discoursism

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by discoursism 9y ago
> The increased availability of credit, and the increased willingness of markets to give credit to risky borrowers has forced people to extend themselves to the max in order to compete for social status. This is optional, though. If you
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by discoursism 9y ago
A perk is not a perk because of the ease of providing it or its cost. It's a perk because it's a benefit not part of core compensation. And it is true, none of the other tech giants have downtown HQs (although plenty of Google sat
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by discoursism 9y ago
Of course. What do you expect?
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by discoursism 9y ago
Take "as individually as possible," to mean, "as individually as practically possible," rather than, "as individually as theoretically possible," and you'll have a better understanding of what I was trying
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by discoursism 9y ago
No, I still value risk smoothing. I know a lot about my driving skill, but I don't have the ability to make perfect predictions about all possible future losses.
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by discoursism 9y ago
> I mean, that would asymptotically approach a prediction of your personal future losses, and thus your premiums would asymptotically approach your future losses, and thus what's the point of giving your money to an insurance compan
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by discoursism 9y ago
I can't say for certain, because I wasn't involved in the decision. ;) My gut reaction is that it only ends up being seen as OK because the group being penalized has historically been at an advantage in most other areas financiall
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by discoursism 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I'd say if you make a good faith effort to prevent that eventuality, it would probably at least mitigate liability. That's a great question, though.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Let me ask some clarifying questions, because I think I understand the broad strokes of what you're saying, but I'm not clear on some details. OK, so I find that among Black users, Hotmail is associated with a 1.05 relative risk t
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by discoursism 9y ago
Personally, I'd rather car insurance were tailored as individually as possible. If I could get that option without my data ever leaving Google's silo, I would do it in a heartbeat. Then again, I know I'm very low risk compare
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by discoursism 9y ago
I'd say there's a one really important difference between being Black and using Hotmail, and that difference is the same reason why one is a protected class and one isn't. The real concern here isn't discriminating again
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by discoursism 9y ago
That's very true. And if they are not confident about their predictions then it might be difficult to push back when people fraudulently claim to not have purchased something.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Even with actual emotional support animals, I don't understand why anyone needs a seventy pound dog as an emotional support animal. Is a twenty pound dog insufficiently supportive? Are there a certain number of support units per pound?
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by discoursism 9y ago
That and a reality inversion where this is in Amazon's or Google's best interest despite the massive blowback it would cause.
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by discoursism 9y ago
The site you linked to is satire. It is not a thing that actually happened.
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by discoursism 9y ago
I'm not referring to facial recognition. I'm saying if you shoplift, they are going to be able to provide the cops with video evidence, and they will know who you are.
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by discoursism 9y ago
But Alexa and Google Home aren't always on listening devices in your home -- at least not any sense that matters. They are always-on, and they do have microphones, but they are not recording every conversation and sending it to the m
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by discoursism 9y ago
Do you think they would have opened it if they didn't have a pretty high degree of confidence that it was working? It's been in beta for quite some time. There are better places to steal from than those with massive numbers of cam
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by discoursism 9y ago
> Can’t agree more. OP argument only holds if “value” is an absolute and objective concept and if everyone in the company is measured by it. OP's argument is not a "true or false" proposition. It's a model, and as suc
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by discoursism 9y ago
And I also think it's fair for you to use the shorthand, "The constitution says ..." as a stand-in for this. But there seem to be some people in the thread who are not too familiar with the American legal system, and I don&#x
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by discoursism 9y ago
I set up my 401k. That was work. I've also done the mega-backdoor Roth IRA last year, and will do it again this year. Am I a bad man?
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by discoursism 9y ago
The constitution as interpreted by five out of nine sitting judges at the time the question was last ruled on. It's reasonable to think the constitution says otherwise, although you are correct as to the law of the land at the moment.
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by discoursism 9y ago
This article is full of good observations. A shorter way to say it is that the distance between Steam and "perfect" is not very large, and there isn't enough margin to be had to justify the cost of building something to close
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by discoursism 9y ago
Punishment (retribution) is only one of a number of reasons to incarcerate someone (the three others normally cited are deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation). I wish we had better metrics for the probability of recidivism. If we k
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by discoursism 9y ago
In the sense that those processors can compute things which are computable, yes, they are a real alternative. The correct question is, "How much worse would the situation have to be with Intel before the cost of these alternatives was
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by discoursism 9y ago
Do you know that, or is it your conjecture? There are a lot of other possible reasons to use $500 as a limit. For example, preventing people from structuring withdrawals at the ATM, preventing an accident from producing too much cash, lim
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by discoursism 9y ago
Not to my understanding. They were already applying FDO to all of their performance sensitive programs. They found that after FDO, the retpolines and the other work done to mitigate meltdown and spectre had negligible impact. This is becaus
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by discoursism 9y ago
Indeed. Google's published data suggests negligible losses if you are using FDO, which you must be if you care about performance.
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by discoursism 9y ago
If you weren't considering Intel alternatives before this, I'd argue that's a real failure of imagination and risk management. I'm sure some of the really small cloud providers weren't, but all the big players keep
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by discoursism 9y ago
Paul is a boss. This is just one of his many amazing accomplishments. He's kinda the guy you go to if things are slow and you need some help to make them really ridiculously fast.

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