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by bongoman37 5y ago
A second point on that is, start with the simplest and most trivial models first, then add complexity as needed.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
They pay extremely well. I have a friend who moved to Facebook and complained all the time the first couple of months, but the third month or so he was like even with London living expenses the money is really great.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Its kind of stupid to expect toddlers to adhere to these kind of policies. I've had my 4 year old return home in someone else's mask because he swapped his with his friend's. For people with an opportunity to enforce this it
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by bongoman37 5y ago
This is immaterial. People can be very welcoming to tourists and hostile to the very same people as immigrants. As a brown person who drove extensively through the US both North and South you would mostly see very welcoming people, the same
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by bongoman37 5y ago
I am not sure what's 'Big Tech' but yea, artists are getting replaced. It is now easy for small companies to use deepfake to create interesting marketing ads. A company I know used their own employee to create some ads and th
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by bongoman37 5y ago
This is a great idea. I understand that the models are incomplete and there may be things we don't understand yet but every time one selects a particular partner for marrying and rejects the others we are engaging in some level of gene
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by bongoman37 5y ago
I guess the lesson is always have someone with you when you are going under. In India, they actively remove all family members when examining patient even when the patient wants them present. Most places will not even allow the husband to b
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by bongoman37 5y ago
While the need for expats will come down, I don't think it is totally eliminated. Partly because when cultures are too different, trust becomes an issue. My wife works overseeing NGOs in places like India and a half-yearly or quarterly
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by bongoman37 5y ago
If you go to places like Thailand, you can buy 'bargirl drinks' or similar. These are expensive drinks that entitle you to a bargirl spending some time with you. There's also a 'bargirl fine' if the bargirl decides
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by bongoman37 5y ago
TikTok is not an adversarial platform and there is probably an element of East vs West styles of thinking here. TikTok's engagement is driven up by people taking other's videos and building on top of it. FaceBook's engagement
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Did they also outlaw taking a woman out on an expensive date?
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Also, once you drive the good people out of business, not only whatever is left over much worse, but it attracts the people who are outright sociopaths and want to push the boundaries just because they like to see people burn. Since the dem
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by bongoman37 5y ago
What if it's the other way round and a p<0.05 study says that the best way to make sure a rival country does not do a nuclear strike on you first is to do a massive nuclear strike on them first?
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Have you ever been a teen? When I was a teenager when my parents told me to stay away from something, I would absolutely check it out.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Its just some standard applied to Eastern cultures where things are supposed to be unchanged from olden times. Large parts of the many monuments in Europe were reconstructed post second world war. Nobody says they are 'not authentic&#x
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Sex differences in the brain are not reduced to differences in body size(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by bongoman37 5y ago|1 comments
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Yes, when I hire new people in Machine Learning they are uniformly surprised by how little time they spend modelling and how much time is spent gathering business requirements, refining what needs to be optimized, cleaning the incoming data
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by bongoman37 5y ago
That's a great thing. A singular advantage of wind over solar is that solar has a strong time dependence over the day and seasons. And the time for high solar presence is not that correlated with the consumption time. While seasonality
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by bongoman37 5y ago
This doesn't even account for the number of people who have multimonitor setups and no particular connection between camera position and where the call window might be.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Maybe more might if there wasn't a giant ball in the sky spraying photons.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
sarcasm? Nobody uses crypto for remittance payments to poorer countries. It is mostly used by rich folks in countries like China to get around exchange restrictions.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
What's stopping people from reporting pro-life people to this site? Especially since a lot of people who have abortions are pro-life, just for other people's babies though.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
As long as there are a few companies producing billions, the system can sustain hundreds of companies soling millions and still come out ahead.
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What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man?(lithub.com)
7 points by bongoman37 5y ago|7 comments
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Given the way US election systems and campaigning requirements operate all parties are parties of the rich. The only difference is which block of poorer people they claim to pander to get some of the votes. Neither actually makes a signific
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Cox-Zucker_machine(en.wikipedia.org)
17 points by bongoman37 5y ago|2 comments
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If you have a kid that's not a workable solution, moreover, safety is a huge issue on 2 wheelers.
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I don't remember where I read it, but it said the major difference between Russia and US was that in US there is a super-rich class whereas in Russia there was a super-powerful class. The super powerful class was not subject to everyda
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Ask HN: What's the best (most secure) cloud data storage service?
2 points by bongoman37 5y ago|2 comments
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The Taliban’s terrifying triumph in Afghanistan(economist.com)
38 points by bongoman37 5y ago|62 comments

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