jhundal

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by jhundal 8mo ago
I would pay good money for a field guide/itinerary to accompany "Assembling California". More directly related to the Green River, I found Wayne Ranney's "Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery"
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by jhundal 4y ago
Same amount of food yes. But if a mathematician was just sitting on the sidelines before this new field, they may decide it is more productive to trade time they spent on preparing food for more time to spend on math.
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by jhundal 5y ago
The data cited on the summary page of the study does not support the conclusion that those units are unoccupied, which I think is the key question here. It does say that 64% do not claim a residential exemption on property tax, but [1] indi
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by jhundal 6y ago
One of the authors here was the lead on the early Stanford antibody prevalence study that had numerous issues: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw... It also did not report a possible
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by jhundal 7y ago
At least one guess is that this helps Softbank increase the value of its other investments in Uber: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-14/don-t-...
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by jhundal 8y ago
This paper was discredited. It could not be replicated using publicly available data and it was eventually found that there were large scale computational errors: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22223190
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by jhundal 8y ago
I have not formed an opinion on MMT, nor do I consider myself to have the right background trying to fully understand it or any other economic model, but even at my level of knowledge, the first four paragraphs of Sumner's rebuttal see
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by jhundal 8y ago
Always worth it to delve into how a statistic was computed. In this case, the organization cited as the source of the 70% figure itself disclaims it: """ Over the past couple of years several news organizations have attribute
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by jhundal 8y ago
I'm particularly curious about why you prefer Reinhart over Krugman, specifically because of the disagreement over the famously erroneous Reinhart-Rogoff results (Krugman comment here: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
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by jhundal 8y ago
When the stock units vest (or are exercised in the case of options), you are taxed on their current value at the regular income tax rates. What would be taxed at the long term capital gains rate are any gains that happen _after_ the stock i
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by jhundal 9y ago
I would not use the Time article as a reliable source, it cites the 70/90% figures a study by the "Williams Group wealth consultancy", which of course is trying to sell its services to wealthy clients. I've seen the stat
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by jhundal 9y ago
I'd like to add that a first cut as infrastructure-as-code could be as simple as putting your manual setup tasks (including SSHing into a host) into a shell script and committing it to your repo. But it takes a only trivial amount of a
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by jhundal 9y ago
Somewhat agreed, maven is a build tool and packages it downloads do not execute code through maven. This does not preclude malicious typosquatting packages making it into applications built using it, but does provide some option for reducin
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by jhundal 9y ago
But if you object to joining a union, then why not work a different job that is non-unionized? Why not look at all possible jobs as your market, as opposed to contracts for a specific job? One possible response to that question: Why is it e
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by jhundal 9y ago
Technically, I don't think there is anything to prevent an employer for forcing you to attend company parties as a condition of employment. Of course the vast majority of employers wouldn't do this, but in this case your only choi
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by jhundal 9y ago
EDIT: To try to keep the discussion focused, and the level of discourse high, let's try to find out exactly where we disagree: You asked: Why is ethical or fair force a worker to pay union dues as part of a job? My answer: Because the
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by jhundal 9y ago
At some point the majority of workers voted to organize. After that, anyone working there has made the choice to work a unionized job. I don't think it is fair to allow a single jobseeker to break the structure of a union this way. Why
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by jhundal 11y ago
I see this figure around a lot, does anyone have a pointer to the actual study? I got as far as a book called "Preparing Heirs: Five Steps to a Successful Transition of Family Wealth and Values", no detail on the actual study.
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by jhundal 11y ago
I certainly agree for trials for treatments for specific ailments. But insurers, hospital administrators, and others have always been making decisions that balance clinical outcomes and cost of care without patients knowing such a decision
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by jhundal 11y ago
Not sure how many folks are aware of this, but the ACA included funding for an 'Innovation Center' to run experiments on potential approaches to improve medical outcomes and cut costs: http://www.npr.org/sections&#
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by jhundal 11y ago
I don't have anything to do with the plan (just keeping my head up about how the business runs :) ), but from the FAQ ( http://www.employeefiduciary.com/401k-faq/ ) it looks like they use a third party (MG Trust) fo
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by jhundal 11y ago
Employee Fiduciary is at 8 bps: http://www.employeefiduciary.com/401k-plan-pricing/ Don't know if they would come out lower than Captain401 though (no mention of any cut of the overall assets on the Captain401 pag
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by jhundal 11y ago
Definitely agree here, want to add a link to this paper which shows how far we still have to go (and questions whether the current models will ever replicate human vision): http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1897
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by jhundal 11y ago
As mentioned elsewhere on this thread, you'd use Swift (and other object storage systems) to store larger pieces of unstructured binary data (eg. images/videos/backups). The easiest way to do that in Cassandra without rolling
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by jhundal 11y ago
From working at an Openstack startup for a while, I can say that customers definitely prefer the S3 API since it works with their existing tools. That being said, they are largely compatible until you get into the authorization models, and
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by jhundal 11y ago
Couple of thoughts: - Even if you provide resources to students for finding jobs/internships, they don't come with the same connections or experience as their wealthier peers so I'm wondering how much these help. For example,
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by jhundal 11y ago
I think the large retail pharmacies definitely have the advantage here. They already do blister packs, which is not too far off from PillPack's solution. They can also provide other compliance solutions (eg. http://www.glowc
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by jhundal 12y ago
It's hard to know what the outcome of your education is going to be, so the risk of not being able to pay off a loan may just be too great. I am not aware of any elite colleges publishing statistics on things like the job placement rat
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by jhundal 12y ago
I'm not sure this article gets the definition of the zero lower bound right (though I'd love to be corrected if it does.) As I understood it, the ZLB only applies to central bank lending rates to other banks, which if they become