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by kevinnk 9y ago
Almost all of those things are already implemented in the US. > cap individual donations Direct contribution cap for individuals is $2,700 > forbid companies from donating Direct contributions are not allowed, although PACs can give u
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by kevinnk 9y ago
To reiterate: Most people's thinking on the minimum wage hasn't progressed past "if poor people got paid more they'd be better off, therefore raise the minimum wage." Many people's thinking on walfare haven&#x2
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Prices are high because demand is high and supply is low. Yes, that gets covered.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Any libertarian who takes Econ 101 will find their beliefs challenged tremendously, and not just by the "simple models" you're talking about. To be perfectly blunt, it sounds like you're trying to criticize something tha
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by kevinnk 9y ago
I don't really care if people understand "real econ" (whatever that means) but most people haven't even progressed past a folk understanding of economics. Having at least a cursory understanding of why, e.g., price contr
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by kevinnk 9y ago
I've recommended to plenty of people that they read "Principles of Macroeconomics" by Greg Mankiw, but weirdly enough no one has. Maybe I just didn't urge urge urge them enough? Actually, if you believe economics hasn&#x
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by kevinnk 9y ago
There's a reasonably large body of evidence that a (small) increase in the minimum wage to e.g. 40% of median local income doesn't have many negative employment effects (or if it does, they are very small). That being said, minimu
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Labor force participation doesn't take into account demographic changes so it's almost categorically worse than U3. Look at U6 for something that takes into account discouraged and part time workers.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Average annual state University tuition for residents is more like 10k. Cutting 10-15% of that doesn't seem marginal to me.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Training is inference, except over model space instead of possible outputs. Depending on what models you're looking at, the two can have very different computational properties, so treating them separately is not surprising even if w
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by kevinnk 10y ago
λ> map acos [2] == map acos [2] False :: Bool Interesting.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
It has a built in terminal called crosh, which might have an SSH client built in (I'm not sure). What most people do is download a chrome extension like Secure Shell[1] that lets you ssh from a tab. [1] https://chrome.google
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Circuit designers didn't lose their jobs to EDA tools any more than software developers lost their jobs to compilers.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_compression_function Cryptographic compression is not related to data compression.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
That's incredibly sexist.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Teachers still pay income tax. It may be true that the amount of money the government pays out increased, but the amount of income tax didn't go down. Regardless, I took his argument to be about a more general shift to service work rat
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Bill Gates is a super smart guy, so I'll assume there's an argument I've missed, but how does this make any sense? If automating factory jobs "frees up labor" (as he says) to become teachers and healthcare workers,
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Without a deadlift suit[1]. Some people also use "raw" to mean without straps as well[2]. [1] https://gometal.com/product/pro-king-deadlift-suit/ [2] https://www.paulcheksblog.com/wp-con
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by kevinnk 10y ago
... do you have any firsthand experience working those jobs? I happen to know a number of pilots for major airlines and it's probably one of the nicest middle-upper class jobs you can get (assuming you can handle the responsibility). &
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Few people who would describe working as a teacher, an airline pilot, or a professional athlete as a "living nightmare".
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by kevinnk 10y ago
I'd also like to hear more about what tools you're using/looking forward to.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Women are more likely to support abortion restrictions than men. http://www.pewforum.org/2017/01/11/public-opinion-on-abortio...
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by kevinnk 10y ago
How does adding an operator help? There are two main advantage of having move semantics in the language and at least one of them relies on the fact that moves are implicit; you can write code that will move objects if supported and copy&#x2
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by kevinnk 10y ago
But the estimates the footnote is referring to are in the first table. Those are not per year but already summed; there's no corresponding fiscal year to refer to (I think?). Regardless, this is a tiny point so I'll drop it. I sti
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by kevinnk 10y ago
> It should be intuitive that analog is more efficient for representing analog abstractions (neural networks, which inherently copy analog structures). That's not necessary true; again, see the DARPA project you listed. > Digital
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by kevinnk 10y ago
I'm pretty sure you're correct and those numbers are total since 1950. However, the study does seem confusingly worded - in the footnote on page 1 it says: "All estimates quoted are in constant 2010 dollars, unless otherwise
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by kevinnk 10y ago
The way I read your second post was that analog computing is more efficient in general; it sounds like you don't actually believe that. Fair enough. However, I still take issue with your overall point. > Efficient, large scale neura
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by kevinnk 10y ago
The main problem with analog computation is lack of reliability (analog is not always deterministic and manufacturing defects are more difficult to eliminate) and density (analog components are usually much larger, in part to increase relia
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by kevinnk 10y ago
I'm a hardware engineer and I downvoted you because your comment is shallow and uninformative. The "Von Neumann bottleneck" has nothing to do with digital vs analog hardware (rather it's about the separation between stor
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by kevinnk 10y ago
You can't transport power that far without massive transmission losses. Communications cables use repeaters and fiber optics, so they don't have nearly the same problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri

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