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by eric_b 6y ago
I know lots of folks who got PPP loans. I don't know anyone who's getting 100% of their loan forgiven. Mainly because they took 2.5x monthly payroll as a loan - but then did an 8 week covered period (2x monthly payroll). Most o
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by eric_b 6y ago
Politicized? Give it a rest. Yes, if a company spent 60% (down from 75%) of their loan on payroll, and does not exceed the 20k cap per employee, and retained the same number of employees they had at the beginning of the covered period, and
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by eric_b 6y ago
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/3245-0407-SBA-For... > if a 24-week Covered Period applies, does not exceed 2.5 months’ worth of 2019 compensation for any owneremployee or self-employed individu
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by eric_b 6y ago
Unless you can see their books you really have no idea how their revenues did. And you really have no idea what additional expenses they're incurring due to COVID mitigations.
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by eric_b 6y ago
I don't think favoritism is a concern. The forgiveness guidance is not, to my knowledge, finalized. But what we've seen so far is pretty cut and dried. It's possible some people could convince their lender to forgive more
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by eric_b 6y ago
So many complaints here. Based on the comments I think there is some misunderstanding about the nuts and bolts of this program. These are loans. They are two year low interest loans. They have to be paid back unless some or all is forgive
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by eric_b 6y ago
A lot of people on social media and in the news are complaining about businesses that took the money that didn't "need" it. It's fun to be outraged but I think there's a few things everyone should know: - First, th
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by eric_b 6y ago
Agreed, it bothers me that this tactic is so successful. I could not find an instance in this "discussion" where Gebru outlined any concrete steps to solve for, or lessen bias, in ML. It seems she mainly wants to complain, rathe
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by eric_b 6y ago
I asked another commenter as well, but what are the proposed solutions then? People are obviously upset about ML and bias, is there a place I can get a summary of actionable next steps to lessen bias in ML?
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by eric_b 6y ago
I don't understand what Timnit and these other people are really even advocating. She says "diverse datasets are not enough". Structural problems can't be ignored etc. Ok, so what is the solution then? Does she have
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by eric_b 6y ago
To me it seemed like Timnit Gebru was spoiling for any reason to fight, and decided to make a big deal out of a factually correct and hard-to-misinterpret statement. I mean, he was clearly referring to the specific model.
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by eric_b 6y ago
So they're moving to a new "community based", "light governance" model. [1] There are plenty of problems with BDFL-style projects, but I think there are a lot of advantages too. Redis is unique in my experience in
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by eric_b 6y ago
Yes! "End the War on Drugs" is exactly the kind of thing that could get meaningful traction and has a relatively concrete set of goals.
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by eric_b 6y ago
Personally I'd go with "Reform the Police" or "Police the Police". Or maybe "De-Militarize the Police" which is not the only goal but one with broader support.
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by eric_b 6y ago
I see a lot of people saying "Defund the police doesn't mean no police". Ok, fine. But it's a shitty slogan that, regardless of actual meaning, is doing more harm than good. Normal people don't get the nuance.
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by eric_b 6y ago
What do some of those systems look like? Have any been tried on a large scale? Are they effective? (Honestly asking, I am trying to imagine something other than a police force - or that looks like a police force - that can effectively d
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by eric_b 6y ago
From your article: "The Camden County Police Department rehired most of the laid-off cops, along with nearly 100 other officers, but at much lower salaries and with fewer benefits than they had received from the city." So the solu
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by eric_b 6y ago
I agree. The bad apples have to go. My concern is that we want to "hurt" the police rather than fix the systemic issues. It seems that the Minneapolis police department has had excessive force issues for years. That feels like
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by eric_b 6y ago
I'm interested to see what comes out of all this. I am very glad I do not live in Minneapolis. I did not see a specific damages amount in the complaint, but I am assuming it will be high, especially if granted class action status. Ban
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by eric_b 6y ago
"Where did I defend the Lancet" Umm.... right here... "It's possible that the editors at the Lancet hate Trump. But... you're simply reading too much here. Bad science gets published all the time. In particular, bad
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by eric_b 6y ago
Where did I defend Trump's tweets? Where did I say it was OK for him to give false and misleading medical advice? Obviously he should NOT. HAVE. DONE. THOSE. THINGS. I think you're wearing your bias on your sleeve a bit too muc
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by eric_b 6y ago
I strongly believe there were people at the Lancet who wanted to believe the HCQ study, regardless of how well it was run. See, if you can skewer HCQ, that means you get to take a shot at a certain politician too. There were a number of r
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by eric_b 6y ago
But in this case the media is acting very dishonestly. I remember every major outlet posting articles about how now HCQ was debunked by this study. I have yet to see a single retraction of those articles or any new articles mentioning thi
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by eric_b 6y ago
> This is a responsibility for which journal reviewers can only ever take partial responsibility for both practical and intrinsic reasons. So what you're saying is we should never fully trust these journals? We should always be ske
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by eric_b 6y ago
Chloroquine and its derivatives were given to thousands, if not millions, of people for years. We know and understand the safety profile of this drug well. To think that all of a sudden it became more dangerous was silly and unreasonable.
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by eric_b 6y ago
> The first couple hundred lines of code of your project will have a much larger impact than the last few thousand lines of code ever will. I think it's easy to underestimate the importance of polish and fit and finish. In my exper
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by eric_b 6y ago
Yep, since 2014 at least. I always assumed it was some kind of insecticide/pesticide? Is it just a disinfectant?
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by eric_b 6y ago
You know 7,600 people die every day in the US right? 2.8M a year. We don't shut anything down for those. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm Im not saying COVID isn't a big deal. I'm sayin
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by eric_b 6y ago
Yes. And many of my neighbors are as well.
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by eric_b 6y ago
Over the same time period. So it's about as apples to apples as you can get at this point. Also, you can calculate the death rate per million from the available chart data. This stuff really isn't that complicated...

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