h4nkoslo

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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Interestingly, this is the primary explanation for the Flynn effect, and why culture-loaded questions do not show the same improvements that completely abstract, non-culture-loaded questions do.
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The "minimum wage" aspect is an artifact of the imported labor (and mostly the "soul crushing"; you can lower labor costs by cutting wages, or working conditions). There is a reason they decided to be called the Green B
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That is extremely unlikely if current demographic trends continue, unless by "society" you mean wealthy whites and Indians.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
It's fair to say you've lost control, when the Saudi royal family owns more of the company than you do.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Right click on the covering graphic, inspect the element, and delete it.
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Are nonbank lenders still able to do the bank trick of money-creation?
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"Why are they even offering crappy produce that their personal shoppers now have to pick through for non-bruised apples?" Produce follows a distribution along all characteristics, and that distribution changes over time. There&#x
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
You've essentially restated what I said above. She declined to investigate certain variables because she was worried they would come out with the "wrong" effects (instead she chose to use near-perfect correlates of those var
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Well, it only "has value" if you're worried about discovering the wrong thing. If you think you're going to discover the "correct" thing, then you're apparently morally free to use whatever variables you
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Cathy O'Neill's main concern is that someone might discover something true, useful, and racist / sexist / homophobic / etc. In order to avoid the cognitive dissonance it's important to remain appropriately ign
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
That's pretty unrealistic. Your average ex-sergeant-current-mercenary isn't fiddling around in Congolese politics trying to drum up trouble.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The courts will accept a hell of a lot, due to Chevron deference. Statutes will use a term (eg, "readily convertible" or "replica"), and the administrative agency will decide this term means different things depending o
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
"Washington" evidently isn't the barrier, since there are many locales in which there is no problem constructing affordable housing (hell, Houston has no zoning whatsoever). Almost all of the problematic regulations are stat
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The issue is that they, and other administrative organs, often change their interpretation of what the law "has always meant". Particularly irksome when they issue private letters with differing interpretations and then override
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
In fairness, the FBI are political actors. They'd be the last people I'd call if I suspected I was being screwed by Boeing and Lockheed, of all people.
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Standing is complicated; the standard is that the plaintiff has suffered a real harm, regardless of prosecution. Being prevented from doing research is likely constructible as a real harm, if his lawyers can show he reasonably fears prosec
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
...where they will likely vote for the same policies that wrecked havoc on the localities they're fleeing.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Most of the JIT optimizations amount to "it's been called like this in the past; assume it'll always be & depotimize (at a penalty) if it isn't." That potentially includes the fully resolved types of objects (ie
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The name is taken. https://github.com/barak/stalin
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Do you stand by your statements calling for government supervision and control of machine learning research? Is it likely that machine learning will become a highly regulated industry roughly on par with nuclear power plant development?
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Farm owners will likely compensate for their higher wages by advocating for importing more labor to lower their costs. Expect the perennial "crops rotting in the fields" stories to resume soon.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Explanation: only a few congressional districts have airports, but a lot more have bus stops & train stations. TSA are the kind of shitty patronage jobs that appeal to them.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Right. I am saying that auditing the process is significantly more onerous on all parties than auditing the result, especially when it looks like the jurisprudence around the former is a complete clusterfuck that only exists so the feds ca
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Compliance would be a lot fairer and lower-overhead if the government would simply inform businesses of the racial composition they wanted to see, rather than randomly cracking down on firms because particular groups were "only" 4
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Summers is talking about hypothetical future job losses in, eg, trucking. I am talking about present unemployment caused by excess labor in sectors like agriculture, food processing, food service, nursing, construction, etc.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
"Job destruction caused by technology" kind of begs the question, especially when the US has an immigration policy that results in vast additions to the labor supply that compete with natives.
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I could see a primary disadvantage of self-driving trucks being that they're much easier to rob.
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A peasant's most valuable asset was his mind as well; you have to go pretty far down the curve before you find a worker's manual labor power output to be their most valuable asset (oxen are usually cheaper) or where obvious mental
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Gregory Clark's work on tracking English class mobility in the 1700s-1900 (The Son Also Rises & A Farewell to Alms) indicates that this isn't the first time this has happened (ie, the obsolescence of a large portion of the lab
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
I haven't heard a good political-economic explanation of how a universal basic income that actually finances the living expenses of a large portion of the population avoids spiraling into yet another welfare program. The point of a UBI

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