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by hikingsimulator 3y ago
Disposable income as an aggregate doesn't show a income-level class (my point). Unfortunately having up to date information on economic status given the income level is hard to get.
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by hikingsimulator 3y ago
GDP isn't a good metric to compare household debt to. The US has an incredibly unequal society (see Gini index) and a lack of welfare compared to other Western countries. In aggregate, it means that debt is likely higher for households
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by hikingsimulator 3y ago
Besides the mention of BMI by other users, I'd also ponder the study's applicability because of its focus on men and women in a city in Saudi Arabia, where cultural norms are likely at odds with more western sensibilities (e.g. ac
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by hikingsimulator 3y ago
There is no 400km rampart at the Equator. It's not because it's technically winter there that it is not hotter than normal.
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by hikingsimulator 3y ago
The former is a sunk cost fallacy, and the latter is solved by changing how education is financed -- making public universities free like most of the developped world. I took up debt to study at the graduate level, I won't use that pas
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by hikingsimulator 3y ago
You should be more explicit with your insinuation. That Auken created the term as a critique does not remove the fact that companies have ended up looking at it as a MO. If you're looking at it from the conspiracy side of things, that&
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by hikingsimulator 3y ago
"You will own nothing, and be happy" [0] mentality has creeped its way in many industries. What was described as a dystopia in 2017 may now feel like an approaching wall. Happy Monday. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by hikingsimulator 3y ago
There is a lot of jargon in ML, an example is found in the object detection literature where you will often find sentences like such: "we present a novel simple non-hierarchical feature network backbone with window-shifted attention ba
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I'm not as charitable as you are. Chollet left for the USA, LeCun for Canada. France has an extremely small, but great math community via the ENS/Sorbonne/X schools, but it hardly reflects on a larger trend -- general educa
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It reads very much the same in France. The average pay for a Business School graduate is 5-15% higher than that of an engineer.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I could see such a project being killed internally because it'd be seen as bad optics to work on a product aimed to kill the very cash cow of the company.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It may rebound the price, but it doesn't mean it will big. The money will likely be used for helping out with cash flow and surviving the next months, until the bank is out of the red zone. A stock price is representative of the value
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Terrible next level, that's unpaid work and it's already a thing in interviewing at some unethical companies.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
information asymmetry is a kind of power, though. Your rebuke hinges on narrowing definition or common sense understanding of the term.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Thanks!
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Question to the community: At some point, I may want to work towards implementing a small tensor-core (or a vertex/pixel shader as in "GPU implementation of neural networks," Oh&Jung, 2004) for a toy ml project. Do you ha
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
To me this reads as wanting to crunch developers out of more value than one is paying them.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Caring about the raw amount of time people put into their jobs sounds like a middle management thing to do -- rewarding showing up and putting in hours like it was PR. If the results are there, and in accordance with the employment contract
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
You do not help, either your case or that of the people that do struggle.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
In economic theory, it is seen as a fact of nature -- moreso the evidence of economic cycles of varying lengths. So in a sense, yes, one could consider it to be healthy -- like an economic animal shedding some fat. But I wouldn't perso
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
One book stuck out to me this year: Blindsight by Peter Watts. What happens when humankind on the verge of post-scarcity suffers its first alien contact -- truly alien contact. A team of engineered humans is sent to meet them. What really
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Life is ultimately valuable, that's why allowing people to have complete ownership over their own destiny is good. Forcing people to die in pain, misery, and utterly debased is a misplacement of values in my opinion. And this is often
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I usually find this reasoning to be fallacious. Sure this hypothetical person in an hypothetical setting might hypothetically exist in an hypothetical future. However, bringing it up doesn't provide value to the topic at hand. Your poi
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Healthcare can encompass a lot of things. The NHS is supposedly good on paper but stereotypically it doesn't cover dental. Similarly, I meant welfare. I think it goes much beyond just healthcare. Unemployment insurance, state help to a
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
The problem isn't maid per se. It's the utter failure of the welfare state from catching people sinking that's to blame.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Lucky you. I usually get one or two spam calls a day in Europe (France/Germany) but they are marked as spam. Bless the people keeping that red list up to date. This thread makes me wonder if Americans have such info (whether a call is
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It's my bad assuming the USA, but it's a fair assumption. USA and Canada have very similar labour systems -- as I said in my other response. The worker treatment in NA is very much different it seems. In Western Europe, if a contr
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
My bad assuming the USA. Though at-will firing does not exist in Canada, the way the labor market is handled is very much the same. The spirit of my comment still stand.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Way to blame the victim here.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Sadly, that's the US for you. The corporate world can be a horror show and sympathetic HR is an oxymoron. I hope you can get yourself out of this bind. Still try to enjoy your Christmas if possible.

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