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by dlss 11y ago
> That isn't "name calling". It's just naming. I see, fair enough. It was clearly wrong to assume you viewed his actions as either moral or immoral. > Avis [is] an amoral, predatory agent > Approving of it [...]
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by dlss 11y ago
I would assume AVIS worked out the 5,000 bonus miles based on average profit levels across all rentals. When they used that measurement to inform policy, they violated an implicit assumption of their metric derived model. This is quite lite
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by dlss 11y ago
Is this what AppEngine apps / Google cloud storage files are served from, or is that a different CDN?
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by dlss 11y ago
> How do you make sure that your consumer reports aren't corrupt? And how do they get financed? Research into things that cause long-term effects (like lead or mercury or tobacco) is very expensive and not really viable for a compa
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by dlss 11y ago
> Who would prove the harm if there is no EPA? Who has the money to go against big corporations and their paid experts? It took forever to get a shared understanding that smoking is really harmful. The EPA is a horrible example to use
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by dlss 11y ago
This is the nirvana fallacy. That people enter into contracts they later regret does not disprove the obvious benefits of allowing legally binding agreements. If you have an alternate solution, by all means propose it. (And while we're
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by dlss 11y ago
In fairness to Heroku you're citing a security issue with the heroku.com webapp, not an issue with the platform they're selling. Also: as long as traffic spikes remain a thing, autoscaling isn't wasteful... The alternatives a
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by dlss 11y ago
PaaS solutions are worth more than IaaS I think -- someone is applying security patches, autoscaling your app, load balancing, etc. For a more apples to apples comparison: It's 5x the cost of Elastic Beanstalk... 250 / (0.067 * 24
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by dlss 11y ago
It's not obvious to me that I wouldn't be seeing a comment just like yours on a study finding the opposite. "We already know people just do what they want if the consequences are minor" Consider: > Hindsight will le
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by dlss 11y ago
The result here isn't what you said: > taken individually, immediate minor punishments are as effective as major punishments The result here is that frequent minor punishments are 72% more effective than infrequent major punishmen
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by dlss 11y ago
I think this post just changed my position on censorship :p
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by dlss 11y ago
Urbit perhaps?
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by dlss 11y ago
As others have said, there is a major communication hurdle you need to solve. To pick a page at random, consider http://www.nomiddleman.co/products/executive-desk-sz1509 I have some UX questions for you: 1. What are th
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by dlss 11y ago
> If E is a binary event and P(H|E) > P(H), "seeing E increases the probability of H"; then P(H|~E) < P(H) http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o...
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by dlss 11y ago
This analysis is insane. It's just a very advanced photoshop filter.
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by dlss 11y ago
I find this reply really confusing. 1. What were you hoping to accomplish with the Dylan quote? Are you ceding the agency argument and now asserting that advertising should be banned because it's obscene? 2. What scaling effects are we
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by dlss 11y ago
Doesn't all communication count as manipulation of agency? Like, in reading this I feel swayed... but you didn't cite any facts or research.
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by dlss 11y ago
Can anyone recommend some other good links on angel rounds?
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by dlss 11y ago
I'm super confused by this reply. The article says that the stddev of the distribution of male IQ is larger than the stddev of the distribution for female IQ, and also seems to state the mean and median are equal. GGP threw out 60&#x2F
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by dlss 11y ago
This also isn't how statistics works. > We can further assume, arbitrarily, that P(B) = 0.02 (one in every fifty people make good engineers). So the likelihood that a person is a good engineer given that they are female is P(B|A).
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by dlss 11y ago
This article has some fantastic examples of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning For example: > under the guise of innovation and progress, companies are stripping away worker protections, pushing down
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by dlss 11y ago
As I understand it, the exploit makes the DoE no longer see the person as middle-class.
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by dlss 11y ago
As the author states, this hack is for the FAFSA (the free application for federal student aid)... And given that FAFSA is listed on http://mitadmissions.org/afford/deadlines it looks like it would work with MIT.
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by dlss 11y ago
You provided a lot of details about what's happening, but not a lot of details about what's going wrong (the emotions)... so I'm not sure if this will apply to you, but I'm going to say it in the hope it'll be usefu
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by dlss 11y ago
Right. The "studio couches" are couches.
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by dlss 11y ago
For context, ImageNet does have a sofa category for labels :/ http://image-net.org/search?q=sofa
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by dlss 11y ago
Under the advanced menu, Flickr lets you search for creative commons commercial use allowed. There's tons of great eating photos to choose from :) (though FWIW I liked your hero shot)
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by dlss 11y ago
The kind of setup described by http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrevalenceLayer works quite well
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by dlss 11y ago
Location: Santa Rosa (1 hour north of SF) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rails, Java, JavaScript, SQL, R, Mathematica, Julia Hi! I'm a friendly, knowledgable, and communicative backend programmer and machine learner
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by dlss 11y ago
1. Brains are physical systems 2. Physical systems can be simulated 3. Brains have human level AI Therefore the possibility of human level AI is real. Hopefully something better than a simulated brain is possible though :p

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