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by chibg10 8y ago
>All the people I know at Amazon in Seattle consistently get home after 7pm most nights, and a handful of those people come in on the weekends for 10 to 12hrs to fix mundane bugs that aren't in need of immediate fixing. I can't
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by chibg10 8y ago
>Google is at this point not just some US company, but a multi-national one. I'm not a US citizen, so for me the US having a strong military isn't necessarily in my best interests, depending on circumstance. A multi-national co
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by chibg10 8y ago
These employees are free to exercise their right to (not) work for whomever they want, but the certainty they express (as well as most commenters here) in their own self-righteousness seems misplaced to me. There's certainly a case to
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by chibg10 8y ago
The phone number thing isn't an issue. On/off Call Forwarding is easy to set up on the first Light Phone. I can toggle it with a voice command to Google Assistant on my Pixel.
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by chibg10 8y ago
When has the EU ever produced a world class monopoly?
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by chibg10 8y ago
No but they are infamous for missing opportunities
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by chibg10 8y ago
Right it's such an effective system it produced Donald Trump to take the role as the world's most important person.
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by chibg10 8y ago
A lot of this sounds reasonably applicable to applied math, but it sounds very out-of-place for describing pure math. The point of a proof (at least one that isn't a terribly contrived homework problem) is that there is no "correc
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by chibg10 8y ago
This isn't true? Real estate prices in Shanghai and Beijing are lower (in absolute terms) than SF and NY. Relative to local incomes they're probably more expensive though. Shanghai and Beijing are (I believe) more expensive than C
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by chibg10 8y ago
The expense-to-marginal-population curve shouldn't even be linear--it should be logarithmic. As a city grows, you would expect it to get better at accommodating population increases (by reforming regulation and from investment flowing
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by chibg10 8y ago
There's an enormous difference in model complexity between key phrase detection and (general) automatic speech recognition + natural language processing. There's a reason nearly everything Google Assistant does except "OK Goo
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by chibg10 8y ago
It's just as farfetched to think they're doing constant image/voice recognition with your phone's processor without you knowing. Those models are big and take a lot of computing power
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by chibg10 8y ago
> No it isn't actually true. Roughly 80% of Chinese people are happy with the direction the country is going vs 40% in the USA. This doesn't really have much do with superior governance though, does it? It has a lot do with the
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by chibg10 9y ago
I agree with the first paragraph, but my experience with college professors wasn't that much different from teachers high school. School rewards playing to grading system, and grade inflation means that professors don't expect any
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by chibg10 9y ago
Honestly, with the current state of stats teaching, they might be better off just avoiding the stats classes in most cases. I don't need yet another drone that tries to convince me I should make a business decision because of "sta
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by chibg10 9y ago
I have been to China and it did not allay my fears about a CCP-centric world one bit. Also I'm an American and I don't appreciate your pseudo-racist condescension.
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by chibg10 9y ago
The Chinese government bailed out Anbang literally two days ago. https://www.ft.com/content/c5bca040-37c6-11e8-8b98-2f31af407...
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by chibg10 9y ago
Who said anything about revolution? Mainland Chinese hold unnatural views on many issues that are shared essentially nowhere else in the world and are easily traceable back to the CCP's interests and propaganda. China's claim to T
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by chibg10 9y ago
I don't think the issue is Chinese culture, but it is Chinese leadership--which, admittedly, has encouraged and created a culture of concerning nationalism and subservience to authoritarians with no respect for human rights or rule of
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by chibg10 9y ago
I agree with your discomfort on Bannon's agenda, but aren't you conceptually backwards here? If Bannon is evil not because of his agenda but because he wants to bring societal change, isn't the same true for Abraham Lincoln?
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by chibg10 9y ago
I don't think "false information" is the kicker here. Taking a cursory glance at Breitbart and Fox News, there isn't that much that is patently false. Furthermore, my observations of how propaganda works in general is th
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by chibg10 9y ago
I think it's interesting exploratory work, but you can't just assume that the "personality" of Norwegian prisoners is the same as American ones. There are vast environmental and cultural between the two populations that
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by chibg10 9y ago
One concern I've always had when people discuss recidivism rates is that it's sort of impossible to find an effective control group, no? Suppose you're fresh out of prison with no good employment options. My guess is that, wh
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by chibg10 9y ago
This, like many other arguments that attempt to downplay the role of taxes in economic incentives, attempts to turn a continuous variable of interest into a binary one. The weaker the profit potential in the EU, the less companies will inve
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by chibg10 9y ago
I see this come up fairly often, and it baffles me each time. I've probably spent an average of $50+/week on Amazon for the past several years and have never once received a counterfeit item. What items are people buying that are
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by chibg10 9y ago
> If you aren't the shark, you're getting sharked People say this a lot, but I think it's misleading to most who hear it. This is certainly true in a trading context (i.e. where the buy/sell time horizon is short enou
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by chibg10 9y ago
Are they "failing" any more than they did in the past?
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by chibg10 9y ago
Has anyone read the paper? What is the effect size? I'm assuming the author means "statistically significant", which is worthless from any decisionmaking perspective (e.g. policy).
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by chibg10 9y ago
Exactly. Increasing wage inequality is an expected feature of the shift to the knowledge economy when large intellectual differences exist in the population. This often gets ignored in these discussions and people instead want to focus on t
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by chibg10 9y ago
Because giving out bank account information to strangers who are known not to own the account is a bad idea. Just because it's a suspected scammer doesn't mean that it's suddenly okay for Amazon to out his bank account info a

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