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by burkaman 3y ago
The whole point is that you can't compare charity like you can lightbulbs. You can objectively state that a lightbulb is better because it produces the exact same light with half the electricity, but you can't objectively say that
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by burkaman 3y ago
I guess that's fair, although I haven't seen any bogeyman thinking in the complaint or article or comments yet. I'd recommend reading the linked Propublica investigation though, it's more than a few percentage points.
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I got it from the linked Propublica investigation. There is quite a bit of information in there about how the software works and what the real-world results have been. I like your comparison to other marketplaces. If an overwhelming portion
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by burkaman 3y ago
If the problem was caused by 100s of small decisions, then we need 100s of small solutions. I don't see why one of those can't be disallowing "more than 90 percent of units in large buildings" from sharing software that
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by burkaman 3y ago
This is not hypothetical, it actually happened, and a lot more than two landlords were involved. 14 companies, and "Across a wider Washington-Arlington-Alexandria area, more than 90 percent of units in large buildings are subject to Re
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by burkaman 3y ago
Ok, I don't think that's particularly controversial. Most of the controversy arises from parents (or influential people without kids) trying to influence the shared public school system to match their particular standard, rather t
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by burkaman 3y ago
> it is absolutely never the governments place to tell a parent what they are allowed to teach their child Essentially everyone in America agrees with you. This is written into our Constitution. > It is not the responsibility of the s
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That's true, but another property of culture wars is that there generally is no authority or standard that all sides consider independent. Only in the most clearcut cases can you get away with saying "it's not up to me, I&#x2
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by burkaman 3y ago
Here's the code: https://bestaiprompts.art/angry-pumpkins/sketch.js
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Will it continue to expand? This article makes the case that the large increase in 2020 was driven by temporary pandemic conditions, and explicitly not by politics or school quality. The graph shows it has already started to decline. Longer
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Yes thank you, definitely should have mentioned that. My point is that there were a wide variety of pandemic-driven reasons that parents decided to homeschool. Even if all these reasons disappeared when the pandemic culturally ended, we wou
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> as neutral as possible on political or culture war issues I don't think it's really possible to be neutral about culture war issues, sort of by definition, especially when many of the wars are about schools themselves. A scho
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Is there a story here beyond the pandemic? The data really makes it look like homeschooling increased a significant but not mind-blowing amount at the beginning of the pandemic, when parents pulled their kids out of school either because th
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by burkaman 3y ago
Study: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-19786-001.html . It doesn't say "we're doing them wrong", it just says they are very boring and tend to make people less engaged than in-person meetings.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I think it's the same as restaurants "hijacking" cheap ingredients and serving them up behind a paywall. Just because you think you could make a tool yourself doesn't mean it's never worth paying for, even professio
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by burkaman 3y ago
Yeah these could be very literal problems. The first seems useful for assessing the value of a taxable asset, and the second for paying back a loan or a penalty over time.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Counterpoint: https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley
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Dow Jones has 8000 employees, if they each owned one thousandth of one percent of the company they could pool it all to represent 8%, which is pretty substantial. Maybe I misunderstood your question, but it's extremely common for a per
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by burkaman 3y ago
I can't read the whole piece, does he get into evidence for his feelings? He seems to be saying in the part I can acccess that the NYT refused to discuss Biden's age and health until July 2022 when something changed ("The New
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by burkaman 3y ago
Linear algebra is usually a required (or at least strongly encouraged) course for an undergraduate degree in basically any engineering discipline, and it is usually not preceded by a course in "the basics of mathematical proofs".
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I understand what you're saying, I just think we have a fundamental disagreement over "taste is implicit in the data" that I'm not sure we can resolve here. Intuitively it makes sense to me that if you know the entire se
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I don't agree, even a human chef with decades of experience in all the tools and ingredients they're using is not going to get every recipe right on the first try. I'm not saying an AI recipe will never be good, but it is goi
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by burkaman 3y ago
I feel like generating recipe ideas/titles is the easy part, and advanced AI techniques are not necessary. Even the article notes that there is not really any difference between 1 round of training and 40 rounds of training with their
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It's one of the most famous Freakonomics stories: https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/what-makes-people-do-what-t... . It intuitively makes sense but I don't think you can draw any universal conclusions from
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by burkaman 3y ago
I am on HN basically every day and I don't think I've ever heard of Cosmic before. Looking through search I only see 3 or 4 popular posts in the last three years. Off the top of my head I'd say Deno was a lot more hyped when
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by burkaman 3y ago
Also, gas is single use, but lithium and cobalt are infinitely recyclable. When you calculate the environmental cost of producing your EV's battery, it's not really appropriate to assign all of that to just one car, because a lot
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by burkaman 3y ago
This is a good one from the head of research at Our World in Data: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ev-fossil-cars-cli... Also a followup about air pollution, but this doesn't include production: https:&
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by burkaman 3y ago
They are maybe working on it according to this vague article: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/feds-home-in-on-tic...
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by burkaman 3y ago
A common marketing stunt for trucks is to film them towing something really heavy: https://jalopnik.com/watch-an-electric-ford-f-150-prototype-... . Tesla apparently doesn't feel like doing the actual stunt, so they&#x2
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by burkaman 3y ago
This is such a weird angle for the story. The only "spokesperson scandal" I can think of is the Subway guy, and I don't really think even that enormous scandal hurt Subway very much. I have to believe the reduced effectivenes

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