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by _dps 7y ago
You have 80% of the story but the last 20% is important. Why not let anyone attend any public school? Because public schools are largely funded by local taxes. So a school in an expensive neighborhood with high taxes will naturally be a mag
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by _dps 7y ago
We already have school choice for universities. You go where you want and you either pay for it or find funding from the government/charities. No one finds it weird that you're not tied to your local neighborhood for higher educat
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by _dps 8y ago
I have almost the same feelings about my 2018 MBP. I have been very happy with a 2018 Dell XPS 15. The build quality is absolutely in line with Apple standards (though obviously a different style). In particular I am a stickler for the mac
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by _dps 8y ago
My budget estimate is based on actual experience building data science operations at Fortune 500s.
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by _dps 8y ago
I know from experience that you can put together a very good full-suite team of 20 people in SFBA with a 5-year budget in the tens of millions. That's a fraction of a $300M acquisition (though obviously the acquisition brings IP, relat
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by _dps 8y ago
This is an editorialized and potentially misleading title (though the original title is quite bait-y so I understand the motivation). Here is the relevant quotation > "Horseplay," a term used to denote child rape, is ... part o
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by _dps 8y ago
By this logic performance art done in view of humans should be subject to IRB review — it is, after all, trying to provoke and observe a reaction in a group of humans.
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by _dps 8y ago
I agree with your analysis that it's increased competition for prime locations, but that seems to me purely descriptive. It's not a surprise, but it's still a problem :) And it's a problem that is masked by aggregate mea
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by _dps 8y ago
> but cost per square foot is broadly stable I've looked at this data before and you are correct, but something sits uneasily for me. I think the thing everyone feels as "everything is more expensive" is that cost per squa
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by _dps 8y ago
For anyone who cares about this genre, I'll throw in strong recommendations for - The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Virginia - SOMA with the monster interactions turned off (they don't bother me, but with interactions it's not
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by _dps 8y ago
> ability to win games that other people made up A common game bosses make up: "impress me with growth in this KPI by next quarter" Rather than proving it is laughable, you are instead giving the exact reason why (under a certa
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by _dps 8y ago
Having run a small business myself I know, the hard way, it can be much higher :) I was just trying to pick a small uncontroversial figure.
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by _dps 8y ago
This is a weird claim. At the federal minimum $7.25 and 2000 hours per year that's $14.5k. Overhead on an employee (taxes, insurance, equipment, office space, etc.) is at least another 50% of that, call it $20k total. So just hiring so
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by _dps 8y ago
I don't know what standard you have for "exceptionally more variable" but in a normal population you only need a 33% difference in standard deviation to get a ratio of 2x at +2stdev or almost 4x at +3stdev (here stdev is of t
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by _dps 8y ago
These are different uses of the word "bias". In the statistical sense there is an objectively true right answer and "bias" refers to the difference between a model's average answer and the average true answer. It ha
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by _dps 8y ago
> companies should be forced to spend additional resources advertising to demographics that they have identified as not strong leads Leaving aside judgement of the merits of such policy, this is basically already the case in real estate
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by _dps 8y ago
In what other field of substantial complexity is there any expectation that errors never occur? I don't think it's defeatist to accept that there will always be problems. It seems to me in any complex field (medicine, aviation, fi
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by _dps 8y ago
I think the two "poles" you've identified are good ones (~microseconds matter and ~100ms matters) but there's a wide range in between. If you do anything with video at modern resolutions, then you're in the single-m
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by _dps 8y ago
I broadly agree with your characterization of Quillette, but I'm curious (genuinely, not in a gotcha way) if you see publications like HuffPo or Vox as similarly having an axe to grind? The thing that makes Quillette stand out IMO is t
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by _dps 8y ago
As someone from one of those countries I've never understood this criticism of CSV. JSON doesn't let you choose your own separator either but no one levels this complaint at it. Defensively quoting values that may contain commas i
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by _dps 8y ago
> No economist has ever claimed that global trade is Pareto-optimal inside nations. This is an important point, and I think plays into the question about tariffs (which, to be clear, I think are probably net negative). The conventional a
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by _dps 8y ago
I spent much of my childhood in Greece, and thus around tourists from all over the world. In my experience speaking loudly and slowly reliably improves enunciation. It also often comes with exaggerated mouth shaping which gives useful visua
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by _dps 8y ago
If you don't keep them all, then you have to choose. Choosing takes time and effort that many people would prefer to spend in other ways. Very few people think that every single shot will be meaningful in 30 years. But it's hard t
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by _dps 8y ago
No-borders only makes sense with anarchy or with global government. If there is more than one government in the world, they will have their own jurisdictions. Borders are the lines people use to separate jurisdictions in physical space (the
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by _dps 8y ago
I don't know if it's true or not, but based on a little thinking about availability bias and publication bias suggest it's plausible. No one is likely to write about "targets hit exactly as planned, no collateral damage&
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by _dps 8y ago
I'm treading lightly here because this is a sensitive subject, and I am somewhat personally involved [0]. But the discussion here is missing important history that shapes this problem that others casually dismiss as "silly".
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by _dps 8y ago
At least in the US this is not true. The very first minimum wage, inflation adjusted, comes out to something like $8k/yr in today's money ( https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/ ). It i
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by _dps 8y ago
The answer is simple, and sad. We (I am Greek) missed out on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment because we were under the boot of the Ottoman empire for 400 years. By the time we achieved freedom, we were a backwater too far behind every
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by _dps 8y ago
I haven't read the material in a while but I think this was sensitive to framing. That is, I don't think it's exactly true that attaching a reward to something harms performance — I think one has to frame the task as being do
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by _dps 8y ago
The historical view of tulip speculation has changed a lot in the last 20 years, but popular conception has not caught up. In a nutshell, it is now believed by several researchers to have been a very narrow phenomenon with minimal impact to

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