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by baazaa 4y ago
Schools are just a place for warehousing kids; even people who take no interest in education know this from personal experience back from when they were a kid. Exactly 0 of 627 college students can answer simple questions like 'What is
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by baazaa 4y ago
I'm claiming the KKK only have one motive for lynching black men. There's no media coverage on this case because we don't have a proper press thanks to the ACCC, but it's a ridiculous case on the face of it. I use locati
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by baazaa 4y ago
This isn't just lynching another black man, it's lynching the same black man. Google was the target in both cases. As such it's obviously pertinent to look at what motivated them go after Google the first time, which as I s
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by baazaa 4y ago
Are you seriously suggesting one shouldn't take an institution's history into account when looking at a case? Like if the KKK does something, we should completely ignore their history of racism in figuring out what happened? That&
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by baazaa 4y ago
Look at the past record of the ACCC. When their media code ultimately just resulted in Google and Facebook paying Murdoch and 9, the commissioner said that was his plan all along. https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021&#x
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by baazaa 4y ago
Judicial review is much stronger in the US than NZ as well, due to parliamentary sovereignty you find in the Westminster system. Historically judicial review could only be used to review executive actions, not legislative bills. Now you hav
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by baazaa 4y ago
Locke had more influence than Hobbes in GB and the other British exponents of Liberalism like Mill (who was very influential among Australia's founders) also clearly advocated for limits on state power.
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by baazaa 4y ago
I originally had written premiers and PM's offices, not sure why I edited it. It wasn't a statement about federalism but about where power was located within each level of government. Obviously the judiciary is much less powerfu
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by baazaa 4y ago
The entire tradition of thought around natural law and limits on the legitimate scope of the state have simply disappeared in Australia so far as I can tell. Everyone just accepts that the state has absolute sovereignty and it can pass any
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by baazaa 4y ago
Even talking about mechanical engineers, they're paid poorly. The average is like $40-50k USD atm. There's a reason inequality is lower in these countries than the US, because high-skilled workers are paid much less.
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by baazaa 4y ago
It's not novel to claim that the possibility of men going full Genghis Khan might result in greater trait-variability for men and explain the Lek paradox and so forth. The paper seems to distance itself from Bateman's principle b
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by baazaa 4y ago
Couldn't agree more with the absurdity that Friedman gets blamed for RBC and RE. Hell that leads directly to the idea that monetary policy can't ever accomplish anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy-i
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by baazaa 4y ago
R has multiple dispatch right with s4, I don't recall running into huge library compatibility issues with R? Is the only difference between R and Julia maturity where R has ironed out the sorts of bugs Yuri was running into?
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by baazaa 4y ago
> The Tory party run essentially unopposed Corbyn was completely unelectable and gained 30 seats with a nearly 10% swing towards him in 2017 because of the Tory's policy on social care, removing the triple-lock and cutting the win
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by baazaa 4y ago
The author is exactly right. Indeed I work for government and we're buying into databricks and the people responsible for that don't even know what Spark is. The pitch which sold them the product is the one the author basically id
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by baazaa 4y ago
Internal barriers are sometimes far greater than external ones. Yeah it's like a law of reverse propinquity in government. Working with a team next to you in the org-chart is completely impossible. Working with people far removed fro
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by baazaa 4y ago
There's like half a century of IO psych literature showing resumes to be very poor predictor of job performance. Good to see this guy's own experience confirms what everyone (besides managers) already knew.
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by baazaa 5y ago
IMO the major revolution was the move towards statistics, especially when using observational data. Moving from a parametric to a non-parametric model or whatever is comparatively not a big deal. Chucking a bunch of variables into a linear
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by baazaa 5y ago
People are too quick to blame the media. Whatever you want to say about Murdoch, he's not a huge fan of perpetual lockdowns and so forth, and he owns half our media. The problem in Australia is not the media or the politicians, it&#x27
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by baazaa 5y ago
You're not wrong. I find it hard to take articles like this seriously when there's the more pressing issue of still being under effective house arrest (which has now gone for about a year with no end in sight). Hell the premier im
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by baazaa 5y ago
> I think the standard consensus is that he was... well, wrong, at least about chattel slavery, and putting it quite mildly. Is the standard consensus suddenly pro-slavery? > As much as submission to a petty prince, whose dominions
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by baazaa 7y ago
Huh, the bit about just plugging in the real values for variables being a bad idea is very interesting. Pretty sure I've done that in the past, without really thinking too much about it. Does anyone know of books that cover stuff like
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by baazaa 8y ago
Is it just me or did UIs just start getting worse at some point? I just take it for granted that every redesign will somehow reduce features while increasing clutter.