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by ivalm 6y ago
You can think of it in terms of rates. For example, if you think some event has a constant chance of happening of 5%, you should bet for durations >13 years (for p>0.5). If your counter-party thinks the rate is instead 3%, then the du
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by ivalm 6y ago
There is no evidence it is from lab, while it likely originated from bats, pangolins have very similar virus extant in the wild. The burden of proof is heavily on showing that it was released from the lab, Pinker wins by default.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Eh, the main problem with frequent trading is transaction costs (fees + bid/ask spread), if that cost is low then they are just increasing volatility (if anything) but not changing expectation (relative to a relevant basket of stock t
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by ivalm 6y ago
> Whereas letting two microservices access the same database tables would probably be frowned upon. > Nevertheless, sharing the same Kafka topics between microservices seems to be a common thing to do. I think if it is part of one who
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by ivalm 6y ago
Wait, what? Isn’t the whole point of having multiple publishers/subscribers?
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by ivalm 6y ago
Unless you are very inland LA is not 90s most of the year. Heck, it’s not even 80s most of the year. It’s 70s.
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by ivalm 6y ago
He was laboring with contracts that stipulated severance, which got paid out.
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by ivalm 6y ago
What about paying $90 million to the key person in creation of android? Honestly, he is a scumbag, but that doesn’t nullify his contribution to google (?) it’s not that he was paid for sexual harassment, it’s that he got paid for being crea
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by ivalm 6y ago
Kaiser Permanente | Data Scientist (Machine Learning) | San Diego, CA | currently REMOTE but eventually ONSITE KP Medical Informatics is expanding! Our Data Science Team is looking for talented Data Scientists to help develop an intelligent
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by ivalm 6y ago
Here is a Wikipedia entry for this tokamak since the article isn’t very descriptive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSTAR
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by ivalm 6y ago
This is still for proteins that fold without chaperons, but I guess it does cover a lot.
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by ivalm 6y ago
> The action/reaction force caused by weight compresses the springs in the upper section of the wheel and decompresses in the lower section. Using the centre as the pivot, this converts energy and reduces the frictional force in the
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by ivalm 6y ago
That’s why it will have to be when Dems have both Congress and the executive —- GA run-off is so critical. Since Puerto Rico already passed a referendum on joining the US as a state all it would take is simple majority.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Admitting Puerto Rico as a state, thus enabling Puerto Rico to have representation in congress who could argue for more infra being built there, would likely be critical.
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by ivalm 6y ago
When my phone battery is low I often can charge it. Most of the time I have opportunity to charge multiple times a day if needed. If I need long life I can switch to battery saver mode; in normal operations I prefer better performance.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Information processing is limited to the capacity of the network. So it is easy to see that very small brains cannot be very smart (there is no set of connections that can make fruit fly human-intelligent). However, having a large capacity
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by ivalm 6y ago
Yeah, my point rests on the idea of dematerialization going forward. I think people have finite capacity of desire for natural resource limited products and it is possible that we are not too unreasonably close to “peak physical stuff.” I c
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by ivalm 6y ago
Current world is not post-scarcity. However, there is a point where marginal value of “extra” stuff is essentially zero. When everyone can be at that level is what I mean by post-scarcity.
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by ivalm 6y ago
And if not for our medical system people with Down syndrome would die to natural selection.
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by ivalm 6y ago
I don’t agree. I don’t think we currently have enough stuff. As a techy in the US I make more than most, but there are still many material things that I can’t quite afford/have to limit myself. However, if production was 100x what it i
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by ivalm 6y ago
But humans also don’t have infinite demand on production. If we have a sufficiently high amount of production per capita (ie we are post-scarcity) then growth becomes irrelevant (especially if overall population isn’t growing, which with cu
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by ivalm 6y ago
Right, but zen 4 is a year away. If Apple is a year ahead then that’s a lot (even if it is because they are able to use 5nm node fab capacity first)
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by ivalm 6y ago
I think it is typical of Apple to have feature poor early entrants and then increase feature set with new generations. I am sure in the next few years the GPU/other pcie issues will be resolved.
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by ivalm 6y ago
No, but you can make that their suppliers break contract, their clients move away, etc. One can force a sale simply by making business untenable. Monopolistic and anti-competitive behaviors can happen without breaching private property laws
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by ivalm 6y ago
In near-ish future I guess deorbiting sufficiently large asteroids? In maybe further future AI and aliens.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Except a lot of people work on remote servers. My work MBP is nice, but really it’s just a terminal to an 80vcpu server.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Kosovo war was US led (not opposing it, but definitely under Clinton)
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by ivalm 6y ago
The having constant SRE support is a big deal (your point 2). While we had broad ownership, autonomy, and fulfilled many of the 12 factors described in the blog (and shipped ml projects to production), only recently did we have SREs support
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by ivalm 6y ago
And honestly, it is a bad joke as it propagates bad stereotypes.
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by ivalm 6y ago
My high school was in the US. I think good teachers anywhere are teachers because it is their calling. Breaking Bad is hardly the normative reference of how people should view teachers.

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