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by causalmodels 6y ago
Fast.ai works pretty well when you're working on standard tasks but starts to fall apart when you want to do something more exotic.
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by causalmodels 6y ago
That’s is because the electric company are monopolies created by the government. And unlike power utilities there are zero laws about which cloud provider you are forced to used. Parler is not some rube. They are a company with access to le
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by causalmodels 6y ago
Parler agreed to abide by Amazon’s moderation policy and it agreed that it was responsible for the content of its end users. My landlord has a ‘no parties’ clause in my lease because my apartment is in a factory and someone could be easily
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by causalmodels 6y ago
I'm sure their fancier equipment is probably a nightmare of a time sink but the little kits you can buy are dead simple for nontechnical people to set up and use. My parents have plaster walls and the modem lives in the basement so the
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by causalmodels 6y ago
I think Gab [1] is a relevant example. They were dropped by their GoDaddy, Stripe, PayPal, etc. after the tree of life shooter posted their manifesto on the site. Another example would be Cloudflare dropping 8chan [2] after the El Paso shoo
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by causalmodels 6y ago
The one where they were trying spin forced IUDs and sterilizations as a way to promote gender equity and reproductive health[1] [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/twitter-takes-do...
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by causalmodels 6y ago
This is an anecdote but I think it's worth mentioning. Several years ago my washer dryer unit developed a crack in the wash basin. Instead of buying a new machine, I ordered a replacement basin from GE. When I received the part, it had
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by causalmodels 6y ago
The PS5 is running a backported PS4 game. There is no release for the current console generation.
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by causalmodels 6y ago
Do people actually care about GPUs in their laptops? It seems like any semi-serious gamer would have strong incentives to have a desktop (modular, the prestige of building you own rig). And anyone using GPUs for compute is just going to rem
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by causalmodels 6y ago
I don't believe Air's M1 has any virtualization support at all.
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by causalmodels 6y ago
It's already been done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od-1cEac9U4&feature=emb_titl...
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by causalmodels 6y ago
Yes. GPU RAM is a major bottleneck for my personal work and buying cards is still cheaper in the long run than renting. edit: Also CUDA is just too important to switch to AMD.
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by causalmodels 6y ago
Problem with a no plugin version is that I bet the user numbers would drop severely and the ecosystem would die as a result.
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by causalmodels 6y ago
Incomes have gone up, including for the unemployed. Fiscal stimulus can accomplish much more than monetary policy through the multiplier so comparing headline numbers doesn't mean anything. And yeah rich people own assets. That's
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by causalmodels 6y ago
This system isn't a failure. People's incomes have gone up during the pandemic so the stock market has also gone up. There is a dire problem around the collapse of small businesses, but rich people usually get rich through capital
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by causalmodels 6y ago
I think using Mapquest and Yelp as examples harms your argument. Mapquest and google maps are fundamentally different products. Google maps is a geo database that happens to also give good driving directions. Mapquest just gave people direc
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by causalmodels 6y ago
Rail cannot get adequate funding for even basic maintenance and upkeep and upgrades, let alone modernization, because of widespread corruption among government officials and public sector workers. I'm sure public perception plays some
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by causalmodels 6y ago
This reminds me of a little trick I learned while working in finance. If you have bad credit but have over $1,000 in cash, go and get an unsecured loan for roughly 90% of your cash on hand. Ideally the terms should have a negligible or none
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by causalmodels 6y ago
The blanket eviction moratorium has expired in NYC. You can now be brought to court for failure to pay, but if you can prove financial hardship they can't kick you out. This is a fairly substantial burden. I'm afraid what will hap
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by causalmodels 6y ago
I believe what they were referring to was the death of news subscription model
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by causalmodels 6y ago
Maybe not in the states you’ve lived in, but this was very much the hypothesis behind Sam Brownback’s experiment in Kansas. Beliefs in a strong version of the crowding out effect result in states trying to cut their budgets.
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by causalmodels 6y ago
Face masks won't stop gait recognition. Biometrics are a hard thing to escape
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by causalmodels 7y ago
Sterling is terrible not only because they’re needlessly invasive, but also because they cannot run a background check. Before I got into software I was a model, something very obvious if you search my name. I’ve had two background checks d
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by causalmodels 7y ago
I understand and agree with the outcry around using ML areas like criminal justice, but there are some really compelling examples of ML being used by governments to help citizens[1]. [1] https://www.kdd.org/kdd2018/acce
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by causalmodels 7y ago
I participated in the clinical trials for this and used them regularly between 2008-ish (it's hard to remember since I was in middle school) and 2015. The results were remarkable but the contacts themselves where insanely uncomfortable
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by causalmodels 7y ago
> Letting someone else do it undermines the whole purposes of the independent financial system. Even small regional banks have their own internal credit rating algorithms. Credit ratings from CRAs are generally consumed either in aggrega
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by causalmodels 7y ago
> First is it does not account for people who have dropped out of participating in the labour market There are alternative measures to U3 (the official unemployment rate). The U5 and U6 measures of unemployment are designed to capture d
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by causalmodels 7y ago
That's because media people cannot do their jobs without Twitter. Since they have the megaphone, everyone hears about their gripes.
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by causalmodels 8y ago
They probably don't know other languages.