erispoe

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by erispoe 9y ago
> I'd imagine this leads to people mindlessly buying more and more stuff, to use up that money before it loses its value. They don't spend it mindlessly, they still allocate it relative to other opportunities. Low but positive
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by erispoe 9y ago
That's a false equivalence. Fiat currencies are used FOR Ponzi schemes of course. But they are not THE ponzi scheme. The question is, do you believe in the inherent usefulness of a specific crypto? If the only way to make money from a
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Stop saying that diversity means lowering the bar(work.qz.com)
7 points by erispoe 9y ago|1 comments
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by erispoe 9y ago
What do you mean by labelled accurately? The AI only predicts how an individual self-labelled on a fairly public dating service, not how this person feels or behaves in any other way. There are so many headless torsos on Grindr (or any othe
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by erispoe 9y ago
The fact the the authors of the paper rush for innate explanations (hormone levels in the womb...) that they have no expertise to comment on instead of much more obvious behaviors (maybe self-labelled gay and straight people upload differen
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Labor Board Found Google Was Within Its Rights to Fire James Damore(gizmodo.com)
7 points by erispoe 9y ago|1 comments
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by erispoe 9y ago
That's not irony, that's the paradox of tolerance [1]. An open society can tolerate all opinions except for opinions directed against an open society. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by erispoe 9y ago
It's not because it's common that it's not harassment, there's no causal link here.
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by erispoe 9y ago
When you say feature-rich I hear cluttered. I don't want a tool that does everything, there's the cli for that. I want a tool to help me visualize things and build queries and sub-queries.
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by erispoe 9y ago
Professor isn't the only career possible with a PhD.
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Can you give some examples?
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by erispoe 9y ago
He didn't care for the lifestyle that money can bring. He was living in a nondescript suburban house near Lausanne and kept his old car for 20 years. Much like Warren Buffet, he was one of these self-made fortunes for whom money is a w
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by erispoe 9y ago
Well that's how it works. If you want healthcare to work for everyone, you cannot expect that insurance will reimburse treatment from top doctors outside of rare conditions (where top doctors are the only doctors). Sport related injuri
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by erispoe 9y ago
Scrabble, at a top level, is a game of memorizing as many words and combinations as you can. Some top players in english don't even speak english very well. That's a pure memory game.
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by erispoe 9y ago
The Google Pixel 2 starts at $649. Pixel prices are comparable with iPhones.
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HSR's right-of-way will be here for centuries. If you buy 147 brand new A380s, they'll be outdated in a decade or two.
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by erispoe 9y ago
Union Station is or will by a direct subway ride away from a lot of dense pockets in Los Angeles (Red, Purple & Blue lines when the regional connector opens). Yes, the train will come to LAX as well, but transfer will be less convenient
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by erispoe 9y ago
> I imagine that in the US, this will be much the same. Or will be the moment after the first attack on a train. I don't see any long-term security gains here, the US is simply not Europe. Even in Israel you don't have that kin
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by erispoe 9y ago
So, a credential? In the countries and states where the title is protected (it's not everywhere), you often have to pay dues to a professional organization to claim the title. It's not enough to have the diploma, you have to pay e
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by erispoe 9y ago
The A380 doesn't make sense for cargo. Too much volume for the weight it can lift. At the average plane cargo density, an A380 cargo would be at weight capacity way before it gets to volume capacity.[1] The A380 cannot lift much more t
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by erispoe 9y ago
I have flown the A380 in economy multiple times. It is a premium experience. The plane is so big that you don't feel turbulences as much. And it's relatively new, so it's very silent. On the upper deck, because of cabin curva
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by erispoe 9y ago
It's not "just learning a few things". Some software engineers have years of experience on the job despite no CS education. In the end it's about how much value you bring to the company. If your diploma helps you deliver
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by erispoe 9y ago
If you do the same job, and do it equally well, why should you have a different title?
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by erispoe 9y ago
Lending dynamics are different in a gold standard economy, with a fixed amount of currency, because banks do not have leverage on lending. Today, banks need only have ~10% of the money they lend in deposits. The rest is new money. With a fi
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by erispoe 9y ago
In modern systems money can be created by banks lending money. That's an interesting property as money creation is tied to the course of the economy. However, this can lead to inflation if the amount of money created actually exceeds t
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by erispoe 9y ago
It is much, much more efficient to invest in public transit to serve existing job centers.
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by erispoe 9y ago
A large part of a Bloomberg terminal value is the status. It's not like the UX is what's blocking evolution of the terminal.
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by erispoe 9y ago
If they believe that the company will make money in the long-run. Otherwise it's just putting bad money after good. You can only bail out a company if you believe it will become profitable. You can't subsidize rides eternally, it
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by erispoe 9y ago
Sure, there's average differences between groups. Between almost any two arbitrary groups you'll find significant differences. The problem is that there's a very slippery slope between stating a difference, ascribing causalit
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by erispoe 9y ago
Evolution doesn't have a purpose. Just because you can eat meat doesn't mean you have to, or that you should. You can have a meat-free, protein-heavy diet. Most of meat products are so processed that they are indistinguishable fro

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