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901.
by blululu 6y ago
It might help the defense but ultimately the percentage of GameStop’s stock that is traded/held on RobinHood is very high (it is most of the market) and restricting trades on the platform is likely to cause serious losses to their cust
902.
by blululu 6y ago
Something interesting in Graeber’s history is the connection between medieval Islamic philosophy and modern capitalism. The fact that Adam Smith lifts some examples and arguments straight out of Al Ghazali has potentially significant implic
903.
by blululu 6y ago
This issue spans across the standard Anglo-American political spectrum. There are people who are pro/anti urban-development on both sides of the aisle and framing the issue as Right/Left or Liberal/Conservative is probably no
904.
by blululu 6y ago
It’s common enough that mocking birds routinely learn to imitate the sound of common car alarm sequences. It is certainly a public nuisance, but it is not uncommon to hear a car alarm going off in the middle of the night in most American Ci
905.
by blululu 6y ago
My current side project is a 1D led strip arduino game where you spin a dial to match the color of a rainbow as it comes toward you. It’s basically doomscrolling through a rainbow, which is pretty soothing.
906.
by blululu 6y ago
Meta-comment: that is nice of you to check the OP’s submission history. It does add context and the response, while valid was maybe a little harsh in light of the poster’s newness. It might be nice if there were an easy way to tell if a pos
907.
by blululu 6y ago
It depends, but probably not. The main benefit would be transportation/logistics, but intercontinental freight shipping is pretty cheap and fast (especially China -> USA). Assuming equivalent machine costs (Chinese firms can potenti
908.
by blululu 6y ago
Well something like platinum could be an important element (catalyses a lot of necessary processes). Its abundance will vary by a large amount across start systems. The earth is relatively rich in the element, so it is likely that we would
909.
by blululu 6y ago
Nigeria is the largest country in Africa. The population is ~200M (~60% of the population of the US). 1M people is only 0.5% of the total population of Nigeria, so it is not a stretch to imagine that number of people engaged in cyber-crime.
910.
by blululu 6y ago
It’s a good idea, but unlikely to move the needle very much. According to the article Nigerians are taking in ~$18B in unemployment scams. This dwarfs the money coming from foreign aid. In a country with rampant corruption the scammers will
911.
by blululu 6y ago
There is certainly bias, however it is worth pointing out that the cited research is not rejecting the null hypothesis. Issues around sample size, methodology and study design are much more serious when a study claims to reject the null hyp
912.
by blululu 6y ago
Averages are not relevant for something as skewed as income distribution. As the Gino coefficient rises the average is increasingly dominated by a minority. The OP is most likely talking about wages for jobs that actually pay by the hour, w
913.
by blululu 6y ago
Love this. Once while studying the uses of programming font preferences on Hackernews ( http://www.highdimensionalcoconuts.com/Work/FontResearch/pro... ), I found a single vote for Comic Sans. The motivation: “to re
914.
by blululu 6y ago
Add to this list of fun uses of comic sans, the Cleveland Cavelliers owner writing an angry open letter in response to LeBron James leaving for Miami.
915.
by blululu 6y ago
FFmpeg is one of those pieces of infrastructure that unpins modern media in such a fundamental way that it is hard to even imagine life without it. In the words of John Carmack: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status&
916.
by blululu 6y ago
https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-... From an accounting standpoint, gross money in be money out is what matters. Per capita makes sense to compare relative benefit, but realistically Mon
917.
by blululu 6y ago
California also has one of the lowest property taxes in the country. Income tax is high and so is sales tax but to look at a single form of taxation and conclude that taxes are high in general is a non sequitur. Texas, for instance, has hig
918.
by blululu 6y ago
True. My last statement should have been split into two separate proposals: 1.) Better legal/financial support for cooperative business models (the laws on the books are prohibitive for capital intensive projects). 2.) Revising the NLR
919.
by blululu 6y ago
The nurses in CA have been unionized for quite a while now. At the point that a strike is happening I’m not sure the union is having much success negotiating with the hospital over something that should be basic, obvious and mutually benefi
920.
by blululu 6y ago
Whenever you get around to googling and then installing the chrome extension to do exactly that: https://github.com/ScFix/DarkHacker https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-hacker-news&
921.
by blululu 6y ago
I really appreciate the use of math here for a sense of scale. That said, this analysis overlooks the relationship between supply and demand on price and availability. Because housing is relatively supply inelastic a small increase in deman
922.
by blululu 6y ago
If you see enough UX flows you would probably less surprised that an essential feature is 1 missing, 2 inaccessible. A professor of architecture used to ask the question at senior presentations: “where is the door?”. People should have hear
923.
by blululu 6y ago
This is a controversial opinion but I think that an introduction to philosophy should probably focus on commentaries and summaries of the great works rather than the original source material. This is stems from a general point about educati
924.
by blululu 6y ago
It was written in 9 days, which is astounding. I suspect that the project was given a week to complete and it came 2 days late. In any case it seems unlikely that it’s problems would go away if given another 5 days. A lot of the wired thing
925.
by blululu 6y ago
"If you're the smartest person in the room, you're probably in the wrong room". Science journalism has its place, but it can simplify things beyond the point of being educational. If you don't mind feeling a little
926.
by blululu 6y ago
The loan example comes up a lot but I'm not sure why. We already use machine learning to evaluate credit ratings in the US. It is not always a fair system but it is standard practice and nobody asks why they are turned down for a loan
927.
by blululu 6y ago
Fair point - personally I found APL to be a little too terse to be readable in ASCII. I think that there is a big difference in the affordances of a chalkboard/paper and a monospaced text editor, and to me APL is too close to paper bas
928.
by blululu 6y ago
This is a good exposition of some formal definitions for 'interpretability' in the context of machine learning, but I am still not really clear on why such a property is necessary or even desirable in the context of high dimension
929.
by blululu 6y ago
Yes. There are some deep insights in this exposition. The irony is (in my opinion) APL is the worst Array/Matrix based programming language. In fairness it was also the first, but compared to Matlab or Julia it is not as expressive and
930.
by blululu 6y ago
Adding to this list Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels - the best of the genre IMO: https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/nancy... I believe that most of these were sponsored by the DIA art foundation

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