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by chris_va 10y ago
One major problem with inflation tracking, which this approach has the potential to solve (though does't appear to yet), is that measuring the quality of the product over time is hard. Wages have averaged flat for the last 20 years &
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by chris_va 10y ago
Well, $20 in 1891 isn't exactly $20 in 2016. Also, you aren't likely to go for a jog with your phonograph, and I suspect if you left the nano in a box for 60 years it would probably be fine (minus maybe the battery).
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by chris_va 10y ago
Long distance relationship, infidelity breakup, family illness, and bedbugs all in a year? Yikes, glad they already had a therapist to speak with.
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by chris_va 10y ago
It's not socialized medicine. Technically it made it possible to get insurance subsidized (or fully funded) if you cannot afford it, prevented insurers from pricing with anything but age/gender/tobacco/location, and ding
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by chris_va 10y ago
Agreed, but the level of research in novel antibiotics is really quite limited, mostly due to a lack of return on investment. This actually means there is almost certainly a lot of unexplored potential, but getting drug makers interested is
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by chris_va 10y ago
Publically financed and state run are two very different things.
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by chris_va 10y ago
While I completely agree, running a newspaper business in general, with today's margins, also sucks. So this just spreads it around a bit :).
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by chris_va 10y ago
Completely agree.
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by chris_va 10y ago
I'm enjoying this too much :) Let us say "the sky is blue". With formalism, you'd argue that blue is a state, and the sky is a thing, and they have a relationship. I'd argue that language does not actually assign st
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by chris_va 10y ago
The semantics are difficult here, apologies. I can't tell if we are agreeing :) Why do things have to be in any state, even a "non-specific intermediate" one? The original observation seems to have devolved into an argument o
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by chris_va 10y ago
This can happen if code reviews are not done well, I agree. Things can be just as bad if code is not written well. Doing either well requires good engineering practices and skill. It is part of the profession that you acquire over time, lik
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by chris_va 10y ago
Why is it necessary to reduce language to set theory? I say it is a heap when doing so improves the odds of my preferred outcome in a conversation. Being labeled a heap doesn't have to be a binary truism. Or even a probability. I guess
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by chris_va 10y ago
I really like continuous integration/automated tests/code coverage dashboards/automated lint checkers, etc. The more decisions you can cleanly take away, the easier it is to work in a codebase. I agree with you there. Once yo
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by chris_va 10y ago
Why do you find them expensive? I've done thousands in my career. They don't take much time compared to actually writing the code, and adding an extra 5% of engineering time pays major dividends later without drastically reducing
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by chris_va 10y ago
Also let's not forget regulation (even good regulation) is expensive to follow.
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by chris_va 10y ago
Keep in mind that the vast majority of clothing is not sold at retail prices (and some of it is not sold ever). It depends on the brand, but maybe %20 is a good ballpark. Also, there are development costs, etc. Finally, the manufacturer isn
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by chris_va 10y ago
I was a little disappointed to see that this was just a single-machine hierarchical time index on top of a pre-sorted append log. It's not a bad architecture, and the lockless queuing system and shared memory is cute, but: - It only
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by chris_va 10y ago
Random question, why not 1 blade and a counterweight?
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by chris_va 10y ago
Adverse selection is a huge problem in insurance. And disability fraud is especially bad (like billions of dollars in CA every year). As a result, insurance companies don't want to play in that space, since their average margin is only
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by chris_va 10y ago
"so granted access to all patient data" Yes, but under what conditions? Many privacy laws apply here, and treating Google as some monolithic entity where everyone working there can now read anyone's personal health history is
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by chris_va 10y ago
True, but I think you can mitigate these issues. Especially for the NHS dataset, since you will either see the patient in there or in a death index (unlike, say, US where they may have just gone to another hospital). Also, the scope here is
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by chris_va 10y ago
You are making some implicit assumptions that they data access isn't highly controlled. I have seen a few of these sorts of deals killed because of data access concerns, and/or computation requirements ("you can have access t
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by chris_va 10y ago
Seems pretty simple, really. 1000 patients come in with symptoms that look like cancer at year 0. 100 actually get diagnosed with cancer at some point between year 0 and year 5. Presumably, the remaining 900 didn't have cancer at year
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by chris_va 10y ago
In case anyone wants a fun ML problem: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anemone-computer-m... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anemone-computer-m...
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by chris_va 11y ago
I think you have some good arguments. If you remove the external factors (parents, etc) the first argument simplifies to: People are happier when they meet their own expectations, and people who are "smart" have higher self expec
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by chris_va 11y ago
'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.'
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by chris_va 11y ago
__builtin_prefetch sort of works in x86, but you'll probably end up doing more harm than good when second guessing the automated cache.
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by chris_va 11y ago
One critical thing I wish I could go back and remind my younger self: The cache is shared across processes. The net result is that cache latency/hit rate is highly dependent on what else is using the machine. CPU bound tasks (like, say
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by chris_va 11y ago
Short sighted, I think. She is allowing the court system of Germany to correct its laws in a legal way. She is trusting the German process to get rid of the law, which arguably is an elegant and even more powerful statement on freedom than
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by chris_va 11y ago
Anecdotally, I would say 30% positive, 30% total loss, and 30-40% somewhere in between. Fund returns will definitely be biased towards the top 1-10%, like in any lottery system.

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