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by nwiswell 5y ago
What that actually means is that if the observations are representative of the underlying reality, then 1% of happiness is explained by playing video games. We use p-values to determine whether a relationship is likely to actually exist bas
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Downside of this field is that there are very few job opportunities without relocating. If you're in the US, you can work at Intel... or Intel. Unless you're willing to move to Taiwan and work at TSMC. Only if we're talk
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> That sounds way too high for mask costs. You're definitely looking at 7 figures, but I don't think they've yet hit 8. 7nm logic mask set costs are estimated at $10.5M. Of course you could always use a slightly less leadi
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Half Moon Bay, Santa Clara, Livermore all down. Read reports on Twitter that places as far north and south as Santa Rosa and Santa Barbara are out. It's a big one.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
It's worth noting that the breakeven rate is measuring what market participants are expecting the "official" inflation rate to be, as measured by the CPI-U. That may differ meaningfully from changes in the cost of living as e
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Do treasury yields actually have a causal relationship with anything besides the demand and supply of treasury bonds? I don't see any reason why we can't have a negative real yield (indeed, I suspect that is presently the case).
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by nwiswell 5y ago
This is the entire conflict in a nutshell. Sometimes it feels like there are no good guys on either side -- obviously not true, but the lack of any real ground truth can give rise to that illusion. There's more mud than honor in the Mi
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Huh. Is "detail oriented" usually meant in such a pejorative sense? I had it figured as HR-speak for "willing to do boring stuff"
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Facebook is committing forceful cultural appropriation of a common english word Seems alarmist. The word "apple" is still doing fine in the context of the firm treeborne fruit.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Well, there was a recession just last year and the stock market / BTC market went crazy. Ultimately this is because central banks are in the driver's seat for asset prices these days. It's been trending that way since th
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Is this the case for ALL of the content which was copied by Wikivoyage? It doesn't matter if just 1% of the content was copied unlawfully - that's infringement.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Many of them have more resources. Hedge funds have been using satellite photography to estimate Tesla's production numbers for years. The price is expected to move if even a few participants have the new information. https:/&#x2F
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> That's correct, the stock market uses information from the present to make a determination about the future. Hertz isn't buying Teslas because they are engaged in charity, they are doing it because they likely came to the con
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by nwiswell 5y ago
What about high end Japanese green tea? Are they the same?
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Approximately 49% of Alberta’s natural gas production is consumed here in Alberta. Alberta's residential and commercial sectors account for 17%. The remaining 83% of natural gas consumed in Alberta is used by the industrial, elect
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by nwiswell 5y ago
This is how we end up with kernel level drivers rather than more measured approaches.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
These jury awards are usually reduced at appeal. Some examples: https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1UA2CH https://www.morellilaw.com/the-biggest-injury-verdict-reduct...
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is about the whistleblower With respect I am pretty sure that the most recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is this one. Holistically I agree that this isn't the kind
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> It's because of how the mining-price system works, proof-of-work energy consumption is independent of the technology widely used. In other words, you can't solve the proof-of-work energy consumption problem with a new proof-o
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by nwiswell 5y ago
People being underwater happens to mean that the banks have bad loans. We have seen that movie before. Interest rates will not be allowed to increase faster than the property market can absorb. You can count on that; the political imperativ
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by nwiswell 5y ago
OK, fair enough: should buddy punching be a criminal offense? Hopefully our jails have room for 16% of the US hourly workforce.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
And if you loaf around at work and still punch the timecard, should they haul you off to prison for that too?
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> much of the public Was it at least half of the public, though? Just because cars are a less contentious subject doesn't mean that public opinion doesn't ultimately dictate how they are regulated.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Because the modern world depends on the automobile, and from a utilitarian point of view the modern world has still had a positive effect on life expectancy. Car culture should not be a foregone conclusion, though -- you are right about tha
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by nwiswell 5y ago
This is what we in the business call a "joke"
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by nwiswell 5y ago
It may well be a separate crime, but it's up to the prosecutors what charges they want to pursue at trial. Maybe they are confident enough to assert this is what happened but don't think they could meet the burden of proof before
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by nwiswell 5y ago
There's plenty of substance. It's just hypocritical for the Sierra Club to pretend that the motive is environmental. There isn't any cause for shock. Given the incentives at play this is expected. How much financial suffering
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> I just, i cannot believe this is happening. This isn't hard to understand. The Sierra Club is made up of legitimate environmentalists, but they also care about their organization and their livelihoods, and many of the major donors
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by nwiswell 5y ago
An arms race, then. We need a service that does the minimum audio modification necessary to ensure the music can't be recognized by YouTube's copyright algorithms.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
And you're welcome for your welfare roads.

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