neolefty

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by neolefty 9y ago
Single stocks tank every day.
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by neolefty 9y ago
Legal corruption is still corruption. But to fix it you have to change the system, not just enforce existing rules. And in order to change the system, you have to have a better system ready and widespread support for it. That's hard.
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by neolefty 9y ago
> it's about the laws that limit competition In some cases it's not laws but simple entrenched ownership. If Google wants to run fiber on existing poles, they run into blockades by the pole owners or lawsuits by competitors who
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by neolefty 9y ago
Interesting. I feel both ways about it. On the one hand, if those scraps are enough to live on (and educate my children and so on), it's fine with me because it's enough. On the other hand, the economy as a whole is so much health
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by neolefty 9y ago
What would a good role of government be? It sounds like subsidizing getting people off the farm would be helpful, but that's also loaded politically. One program I've heard of working well is subsidizing fallow land that eventuall
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by neolefty 9y ago
That's a great interview. I didn't know anything about Tina Brown before, and I like hearing her voice in it. Maybe you're being downvoted for somewhat over-the-top criticism? It's easy to criticize successful, energetic
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by neolefty 9y ago
Normal! I grew up in Illinois too [1] and spent a few years in Oblong, population 1700. Its claim to fame was a newspaper headline, "Oblong man marries Normal woman." [1] and now live a stone's throw away in Indiana near Purd
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by neolefty 9y ago
Prototype it? That sounds crazy enough to test out.
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by neolefty 9y ago
Another big factor is growth. There is vastly more real wealth and productivity now, and much of it only makes sense if it's in the hands of the people.
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by neolefty 9y ago
My impression is that their purpose isn't to take the market, but to provide an example that others can emulate. If a Nexus is so much better than a Samsung, then Samsung will improve until that is no longer the case, to everyone'
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by neolefty 9y ago
And Aliyun
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by neolefty 9y ago
The article draws its data from South America. The fact that the author doesn't see any Chinese companies is an illustration of fragmentation. However , I think it's worth noting that each of these fragmented sub-nets are have mo
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by neolefty 9y ago
It's a major undertaking to switch from conventional to organic farming. Much more labor intensive, can take a few years for pesticide residues to dissipate, not even possible in some location due to neighbors. Not something most farme
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by neolefty 9y ago
There are other seed companies that are competitive with Monsanto's traits. Pioneer, Syngenta.
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by neolefty 9y ago
I just bought three 5x's on eBay refurbished for my family, each for $160-200, to run Google Fi. They'd all boot-looped-to-death on their previous owners, who had sent back to Google/LG under warranty but then moved on to new
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by neolefty 9y ago
Is there evidence that we're gravitating towards "fairly similar people"? The article points to evidence that online dating is increasing the diversity of couples.
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by neolefty 9y ago
Empirical data suggests otherwise -- for example, the article mentions that marriages that start from online relationships endure better than offline.
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by neolefty 9y ago
Is that historical aid or just for this year's hurricanes?
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by neolefty 9y ago
They're at least somewhat mobilized. For example the "medical treatment ship" Comfort is on the scene: > There are urgent attempts to help. The federal government has sent 10 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams of civilian
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by neolefty 9y ago
Are the days of Microsoft attacking all comers over? Or even trying to carve out their own niche in mobile? They seem much more interested in playing nice with the new platforms -- free Office on Android & iOS, for example, and good i
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by neolefty 9y ago
That study looks at something else entirely: The relation between screening and mortality. It doesn't say anything about survival rates over time. > Conclusions and Relevance When analyzed at the county level, the clearest result
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by neolefty 9y ago
(Side note: Mandarin & Cantonese have the same writing.)
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by neolefty 9y ago
I applaud your sense of fairness -- wanting to pay the hotel for the chargeback. But on the plus side, maybe it will motivate the hotel to implement a more secure payment system?
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by neolefty 9y ago
Nitpick: Can you actually hollow out an asteroid? It seems easier to use it to build an independently hollow structure. Asteroids probably resemble piles of gravel -- maybe with ice mixed in -- more than chunks of stone or metal. Update: Ye
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by neolefty 9y ago
In the article, I saw a subtext about what we view as valuable. While there were some good points (being above or below the API, for example), this whole article sounded like it was stuck in scarcity thinking. What if everyone has enough to
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by neolefty 9y ago
My estimate is undoubtedly a case of "Doesn't realize the difficulty of the question, therefore naively tries to answer it." I think you have a much more sophisticated understanding of neurons than I do!
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by neolefty 9y ago
Same sand pit with water and lava: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7YVqyudiE
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by neolefty 9y ago
That sounds both systematic and disciplined! I rarely got close to my limits simply because I couldn't focus that long without getting distracted. (Result: Quit after undergraduate, got a job, was happier with that than academia, but I
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by neolefty 9y ago
Yes, there are many confounding factors and sources of uncertainty on both sides -- here are a few I can think of: * memory isn't accounted for * FLOP per activation is estimated at 100 * neurons can vary by a factor of ~1000 in how mu
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by neolefty 9y ago
I've been wanting to know how electronics' power efficiency compares to biological neurons, and this paper gives a clue. The most efficient hardware it mentions is the GV100 "Tensor Core", at 400GFLOPS/W for FP16. I

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