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by cultus 6y ago
Ah, simply crush billions of tons of olivine and move it to a beach. Weathering olivine doesn't scale, because you need so much. It involves hitherto unprecendented amounts of quarrying and then transport. The quarrying would destroy m
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by cultus 6y ago
Scrubbing that carbon takes energy. Thus, if that energy is from fossil fuels, the carbon emitted can be greater than that captured. In that case, it is worse than doing nothing. At any rate, removing carbon from the atmosphere is a vastly
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by cultus 6y ago
You must have the forgiveness of a saint to still be friends after something like that. I hope your friend has genuinely changed.
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by cultus 6y ago
Trump gets most of the attention, but this whole pandemic has laid plain how liberal republics have been hollowed out by neoliberalism over the past few decades. The capability for broad, fast, collective action has been all-but wiped out,
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by cultus 6y ago
Conservatives started cancel culture. Blacklists in McCarthyism, the Dixie Chicks, NEA, Kaepernick as someone else said. Before the narrative drumbeat of snowflake libs and cancel culture started, conservatives were stereotypically pearl-cl
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by cultus 6y ago
IQ isn't a "result." It's just a test whose results were specified to be Gaussian with mean 100 and std dev 15. Whether that is a useful thing is a different consideration.
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by cultus 6y ago
In America at least, foreign languages are taught in high school and college. This really hurts retention of language skills. Humans are far better at language acquisition as small children, but our educational system refuses to take this f
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by cultus 6y ago
8chan doesn't officially allow child porn, but they have sexualized images of children which are 100% illegal. That's why Google delisted them for child abuse content. A lot of people on HN seem really eager to defend 8chan for so
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by cultus 6y ago
That's not actually true. In fact, Google delisted 8Chan due to child abuse content.
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by cultus 6y ago
Please take your misogyny elsewhere.
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by cultus 6y ago
And people wonder why social mobility is so low in the US... Your comment is emblematic how how inefficient our oligarchical system is. It's like saying someone would be a good general because his father is an important feudal lord. Th
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by cultus 6y ago
It seems sometimes you just need to hit a certain level of status and then you fail upward from there.
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by cultus 6y ago
I think it must have to be genetically related to known languages to predict cognates, etc. AFAIK, no one has too much of an idea what language family the Minoan language could be a part of.
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by cultus 6y ago
Nonlinear regression is still linear regression with transformed features. Kernel regression, for example, just uses features generated from the data using a supplied kernel function/covariance function. DL just allows the features to
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by cultus 6y ago
Most ML algorithms boil down to linear regression with some loss function. Even deep learning networks are essentially just linear regressions stacked on top of each other, with lower layers being trained on features predicted by higher lay
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by cultus 6y ago
The auditors are doing by far the bulk of the work, with the government essentially just signing off on it. This has directly lead to scandals such as Enron and possibly Wirecard.
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by cultus 6y ago
No it's not. Public firms are audited by public accounting companies such as E&Y.
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by cultus 6y ago
Just spitballing, but public companies could pay a small tax in lieu of paying an auditing firm, and the auditing could be done by government-employed accountants who are beholden to the public interest. Of course this would never happen be
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by cultus 6y ago
I do not understand how we still allow this obvious conflict of interest with firms hiring their own public auditors.
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by cultus 6y ago
Wow, that's a textbook example of post-hoc hypothesizing, about the biggest statistical no-no in the book.
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by cultus 6y ago
I really disagree that composition is error prone. It makes it easier to test and isolate errors by easily allowing different implementations along the pipeline. You get abstraction and it's less error-prone. Abstraction usually is a w
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by cultus 6y ago
For example, https://insideevs.com/news/442454/tesla-third-worst-make-rel...
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by cultus 6y ago
The other OEMs will have to retool, yes. However, Tesla must construct brand new factories if they start shipping Ford-quantities of cars. Constructing brand new factories takes more capital than retooling, especially since EVs are a lot si
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by cultus 6y ago
While they are not designed to break down, Teslas are among the least reliable cars on the road. Don't get me wrong, BMW and Mercedes are bad too.
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by cultus 6y ago
They're dipping their hands into many fields. What is the basis for thinking they will do better than the established players? Why should I buy a house from Tesla when there are many mature modular home manufacturers. In the past, many
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by cultus 6y ago
There is no planet where the valuation of Tesla makes any sense. The value would only be justified if Tesla is essentially expected to monopolice the global car market. Tesla doesn't have any technological secret sauce. Their battery t
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by cultus 6y ago
Each bitcoin transaction costs about $50 now. They're quite a bit more onerous to use than cash, thus people use "exchanges" which are controlled by for-profit private interests.
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by cultus 6y ago
This really isn't a rational thing to do as an individual. You aren't going to beat more sophisticated players.
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by cultus 6y ago
Investing in crypto is always nuts, but especially if you are trying to reduce risk. Don't listen to your friends. Buy index funds, with more into bonds if you really want less risk. You won't ever beat the market on average as a
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by cultus 6y ago
The RCMP isn't a great example for why militarized police are a good idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...

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