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by newen 6y ago
It probably was insurance companies that got up in arms about it rather than voters since insurance companies are incentivized to silo their clients as much as they can. Also insurance companies are the ones who have actual say in the matte
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by newen 6y ago
This apply to a lot of jobs too? You get fired when you are too sick to work and consequently lose your insurance?
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by newen 6y ago
Or just roast them considering the number of people that are dying every year due to their greed.
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by newen 6y ago
I’m not saying humans are doing probabilistic search (not saying they are not either). I’m saying that if probabilistic search produces a result that people see as creative, then we can regard probabilistic search as something that produces
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by newen 6y ago
Lived in Singapore and it’s closer to the US in terms of cleanliness.
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by newen 6y ago
You can think of probabilistic tree search as creativity and the neural network as intuition. Like, what are you doing when you think of a cool new idea? You think of a lot of ideas and narrow them down slowly until you reach a cool new one
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by newen 6y ago
Depends. It’s probably easier to get away with it longer at lower levels and some people want to experience that sweet sweet win at whatever level they are in.
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by newen 6y ago
> This project was supported by the Open Technology Fund, the Pulitzer Center, and the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism. Hmmm > The Open Technology Fund was created in 2012 as a pilot program within Radio Free Asia. Okay &g
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by newen 6y ago
Similar. I end up googling around a good quarter of my ddg searches.
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by newen 6y ago
The US has been doing it for well over 50 years.
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by newen 6y ago
It’s some kind of only those of pure heart may partake in our magic type mentality.
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by newen 6y ago
You make it sound like it’s preordained that people like Bush make the laws and smart people should be grateful that they get to attend elite universities to network with the heirs presumptive of future presidencies. In reality, it’s the ri
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by newen 6y ago
The other side of the argument is that if the facade is not there, if they only admit rich people, the university will lose its reputation and become irrelevant overnight. The thing that gives elite universities their reputation both their
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by newen 6y ago
The fact that GWB went to Yale made it possible for him to become President. Elite schools make it easier for people who have money (but aren’t too academically inclined) to get into positions of political power by building credentials and
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by newen 6y ago
Doesn't Signal give out your phone number to whoever you message?
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by newen 6y ago
3.5 million monthly active users of Telegram in the US. 80 million MAU of TikTok in the US. Makes a difference. They didn't crack down on TikTok until very recently.
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by newen 6y ago
I can definitely tell that typical restaurant food is significantly higher quality than typical US restaurant food when I visited Spain and Italy. Doesn't really say much if someone can't because they might not have the tastebuds
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by newen 6y ago
It's very hard to trust these low prevalance numbers when, for example, I know a few people who are close friends with people in medical fields who tested positive but they themselves didn't get tested but had mild symptoms. I mys
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by newen 6y ago
There should be a name for this kind of logical fallacy you're making. Like rational markets fallacy. You can't assume a market will always act rationally and freely in a simplistic manner. It's kind of like saying the taxi m
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by newen 6y ago
Would love a more GUI focused Emacs but don't change keyboard shortcuts I've built into my muscle memory please.
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by newen 6y ago
Top secret classifications usually have time limits. As in secrets in the project loses its classification status after a few years.
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by newen 6y ago
Sorry if this sounds condescending but just learn linear algebra and numpy. Linear algebra really is a minimum requirement if you want to get anywhere near ML. College freshmen can learn linear algebra and numpy and so can you. You'll
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by newen 6y ago
Mainly because people in power die off. There are many ways to solve this including pushing people out of power after they have been there for some period of time. Example, 50 year tenure limit for professors after which they can't be
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by newen 6y ago
Yep, food quality is a big thing that distinguishes Chickfila from the rest. Burger King because inedible many years ago, and McD, Wendy’s, Subway while not as bad as Burger King still hovers around that level and are significantly worse th
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by newen 6y ago
Right. And you think people in the Chinese government set out to put a million Uyghurs in work camps while being criticized by the world? I’m sure it was done in the name of containing terrorism and extremism and it’s something they constan
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by newen 6y ago
Was when the covid lockdown started, but I had to resort to credit card chargeback with them after ordering, not getting the item after expected delivery period, and getting no response at all from customer service after calling them multi
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by newen 6y ago
I imagine a tribe, like 50 to 100 people, is more than enough.
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by newen 6y ago
In America, presidents are seen more as king figures than elected officials who are accountable for their actions and can be dismissed easily if they don’t do their jobs like prime ministers are in parliamentary democracies. One person esse
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by newen 6y ago
Yep, it's more like 40%. See https://collegedunia.com/exams/jee-advanced/reservation
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by newen 6y ago
Wow. Could not be more glad I’m not in the javascript world.

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