fredophile

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by fredophile 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the size of vectors you're using (# of dimensions) and what distance metric are you using? Euclidean?
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by fredophile 2y ago
I'm going to rephrase your position to make sure I understand it correctly. Please feel free to correct anything I get wrong below. Tariffs result in higher costs to consumers in the short term due to the additional tax consumers have
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by fredophile 2y ago
I was able to find an article[0] showing job losses from Trump's first term tariffs but nothing concrete about inflation. Despite not having concrete proof, I think there's a fairly plausible chain of events from tariffs to broade
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by fredophile 2y ago
Can you clarify the definitions you're using? How is inflation different from increasing prices?
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by fredophile 2y ago
When the talk about tariffs started I wondered why no one was doing something like this. With exporting there's a risk that people will find ways around it but infrastructure for power, oil, gas, etc takes years to build so it's n
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by fredophile 2y ago
Do you think there are no costs to getting these things wrong? If your boss fired you today and then called you up next week saying they'd made a mistake and offering you your old job back how charitable would you feel? When funding fo
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by fredophile 2y ago
I spend way more time troubleshooting than I do building new things. I'm a lead programmer on my team. I regularly hop on impromptu zoom calls to help people out with thorny problems or jump into slack conversations. I don't get a
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by fredophile 2y ago
That doesn't sound terrible but honestly I don't think DOGE has the right staffing to do this. All the DOGE employees I've heard about are very young and come from programming backgrounds. Do they have any accountants? Anyone
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by fredophile 2y ago
They didn't say the entire workforce is essential and there are no redundancies. They said the way DOGE is approaching this isn't designed to effectively identify and deal with actual waste. There are already multiple instances of
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by fredophile 2y ago
There are companies pursuing CAR-T for veterinary treatments that are driving the costs down. One example I'm aware of is LEAH Labs ( https://leahlabs.com ) that is working on using CAR-T to make affordable cancer treatments
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by fredophile 2y ago
Is that relevant to this discussion? I don't see how it impacts the fact that you're drawing unfounded conclusions based on a cherry picked data set. The percentage of times those phrases appear in this data set tell us very littl
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by fredophile 2y ago
First, the dataset we're discussing doesn't prove what you're suggesting. We'd need to look at a much larger dataset that includes awarded grants without this language as well as proposals that failed to receive grants t
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by fredophile 2y ago
I think you overstated the percentage of grants that include these "woke" terms. This dataset is going to be heavily biased towards grants that include lines like that. Without knowing what percent of total grants this dataset rep
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by fredophile 2y ago
I'm still not clear why you think this would be a good idea. Obviously you have opinions on what is "legitimate" in these situations. Can you explain more about this and how it wouldn't be a first ammendment violation to
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by fredophile 2y ago
Who decides what reasons are legitimate?
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by fredophile 2y ago
My uniformed guess is that this is profitable to Apple in the same way that money spent on lobbyists is profitable.
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by fredophile 2y ago
I looked into waste water heat recovery a few months back and it is a thing you can buy. You buy a special section of pipe that has a straight pipe with another pipe coiled around it. Some of the heat from the waste water gets transferred t
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by fredophile 2y ago
That doesn't narrow it down. Who isn't on Facebook these days?
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by fredophile 2y ago
> > It would literally be impossible for congress to make a law covering every single nuance agencies are tasked with. > What does that even mean? Supposedly these agencies already know what they're tasked with, no? If not...
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by fredophile 2y ago
> Congress can actually legislate the right of agencies to interpret the gaps in the laws back into effect - by passing a law that explicitly gives agencies this power. What would such a law look like? Let's pretend we're in co
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by fredophile 2y ago
I believe the median progression-free survival is the length of time where 50% of people are still free from progression. The numbers you mentioned would mean that we don't know how long that is for this treatment but it's definit
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by fredophile 3y ago
What does 100 stolen credit card numbers cost?
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by fredophile 4y ago
The US government has a debt limit. The government is going to run out of options for not exceeding that limit in a few months unless it is raised. There are people in congress suggesting that they should let the limit get hit. If the debt
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by fredophile 4y ago
In English that's correct but this is a common mistake for ESL people.
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by fredophile 4y ago
A major problem with arbitration is who pays for it. Usually the employer pays which means they pick the arbitrator. Arbitrators aren't stupid and know that if they rule against the employer too often the employer will hire someone els
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by fredophile 4y ago
There probably isn't a handy pre-made list but there should be court filings that are relatively easy to search. Typically it would be something like Foo vs $xx,xxx since the seized money is on trial, not a person. I'm sure a comp
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by fredophile 4y ago
My number one request would be a way to avoid counties with a history of civil asset forfeiture. Hopefully having the option would draw attention to the issue and I don't want to stop for food, gas, etc in places that use it.
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by fredophile 4y ago
> The parent group compiled the ban list by trawling the large law firms website for images .. and the parent group knows which offices and groups of personnel are involved in a specific case. Do they? I don't work in law but at eve
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by fredophile 4y ago
As someone who uses visual studio almost every day I'd say it isn't complete on its own. I can't navigate around a vanilla install that doesn't have visual assist installed as well anymore. If you want a cheaper alternat
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by fredophile 4y ago
In the last 6 months Tesla is down over 25%. Ford and GM are up 15-20% over the same time period. They're a lot closer to Tesla than Meta or Zoom is.

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