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by mebassett 5y ago
Wealth of nations, book 1, actually. "toil and trouble" could be interpreted as "labour". I certainly take that interpretation. though Smith really didn't make much use of the labour theory of value, as he thought
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by mebassett 5y ago
for those not in the know - can you point out some specific parts of the article that are erroneous or misleading ?
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by mebassett 5y ago
I think the author is interested in clifford algebras, or more specifically geometric algebras, rather than division algebras. division algebras tend to be quite boring (if they are finite then they are just a finite field; if they are fini
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by mebassett 5y ago
Yes, by "Access to the legal system" I really meant "money and introductions to a law firm that could credibly and argue a complaint against google". I've asked the lawyers I know on twitter if they know anyone ( h
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by mebassett 5y ago
one good thing about doing an "Ask HN" is that it can get so much attention that someone high up at google sees it and fixes it. I'm glad to hear that Google fixed it. Nevertheless, I still wish for legal action just to get
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by mebassett 5y ago
Getting this to "hit the court" is a non-trivial problem for someone without access to the legal system. So in order to help the OP should we suggest she contact...whom? the EFF? The ACLU? Who can help with these sorts of lega
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by mebassett 5y ago
If this is true it is more evidence of a broken legal system. But the legal system is not fixed. Culture changes and the context in which we interpret laws change. There might not be precedent for getting a number wrong in a phone book, b
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by mebassett 5y ago
OP is correct, actually. I am not sure how you define or measure "standard of living" but common measurements include human development index [1] and quality of life index [2]. by both measurements the US lags behind many europea
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by mebassett 6y ago
> Real geographic features tend not to form right angles. This is a common criticism of Tolkien's maps, that the mountains are "unnatural". It's a peculiar criticism since the most egregious example, the 90 degree an
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by mebassett 6y ago
I think this is brilliant. Anyone wanna do one on Class Field Theory following Childress?
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by mebassett 6y ago
if you use vim, you can do things like ':earlier 5m' to see code from 5min ago. in fact, vim keeps a whole undo tree available, and some plugins will let you visualize it. https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
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by mebassett 6y ago
it's a doctorate in name only. It is actually a professional degree. In other common law countries the first legal degree is an LLB. Unlike other doctoral degrees, it does not signify that the holder can lecture or practice medicine or
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Tolkien and Politics(mebassett.info)
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Why is AI so useless for business?(mebassett.info)
384 points by mebassett 6y ago|370 comments
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by mebassett 7y ago
I was fortunate enough to attend a maths talk by John Horton Conway about 8 years ago towards the start of my PhD. I was working on things related to the algebraic closure of \F_2, and Conway had a neat observation that all ordinals smaller
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Future of Copyright and Competition Law in Media(mebassett.info)
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by mebassett 7y ago
For reference, WHO's pandemic definition is phase 6 in this chart: https://www.who.int/influenza/resources/documents/pandemic_p... that is, sustained community outbreaks in multiple WHO regions. For some
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by mebassett 7y ago
> Moreover, while it made them ageless, it did not give them minds capable of coping with that agelessness, so many of them have gone insane I believe Tolkien elves also "grow weary of the world", hinting at some mental health
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by mebassett 7y ago
Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: People, Processes, Product, Data. Also skilled with Haskell, node, postgresql, python, tensorflow, aws, gcp. Résumé/CV: https://mebassett.info/cv.pdf
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by mebassett 7y ago
Proda Ltd | Full stack engineers, Haskell, Elm | London | Full-time | ONSITE Proda is an investor backed startup for the commercial real estate industry. You know how most of the work in data science is cleaning up data? We automate data cl
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Healthcare's Distortion of the US Economy(mebassett.info)
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by mebassett 7y ago
Proda Ltd | Full stack engineers, Machine Learning | London | Full-time | ONSITE Proda is an investor backed startup for the commercial real estate industry. You know how most of the work in data science is cleaning up data? We automate dat
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by mebassett 7y ago
Proda Ltd | Full stack engineers, Machine Learning | London | Full-time | ONSITE Proda is an investor backed startup for the commercial real estate industry. You know how most of the work in data science is cleaning up data? We automate da
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by mebassett 7y ago
fancy titles are useful when you are dealing with Big Enterprise Clients. "CTO of TinyStartup" means you get taken slightly more seriously than "some rando building stuff". In fact, it's not even with the people yo
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by mebassett 7y ago
I agree with you. It's sufficient to like using a tool and be productive with the tool to justify using it. But sometimes, solid engineers who are productive with certain tools are working at the behest of unenlightened managers. Art
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by mebassett 8y ago
I'm not familiar with the immigration system of too many other countries. But for the UK this is masking a lot of major differences between visas. For instance, the Tier 2 visa requires an employer to sponsor it. The visa is then tie
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by mebassett 8y ago
Proda Ltd | Senior Engineers, Jr Engineers, Machine Learning, UX designers, Data modellers | London | Full-time | ONSITE (remote possible) Proda is an investor backed startup for the commercial real estate industry. You know how most of th
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Brexit needs a consitutional convention(mebassett.info)
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by mebassett 8y ago
Proda | Senior Full stack engineers | London | Full-time | ONSITE | 50-85k + equity doe. Proda is an investor-backed, data-mining startup for the commercial real estate industry; we're making data entry jobs less painful. Our clients h
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by mebassett 8y ago
I cannot speak for the parent, but I have some ideas on the matter. if one takes art to mean a narrow group of things with a narrative (specifically film, tv, novels, and radio and news stories, thus specifically excluding things like tshi

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