andrewla

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by andrewla 1y ago
I'm sorry -- I fail to see how "mental health issues" is an interesting version of this. For serious mental health issues (of the form of #1) we simply do not have reliable treatment options aside from involuntary confinement
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by andrewla 1y ago
While the idea of restoring SROs and other dormitory-style housing is a good idea to better serve the lower-cost end of housing, it is completely incompatible with modern ideas around tenant protection. For an SRO to work, you must be able
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by andrewla 1y ago
This is really clever but better to call this a list rather than an array; functions which expect array semantics will simply not work, and there's no way to transparently pass slices of this data structure around. In the past I'v
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by andrewla 1y ago
This article commits the cardinal sin of homeless discourse -- trying to conflate two things: 1. The "homeless problem", that is, the problem of mentally deranged or violent vagrants that make public spaces less usable or unwelcom
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by andrewla 1y ago
They also removed the parts that said that states can't have navies and can't declare war on other countries. All part of Trump's plan!
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by andrewla 1y ago
Hahaha -- making "it" public by cutting out the part of the constitution that says that we can have a Navy. What are you even talking about?
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by andrewla 1y ago
I think both easy to understand, and also it seems very obvious that non-deterministic Turing machines are more powerful than deterministic ones. It feels almost like a non-deterministic Turing machine is more powerful almost in the sense t
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by andrewla 1y ago
I think it's reasonably clear at this point that an elementary proof that P != NP is unlikely to exist; in all likelihood such a proof would have to traverse many other fields of mathematics to get back to the main result, and would al
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by andrewla 1y ago
No, the GP is correct. If you use SAT to solve Sudoku, you have reduced Sudoku to SAT, not the other way around. That is, you've shown that an oracle that solves any SAT problem in constant time can solve any Sudoku in polynomial time.
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by andrewla 1y ago
tl;dr: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 If you decide to stick with google, change your search to be web-only by default, by entering " https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 " a
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by andrewla 1y ago
To be fair you raised a different point about ICE detentions as opposed to US citizens being denied reentry because of social media posts. The former happens but extremely rarely (like winning the lottery rare). The latter does not happen.
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by andrewla 1y ago
I was probably flagged for the unnecessary snark at the beginning of my post. I get it -- this isn't reddit and that sort of thing doesn't help. But I do earnestly believe that this is an almost pathological exaggeration of the st
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by andrewla 1y ago
There are lots of legal carveouts for when you can't sue the government but that is not relevant to this particular discussion. Yes, there are a handful of recent examples of ICE detentions of American citizens suspected of being illeg
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by andrewla 1y ago
Here I am referring to their desire to find a person who committed what appeared to be a criminal act. I am not excusing their use of the technology, only that the state and specifically the police have a compelling interest to find people
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by andrewla 1y ago
To expand on this differently -- if we have a model that produces estimates of the "true value of improved land", then we can validate that model whenever property sells. It would be a slow process but if we have a model and the m
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by andrewla 1y ago
No, my point is that two things both calling themselves a "land value tax" based on a putative "unimproved land value" can be wildly different in terms of incentives and results based on the specific mechanism used for c
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by andrewla 1y ago
Now we're wandering a bit far afield, but estimates and measurements like this are fine if they are designed for an operational purpose. If I want to know the unimproved value of my land so that I can evaluate whether to buy a similar
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by andrewla 1y ago
> Did you read the wikipedia page about LVT which describes how? Which part is impossible? The wikipedia article describes some processes, including assessments, regressions, and interpolation from fixed landmarks. Those are all means of
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by andrewla 1y ago
> Do you believe you can determine the true value of improved land It is at least theoretically answerable. In the extreme, yes. We can simply force the sale of the land. Practically speaking, no, we cannot answer that question in a deep
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by andrewla 1y ago
It is an interesting discussion, but I don't see anything in there about how to assess the accuracy of any of the methods against some sort of objective truth. I would have to read the underlying papers I think to get at this, but I do
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by andrewla 1y ago
Saying that they assess the value tells me nothing. How, specifically, do they arrive at these assessments. In my experience there is often an assessment process that is essentially just made up. And when properties do sell, the sale price
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by andrewla 1y ago
I agree with many of the arguments here about the theoretical impacts of a land value tax, especially the section "an LVT implicitly taxes improvements to nearby land" which is often overlooked or glossed over in these discussions
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by andrewla 1y ago
I am critical of the EU's approach, but say what you will, they are at least voting on it in a legislative setting rather than trying to staple it to the coattails of the fringes of their remit. It is for Congress to act on this, simpl
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by andrewla 1y ago
I've noticed this as well -- at one point I had switched from Canon inkjet refills to a generic third party refills, and years later the photos from the knockoff have faded to an astonishing degree while the Canon ink prints look brigh
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by andrewla 1y ago
This post not only directly references that, but even incorporates the SSC/ACT data into the dataset.
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by andrewla 1y ago
We certainly shouldn't accept subjective evaluations as proof of effectiveness, but that does not give it zero value. The more subtle the effect or the more invested the subject is in establishing the effectiveness of an intervention (
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by andrewla 1y ago
> All therapy, practiced with any consistency, is effective This is just clearly false? I don't mean to go super-literal here, but unless you have a very narrow definition of what counts as therapy (or if your definition of "th
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by andrewla 1y ago
I don't know what to tell you if you still believe that political contributions or spending are a determinative factor in politics rather than a trailing indicator (and a poor one at that). Even in terms of corruption, this is by far t
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by andrewla 1y ago
Agreed -- "is a term of the sum" is such an inverted way to look at it. Better I think would be to say "the result in column i and row j is the sum of product of elements in column i of the left cracovian and column j of the
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by andrewla 1y ago
I'm a skeptic as well, but calling it a "scam" is a bit extreme. I think QC proponents are acting in good faith, and I believe that it is worth chasing a little longer since we don't yet have a convincing model for why Q

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