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by abeppu 3y ago
... except the "exorbitant" pricing on API access means that it's _not_ a commons that others can take from in a scalable way.
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by abeppu 3y ago
And in fairness, I can see why it might have been hard to give shares to the reddit community: - aren't there regulatory/legal problems with having a very large number of people owning equity in a company that's not public? -
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by abeppu 3y ago
The lead in to this post says > None of the people that spent hours of their lives lovingly contributing to Subreddits, or performing the vital-but-thankless role of moderation, will make a profit off of Reddit's public listing .. a
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by abeppu 3y ago
What about policies that aid the labor force participation of people that already have kids? Subsidized abundant childcare, for example, both lowers the cost of being a parent and makes it easier for parents to go back to work. Like, I get
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by abeppu 3y ago
I wonder if there will now be a large number of similar suits from others that have been discriminated against in the same way. Maybe the eventual total liability could be meaningful?
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by abeppu 3y ago
They're paying more than they would have paid for a cheaper/lighter car. The fuel thing is made complicated by EVs with heavy batteries. But the fact that they've paid _something_ greater than they otherwise might have doesn&
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by abeppu 3y ago
All of this is in a context where it's assumed that participants _know_ the goals of the person under consideration, can straight-forwardly evaluate whether actions are in line with those, and where the _participant's_ goals are f
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Bikes are in conflict with cars. Full stop. No, they aren't. In particular, if you're a driver going from one side of the city to the other (or whatever) if the portion of cars in front of you which are local, short trips wit
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by abeppu 3y ago
... but these studies aren't on "shutting down car access" and converting to _only_ bike and pedestrian access. Adding a bike lane still allows cars, just not on that narrow strip of pavement. Frankly, it's not even erod
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm in favor of more bike lane infrastructure, but I think the evidence being cited here doesn't line up with the claims. The headline is "Bike lane are good for business" and immediately below it says "Study after
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by abeppu 3y ago
Work is a natural place to get to know someone, but forming romantic relationships with superiors or subordinates is a minefield, and can be bad for people _other_ than those forming the relationship. Even if no one is "sell(ing) thems
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by abeppu 3y ago
> I'm concerned about the fairness of this decision to other team members who have been with us for over a year, contributing significantly to our project. Additionally, I feel somewhat sidelined, as my friend and the new member oft
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by abeppu 3y ago
It's worth taking a second to note that the author just assumes that readers understand "the wilderness" to mean "not Google". This post gives a lot of credit to Google's infra and hardware teams, and I'd
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by abeppu 3y ago
> "Pre-2008, it was easier to grind it out and retire early – but very few now are able to make their millions and stop working at 35," she says. I kinda doubt that "more than a few" were making their millions and ret
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by abeppu 3y ago
And some languages (e.g. java, scala) have standard libraries with interfaces that describe ordered collections, dictionaries, etc, but offer multiple implementations so the programmer can pick based on their specific considerations, but st
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think in part this is bc PG&E donates to a bunch of political organizations, office holders and candidates. They don't even spend all that much ... But since there's not a "nationalize the utilities" PAC making com
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by abeppu 3y ago
Is there a methodological concern about how the uninfected "controls" are established? (I have not read the papers you linked) It seems like: (a) Obviously they're not intentionally infecting one group and keeping the other i
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by abeppu 3y ago
> there's ultimately a limit to how effective personal cars can be when population density exceeds a certain level I think the other issue in the US is the opposite: below a certain density, it's hard for public transit to be e
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by abeppu 3y ago
I was confused by the fact that it started off with a little sound, and then there was a crescendo, and then it cut off to silence at about the 3 minute mark ... and then around the 4 minute mark sound ramps back up. Was that artificially m
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by abeppu 3y ago
> On existing hardware, the gains in compute and memory efficiency are significant, without performance degradation (as tested by the authors). Did they actually show absence of performance degradation? I think it's conspicuous that
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by abeppu 3y ago
Actually, I was able to get to the Nature article through my library. I had thought the material in quotes was Miller paraphrasing. In fact, he's quoting from two separated points in the article but has changed the punctuation. The ori
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Another point they stress: the adventure of wrestling with big ideas and expressing them: “Just enjoy writing,” they say. “Try to write the best version of your paper. . . . You can’t please an anonymous reader, but you should be able
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by abeppu 3y ago
Is it necessarily the case that median physician pay must go down for a single-payer system? I would hope that we could have savings if the total payments to actual care providers was similar, but billing, and insurance parts of the system
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Of the cited hate mail Savant received, I have to wonder how many were setup with poor writing on the topic. The article includes the specific wording that Savant used in her column. It seems pretty clear. > I think this story in it
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by abeppu 3y ago
Was it poorly written? It was clear enough for you and many other people to write simulations, to do mathematical analysis, etc. Or could it be the case that some very accessible true facts in probability are counter-intuitive, but even aft
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by abeppu 3y ago
> One who thinks that the important question is: "Which quantities are random?" is then in this situation. For the first researcher, n was a fixed constant, r was a random variable with a certain sampling distribution. For the
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California company ordered to pay $140M for bottle and can smuggling scheme(fox40.com)
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by abeppu 3y ago
IDK, I think it could be disastrous for users attempting to actually meet real humans to establish compatibility and have a relationship with. But there's apparently a bunch of demand for imaginary relationships with bots, and there&#x
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think this is a much more tractable problem if one doesn't think in terms of diversity with respect to identify-associated labels, but thinks in terms of diversity of other features. Consider the analogous task "generate a pictu
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm confused about what seems like conflicting info in the wikipedia article. I can't reconcile the quote you picked from the intro with two statements in the 'Impact' section: > In total, U.S. government economic bai

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