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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
> To learn more, or to download and install the free browser extension: Edit: After re-reading this multiple times, I don't think this wording is helpful. There should be a transparent description of what this extension offers befor
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
The quality issue will have to be addressed either way as an outcome of the current pandemic. Previously, there was no pressure to solve these accessibility issues because it was not necessary for the survival of the institution. In fact, t
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Professor Galloway also said: --- We get a lot of ego gratification every time our deans stand up in front of the faculty and say, “This year, we didn’t reject 85 percent of applicants; we rejected 87 percent!,” [...] That is tantamount to
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
If there was ever a noble application of the decentralized, uncensorable technologies ideas bourne out of the crypto community, this would be it.
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The Carrington Event (1859)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
The preprint model has actually been wildly successful for many communities ( https://arxiv.org/ , https://www.biorxiv.org/ ). I don't think anyone is arguing against peer review, but the idea of peer rev
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Is there a statistical demonstration of the effectiveness of established journals? It seems like you would have to do some form of counterfactual study to prove/disprove this. As far as I know, the argument of the effectiveness of jour
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Google faces $5B lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use(reuters.com)
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Is there any transparency on how "a moderation downweight" works? It sounds like a useful feature, but what does it exactly do, and is there a public log for these types of things.
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Magic Leap has already signed over its patents to JP Morgan back in Nov 2019. Are those still acquirable assets in the event of an acquisition?
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Cambridge University moves all lectures online until summer 2021(theguardian.com)
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Cambridge University moves all lectures online until summer 2021(lbcnews.co.uk)
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New TSMC Fab in USA: I Don't Believe It(youtube.com)
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Companies leave the index when they fall below a certain market cap. Companies enter the index when they are above a certain market cap. That is literally the definition of buying high and selling low.
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Uber is expected to begin another round of layoffs(businessinsider.com)
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
I wonder how buying high and selling low (the strategy of S&P 500 holders) will work out in this new COVID era.
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Regardless of any one's opinion about this being right or wrong, good or bad, Google has spent enormous resources preparing for this moment. From lobbying efforts to the Alphabet restructuring, Google has been acutely aware of this pos
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller... Does it make sense to cut the salaries of the lowest-paid, zero equity groups? The same group of people you'll be competing to hire from when they graduate.
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Won't this create more share dilution in the short term? Don't layoffs trigger options/RSUs to be executed some time window after the layoff?
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Many college towns and rental properties relying on student income will be devastated.
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
The problem with these types of arguments with soft algorithms like machine learning is that the answer probably lies somewhere in between in the most literal way (it has non-zero influence from many input features). Accepting this ambiguit
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
> the length of that interval is bound by the ratio of the error in the data over the derivative with respect the parameter This is interesting! Could you expand on this a bit? Why is the length of the interval bound by the ratio of the
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by cracker_jacks 6y ago
Zoom townhalls with people of differing opinions and cultures is a brilliant idea.
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
I agree this is odd. Given their business, what Airbnb needs 12000+ employees for is beyond me.
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
This is not correct. Apple has an inventory, stores, employees in those stores, etc. Likewise, for your other examples, these companies have to hold things on their books like hotel staff, lease payments, building maintenance, etc regardle
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Do you mean exactly what China has done with its semi-nationalized technology companies?
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Is the end to end encryption removed for all clients when a legacy device connects? I don't understand how some devices could be end to end encrypted in a meeting while some legacy devices in the same meeting are not. How could the leg
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A Coronavirus Explosion Was Expected in Japan. Where Is It?(bloomberg.com)
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Which experts are proposing the way forward is actually a total lockdown? This article is distorting what experts are actually saying. This virus will not go away, it needs to be managed. Please consider the following articles of what exper
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Quantitative hedge funds must be making an absolute killing these couple weeks from the number of individual traders trying to daytrade through all this volatility.

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