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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
Ok, let me translate it into non-math for you - there can be a goal that is a "highest priority" for the organisation in the sense that no other goal is a higher priority, and yet there are other goals for the organization that
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
if it's true that he was discharged and didn't leave against medical advice, that sounds like a fairly straightforward and expensive lawsuit against the hospital. And some hospitals only change their behavior when beaten by large
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
I have no experience in ship-handling, but my naive question for this who do is: What is the rationale for being able to independently transfer control of different aspects of ‘steering’ (prop1, prop2, rudder) to different stations? . The
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
but people have more income now - surely working for uber or lyft today is the equivalent of driving a cab then?
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
Were any of the “retail investors” who lost money investing in a product approved by the SEC? If not, how is it any different from investing with a random person who approaches you on the street with “a great opportunity to make money”? Why
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
Do you have any data to support that claim? What proportion of a VC firm’s returns come from a later round’s investors if a firm never has a liquidity event? (IPO or acquisition) And if the firm fails before then, how does the vc firm get p
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
I often use them interchangeably, but “crashing” implies it’s a bit faster (and therefore more obvious), whereas “crump” implies it can be a bit slower. So a “crashing” patient implies you have to run in the room and do something immediatel
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
thanks for the link, i think this is the best possible answer to the question “does yc accept $people_like_me?”. I love how open yc is about stuff like this - I just learned that 3 people from one of my UK universities were yc founders at s
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
Because that would give you exactly one data point, and for your decision-making, you instead want to understand the distribution
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
how about actually quoting the email instead of summarizing? if the advice was unhelpful, or rude (as you seem to be implying), why not let the rest of judge for ourselves? And maintaining a “day job” is not a mark of shame or an insult, it
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
shouldn’t the relevant metric be whether they increase your chance of success more than the cost (equity) you sell them in return?
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
yes, its the weight loss that can reverse the diabetes, not the specific diet
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
strongly agree. One of the foundational claims, “No inference is theory neutral” is taken as fact based on a single citation from a paper by a philosophy grad student - that doesn’t make it wrong necessarily, but its interesting that none
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
Why would their safety be affected by future-looking statements? Has Elon Musk ever said that Tesla has now perfected self-driving and that driver attention is not required?
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
If I make a factual statement, such as "among high school students who graduated in 2020, Asian students scored an average of 632 on the SAT math section, compared with 547 for white students" [1], is that a "positive stereot
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
you have to click on the citations if you want to read information based on such contact with "actual indigenous people"
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
what you call an ‘appeal to authority’ is what some of would call a “citation” - feel free to post citations to the evidence you feel supports your argument.
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
you’re assuming that the tax bills had no effect on the economy…instead, the 80’s saw a massive reduction in inflation and tremendous economic growth that helped all parts of society. Is it possible that the tax cuts and the economic growth
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
And before them, Cisco
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
so they were more picky? I dont think that’s intrinsically good or bad, but it seems concordant with the finding in unemployment studies that a large proportion of unemployed workers who get a fixed period of unemployment payments end up fi
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
As a society, do we need to worry about where this money will come from? Or will there always be an inexhaustible supply that also scales up? Or could taking that money away from other parts of the economy possibly cause harm, to the point
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
indeed, would love your thoughts on the essay itself - iirc the title refers to a situation where a Nazi camp guard writes in their diary of a “special action” (which refers to the burning alive of prisoners) followed by a description of th
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
the parent implies: difference in status of jews -> repression of jews My point is that the status difference is not required for a regime to repress some group. It might make it easier, but not required.
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
I agree, and including delta-epsilon proofs in calculus 1 seemed like a way for the curriculum authors to feel good that they were “teaching proof techniques” to these students, when in reality they are doing no such thing. I later did an M
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
the people who “handed over so many to the nazis” - what makes you think they wouldn’t or didn’t gladly hand over non-jews if the regime demanded it? your point about judaism being forbidden in spain until 1978 is shocking, thank you for th
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
yeah, “chevron deference” was only really an issue with ambiguously written laws IMO, or agencies taking an overly expansive view of their authority. And they still can , but now those decisions can be challenged in court. good summary her
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
I know almost nothing about prolog, but I enjoyed this tutorial using Datalog, a subset of prolog as an alternative data query language to SQL: https://www.learndatalogtoday.org/
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
Could you use https://github.com/clojure/core.typed ? Or https://clojure.org/guides/spec ?
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
In fact, the technology has never got to the point where it works reliably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstamping
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by ghufran_syed 2y ago
didn‘t the “tens of millions” of humans who died have any agency? And by definition, aren’t “energy companies” helping fix the problem of “energy poverty” which increases human welfare? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E

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