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by bumby 8mo ago
There were well-publicized cases of Gemini producing more diverse founding fathers images, female popes, etc. Also, snarky tone is against the HN guidelines.
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by bumby 8mo ago
There is plenty of precedent that companies are expected to regulate themselves. If you are in the US and perform an engineering role without a license or without working under someone with a license, it’s because of an “industrial exemptio
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by bumby 8mo ago
Not sure what your point is. Are you saying people don’t act in a multi-objective way? Do you think people join the Marines because it’s the easiest way to make a buck? Or is it possible people aren’t just simple homo-economicus types tryin
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by bumby 8mo ago
I’ve often felt that much of the crowd touting how close the problem was to being solved was conflating a driving problem to just being a perception problem. Perception is just a sub-space of the driving problem. Genuine question though: ha
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by bumby 8mo ago
It’s been discussed elsewhere , but we can’t get to details if we can’t get past the simplest of concepts. I think you are missing the critique because you’d prefer to argue than understand, but I’ll try to be more explicit. Significant par
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by bumby 8mo ago
> How the hell does a polynomial "wiggle"? I believe they’re defining “wiggle” as just the slope/rate of change/derivative
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by bumby 8mo ago
Methodology is THE main criticism of research; it’s the most important piece. It’s more important than nit-picking results or anything else. Unless your the type to believe in starting with a conclusion and working backwards, but that’s bad
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by bumby 8mo ago
It has changed a lot over time though, especially when you also count fast food and delivery. Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad, but the norm has changed and many people’s expectations.
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by bumby 8mo ago
A ham sandwich is probably one of the poorest examples for this point. Ham has a fairly long shelf life, comes pre-cooked, and is exceedingly cheap as far as meat goes if you buy it on the bone when it’s available. Especially if you are wil
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by bumby 8mo ago
I would add healthcare to that. But I wouldn’t add things like the typical transportation costs like those in the study that are derived from consumer surveys. And from my personal anecdotal experience, the food costs mentioned seem high, s
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by bumby 8mo ago
Because sometimes people have other goals or are just not an industrious personality. I remember a radio interview with a fast food worker who’s response was basically “I like my job and don’t want to do something else, but I just want it t
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by bumby 8mo ago
Fair enough, but I think we’re talking different scale. Top 100 cities is still a population of >200k. I was thinking of the small dying rust-belt type of <10k or so
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by bumby 8mo ago
It’s the second time you’ve had a snarky reply so I can’t tell if you’re having a good faith conversation. The average wealth between me and Elon is several hundred billion dollars. That gives you very little information about me. Which is
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by bumby 8mo ago
I’m not against that idea but there are some knock-on effects we should be careful of. For example, it will make it hard for younger people to get a job. If I have to pay a teenager the same as someone with a decade or more of work experien
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by bumby 8mo ago
They do try to account for this in their method. Men, women, and children of different ages all have different amounts of assumed food intake
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by bumby 8mo ago
Part of the issue is those smaller cities don’t offer a large supply of job opportunities. So people are often not able to pick and choose their location.
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by bumby 8mo ago
Does this then imply some jobs are not intended to supply a living wage? Eg does that quants internship get a lower pay because they are expected to graduate beyond it? If so, how do we define what jobs are stepping stones and which are lon
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by bumby 8mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but the premise of capitalism is that those advances also become cheaper due to market efficiencies. In other words, people should be able to have a higher quality of life for relatively lower cost. If/where
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by bumby 8mo ago
Would you agree that large uncertainties can bring into question the validity of a model? Ie “averages” with large variances are not often very informative
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by bumby 8mo ago
That’s pretty surprising, honestly, because there are other areas considered much lower COL that are within spitting distance of that value.
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by bumby 8mo ago
The larger point I’m making is the “living wage” may be built on an idea that the assumed consumerist norm is ideal.
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by bumby 8mo ago
Are you following the USDA thrifty food plan like the methodology assumes?
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by bumby 8mo ago
Mostly what the typical nutritional guidance has advocated consistently over the last few decades, with maybe slightly higher protein intake. 6-8 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, fairly liberal amounts of dairy and lean protein, les
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by bumby 8mo ago
I questioned that too, but vehicle costs are based off surveyed data. So if the average 2 adults have a car payment, insurance, fuel, and repair costs, it’s probably reflected in their data. To me, that’s different than saying “a reasonable
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by bumby 8mo ago
I feel like I’ve eat pretty well, and my household food costs are almost half what the calculator shows. Similar for vehicle costs etc. After looking at the method, I think the calculator probably has some bias towards “what society has con
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by bumby 8mo ago
Anecdotally, I found some of the costs like food and food to be inflated. When I looked at the methodology, some is based on consumer surveys so it may be more reflective of over-consumption. In other words, it prices in what people want or
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by bumby 8mo ago
I honestly can’t tell if this is satire, or if we’re running into a lack of civics education. In the US at least, political rights are considered inalienable, not rewards. The OPs point can be extended to giving more votes to people based o
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by bumby 8mo ago
They also get less likely to commit crime, but that’s not how we gauge risk. We don’t generally say “that teenager’s crime risk is going down so they are less risky than that geriatric whose crime risk is fairly constant.” Risk probability
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by bumby 8mo ago
“I'm talking about a significant minority of [under 25 year olds] who are wildly dangerous.” (Edit mine) Don’t you think that statement is also true?
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by bumby 10mo ago
The Marine Corps has/had KLR 650 dirt bikes converted to run on diesel, kerosene, or JP8.

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