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by mrosett 5y ago
> But the narrative is of course nonsense. The crisis in housing is not of capacity but of affordability I’m baffled by people who believe the law of supply and demand doesn’t apply to housing.
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by mrosett 5y ago
On one hand, this article seems fine as far as it goes. Sure, I can imagine there's some benefit to cultivating a positive emotion for 5 minutes per day. On the other hand, any article that uses the phrase "the new science of <
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by mrosett 5y ago
The second tweet in the thread seems badly off the mark in its understanding of copyright law. > copyright does not only cover copying and pasting; it covers derivative works. github copilot was trained on open source code and the sum t
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by mrosett 5y ago
You realize that FAANG internships pay very well, right?
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by mrosett 5y ago
The obvious point you're making is about a double standard -- rich people are unfairly given more slack than others. But an alternative framing amounts to evaluating a method by its results -- basically saying "I don't know w
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by mrosett 5y ago
> a 12 year old car is no problem for anyone but the people at the wall street journal in my opinion This was a weird statement since the article doesn’t seem to have any problem with people keeping cars longer.
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by mrosett 5y ago
One small component of that is aggressively updating interiors. As a passenger I wouldn't have guessed that Delta's planes are on the older side.
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by mrosett 6y ago
I'm going to share an unpopular response to one of the points in the article: For explicitly commercial terms, ordering results by who will pay the most (i.e. putting ads at the top) isn't any worse than the organic algorithm&#x27
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by mrosett 6y ago
I appreciate the response - I'll look into it.
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by mrosett 6y ago
Are you saying that UpToDate is badly flawed, or are you just being gratuitously condescending?
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by mrosett 6y ago
StackOverflow: Developers :: UpToDate: Physicians ... which makes the "Don't confuse your Google search with my medical degree" meme a bit more amusing.
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by mrosett 6y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: US (Mountain Time) Remote with travel for meetings as needed post-Covid I'm a data scientist with seven years of experience spanning both data science and data engineering. I’m available in a range of capacities,
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by mrosett 6y ago
Your assumption is that without McK’s involvement nobody would have died of opioid overdoses during that window. That seems very questionable.
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by mrosett 6y ago
I find it strange that this article defines relaxing zoning codes as "progressive." I suppose that the author is writing for an audience that equates "progressive" and "good" but in any other context supporting
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by mrosett 6y ago
For starters, distribution is currently restricted to a very small slice of the population.
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by mrosett 6y ago
> Another strong argument in favor of doing a direct listing to determine market price (and raising privately beforehand if possible). Presumably they would have raised privately at a price roughly equal to what they could have raised in
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by mrosett 6y ago
Related (and quite a bit better): https://www.mcguiremarks.com/uploads/3/9/7/9/39793909/isaac_...
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by mrosett 6y ago
No - indices are basically a (possibly weighted) average of prices. They're informational, not an investment product. That said, investment companies will frequently launch funds that track some index. So the investment products like w
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by mrosett 6y ago
Probability it happens is 1 in 50c5 (the number of ways to choose 5 balls out of 50.) So probability it doesn't happen is 1-1/50c5. Probability it never happens in a year is that number raised to (365 1000). That gives 85%, so the
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by mrosett 6y ago
This isn't entirely true; the technology is still very new.
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by mrosett 6y ago
It depends quite a bit on where you are in any particular state. We did a similar move in May and I found that rural gas stations had close to zero mask usage, but in any larger city people were wearing masks. Some tourist hotspots (e.g. Mo
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by mrosett 6y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: US (Mountain Time) Remote with travel for meetings as needed post-Covid I'm a data scientist who specializes in helping companies design and implement a data science strategy prior to making a first data science
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by mrosett 6y ago
> You claim that those low-efficiency jobs would still have workers if we were allowed to pay them a low enough price. I think you misunderstood "If you could pay someone $4/hour..." It's not a statement about minimum
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by mrosett 6y ago
(2015)
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by mrosett 6y ago
Many delis are Jewish. He's saying that whenever he sees buildings named after people, he's in a Jewish neighborhood. In context, it plays into nasty stereotypes about Jews being obsessed with money.
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by mrosett 6y ago
Many delis are Jewish. He's saying that whenever he sees buildings named after people, he's in a Jewish neighborhood. In context, it plays into nasty stereotypes about Jews being obsessed with money.
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by mrosett 6y ago
"HN writes a Readme"
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by mrosett 6y ago
Randall Monroe has already covered this: https://xkcd.com/1217/ I hope this research leads somewhere but I doubt it will
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by mrosett 6y ago
Ha! I'm going to have to borrow this phrase.
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by mrosett 6y ago
That was my reaction as well. Also, a lot of the most interesting corporate research these days is done by quasi-monopolies like Facebook and Google.

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