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by mhneu 8y ago
Would you opine on algorithms to control queues (e.g. RED, CoDel), and to respond to congestion (e.g. CUBIC, BBR- at TCP level, correct?)? Will they get anywhere? Or is a totally new approach needed? https://cloudplatform.google
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While talking to a public official, even.
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Wow. Prosecutors moved to prosecute a 13 year old for recording a conversation with a principal? Even after the IL state govt made it finally legal to record a conversation with other public officials (like cops)? So much for public transp
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by mhneu 8y ago
Good op-ed by the founder of ProtonMail. Between 2015 and 2016, revenue jumped 22 percent. (Google and Facebook alone were responsible for 99 percent of that growth.) Big data companies already control an unimaginable amount of informati
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The article mentions that the biggest impact comes from limiting the highest-entropy information. It wouldn't be hard to rank the various attributes by entropy and then you - individually - could calculate the probability that you&#x27
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Nice. I was thinking of real analysis texts as an example here too. Was going to say that not everyone can use Apostol, like Caltech, to teach calculus.
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Teaching styles differ and student populations differ. And re: in-depth, this is a long tail problem. The profit is in the mainstream, not in the tail. Producing really good in-depth work isn’t that rewarding because the market is small.
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Thoughtful replies here, thanks. Perhaps letting rates vary across institutions might be the simplest improvement. That would help Stanford students and make it hard to attend lower tier colleges. So we’d also need a way to advantage comm
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And the debt is nondischargeable in bankruptcy . It's a societal failing that we're letting people take on this debt. Anyone who takes on debt like that is increasing the risk to their lives. Sure, if everything follows the mea
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by mhneu 8y ago
I'm sorry about your personal struggles, and hope things look up for you and your wife soon. There is something that millennials together can do differently, though -- vote . Millenial turnout is terribly low in the US. https:/
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by mhneu 8y ago
+1 for focus on values. America itself would do well to refocus itself internally on its long-held values. (To do that, it needs to fix the huge right-wing propaganda apparatus in America, beginning with right wing radio. You can’t understa
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nation-state alignment What has made the past 50 years so peaceful (amongst the big powers, at least) is that nations that share values have aligned. France and Germany and the US and Australia share a philosophy of governance, not jus
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What an amazing and powerful comment. We should all care about other humans in this world. (That said, not all governments care about other humans, and I tend to agree with crchang below.)
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This is an interesting insight. Yes, as industry has changed and retail has changed, city layouts should change too. It’s not just suburban malls that are affect by changing retail.
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That has the same problems with the extra class definition: extra lines of code, choice of scope to define the new class, and maybe issues with pickling.
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The old quote “The hardest thing to fake is sincerity”.
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Didn’t Carryrou’s WSJ stories say that her parents’ govt connections pulled in Schultz and got her connected to the military? I remember his reporting implying that a lot of the money Theranos raised seemed like it came in expecting milita
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There’s one other REALLY important reason why Holmes was able to raise money. Remember venture firms with blood test knowledge like Google V were turning her down. Holmes was close family friends with George Schultz, and that allowed her
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Excellent news for American society. “The Chickenshit Club” by Eisinger recently explained why the lack of criminal charges had emboldened white collar crime. Basically, individuals need to have the risk of criminal charges if they do somet
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Yes Python code is often crying out for names better than [0] and [1]. And the big problem with namedtuples is that definition is so heavyweight - requires a new line of code, a new class object, picking the scope for that class (top-level
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by mhneu 8y ago
Protein-mediated apatite crystal growth. Doing that in situ (on teeth) is another ball of wax. But this is a first step.
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Yup. This was an incredibly consequential decision in the US to use stimulus. And it validates the idea that Keynesian stimulus has value. (And it’s useful to go back in 2008-2011 and see what different economists were saying about stimul
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Yes America would probably be better off with more than two parties. First you need to ditch the first past the post system.
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That’s not the story I heard from the finance people who were setting up the securitization. I agree with your broader point: government policy is complex, we need a regulated market system because completely free markets don’t work, so we
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Mann and Ornstein predicted this and explain its causes.
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No, there are actually experts that we should rely on. Of course no economist is a perfect predicter- predicting the future is hard. Tom Nichols’ book The Death of Expertise is relevant here. —— As for your specific points: - Paul Krugman,
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It's a $3 trillion tax cut over 10 years. They get to $1B by finding an "offset" of $2 billion, which assumes a very optimistic growth estimate, which there was political push to develop. In particular, that offset assumes
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Luckily for us, Clinton moved the budget toward balance during a good economy. So when the bubble burst, Bush was able to stimulate the economy and cut taxes. The current tax cut increases the national debt during a good economy. So this
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Real estate market too. (What is hard to know is how much laundered money props up real estate in London, NYC, Miami, etc., and if we crack down on laundering, whether it will pop the bubble. Adam Davidson and Seth Hettena have written wel
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2020: policies put in place under this administration will come home to roost during the next administration, which will get the blame. This lag between economic policy and outcomes is a big reason the US has such a disingenuous public deba

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