mchaver

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by mchaver 4y ago
> a bunch of kids I don't think we should refer to them as kids. It seems to absolve them of responsibility. Kids are given leniency when they do wrong. The FTX/Alameda people are adults that graduated from one of the highest r
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Good point, Singapore has great, inexpensive food. Housing is where you spend the big $$$. Singapore is probably at the top of the list for the low tax countries. The big breaker for me is the lack of four distinct seasons, but all the othe
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A few ideas: Singapore: probably meets all of your requirements. Low tax, easy to open a business, lots of private schools. No idea how to rate the hospitals, it has a couple in the best hospital lists in the world, but I don't trust t
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I always thought it was the opposite. That we want AI to have no biases, but we have trouble avoiding it. Choosing data and cleaning is where we insert our bias.
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> 'Judeo-Christian values' is actually phrase coined by George Orwell I didn't know that, but this phrase seems to be common in the US. I have not encountered it much elsewhere. > I'm confused that you seem to be s
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> lots of unhappy responses to this, but don't shoot the messenger Generally it is assumed that the messenger is a relatively neutral party, like a courier or a postman. A recruiter has a lot of input into how that message is delive
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Agreed, that is what I hear as well. It is kind of like Neo-reactionary gotcha, like ok, you are not Christian, but you still need to accept the bible as being really important. That being said, there are lots of Bible references in the can
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> to the people who want to argue this: show me a body of work which has been more influential on western society. A potential competitor would be Ancient Greek Philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle). Though it is hard to measure. >
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My life was going fine until my tweet got too close to Agent K's centroid.
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There is a large online community that participates in English across many nationalities, but there are also many vibrant online communities that do not use English and are compromised of a smaller subset of nationalities. It seems like the
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For highly technical terms you can use the exact same strategy that Spanish and Mandarin speakers use, just use the English term like you did in your example sentence. A random Taiwanese speaker will not understand MOSFET, but neither will
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> It's also counterproductive to let humans learn a language of limited content resources and use cases. Taiwanese/Hokkien have limited content resources because of conscious decisions of previous governing bodies in China, Sin
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> But are there Costcos in China? Yes, I know there is one in Shanghai. https://www.costco.com.cn > Also, do people in China get out of the city to go camping for the weekend? I am not sure about camping, but glamping is
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by mchaver 4y ago
As long as our modern economic history is deemed interesting. Almost 400 years later we still talk about Tulip mania. Even if cryptocurrency falls out of favor tomorrow, it will still be an interesting economic event for a long time.
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Language changes whether we like it or not. Before cryptocurrencies, "crypto" meant cryptography, but with mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies, the popular meaning of "crypto" has shifted to cryptocurrencies. If cryp
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by mchaver 5y ago
They are not genetically related, but they have been in contact with each other for a long time. Japanese has borrowed lots of vocabulary that have been borrowed under regular sound patterns (depends when they borrowed it). Same goes for Ko
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Aside: I am not aware of strong evidence for linguistic relatively. Only some light stuff like some two words rhyme in a language so they are more likely paired in music and poetry than in other languages where they don't rhyme. It is
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by mchaver 5y ago
Right, if you are looking at consumer PC devices, you would be misled to think that Microsoft leads the way, but if you look at things like embedded devices, servers, super computers and smart phones (if Android is considered linux?), then
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by mchaver 5y ago
I just want to say that your work and determination in the face of adversity is inspiring. Thank you!
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by mchaver 5y ago
My personal opinion is that it is a great introduction to functional programming in a front end environment, but the issues that have led to that drama are a huge turn off for production. There are lots of great typed functional programming
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by mchaver 5y ago
I think if Spain had taken a more Swiss approach towards federalization and language, it would be a much stronger nation. A lot of regional tension is a result of the central government blocking or overriding local decisions and political p
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by mchaver 5y ago
> if it wasn't Internet it would've been something else I think that is a big assumption to make for someone we don't know well. I do believe some unique experiences can have a huge effect on individuals and other experien
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by mchaver 5y ago
That data you provided is for London, Ontario, Canada. I was speaking about London, England, UK. That being said I looked up the official data and calculated around 3% for dwelling vacancy in London for 2020 [0]. Though, if look at individu
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by mchaver 5y ago
> paying property tax Exactly, this is point I was trying to make. Policy can have an effect on the market. It is more than just supply and demand like noduerme was suggesting. An example is London. There is a large number of empty housi
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> If the population of this country stopped growing and started shrinking, a lot of real estate would be freed up. Demand for housing in the densest cities would drop, and it would be cheaper to live. Without a policy to disincentive it,
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by mchaver 5y ago
> Why are people on HN so obsessed with this concept? I think HN users have a strong sense of curiosity. Some may aspire to live in these communities, others are just curious to hear their story. It's the first time I have seen a to
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by mchaver 5y ago
In my experience the number one thing that is positively correlated with biking adoption is infrastructure. If the population can safely use bicycles and they can be easily accessed/stored/rented then they are more willing to work
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If you are open to sharing, I'd be curious to hear what you have done since university.
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> your language affects your world view As a linguist, my personal opinion is that it tinges your world view, but does not have a large influence on it. I only adhere to a very light interpretation of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. tldr: cultur
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I read somewhere that disease prevented European colonizers from overtaking larger parts of southern Africa. I cannot remember the source though.

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