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by modriano 7y ago
> As far Chicago, that city is a mess, too. I was there just last year. It sucks there for all kinds of reasons. How long did you spend here to reach your conclusion that Chicago sucks for all kinds of reasons? I've been here for 6
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by modriano 7y ago
The set people who care deeply enough about this issue to change their drug consumption habits is probably pretty small. And of the ones that are so motivated by this issue, I assume they're infrequent users that account for a small fr
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by modriano 7y ago
Even if financial advisors were always an inferior option than index funds, why should they be allowed to make financial decisions for their clients that are contrary to the best interests of their clients?
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by modriano 7y ago
Echo chambers like these incubate hatefulness, provide positive feedback to individuals who embrace the hate at the core of these subreddits, and set up strawman representations of "enemy groups" to immunize members against ration
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by modriano 7y ago
>You can go even farther, if less than 50% of the people studying it work in that field, maybe less than 20% work there? By that metric, one of my undergrad majors (physics) is a bullshit major as very few of us went into that field. But
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by modriano 7y ago
How do you define "bullshit major"?
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by modriano 7y ago
> I think it's not wrong to treat an adult exactly like you would a child if he's acting like one. So, are you saying that the malicious adult poo-tracker is being childish and should be treated with the leniency we afford to c
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by modriano 7y ago
>Like, if someone treads dog poo into my house on their shoes, it doesn't really matter if they did it by mistake, or spent ages walking around town trying to find some dog poo to step in before coming to my house; the effect is tha
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by modriano 8y ago
America would have to become a drastically worse place for any law enforcement agency to deploy an autonomous lethal force that had less than 100% identification accuracy.
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by modriano 8y ago
> if you are a chess champion. who also gets written about in that nation's premier newspaper, and that story inspires a successful crowdfunding campaign.
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by modriano 8y ago
Seriously, yes. This happens all the time. I recently finished a Masters in CS with a focus on data science and machine learning from DePaul University, and I built predictive models that saved my previous employer hundreds of thousands of
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by modriano 8y ago
EpiPens used to cost under $100 for a 2-pack, but now they cost over $600 for a 2-pack. Epinephrine costs like $0.17 per ml, and an EpiPen dose is 0.3 ml. http://mshpriceguide.org/en/single-drug-information/?DMFId=
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by modriano 8y ago
>I'm at a loss as to why the US is still dead set to have no meaningful health coverage. The US isn't a monolith. The majority of the population very much wants meaningful health coverage, but thanks to Supreme Court decisions
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by modriano 8y ago
Decision tree models are trained by a machine learning algorithm that a human implemented. DTrees don't create new algorithms, they are calculated/trained through the application of an algorithm on data. You can find these DTree-g
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by modriano 9y ago
- What's your source for that statistic? - Is that for all Healthcare.gov functions or just for signups? - How do the scaling issues that were solved over 4 years ago matter now? - Has the lack of this extreme and unheard-of le