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by jdashg 7y ago
We have laws that say it's not ok to hit pedestrians to avoid obstacles, which is a strong prior that society doesn't want, and enforces against, a greedy self-trolley solution. Expect legislation prohibiting this behavior.
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$5100 for $1M borrowed (a low) 3%, excluding down payment, property taxes, and likely PMI, given how onerous saving 20% of seven figures is.
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You can't just subtract a bright signal and hope to see the weak signal underneath it, or we'd just subtract daylight during the day.
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This is more promising than many "intermittent fasting" findings, since this paper's 10hr feed window is simpler to adjust to than every-other-day-eating that some papers call "intermittent fasting". Since I eat onl
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This is best-practice. Varargs will bite you if you don't have the compiler check your work, but fortunately they're happy to do so these days.
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One big problem is there are biases we're supposed to ignore, but we're not good at (able to?) ensuring this deliberate blindness in ML. For example, we're generally not allowed to discriminate based on gender, but even witho
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The Mistakes We Make(jalopnik.com)
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The US economy already pays for near-universal healthcare through insurance premiums. The money already exists.
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Robinhood still has one of the best margin accounts: Almost as low of rates as InteractiveBrokers but with a much, much simpler UX wrapped around it.
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Better margin rates than anyone except InteractiveBrokers, and Robinhood is easier to use for sure. (having used both) ETrade's margin rates are over twice what Robinhood's works out to.
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It's malpractice to use effective things without regard for ethics.
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Usually you'd gather data from subjects that broke the rules anyways, just like how we gather info about illicit substances or gunshot wounds. Just because you're not supposed to drink alcohol during pregnancy doesn't mean we
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Many of those have the same root cause: Men are not supposed to be weak, and feminine is seen as weak. To encourage men to buy something, marketing teams are trying to manly it up. If you have a product men are sheepish about, declare loudl
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If it weren't for China, someone else would be building these. Take China away instantaneously, and there'd be problems. But the reason there's no where else to build something like this today is because China does it better[
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Cargo has the tools to do this properly, but in practice it's still a bit of a mess. Firefox was building half a dozen barely-different versions of libraries from different dependency chains, though someone eventually deduped most of t
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The problem is that SAT isn't actually a good predictor, even though it seems like it should be.
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Much of canvas 2d fingerprinting relied on system fonts, which browsers have started to restrict access to these days. WebGL fingerprinting, in my investigation, seems to be identifiable by gpu vendor, and potentially by generation, but not
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by jdashg 7y ago
If someone's banter is making someone else's life worse, it's not just banter.
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I believe relying on machine learning is doomed to fail because I don't think it can feasibly offer the robust safety guarantees required. I honestly don't expect go-anywhere L5 in the next decade at least, and I definitely expect
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Other utilities being terrified is a feature, if it prevents the reckless disregard for public good we've seen at PG&E. Private utilities live by the grace of the public, for the service of the public. Fail the public, get replaced
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Right here, right now.
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I think it's the other way around: Direct mapping of inputs to outputs will work great for a subset of conditions, but the last N% is infeasible without explicit logical programming.
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Yet another symptom of C++'s terrible user library ergonomics. Official-batteries-included has benefits, but I would bet the majority of request for networking in std:: is really "I want to reliably link to a networking library, a
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by jdashg 7y ago
I believe it's also a play similar to Embrace Extend Extinguish: - Embrace investment globally - Extend markets and improve industries - Exert political pressure in exchange for access to now-crucial markets/industries
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"Stage a walkout" is really common, and doesn't mean the walkout is fake.
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It seems like the right move today, but ideally moving forward we see an investment in infrastructure. (either in more robust transmission or more localized production)
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We have the bigger problems you mention. Also, while companies are not required to attempt to do good and improve the SNR of (whether you like it or not) wide-reaching debates on their platforms, we should be disappointed when they decline
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That's a novel use of "lying" that doesn't match what most people use the word to mean. This makes the work hard to reason about, but easy to draw incorrect conclusions from. (Is this "lying" too?)
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This is the inquiry and investigation that preceeds any actual impeachment (indictment). It's closer now to the Senate, but it's not headed there yet. The House is (finally) doing its job, even if the Senate might not be convinced
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"told DPA. Speed and the type of collision would have more influence than weight, he added. In the Berlin incident, however, the traffic light mast might have stopped a smaller car."

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