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by em500 5y ago
ShadowStats writes for a specific audience: people who distrust official statistics in general, and inflation statistics in particular. As you can see in this thread (and likely also by talking to most people you know personally), this is a
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by em500 5y ago
The great thing about FRED graphs is that you can easily DIY with the "Edit Graph" button: in log scale: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ImYV divided by households: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
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by em500 5y ago
You can install Firefox Focus and select that as an adblocker for Safari. Alternatively, DuckDuckGo has an iOS browser with built-in adblocker.
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by em500 5y ago
In Geekbench Multi-Core, the 5950X is only 33% faster (at 16.6k) than the M1 Max (which benches around 12.5k). So the difference is actually smaller than in SPEC that Anandtech uses. For all the dissing of Geekbench, I found it to actually
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by em500 5y ago
During the heydays of the iPod craze, around 2005-2008, I was convinced that product line would be short lived. It was apparent that music playing was a trivial application of mobile phones, which were already becoming ubiquitous. In those
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by em500 5y ago
This is very neat, but maybe not completely accurate. "2021-10-24 11:02:03Z" is outside iso8601 in the figure, but I think it's valid iso8601. True, "T" is the One True date-time separator in iso8601 (IMO its bigge
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An in-depth analysis of James Bond's exposure to infectious agents(sciencedirect.com)
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by em500 5y ago
The hype was probably mostly from "Crazy" Ken Kutaragi, who had a knack for dialing the Playstation hype beyond 11. The PS2 was already supposed to replace your home PC and revolutionize ecommerce and online gaming and plug yourse
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by em500 5y ago
At least Facebook also tracks logged-out users and non-users.
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Right. They're certainly not going to ban Google and Facebook from operating abroad, as a naive reading might suggest. The rules look so vague to me that it looks like just another way to justify the ruling US prez banning whatever he
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They'd call them "search results" (zoekresultaten). FWIW, real estate listings are "advertisements" here.
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Don't overthink it. The article was probably translated from Dutch, or done by a Dutch person, and there isn't direct equivalent for "listings" in Dutch.
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Lot's of experiences are amazing and wonderful when very few people do it, but they morph into something different when the masses come in. National parks. A rustic cafe in an old town. A picknick along a river bank. High signal intern
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by em500 5y ago
If you were in the city government of a large western city, you'd know there's a huge number of often conflicting demands of the citizenry. Most of them do not support building enough housing for all potential visitors. And while
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by em500 5y ago
There's probably some spillover / upwards pressure from the successful US companies. But I think the main driver is that in Europe, software is mostly considered a cost centre instead of a revenue centre. In Europe there are not t
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by em500 5y ago
It's more difficult in Europe to fire people with a permanent contract. That can make companies more reluctant to hire. As the say of another profession, "I don't pay them to come over, I pey them to go away afterwards".
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by em500 5y ago
If you spend 2 minutes googling it (or even just reading HN comments here), you'll get various people recommending venv, pyenv, poetry, conda, pyflow and probably a whole bunch of deprecated stuff, where it's totally unclear to ou
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by em500 5y ago
Sounds like Microsoft is turning Windows into ChromeOS. Now I actually like ChromeOS a lot. But I do wish we'd keep some actual choices, instead of the same thing with different skins.
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by em500 5y ago
Best comment in the Ars comments: > Every article mentioning Chromebooks is followed up by a bunch of people who don't use or like Chromebooks commenting about how useless they are, followed by retorts from those who do own, use, an
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by em500 5y ago
It's a simple starter example in a blog post. Stratified sampling, with pros and cons, is covered in an intro stats course. This is not an intro stats course, it's a short article on a blog.
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by em500 5y ago
The Nintendo Switch is probably the closest to something you can give to little kids without too much worry in the current gen. Used previous gen Nintendo gear (2DS/3DS/DSi) might work even better, though at some point peer pressu
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by em500 5y ago
I agree that the actual barriers are probably lower than ever, e.g. with Scratch, Playgrounds, replit or even the browser JS console. I think the bigger issue is that the competition for (child) attention and interest is much fiercer nowada
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by em500 5y ago
The earliest generation Kindles had keyboards and various ways to run Linux. I think they tick about every box in this concept, except for the "Great keyboard. Terminal mouse support": the keyboards sucked for typing more than a f
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by em500 5y ago
It uses actual rents for renters and owner-equivalent rents for owners. This does not assume at all that people want to rent their whole life. (The main assumption it relies on is that owners do not systematically understate what they think
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by em500 5y ago
I don't know how the various car teams implement them currently, but I find it hard to believe that this is some novel or SOTA approach for them. Kalman filtering and state space models are explicit object permanence models for trackin
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by em500 5y ago
Yup, the only practical difference between the behavior of SQLite and other databases is whether you get an error if you try to insert values that can't be converted to the declared column type. You'll need application logic to ha
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by em500 5y ago
> I could never understand why this wasn't means tested continually. They've started some degree of means testing a few years ago: the maximum allowed rent increase on social/rent-controlled houses can now depend on incom
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by em500 5y ago
It wouldn't be, if it did that. Fortunately it doesn't ignore those. In the US CPI calculation, housing has around 42% weight, medical care around 9%. Source: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-impor
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by em500 5y ago
The Netherlands had fully opened elementary schools since February, UK since March, without any masking and related drama and with barely any distancing. Child Covid-19 mortality has remained very low throughout, even with Delta (grand tot
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by em500 5y ago
Useful technology like ad growth hacking, conversion optimization, engagement optimization and getting kids to open more loot boxes? Lets face it, the majority of white collar workers including software engineers are there for the money. Wh

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