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by blululu 5y ago
120k per year is not unreasonable for teachers if you start counting benefits as wages. The pension plans of most public school teachers are generous, special tax breaks are effectively a form of salary. In California the school teachers ar
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by blululu 5y ago
Memory is foundational the thinking. Rote memorization is often necessary to achieve a certain level of cognition. It frees up space for more interesting thinking. Not sure why this form of education would be a problemz
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by blululu 5y ago
Yet another delay to the deployment of this telescope. Hard for me to shake the cynical idea that this is just a smoke screen to mask the latest round of delays and overruns.[1] Or at least allow everyone involved to put a new less tainted
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by blululu 5y ago
Digitizing archives is an interesting topic. It does bring up some serious questions of cost, maintenance, durability and who should pay for all of it. This proposal overlooks the basic questions of implementation and instead focuses on mak
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by blululu 5y ago
Very unlikely. The death rate for someone under 65 is still pretty low (less than one percent last I checked). Even with an elevated infection rate it would be unlikely for that to make a big dent on the labor pool. Especially when the pric
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by blululu 5y ago
This is historically false. In the US, the minimum wage was enacted during the Great Depression to put a limit on how low wages could go. In Parrish of West Coast Hotel v Parrish was a married woman. The Fair Labor Standards act of 1938 (pa
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by blululu 5y ago
When your product is broken informality and conversational prose comes across as sloppy and unprofessional. It sends a bad message and it’s counter productive in this context.
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by blululu 5y ago
Interesting concept. Would be great to have more technical details about how a model performs. Having a sense of the size, accuracy, platforms supported, and other simple benchmarks would be really helpful to evaluate a model before making
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by blululu 5y ago
14 trials is nothing - especially when even a 5% risk would be considered too high. For reference, the 95 % confidence interval on a distribution with a 1 in 5 accident risk would include this result: https://epitools.ausvet.com.
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by blululu 5y ago
Back in the early days Singapore very quickly created a fantastic web based information panel on the state of the Virus in the city. It's still running but they no longer use the original url: http://wuhanvirus.sg
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by blululu 5y ago
I do appreciate that they provided the like to the research ( https://text.npr.org/2018/04/26/604875394/study-colleges-tha... ), though it seems to be pretty unequivocally unrelated to the point they are c
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by blululu 5y ago
I really appreciate this post. This is exactly why I thumb through HackerNews comments. From the look of it, CA has ~26% of the nation’s homeless population.
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by blululu 5y ago
This feels like spam. The challenge is just not possible in any meaningful way. I suppose changing everything to be a clone of motherfuckingwebsite.com would technically count as a redesign. A website with any serious amount of use/fun
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by blululu 5y ago
This is a super cool project. Though I think the website could be a lot more upfront about what is needed to make this and what this can accomplish. A quick list of pats, estimated cost, specs and a sample photo would be really helpful in a
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by blululu 5y ago
That exists now. If you Google search ‘speed test’ (on mobile at least) the first result is now a simple speed test provided by Google.
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by blululu 5y ago
Chandler Arizona is the site of Intel's 14nm Fab[1]. There is a large pool of local talent that they can tap into. Add to this the fact that Arizona has relatively favorable laws for corporate investments and a relatively low cost of l
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by blululu 5y ago
Oil is flowing constantly and continuously into every corner of the country. The storage capacity is negligible and the need is critical. Unlike a single hospital there is very little room to shift excess capacity relative to usage and the
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by blululu 5y ago
A subtle distinction here: The goal is not for the company to look diverse but rather for the product/service to appeal to a diverse customer/user base. This is a formidable design challenge. Depicting the full range of human life
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by blululu 5y ago
The trend is real but it is also pretty innocuous. I know that design people think that these things influence collective consciousness in a deep way but really it is just another cog in the wheel. In my personal experience, the primary rea
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by blululu 5y ago
In fairness he did have a PhD in mathematical physics so characterizing him as an engineer instead of a physicist is not quite accurate. That said people in academia routinely downplay the qualifications and abilities of people who work in
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by blululu 5y ago
100k is not that unreasonable of an expectation as the necessary base for a freelancer. Keep in mind that you will need to cover additional taxes that your employer would normally cover, and you will need to plan on variability so you need
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by blululu 5y ago
I realize that Google Groups is just a Gateway to Usenet groups, but there is something out of place about seeing the founder of Google posting in Google Groups five years before it existed. The archeology of the internet is strange.
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by blululu 5y ago
There’s an old joke about a statistician who drowned in water that was only one meter deep - On Average. Thinking in terms of aggregate value neglects the possibility that you will create winners and losers in such a scenario and creating
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by blululu 5y ago
"The book is so masterful, and exhibits such brilliant writing and exhaustive research, that I wonder whether Menand could truly have intended where his history of the postwar era landed me. I learned so much, and ended up caring so mu
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by blululu 5y ago
Statistics are certainly not categorically useless, but they are widely misunderstood and thus widely abused. In less political areas I have seen trained experts make elementary mistakes (mistakes happen and it's fine). A lot (nearly a
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by blululu 5y ago
Chomsky’s followers are not as powerful as they used to be so you can say this sort of opinion without losing your job as a linguist. That said, this objection does not directly contradict Graham’s point. There are issues with Chomsky’s the
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by blululu 5y ago
Not sure I’m understanding this objection. The parameter in question is ability of a society to generate extreme outliers in achievement. In economic $billion net worth is a good proxy, though I’m sure we could look at things like publicati
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by blululu 5y ago
For what it’s worth, Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_... ). It’s just harder to spot because there’s less contrast.
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by blululu 5y ago
This article is charmingly Finnish - blunt and to the point. Only a Finn would call bullshit on a study praising their nation while also proudly praising the very high quality of life and social cohesion that people enjoy in Finland. It is
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by blululu 5y ago
In addition to the other points that have been made about how ad spending, confusing wording and public misinformation campaigns are waged against the state’s electorate every two years, there is also an issue of framing and context. The pr

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