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by abeppu 3y ago
(a) neither whites nor Asians are a "culture" (b) kids sitting at cafes doing homework is not a "takeover" (c) California was home to a bunch of Native American nations, who were then genocided by the Spanish. A bunch of
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by abeppu 3y ago
I dunno, when I was a kid I didn't want to play sports but my parents kept signing me up for teams. Is that "disturbing"? I also didn't want to eat my vegetables or go to bed on time. A _lot_ of what kids do isn't g
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by abeppu 3y ago
No, if they've done their data analysis right (and I dunno...) they're saying it's actually _flight_ b/c whites leave faster than Asians arrive, and apparently they confirm by getting this number by more than one route.
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by abeppu 3y ago
"good culture" == "not Asian American culture" apparently? I think this is exactly the thing that the authors skate right past. "Parental fears of academic competition" is assumed to be fully disjoint with &quo
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by abeppu 3y ago
A direct link to the pdf: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31434/w314... "the enrollment of one Asian student leads to 1.5 white departures on average" "Another simple exp
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by abeppu 3y ago
Not really special to them, and I don't think they're an outlier, but: 16% effective tax rate.
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by abeppu 3y ago
Is there a name for this joke format? I think it descends from a line about labor in the USSR: "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us." Tony Judt in "Thinking the Twentieth Century" had a line about Moscow needi
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by abeppu 3y ago
When you say it didn't help, can you clarify what you're measuring? In the context of this post, I think both the performance your task, and the number of outlier weights (and their magnitude) are important.
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Do you know what else sounds like a recipe for killing people? Not allowing people to access therapeutics that might save their life because it hasn't yet gone through regulatory approval yet for whatever reason (delays, too expen
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by abeppu 3y ago
Most employees in the country are employed at will. The employer can fire them for almost any reason, or no reason. That reason may have nothing whatsoever to do with the employee's conduct. "There are rumors that you made amateur
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by abeppu 3y ago
> nobody is going to get fired (without getting the shit sued out of them) for deepfakes of them showing up The WaPo article cited that mentions the school teacher who was fired does _not_ mention any litigation. It seems like a failure
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by abeppu 3y ago
To what degree does this also reflect the restrictions on China receiving higher-end chips?
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by abeppu 3y ago
> The whole country and everything in it being the personal property of the sovereign sounds weird now, but that's basically how everything was until the invention of the modern concept of the state and constitutional monarchies. I
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by abeppu 3y ago
Ok, super basic question: What does it mean to "buy" a sovereign nation? - from whom do you buy it? If you write a big check to the government of Nauru, does that government even have the ability to "sell" the country? A
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by abeppu 3y ago
If you were spying, surely you wouldn't need that much area? And if you were doing something nefarious, wouldn't you use more than one company to make the purchases?
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think deaths from malnutrition are shameful regardless of age, but I think that's far more an issue of how we distribute resources than our actual ability to produce calories from the land. Aside from simple inequality, both food was
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by abeppu 3y ago
> However, most animals are raised on land that is not highly productive for crop agriculture. For example dry areas where most crops will deplete water resources or very hilly areas that are more prone to erosion and harder to operate
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by abeppu 3y ago
In every language, for every word, there will be some history and source. And one can always declare a "different rule" around exceptional cases ... but that's kind of vacuous, and speakers have to remember which words are su
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think the concept of "simplest naturalistic language" may be intrinsically broken -- a "naturalistic language" is not simple. Natural languages balance between regular rules (e.g. in English, we often add -ed to make t
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by abeppu 3y ago
... btw, since we know how to make locks that are harder to pick, why _don't_ we use them basically everywhere including houses. Are they a lot more challenging to manufacture?
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by abeppu 3y ago
> You just don't leave it outside at all! How practical is this really? You bring your folding bike into the restaurant where you're eating, into the bar where you're meeting friends, into the gym (it doesn't fit into
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by abeppu 3y ago
If your bike is stolen and you actually make a claim, does that make your homeowners insurance more expensive going forward?
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by abeppu 3y ago
> One would think a delivery truck would have AC? UPS only last month reached an agreement to start putting AC in trucks, to begin rolling out next year. Amazon drivers are not unionized, so it might take OSHA or something before all su
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think the reality is somewhere in the middle. You need to be able to accurately predict behavior of humans _following some conventions_, and to be wary of the behavior of humans when they violate those conventions. An example I saw: - At
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think a key disconnect is that the 'incidents' being complained of most are not collisions, but they can still be disruptive, and indeed dangerous. Suppose one were to just install brightly painted immobile bollards on streets,
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by abeppu 3y ago
> E.g. if consumer prices at time A and B are the same, but the value of GOOG is X at time A and 2X at time B, doesn't the dollar at time A has more buying power than at time B? To me, this seems like a misleading framing. When you
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by abeppu 3y ago
Not my area, but the images in the Canon pages seem to depict the lenses as still being relatively thick overall, with several components doing the same job they do in conventional lenses, but with the addition of thin layers with refractiv
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by abeppu 3y ago
As a non-religious person, I find the indignation about the idea of turning one flavor of house of worship to the god of Abraham into another flavor of house of worship to the god of Abraham to be pretty amusing. And when it happens, it see
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by abeppu 3y ago
This is definitely not my area, but in other contexts I have heard of blind auditions as being a common practice in orchestras (i.e. people auditioning literally are hidden from view while they play and evaluations are then based only on he
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Case in point, you mention the PPP loans, which were signed into law by a previous administration. The CARES act passed 96-0 in the Senate, and in the House was an overwhelming voice-vote. The large majority the house members and senat

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