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by boxy310 9y ago
They recently had a recalculation of MAU due to a misreporting -- users that used to have organic posts, but were now only sending out pre-scheduled messages, like ghosts in the machine. How they handled that was to back-date all the report
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by boxy310 9y ago
Further: before stock markets had a relatively clear bid-ask price range, everyday people would treat stocks as the same as paper currency (which was also relatively new at the time). This led to inflationary bubbles and crashes. The John L
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by boxy310 9y ago
Just finished the Audible version of The Great Courses' audiobook on linguistics, and they spent a chapter on this subject. A lot of the same elements in this paper are pointed out in the lecture, which may indicate the arguments in th
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by boxy310 9y ago
Most neural networks are structured around a classification task with pre-tagged data. This is fundamentally a problem that it requires pre-tagged data in order to ferret out what the "true meaning" of a particular classification
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by boxy310 10y ago
NYTimes: "Report Finds Low Graduation Rates at For-Profit Colleges" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/education/24colleges.html?... Having also worked in a state's higher education commiss
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by boxy310 10y ago
He's probably thinking of Freeman Dyson's Project Orion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
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by boxy310 10y ago
I'm interested in NASA's work on the Alcubierre drive [1]. Still likely to require much more energy than we'll be able to produce in the near future, but 100 years ago we were just getting a firm handle on the basic mechanics
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by boxy310 10y ago
Also, even in English the phrase "taking up the yoke" is one of discipline and possibly servitude, as distinct from simply joining together. Also, Googling "one ox yoke" returns around 50/50 split between two-ox and
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by boxy310 10y ago
News articles involve editorial intent, discretion, and several rounds of "filters". Comments sections largely do not, which is why they generally devolve into just arguments. Only with heavily-moderated communities that impose th
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by boxy310 10y ago
"Not taxing" also includes overhead for ensuring that people aren't abusing the deduction or exemption, or the societal/political costs involved in the perception that select few get a free pass (i.e. overshore tax shelt
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by boxy310 10y ago
This is why studying marginal effects -- like when the Emerald Ash Borer invaded county-by-county and caused a discrete time-series event that you can analyze before-and-after, as mentioned in the article -- is so critical.
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by boxy310 10y ago
The prize purse and "simulated" aspect make me wonder how much the rise of football and the World Cup has sublimated democratic nations' drive for warfare as a path to national pride. The same argument also applies for the Ol
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by boxy310 10y ago
Pretty sure massive amounts of German arms manufacturers went out of business after both WWI and WWII. If the country is utterly defeated, it doesn't bode well for shareholders if the company is dismantled as part of peace talks, or if
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by boxy310 10y ago
I imagine there's probably significant regulatory constraints into the interpretability of any models generated to run combat weapons platforms, even if just in a simulation. Deviations from a norm during times of war due to needing to
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by boxy310 10y ago
Recently took a trip out to the Bay Area, and when I did the back-of-the-napkin calculations, I figured it would actually be cheaper to fly from the Midwest and stay in a hotel every other weekend, than it would be to live there. Really nea
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by boxy310 10y ago
Rentier classes clearly do live without work, it's largely a question of how large of a population can live without working. If the fundamental tension in Marxist theory is real, then one could argue that a UBI is insurance against a
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by boxy310 10y ago
There was a very interesting article in the NY Times earlier this year about this subject: "For other industries, though, a dollar of savings is worth a lot more than itself. For pharmaceutical companies, a dollar in savings is worth $
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by boxy310 10y ago
I feel like there's a strong enough of a case use for it, especially since they built the Pixel specifically for the developer demographic. On the other hand, the demographic most interested in using it would also be able to do it them
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by boxy310 10y ago
> informing, connecting, and entertaining our users I'm struggling to find a way to distinguish this definition from the Internet writ large. Yes, everyone agrees that Yahoo is on the internet, but nobody can really say why .
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by boxy310 10y ago
Indianapolis reporting in -- we're not building super-large skyscrapers, but we're backfilling the old parking lots that replaced urban blight bulldozed in the 70's and 80's with 10-15 story apartments and office buildin
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by boxy310 10y ago
Slumlords tended to not maintain the buildings well, and poor air circulation during hot New York summers meant that people would facilitate disease transmission a lot more readily.
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by boxy310 10y ago
I remember on reddit when a Swedish guy started randomly looking at Google street views in northern Indiana, and was remarking how the occupied properties look like they were abandoned, and how often guns were brandished at the Google Str
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by boxy310 10y ago
Strictly speaking, the aphorism relates to the nouveau-riche. Old money may have other aspects of social entrenchment to wealth, which is only disrupted by major social disasters like World War I or the Black Plague.
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by boxy310 10y ago
Tried to do a full-time PhD, dropped out due to crippling poverty and depression. Tried to do an evening MBA, dropped out for the exact reasons you stated. Only Master's program that actually gelled with me was a professional MA in a s
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by boxy310 10y ago
Third paragraph in the article states that Nordic amber was heavily prized in Mycenaean Greece. Distances and climate in Europe are actually quite reasonable for overland journeys, especially considering that the ancient empires of the Midd
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by boxy310 10y ago
To people downvoting this: Cybernetics as a discipline is the study of systems governance ("kybernetes" being the Greek word for "governor" or "steersman") [1]. A solid understanding of self-reinforcing positiv
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by boxy310 11y ago
And Europa Universalis IV, the sequel in the series, has you leading one of the nations at the dawn of the European Age of Colonization. Colonial genocide, holy wars, force-conversion, and state executions to quell rebellions are all explic
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by boxy310 11y ago
I like pieces like this. City governments all over have a lot more visibility into the decision-making process than previous generations have had, and sometimes that means that good policy can get drowned in bad NIMBYism, but having a tough
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by boxy310 11y ago
Asset prices are depressed during bear markets. Those make incredibly good times to buy, because when the market jumps back up your dollar during bad times becomes so much more valuable when those assets appreciate during good times. If any
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by boxy310 11y ago
It's the largest single armed conflict since World War II, and yet it has less visibility than the Korean War (2,859,574 casualties [1]), Vietnam War (1,450,000 casualties [2]), or the Iraq War (654,965 casualties [3]). It's even

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