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by ethbro 6y ago
Eisenhower's?
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by ethbro 6y ago
CS 3210 & 6210 were my favorite undergrad courses. Incredibly frustrating, but I learned more general concepts in each semester than in anything else. I still remember trying to decide between 6210 and another elective. I asked Bill Lea
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by ethbro 6y ago
Point. So a black hole with an occasional lever for replacement.
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It seems similar to the coffee market. The industry should create a mark that represents and enforces a minimum of worker treatment, but doesn't appear to be as imaginative as Starbucks.
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Ambiguity is a primary feature of product differentiation from WD's perspective.
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Ah, customer support, the /dev/null of technical complaints.
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> If they made such obvious mistakes and we still have to obey their orders now, what's the point of having government at all? That a human made an error doesn't mean the public is smarter than them.
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The question is what possible orders DHS could have from their leadership that would make seizing PPE destined for a hospital even considerable.
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Physics would argue otherwise.
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It's very easy to forget that current decisions and past decisions operate on vastly different kinds of knowledge. It's easy to look back in time and say "Someone knew the right answer." It's very hard to stand in t
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It's going to require better citations than that to label Fauci "anti-mask." Your source possibly supports "ambivalently-mask," but even that would be debatable. His comments seem fair given the situation and know
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by ethbro 6y ago
I feel like one of the biggest opportunities in the 2007/8 housing market short was the speed at which it developed. More specifically: glacially. Up until the credit markets froze up, all the information was available, with time to di
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> statistically valid random testing Believe you missed a word in there? Random testing for surveillance purposes would absolutely require testing asymptomatic people. Not because you care if they're sick (though that's usefu
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> Why is ('over innovation') done on such a huge scale and with such utter predictability? Promotion & NIH management sydrome. New shiny gets a promotion. Fixing a niche bug in a decades-old stable system does not. And by
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An organizational problem seems to be that UX decisions are owned by the UX team, who tend to be extremely tribal in their opinions. As in, if you are not a UX professional, your opinion is inconsequential. See: replies on most Chrome UX fe
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For those unfamiliar, from the second greatest Star Trek film: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xaVgRj2e5_s
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With statistically valid random testing, even detecting clusters / communities (as opposed to individuals) and clearing same would be conducive to reopening the economy. Unfortunately, the path to doing so "I'm going to force
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https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obesity_country_co...
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Confounding factor: obesity rates and comorbidities From a glance, the US averages 3x the incidence rate of obesity as Sweden. Obese patients with existing health problems will result in substantially worse outcomes from Covid-19.
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If you read through the Red Dawn email chain NYT pieced together through FOIA requests [1], which gives an overview of initial professional thinking (January / February), there's a great insight in the first few emails. No other e
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Did you ever get a copy of Nat Geo Adventure / Traveler? It was one of the sub-magazines that proliferated (probably as they were trying to keep the print business alive). Grabbed a couple in an airport, but they seemed more interestin
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I thought SOTA was still a few % in difference? It seems worrisome that they few percent might be making a coin flip right-randomly instead of wrong-randomly on a mislabelled subgroup of data...
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What does a Paperspace account get me without a machine?
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Because there's enough naive buyers that smart money can flood the market on their backs and swamp the short market?
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Do you mean convalescent plasma?
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US Coronavirus Cases by County(citypopulation.de)
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The product lines were driven by the fact that margins were low: attempting to decommodify via artificial use segmentation. Shucking has always had weird economics. I think mostly because it's used by the manufacturers as a release-val
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You're talking about an industry that has no problem shipping known-unreliable drives for decades at a time. They likely rebate / warranty their important hyperscale cloud, enterprise, & OEM customers. According to whatever cu
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Might we want to consider that medical insurance fraud is in fact a serious concern? From prior work in the industry, durable medical equipment is one of the most targeted areas for scams. Relatively high cost, amortized over an extended ut
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Relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons The presence of pure mercenary advertising increases the global noise floor, which increases the information asymmetry by decreasing the visibility of qua

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