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by em500 5y ago
The SEC was founded in 1934 in response to "crowdfunding" scams in the decades prior. The reason that cryptocurrency, NFT, etc are being eyed by the SEC is that the people involved are involved in selling nebulous assets of questi
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by em500 5y ago
The main reason I don't use Safari on the Mac is that all extensions (including ad-blockers) require an AppleID (because they have to come from the Apple App store), and I don't want to be forced to tie my laptop to any online acc
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by em500 5y ago
Here's the economic argument against, from conservative economist John Cochrane (try to check the tribalism and focus on the arguments), who used to be a proponent of carbon taxes. The standard vision in policy discussions assumes inf
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by em500 5y ago
But in reality, when prices at the pump rise >20%, even so called progressive governments resort to excise tax cuts and drill baby drill. Because if they didn't they'll be out of office very quickly.
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by em500 5y ago
Also, we're talking about driverless cars. The scenario is not the police pressing a remote stop button to override your directions, it's to override Cruise/Waymo/Uber's AI or remote control. This is a serious quest
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by em500 5y ago
Ok, I'm guessing you're American. I've read that the relationship between the police and the public can be a bit .. antagonistic. And I know that fugitives are disproportionately romanticized in fiction. But police officers g
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by em500 5y ago
The scalable solution would be that law enforcement will be given a direct override/pull-over button for any driverless car. I expect this to happen in the future if driverless cars reach large volumes. Maybe I haven't thought thi
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by em500 5y ago
If you disable data altogether (wifi, not just mobile), you don't really need any screentime limits or other rules such as where she is allowed to use it. She'll very quickly self-limit the amount of time she spends on it. Keeping
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by em500 5y ago
There is no problem giving phones to kids as soon as they can read: just disable all data (including wifi!). There are plenty of useful (translators, scientific calculators, maps/compass), informative (ebooks, kiwix) and entertainment
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by em500 5y ago
Nice summary. I skimmed the entire article, and it appears to be mainly about explaining why the traditional consensus that cats are less intelligent than dogs would be biased. "Because we judge intelligence by comparing other creature
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A combination of the low vaccination rate among the elderly (only 50% or so among the 80+, and a lot of the vaccinated got Sinovac), which is inverted compared to Western countries where the rates are highest among the elderly, and the supp
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Don't be a Dick[1]. Or even xkcd hat guy[2]. [1] https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-02 [2] https://xkcd.com/1475
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by em500 5y ago
PhD in econometrics speaking, here's my handy guide to macro-economics: - The main variables of interest are (aggregate) real production / income (GDP/GDI), unemployment and inflation (arguably in that order) - Nobody knows m
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by em500 5y ago
Noted and corrected, thanks.
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Some notes for the non-economically schooled readers: - Ungated (working paper) versions are here[1] and here[2] - This was published in Econometrica, one of the top journals in economics. That doesn't mean that the results are true, b
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by em500 5y ago
I don't know about Skyline, but for Yuzu it's trivial to download prod.keys and nsp/xci of every game and play anything without paying anyone a dime.
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Yes, I definitely put that up as a real Scotsman. The "real (Java) engineers" at my company scoff at the loosey-gooey attempts of the Python engineers trying to productionalize the numpy mess produced by our ML-engineers. I mean,
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by em500 5y ago
Ok, but if someone claims to have read all the Python manuals and wrote something like > Python has two types of empty string, array('u',) and "" you'd probably conclude that hasn't really understood what
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by em500 5y ago
That could have been expressed more diplomatically, but I think you're right. IMHO, what people should try to understand about new languages first most thoroughly, are its native data types . This is more fundamental than the syntacti
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If signal processing and matrix algoritms are your thing, you should (and probably would) be using Matlab. Most statisticians don't really do much of that, what they mostly do is data management and try to mold their tables in some fo
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by em500 5y ago
The common trope with R is that statisticians and love it and developers hate it. The the main reason that statisticians love it is that the libraries useful to them are much better in R than elsewhere (though Python keeps encroaching in th
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by em500 5y ago
I largely agree with the author. Even the quickest internet search is many orders of magnitude slower than recollection from memory. The analogy with retrieving from cache vs RAM / disk / network is probably well known. But we sho
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by em500 5y ago
Same here, never lived in the US, always preferred the US keyboard layout. Fortunately, here in the Netherlands the majority of keyboards are US layout by default. Biggest exceptions in my experience are - ThinkPads, which seem to divided b
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by em500 5y ago
Word of advice: don't worry about the prevailing HN mood or opinion about pretty much anything except some extremely niche technical topics. (A nice tell is when a post has almost no comments.) Treat HN as an amusing diversion, not as
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by em500 5y ago
Easier said than done. Never mind the sunk costs, what are the local career prospects for a failed year 11 college student? Paraphrasing an old joke, what do you call a medical student who graduated by cheating on the exams? "Doctor&qu
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by em500 5y ago
Omicron is not "so mild". It appeared to be mild in many other countries due to high vaccination rates and/or prior infections/deaths. This is not the case in China, where prior infections are very rare. And although the
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by em500 5y ago
According to The Seven Basic Plots[1], all stories follow one of the archetypes - Overcoming the Monster - Rags to Riches - The Quest - Voyage and Return - Comedy - Tragedy - Rebirth [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th
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by em500 5y ago
But most of the largest corporations are owned by us, the public
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> They can't sell them at a premium compared to peers Intel is believed to have pretty good margins on their server CPUs > and its outside their area of expertise. That's what people used to say about Apple doing CPUs in-hou
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Wikipedia Current Events is great. But it's just like plain oatmeal and doing exercises every day. Most of us just don't have the willpower and go for the sugary cereals and slouching in front of on screen streaming entertainmen

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