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by ausbah 5y ago
at least in the case of reinforcement learning, no. just because you can simulate the problem doesn't mean you know how to optimally solve it - ex driving a car
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by ausbah 5y ago
I trust a centralized solution more than anything I could do myself, plus the convenience ig
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by ausbah 5y ago
linear regression is what most classes start with
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by ausbah 5y ago
there's protesting then there's Neo-Nazis protesting, I don't think Germany tolerates the latter
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by ausbah 5y ago
I know in some areas like declining college enrollment men are definitely disproportionately effected, but can you be so sure for other areas that the article cites as evidence? like more men being raised by single mothers, or declining wag
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by ausbah 5y ago
>In the NFT community, we are witnessing the logical conclusion of a generation that is so alienated, so profoundly unfulfilled, that they are considering abandoning the physical world altogether. the comparison to 1960s counterculture a
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by ausbah 5y ago
100% estate tax, higher taxes on higher incomes and on established wealth, stronger funding for public utilities and institutions, etc. these problems their solutions and nothing new, I think many people just don't want to pay more for
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by ausbah 5y ago
how is it suppression if the material is easily available via other sources? like say other book stores?
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by ausbah 5y ago
it's hard for me to tell from the toke of your writing, but is this suppose to be a bad thing? data collection and targeted ads aren't great even in the context of politics, but that seems more like a societal wide issue. everythi
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by ausbah 5y ago
I still don't get why hacker news hates subscriptions so much. the NYT is always producing content so it has constant costs, everyone hates ads / they might now pay enough - so subs are the next best option?
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by ausbah 5y ago
I think claiming "censorship" is often either an attempt by those in positions of influence to get attention by playing victim (see many super popular voices in Twitter and Facebook like Jordan Peterson) or bigots claw back a posi
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by ausbah 5y ago
and the system thats causes such unfairness isn't perpetuated / influenced by those with massive amounts of wealth more than everyone else?
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by ausbah 5y ago
shouldn't compilers handle stuff like this?
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by ausbah 5y ago
my understanding as an American its not that MBAs can't be personally lucrative, it's that they are seen as gateways to overbearing management, corporate jargon and BS, profit seeking at all costs, etc.
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by ausbah 5y ago
any good info on manipulating the "control vectors" in the latent space?
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by ausbah 5y ago
my guess for a while has been that covid is endemic at this point and will be "a thing to live with" like the flu, where it would be in the best interest of everyone if they stayed home, got vaccinated every year (or as necessary)
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by ausbah 5y ago
on kondo I always had the impression that "remove that which doesn't spark joy" is similar but still different from minimalism both say there is more meaning from less stuff, but the latter is less of everything while the for
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by ausbah 5y ago
it becomes a master you don't think of as a master, like an institutional system like wages where you think you're in control when the power dynamic is really reversed
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by ausbah 5y ago
fiat currencies aren't back by government wealth, they're "backed" by people's trust in the future stability of the currency. people trust that the value of the currency will remain relatively constant over shortish
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by ausbah 5y ago
I think the law is already there in those areas, it's just really really really hard to prove racial discrimination
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by ausbah 5y ago
I'm in college atm, I go to parties precisely to get away from discussing "intellectual matters". it's fine to sometimes have a break from the thing you do all dah
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by ausbah 5y ago
>For example, have you ever stopped to consider that maybe Japanese woman prefer to be in traditional role? how can you know this for certain? if Japanese culture writ large is "woman should be homemakers", and most Japanese wo
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by ausbah 5y ago
you don't transmit AIDS, you trasmit HIV and not sure who you're hanging with, but as a sexually active gay man I've never heard of no condom usage for anyone being seen as acceptable unless there is consent between all par
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by ausbah 5y ago
from this thread and the far-too-many-hours I've spent on Reddit - obviously these feeling are not uncommon, but the tone in which this stuff is presented always reeks of unearned superiority like I think its great that people like O
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by ausbah 5y ago
the big argument you'll likely hear is that everything the OP did was "decentralized", a virtue worthy in and into itself
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by ausbah 5y ago
why are you asking a loaded question?
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by ausbah 5y ago
as someone who doesn't subscribe to any major belief system (including atheism which I am aware isn't technically a "belief system"), this made me think when I feel "spiritual" probably whatever makes me feel s
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by ausbah 5y ago
aren't things like taxes and maintance passed along to the renters?
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by ausbah 5y ago
landlords rarely build housing, they usually buy up existing housing and rent it out and the don't have to do anything illegal to restrict the housing supply - they can lobby, regulate, and vote
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by ausbah 5y ago
is one of the incentives for those who rent housing not to keep the available housing supply low (at least to a certain point)?

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