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by abeppu 2mo ago
> US copyright law (currently, sorta, kinda) requires that only one copy of the book you purchased exist. If you scan it, you must destroy the other copy. What's the "sorta, kinda" as you understand it? Has any judge, or l
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by abeppu 2mo ago
All the offense is that books are being destroyed. They're being destroyed b/c that's slicing off the binding to get flat pages is most convenient way to scan them. But ... could AI firms sidestep all the vitriol by paying to
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by abeppu 2mo ago
But did the judge make the decision? I think there's a real question of whether this is a failure of due process rights. But I also think supreme Court Justices need to be awake for the court to actually hear arguments, so what do I k
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by abeppu 2mo ago
How about large scale fossil fuel emitters (including power production) who have lobbied against their own clean replacements (e.g. solar, wind, weakening net metering)? I do think that ICE car drivers who have ever, e.g. voted against publ
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by abeppu 2mo ago
I think we should start charging the worst emitters with manslaughter now. We shouldn't wait for the crisis to be halted; the law should be part of how we force firms to recognize part of the harm.
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by abeppu 2mo ago
I think it's surprising that the article predicts the impacts of gene editing to be relatively small. > Even so, the prospects for exceeding current records through gene editing are slim. Today’s racehorses are already tightly optim
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by abeppu 3mo ago
In the US market, where union participation is also very low, it's weird to me that this is an important reason people stay in their jobs, may influence what kind of jobs you take (full time vs contracting?), but: - job offers generall
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by abeppu 3mo ago
In the early 2000s I saw a gubernatorial candidate talking to an audience of over achieving high school students and when asked about what he would do to make college more affordable. He told a story about how he waited tables to pay for co
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by abeppu 3mo ago
Before the IPO there was much concern that the changes in rules to allow fast inclusion in indices like Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 would mean that there would be an artificially elevated price. Was that effect just over-estimated? Or shoul
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by abeppu 3mo ago
Or if it had any kind of measurement across a range of tasks
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by abeppu 3mo ago
I think this is silly. This is a product designed to deliver nicotine, and that's going to continue to be the important part for health considerations. Had the FDA become concerned about the pouch material, and a different pouch materi
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by abeppu 3mo ago
... would there really not be regulations on giant unmanned ships? That seems concerning, though I could certainly understand international / maritime law having a gap.
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by abeppu 3mo ago
Aside from the funding mechanism being a premium that everyone pays, the other part of the motivating story here that seems downright silly is: - the patient was _forced_ to take an ambulance to another hospital, but not to be treated for a
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by abeppu 3mo ago
I mean, I don't want to eat it either. But the point of generalizing the optimization framework is that it applies to other situations with the same shape. Maybe related questions: - if you have the resources to run just one online lea
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by abeppu 3mo ago
I think there is an optimization question buried here. In tech lots of people have experience with A/B tests, which function on the assumption that you have a stream of fresh sessions which are independent. Multi-armed bandits, Thompso
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by abeppu 3mo ago
I did grep through the paper, and ... no not really. "Urban" and "rural" never appear. Among uses of "control", for their own work they have controlled for sex and race. Their Table 2 and Figure 2 are the same
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by abeppu 3mo ago
I didn't read the full paper only the abstract, but bc the political spectrum is correlated with education level or urban vs rural or multiple other factors that deeply impact what it is like to have kids. Of urban college educated pr
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by abeppu 3mo ago
I think the author basically decides that "productivity" is not defined but "effective" is. The problem with productivity is that most of us aren't directly producing a thing that is of independent and immediately c
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NLRB Case of Denise Unterwurzacher and Atlassian(nlrb.gov)
4 points by abeppu 3mo ago|1 comments
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by abeppu 3mo ago
NLRB documents from proceedings between Atlassian and Denise Unterwurzacher, which yesterday produced an Administrative Law Judges Decision. This may be relevant to many tech workers both for (a) detailed and perhaps very familiar examples
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by abeppu 3mo ago
Ok here's maybe a dumb or maybe a crazy question or maybe not: - the Fed has price stability as part of its dual mandate, and in its normal operation does this at the level of manipulating the money supply for everyone, through changin
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by abeppu 3mo ago
And notably, we used to have a somewhat progressive corporate income tax which, at least on paper, provided a quantitative disincentive against too much consolidation. Sometimes the merger of A and B would pay a higher rate than A and B sep
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by abeppu 3mo ago
There is something a bit ironic that the evidence to refute the "more research is better" position is selecting (cherry-picking?) a particularly bad study. Are there better ways to measure whether the population of studies using t
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by abeppu 4mo ago
Or people that choose organic are also choosing other things that they think are healthy, and they're right at least some of the time.
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by abeppu 5mo ago
I think #2 risk being incoherent unless you define things very carefully. "Illusion" ordinarily means there's someone with a subjective experience which creates incorrect beliefs about the world. E.g. I drive on a highway in
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by abeppu 5mo ago
> RF was nowhere on my radar. cue rimshot
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by abeppu 5mo ago
> Waymos pull over into bike lanes all the time for pickups and drop-offs and that’s neither legal nor safe. While perhaps drop-offs are often relatively quick (though perhaps more risky; see the dooring accident description in the arti
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by abeppu 6mo ago
This is also the original way variational methods pick a parameterization of a model of known architecture which best matches some distribution which generated data but is not otherwise compactly expressible.
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by abeppu 6mo ago
The 0.1% thing ... Is that even the right label? I'm guessing one in a thousand people globally isn't using these mechanisms. The article spends some paragraphs on the world's richest person and his company's tax strateg
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by abeppu 6mo ago
ok so it seems pretty bad that they changed the index rules both to allow spacex in early and the wonky weighting stuff. But if one already has index-based things that are likely to be captive on the wrong side of this, and one wanted to be

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