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by laingc 4y ago
I understand that argument, but the very high minimum wage and availability of state support means that in practice there is no market-clearing price for this labour. New Zealanders simply don’t want to do these jobs.
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by laingc 4y ago
New Zealand does exactly this, and I’m of two minds on it. On the one hand, it seems easy to say that if you don’t have enough workers, you’ve got to raise your price - it’s a free market, right? Except it’s not. NZ has a very generous welf
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by laingc 4y ago
A lot of people, including myself, don’t believe that central health authorities have the right to make that call. Moreover, I personally don’t have confidence in their ability to make those kinds of decisions, and I believe the abysmal per
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by laingc 4y ago
Allianz Global Digital Factory, or whatever it’s called these days?
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by laingc 5y ago
We use Kubeflow at our shop. If you use a managed K8s offering, it’s quite simple to manage, and of course you can deploy all your other stuff alongside it using the same tool stack.
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by laingc 5y ago
Adding my voice to this too. I have a PhD in Differential Geometry and would consider myself to have been a decent student and researcher. The "good" people in my field were more than a head and shoulders above me, and the "g
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by laingc 5y ago
Your comment didn’t challenge anything about my approval of Thiel. In fact, your comment didn’t add anything substantive whatsoever apart from a tone of disapproval - hence my question about starting flame wars. Usefully, your comment has d
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by laingc 5y ago
Which of my views are you challenging?
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by laingc 5y ago
> If your 20 friends are all "massive fans" of a given person, I agree, that's a pretty solid indicator of significant bias. I'm glad you agree. Would you say that the tone of your comment reinforces, diminishes, or i
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by laingc 5y ago
I can't speak for Silicon Valley, nor for the majority of HN, but my (obviously biased) sample of approximately 20 HN-reading friends are all massive Thiel fans. Myself included. So perhaps there are more of us than you think, we'
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by laingc 5y ago
As a New Zealander, I am super supportive of easier pathways for wealthy people to bring themselves, their expertise, their connections, and their money here. Furthermore, my anecdotal observation is that articles in The Guardian about New
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by laingc 5y ago
It comes from the dimensionality of the hidden state of popular NLP models. The number 768 in particular comes from (if I recall correctly) the largest of the original BERT models.
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by laingc 5y ago
From my experience as a mathematician, I would say that only a very small minority of mathematicians would accept computer verification of proofs, let alone view it as a gold standard.
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by laingc 5y ago
Very nice! The baby name app we used worked on a Tinder-like swipe-right basis. At the end, you ended up with your “matches”. But the best part about the app was the name - Kinder. (German for “children” and rhymes with Tinder)
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by laingc 5y ago
When I worked there a few years ago, Xero was a pretty stellar employer. Lots of really lovely people, lots of opportunity to explore different avenues in your career, and active attention paid to employee wellbeing.
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by laingc 5y ago
Not at all - it might work and it might not. It’s just that calling it bullshit at this stage is just begging to be proven wrong.
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by laingc 5y ago
The Metaverse is definitely bullshit. It will fail for the same reason that Amazon never managed to beat Barnes & Noble, that the internet failed to become popular, and that nobody ever bought a PC. Just ridiculous.
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by laingc 5y ago
As I said, I really don’t want to get drawn into the environmental debate, but there is one persistent myth that does need to be corrected: the idea that emissions from “heavy” vehicles are not priced. They are. They’re in the ETS. Reductio
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by laingc 5y ago
The New Zealand meat and dairy industries do not receive subsidies after radical market deregulation during the Labour government of '84. We have a highly efficient and profitable sector, mainly for the reason that we compete in fairly
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by laingc 5y ago
I think GP is prefectly well aware of what was meant, and their point still stands - you need to do a lot of careful analysis to actually claim any ROI for these kinds of government handouts, and the burden of proof is very firmly on those
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Three Categories of AI(chrislaing.net)
4 points by laingc 5y ago|0 comments
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by laingc 5y ago
What is outrageous is that the divers got at most an MBE - on the same New Years Honours list where heroes such as Michael Palin and Twiggy received knighthoods. I have never seen anything really deserving of a knighthood than what those di
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The “API Mandate” memo at Amazon(chrislaing.net)
381 points by laingc 5y ago|130 comments
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by laingc 5y ago
Well, we actually do know how to do this fairly well. An Emissions Trading Scheme is the way to go.
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by laingc 5y ago
Why does half of HN seem intent on ruining the iPhone for the rest of us? The explicit selling proposition of the iPhone is that it is a closed ecosystem . I and my family buy it for precisely this reason. If you want a choice about what y
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by laingc 5y ago
There’s a difference between “being a doctor” and “Dr Watson”. Nobody would ever say an academic is “a doctor”.
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by laingc 5y ago
Yes
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by laingc 5y ago
As others have commented, you would indeed say, “I have an appointment with my GP.” However, people would certainly know what you meant if you said “I’m going to see the doctor.”
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by laingc 5y ago
You go to the GP - General Practitioner.
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by laingc 5y ago
It is important to note that in many places outside the US, Physicians are only honorary Doctors. For example in New Zealand, Physicians graduate MB ChB - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of surgery. Lawyers likewise graduate LLB - Bachelo

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