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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
We don't need more art historians and event coordinators and other roles for which internships are unpaid. For every degree that actually results in positive return on investment (so, not most liberal arts degrees), internships are pai
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
If what you're saying is true we'd see the number of rich decrease exponentially. That is objectively not the case. > Where is that money coming from? Not sure what you mean by this?
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
How does the fact that 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth within 3 generations gel with wealth being lost to other rich people? That doesn't logically make sense. If that was the case then there would slowly be ever fewer rich p
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
The idea that education (in terms of knowledge and skill acquisition) is zero sum is wrong. Educational equality starts with parents giving a shit about their kids' education. Why do you think Asians overachieve on every benchmark we h
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
> In fact most Americans over-estimate the amount of economic mobility that we have Your link seems to say otherwise. If economic mobility were low then most rich families would not see their wealth meaningfully eroded for generations. T
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
> Inflation is IMHO less harmful than real wage decrease or unemployment For minimum wage workers and in general unskilled labor, this is just not true. Minimum wage workers can't afford to hedge against inflation by buying assets,
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Interestingly I feel California has gotten colder, especially southern California. It used to stay around 50-60 in winter, now we regularly go down to 30-35 lows and 35-45 highs.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I think this narrative is biased by your perspective as an enthusiast PC gamer (the PCMasterRace type of person). Oculus selling a console-like, works out of the box offering makes a lot of sense in pushing VR towards the mainstream. The ex
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
There was also an FTC filing associated with the Quest 2 face interface recall that disclosed US sales numbers in the millions as well. 10M devices is a reasonable number.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
> Balance of payments data show that U.S. firms repatriated $777 billion in 2018, roughly 78 percent of the estimated stock as of end-2017 of offshore cash holdings This is good for the U.S. economy compared to leaving it overseas. Even
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Induction is great but most budget apartments/homes are going to have resistive electric, either coil or glass top. These are objectively worse than gas for cooking, not least of which because you can't even lift up the pan 1 inch
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Most NIMBY cities (like NYC and SF) today no longer allow industrial buildings (like for example power plants or refineries) in their city limits. So yes, "how large America is" does end up mattering because electricity and gas an
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Certainly you can ask these questions but these are business process issues, not technical ones. They're unrelated to AI. My personal take is you won't see any tangible movement on this until black women (or whatever group you cho
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
The answer would probably be yes if that subgroup wasn't a large percentage of the dataset used for training and testing. Or if that subgroup wasn't a large percentage of the user base. Come on, if you've worked at any large
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
No, remediating such issues (only predicting the maximum likelihood class in the dataset) is a problem of _machine learning and optimization_ research, not ethics research. There is nothing an ethicist can do to solve this problem. It is ea
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
The meaning in woke terminology is more subtle than just "not white". For example Asians would likely be excluded in this case, and Middle Easterners and other minorities. "People of color" in this case means blacks and
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
There is an abundance of capital chasing ever diminishing returns. I think it's at least somewhat likely there is little price elasticity on the sponsor cut and almost certainly a lot of retail investors who are irrational investing in
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Too many people glorify staying at one employer for a substantial length of time. What people are doing now is what they should have done long ago: switch jobs if you're not comfortable with your work environment or pay. This also happ
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
It's being propped up by the Fed, which just announced their QE decision for the next 3 months or so today. That gives plenty time for an IPO.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Nobody wants to pay Bay Area rent to live next to drug addicts and piss smelling sidewalks. Everyone I know in tech that was in SF has moved out of SF.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
The article is about how an amalgamation of feel-good laws combined to destroy restaurants' ability to offer patio dining. Passing feel-good laws that have poorly thought out consequences is what California "progressives" do.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
It's honestly not surprising in my view. Wealthy "progressives" have always had a "rules for thee but not for me" attitude, whether it comes to homeless shelters, new housing starts, police funding, or affirmative a
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Hah, good luck paying for living expenses in the Bay Area with that kind of money. $1100 will get you a shack built in the 1920's with 3 roommates and drug addicts at your front door.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
In the long run, having lower taxes from not paying for other peoples' educations is cheaper for you and for anyone with a useful degree. I will take the example of my friend. He's at a no name company as a new grad software engin
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
If you make universities responsible for student income outcomes (by for example making them take loan liability in case of default) that makes them steer students towards the CS degree, not the art history one.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
You're talking from anecdotes, I'm showing you the objective statistics supplied by the state of California. One is going to give a more complete picture than the other.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
> constant talk of student debt forgiveness This is mostly because a lot of people got useless degrees that don't result in high paying jobs, not because of some intrinsic cost of education. The number of STEM degrees awarded [1] is
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Objectively, from the statistics, that's just not the case. Average undergraduate student loan debt in public California schools was $23,600 in 2019 [1]. That is less than the price of most new cars. [1]: https://www.sacbee.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Because for some students the debt is paid off quickly, so in the long run the lower taxes from the state not paying for everyone's education make that student better off. For other students with useless degrees, the consequences of th
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
It aligns incentives between society and the student. If the student fucks around or majors in something useless, they're on the hook for it. I'd gladly subsidize more STEM degrees with my taxpayer dollars but I won't give a

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