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by fxj 7y ago
This link gives a nice explanation of the google nn-processor aka TPU: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/an-in-depth-look-... It boils down to: CPUs: 10s of cores GPUs: 1000s of cores NNs: 100000s of
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by fxj 7y ago
tldr; Fahrenheit maps the subjective feeling of very cold to very hot to a scale from 0 to 100. Celsius on the other hand gives you additional information about the state of water at this temperature (0C frozen, 100C boiling). The author di
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by fxj 7y ago
Of course it always depends on the perspective: For a fisher man who wants to export seafood to the EU this is good news. For the average family which has to pay 20% more for everyday goods like vegetables from the Netherlands, not so much.
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by fxj 7y ago
Brexit already costs the UK massively. The pound dropped from $1.50 per pound in 2015 to $1.25 per pound in 2018. That is almost 20% destruction of wealth. https://qz.com/1626291/the-british-pound-is-on-a-record-losi...
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by fxj 7y ago
Another mathematical theory using group theory is: The Topos of Music: Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance by Guerino Mazzola. He shows that music lives in the Z12 group and chords are invariant subgroups. Interesting read.
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by fxj 8y ago
I think it depends on the surroundings and the level of trust in the customers. Anecdote: when I was a child we had a small groceries shop in our street where I would go and get my sweets of stuff that my mum needed for cooking. So when the
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by fxj 8y ago
The Edeka (german brand run by a cooperative (sic!)) at the Munich railway station switched to this system some time ago. It is not very usual in Germany, because you need security personnel anyway in the shop, so what gives. In the end the
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by fxj 8y ago
I fully agree, but at least by having the information what other people earn in the same company gives them a lever in salary negotiations.
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by fxj 8y ago
Your argument does not apply that this would give potential employers too much leverage in salary negotiations or can you explain?
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That is one incident. Do you have numbers for the US and Norway per capita?
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by fxj 8y ago
Why is it a huge stretch? I didn't say that it is the only one.
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by fxj 8y ago
Gini Coefficient for Norway and the US: US: 18.5 Norway: 6.5 The ratio of the average income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10%
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by fxj 8y ago
This is only true for the super rich. See Norway or Finland where the taxes are public. They have lower crime rates than the US. It seems that the publication has the opposite effects by reducing inequality.
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Why does it work in Norway? It is among the list of the highest GDP per capita in the world. Norway rank 6, US rank 10. (IMF)
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by fxj 8y ago
This blog gives you a taste of J for mere mortals. After reading that I at least understood the gist behind J: https://kukuruku.co/post/j-can-be-readable/
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by fxj 8y ago
Why shouldn't europe then buy oil directly in euros? How does it make sense to first buy dollars and then buy oil if it is not mandatory? The saudis would happily take hard euros I suppose.
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by fxj 8y ago
Reason for the low convition rate [3]. The cameras were too bad: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/koeln-silvester-justiz-101.... Perpetrators could hardly be identified In Cologne, the charges resulted in preliminary p
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by fxj 8y ago
Like Switzerland and Sweden? What are you talking about?
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German Knife Crimes Pandemic? https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/kriminalstatistik-125.html "One of the safest countries in the world" Interior Minister Seehofer expressed his satisfaction with the 2018 crime s
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by fxj 8y ago
And you could work on a startup and fight them. The world would be a better lace if we wouldn't have to be modern slaves.
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by fxj 8y ago
The security that you have medical care, food and housing tomorrow takes away a lot of psychological pressure and your mind can think about other things. But nevertheless I also think about the ethical implications of letting people die bec
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by fxj 8y ago
Take into account that soon robotics, machine learning and automation will make even more people jobless.
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by fxj 8y ago
But that is what automation is all about. The productivity of a single worker went through the roof in the last century. There is not enough work for all the people who want to.
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Talking about scify stories: From the evolutionary point of view it is very bad for a super-organism like a whole country to let parts of its body starve or get sick. Do ants have to pay for food or housing?
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by fxj 8y ago
A big problem about the basic income is that it is perceived as money that you get for nothing and so people don't have to work and therefore they are lazy. Let me give you an analogy: Imagine that breathing air would cost money and yo
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Fake Science: ‘Predatory’ Scientific Publisher Is Hit with a $50M Judgment(nytimes.com)
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After all python is still an interpreted scripting language. To me comparing it to rust and go is like apples and oranges.
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It is a little bit more complicated: The budget of the "gesetzliche Krankenkasse" is set by the gouvernment. So yes, it is not owned by the state, but in reality it is completely controlled by the state. There are, however, privat
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by fxj 8y ago
It is called gesetzliche Krankenversicherung in Germany https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetzliche_Krankenversicherun... and is 100% state-controlled.
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Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population) U.S. 655 Switzerland 81 Japan 41 http://www.prisonstudies.org/

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