as part of broader openness. Once you have buy in with the broader financials the negotiation can take place w
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
They exist. Cost me $15 at a local chemist (in Australia) to get an immunization for common stomach bugs in Southeast Asia/India). It also isn't impossible to buy antibiotics before you go and to take them with you.
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
Most RL algorithms are polynomial time or worse, and they use large datasets. Computation is always going to be an issue which is why most successful implementations are around simplifying models and datasets. If you can figure out a way of
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
The NSA is already partly split like this. There are parts that work to improve security.
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Hanjin shipping collapses(abc.net.au)
2 points by Tsagadai 10y ago|1 comments
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
It is, it just isn't widely distributed. BHP and Rio Tinto operate automated trains in large areas of Australia.
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by Tsagadai 10y ago
You seem to assume that no one is being paid to do nothing. Sometimes an employee, for a multitude of reasons, may be paid top dollar and merely benched. Whether to keep the employee out of competitors hands or because their deployment is d

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