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by lalaland1125 3y ago
This law appears to define fairness using "demographic parity", aka a model is assumed to be fair if equal fractions of each candidate group is selected. So if 20 women and 100 men apply, it would be considered unfair to accept 10
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> Like why not just allow them to charge more for full-service? What's the downside to the public of allowing this to just be another option? If gas stations charged more for full service, that would lead to an eventual decline in f
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by lalaland1125 3y ago
One of the key factors to Silicon Valley's success has been a lack of non-competes. It's about time to unlock that innovation in the rest of the country.
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They quit because they didn't get a keynote slot. They were still invited to give a talk.
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Why would you root for an anti-competitive company that would rather sue their competition than build a better product?
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by lalaland1125 3y ago
This is one of the worst written articles I have ever seen on HN. You have to get to about midway in the article before the author even begins to make their case. And they don't do a very good job of it. Rent control is fundamentally a
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
> What intrigues me here is if the same might have gone wrong with teaching people secondary languages. The phonics debate is a lot less relevant for secondary languages. The goal of phonics is to teach a person how to write a language t
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
The same trend is repeating itself over and over again throughout the west. Western society is fundamentally unsustainable as very few people want to raise kids to create the next generation.
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
> security oriented browser Is it actually though? Can you name one security vulnerability that Chrome had that Brave did not?
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> everyone is milking the 90s-20s real estate bubble Look at the market statistics. It's not a bubble at all. Demand is legitimately very high and supply is very low (just look at the very low vacancy statistics). We have banned the
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Environmental laws are used to support oil drilling and single-family zoning(theatlantic.com)
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We know that monetary factors (like the federal reserve) can't be the main casual factor because rents are increasing at very low vacancy rates at the same (if not higher) rate as the price of housing. If the fed was the primary factor
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
You have it completely backwards with respect to taxes. The tax code heavily favors ownership over rentals because owners aren't taxed on the "rent" they would have paid to themselves. Big rental companies exist despite tax d
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
The flying object was shot down over northern Canada where the Alaska airbase is closer than the Canadian alternatives (most of Canada's population and airbases are in southern Canada).
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
For full context: We shot down a Chinese spy balloon (confirmed) 8 days ago over the Atlantic ocean. We then shot down an unknown flying object yesterday over Alaska. Today we shot down another unknown flying object over Canada. The governm
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China’s Population Likely Fell in 2022 as Births Hit New Low(bloomberg.com)
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A "posterior probability for p" for a Bernoulli distribution is meaningless because it's equivalent to a single Bernoulli distribution.
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
There needs to be some way of automatically flagging package upgrades that might be malware. Introducing calls to things like is system or subprocess should be a red flag. I feel like the pledge system would be a good model here: https:&#x
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
This isn't true. When you fit a neural network, you are almost always fitting a probability distribution (Bernoulli for binary outcomes, normal for numeric, etc, etc) which can all provide your probability estimates. When a model for a
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
It's for two main reasons: - We have a ton of Cuban exiles (very opposed to the regime) who are in a very geographically important location in Florida voting-wise - The cost of an embargo against Cuba is minimal since Cuba doesn't
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
Oops, wasn't in this post, but it was in the FAQ that got leaked today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTXkxy2KjXU > Can I keep using OGL 1.0a to develop fifth edition content? > > No. OGL 1.0a only
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
Not quite. WoTC has said that they are still planning on banning third party publishers from releasing anything new based on old OGL 1.0 content. EDIT: Oops, accidentally said "in this post", when WoTC's announcement was in t
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
> Second, you’re going to hear people say that they won, and we lost because making your voices heard forced us to change our plans. Those people will only be half right. They won—and so did we. Talk about tone deaf
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
It's because that is the primary "use case" of Bitcoin right now as Bitcoin is even worse at being at currency than an investment. Bad price stability, slow transactions, high fees under any amount of load, bad privacy, terri
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And down 60% over the last year.
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The only way to make money investing in Bitcoin is to convince a greater fool to buy your coins for more than you paid for them. And that greater fool must in turn convince an even greater fool, etc, etc It's not a Ponzi, but it has si
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Taiwan's population shrank again in 2022, births drop to record-low(taiwannews.com.tw)
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> messaging now that vaccination has become political Vaccination has always been "political" as infectious diseases like viruses almost always entail publicly funded and promoted public health campaigns. The polio vaccination
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by lalaland1125 4y ago
Just want to note, Chrome's password manager solves (3) as well. The passwords are stored encrypted on disk.
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The threat model where someone is able to run malware on your machine, but not run a keylogger to grab your master key for your password manager seems sorta absurd. Yes, if someone installs malware on your machine (in your user account), th

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