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by jl2718 5y ago
>>Low-skill high-fertility >Are coming the to US with the hope of parents everywhere: that their children will live a better life than they had the chance to do. (In their native country) > Most of those immigrants dream is to s
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Logic says one thing but experience says another. Clearly they are currently providing reproduction incentives for the opposite. I think there is a common delusion that government is some kind of unified thoughtful entity with logic and for
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Actually my point is the opposite. That the risk is greater if you are above that line. I know many many people that are quite happy raising very large families with no job at all.
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That’s my point actually. Court-ordered child support payment minimums are massively greater than actual costs. Any by the way, even those USDA costs are ridiculously inflated. It’s based on survey data, not actual expenditures, and the peo
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The answer is probably from a different area of computer science/game theory: consensus. This has been practiced by patients for a long time by asking for a second opinion. However, this no longer works, because doctors now all share y
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Anecdotally, the problem is much worse among those that contribute more in taxes than consume in public benefits. This is the real problem. Low-skill high-fertility immigration will not solve it. Child tax credits will not solve it. Welfare
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Some people did, although I’m guessing this is old cars or some other tax trick: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm
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Who was this marketed to? I feel like I was watching a lot of stuff at the time, speaking at conferences etc, but I never came across BitConnect until “WuzawuzawuzawuzUuuuup” and it seemed everybody knew it was a scam by then. Also, these a
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When there is an oversupply of labor, we observe falling compensation for labor. If there were an overproduction of ‘elites’, we should expect to see less benefit and more distribution of wealth and power. Clearly the more reasonable explan
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What is the best way to represent and manipulate an abstract syntax tree, or maybe a directed graph of flow control and data movement? Text is just there as a crutch to language-brain. Image brain is fast with concepts, but bad at details.
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FIF - although google earth looks like they used a similar algorithm.
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Find love. Make a family. But first, you must shed al appearance of wealth, and don’t ever let anybody know about your money until your babies need it.
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Link to article being discussed: https://www.commentary.org/articles/bari-weiss/resist-woke-r...
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Why is a doctor needed to do any of that?
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These are great to look at for something like tornado data, specifically because you probably don’t care at all about what the data tells you. For a while I was a data science consultant and then chief data scientist at a major organization
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1. Explain why it is bad to give up ‘privilege’. 2. Explain why it is good to take ‘privilege’.
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Have you heard of Riemannium? (not serious) https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0101014
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Here is a simulation I wrote: https://replit.com/@JohnLakness/100Prisoners I have printed out the distributions of the number of successes in each instance of 10000 problems, for both a baseline random selection and th
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by jl2718 5y ago
I have a theory that their strategy is to submit as many resumes as possible and then check back for anybody that has actually taken the job, no thanks to them, and then sending the company a bill for the referral. This happened to me once
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A lot of people told me to move on. That was probably technically correct, but seemed like the worst thing I could imagine - not feeling terrible about myself. My uncle’s brother died long ago, so he told me something of the opposite - tha
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It’s from this t-shirt: https://www.reddit.com/r/lastimages/comments/2obp6s/last_kno... Later the phrase was seen on a t-shirt in a candid photo of a very attractive Japanese woman posted to engrish.com,
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Okay then why are they all going broke and being bought by huge conglomerates? Operating at a loss is the same thing as being funded by someone else.
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We don’t use repetition. We use behavioral thought control by giving rewards (good grades) for demonstration of belief (test taking) at early ages. These are nearly impossible to reverse at any age once embedded. Kids believe in the tooth f
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Soma is still drugs. The collective prevalence of alcohol, marijuana, and psychiatric medication is nearly 100%, and probably 10x higher in dose than when the novel was written.
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LMFTFY: “Newsom proposes taking another $3.2B from the middle class and giving it directly to the richest people in the world”
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I think you could prove this by following the money. I suspect that none of the major news organizations make the majority of their cash flows from advertising. I would suspect that they are operated at huge losses or increasing debt funded
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I love that movie. And I think there is a lot to that point. But, it’s fiction. And if I may indulge my own biographical fiction thinking, I think his secret is that nobody believes that he is lying to them. Everybody believes anything he s
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You mean like Android and AWS?
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All that plus a lot of mistakes that weren’t even possible before. Like, epic disaster stuff we couldn’t even imagine yet. But the accessibility and costs will be massively superior to the old system, which will be unable to compete in anyt
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TL;DR: Reward pool drained (5% of COMP). User funds safu.

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