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by blululu 1y ago
Can you source that? A lot of places have gravity fed reservoirs that are energy positive/neutral (LA, San Francisco and New York all rely on gravity fed reservoirs that were built before energy intensive pumping was practical). There
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by blululu 1y ago
I would say that the fact that this question is more relevant to actual job performance than ~90% of leet code questions that I have been asked would be an even stronger indictment of the industry.
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by blululu 1y ago
>>Show me metrics that move something tangible, like conversion rates. If you can't do that, we both know why. Personally, I'm pretty cynical on metrics like CTR as well. I think people in this discussion have presented plen
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by blululu 1y ago
The author brings up some fair points. I feel like I had all sorts of small grievances transitioning from Matlab to Numpy. Slicing data still feels worse on Numpy than Matlab or Julia, but this doesn't justify the licensing costs for t
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by blululu 1y ago
Which one? Berry is semiclosed, but people routinely remove the wooden barriers so they can drive on it and delivery app e-bikes/motor bikes routinely blast down it at speeds that make it uncomfortable to walk. Broadway has expanded th
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by blululu 1y ago
I think on balance this is actually a positive discovery. This finding should be invertable in phase space. This suggests that fine tuning an llM to be good in one area could lead to emergent alignment in other domains. There is not reason
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by blululu 1y ago
Inflation sucks but it is a basic reality. As a request to policy folks out there please consider advocating the minimum wage have some connection to local CPI. A demand for a $xx/hr minimum globally is going to be both too high and to
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by blululu 1y ago
Agreed in practice, but there is a key difference: sales tax is uniform for all products, import tariffs are not. As a customer I want to effectively compare prices between different options. For sales tax you can simply assume a uniform 9%
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by blululu 1y ago
The Judge spent the time to do exactly this. Judges are busy. Their time is valuable. The lawyer used AI to make the judge do work. The lawyer was too lazy to do the verification work that they expected the judge to perform. This speaks to
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by blululu 1y ago
There was a Russian start up planning to do this a few years back. They had actually reached a deal with Pepsi’s Russian operations until the public backlash convinced them to find a different public relations strategy. https://p
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by blululu 2y ago
I have mailed a potato before. Sent it to a friend to celebrate Columbus Day (this was back when we overlooked his atrocities because it was a cool Italian guy who trafficked exotic nightshades across the Atlantic). It arrived just fine. Th
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by blululu 2y ago
The US definitely had a notion of quantum physics prior to WWII. Feynman got his PhD at Princeton in 1942 in Quantum Physics so I would assume that John Wheeler had some familiarity with the topic back then. I would mention that the most si
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by blululu 2y ago
Being the leading power is about magnitude not intensity. The country that is twice as large and operates at a similar level of intensity will be the more dominant force (see also - China today). Per capita, I would bet on the Swiss (then a
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by blululu 2y ago
Sorry poor turn of phrase. I meant this in the sense of the publication language. Yes - most academics everywhere speak a few languages.
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by blululu 2y ago
That makes sense. The same trend is already happening in the west with Arxiv and Bioarxiv. Neither is as prestigious for the purpose of a lot of facility politics/rankings but in an active field both are more meaningful markers of the
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by blululu 2y ago
Was it tarrifs or just a large, highly educated population with a unified market? The US has always been one of the leaders in education and scientific research on a per capita basis. Even in the 1770s you har people like Franklin working o
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by blululu 2y ago
In my experience Chinese academics are far more bilingual than western ones. I think that for Chinese academics the English publications are generally of a higher quality and more prestigious, but I’m sure that too will change over time. I
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by blululu 2y ago
A simple Google search would reveal: GDP: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1334182/wwii-pre-war-gdp... GPD Per Capita: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1334256/wwii-pre-war-gdp...
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by blululu 2y ago
Prior to WWII the United States was the world's leading power in terms of Science, Engineering and Industry - not Germany or the British Empire. The reason that Central European scientists fled to America (and not Britain) is because t
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by blululu 2y ago
>> Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. Citation needed. The United States has be
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by blululu 2y ago
A true accounting of board level corporate motivations is not available. The standard line is typically something like “we are acquiring our smaller rival to more effectively compete with our larger rival”. I.e “we are acquiring a small des
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by blululu 2y ago
Fair enough. During the pandemic there was an acute shortage of medical supplies and there were really not enough to go around for everyone. It would be a tough sell to convince the person who is actually making these supplies to put the ne
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by blululu 2y ago
Well China made its own masks and also managed a staff a fully operational medical system and pharmaceutical industry ad the same time. So clearly a single country can do all of this. Furthermore I think most countries would look at how Chi
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by blululu 2y ago
In 2020 during the largest public health crisis in a century, non-woven respiratory masks were found to be an effective intervention. The country that manufactured 90% of the world's respiratory masks took care of itself first and fore
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by blululu 2y ago
Fair. Property tax can be one of the most reliable and effective ways for a locality to raise revenues, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t mess it up. I mentioned how New York has some wonky laws and this is doubly true where real estate i
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by blululu 2y ago
It’s a complicated pricing issue. The ability to pass a tax onto customers is a function of supply and demand and their relative elasticities. The assertion that the price of housing is a direct function of the costs is false. Consider the
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by blululu 2y ago
The title should really be changed to reflect how this is related to New York’s Byzantine property tax scheme and not property taxes in general.
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by blululu 2y ago
Islam is probably the most economically savvy major religion (Mohammed was a merchant after all). Unlike other religions which issue blanket prohibitions on things like charging interest or having wealth Islam is more pragmatic. Hoarding we
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by blululu 2y ago
This is a good point but also Russia is a nation state not a company. The 80% of the revenue spent on operating costs is just invested in their economy and creates jobs and pays taxes. For a state enterprise, the balance sheet is very diffe
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by blululu 2y ago
In theory yes but very few patterns can be made like this and the cost of such machines is not favorable. Often a linking machine or a cut and sew stage is needed and this is far more hand powered than anything else.

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