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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
>Economists agree that rent control is not the most profitable way to price housing I don't think that that's what economists are talking about when they say rent controls "don't work". I think the consensus is
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
In its defense...if you need to tune one, you probably know the acronym. It's a common feedback control scheme for signal processing and engineering control more generally. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_co
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
>Consider that the unpredictability of a message is a measure of it's information content, eh? Yes, in the "information as irreducible data" sense. No in the "information as non-obvious truths about the world" se
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
My understanding is that penetration depends on the energy associated with the the β particle [0] and tritium decay releases relatively lower-energy β particles [1]. The nonprofit isn't wrong... they're just saying "a .22 bul
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
Ignorant american question... in not-in-person transactions, how do they make sure that the one time code/ certificate goes to John, not just someone claiming to be John? Is there some centralized password issuer/validator that ca
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
It was 4.5 in 2019 (the last non-COVID cycle).[0] [0] https://qz.com/1584304/acceptances-rates-at-top-us-colleges-...
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
If you're looking for ways to be charitable, I found this (and this similar Tim Ferris post[0]) to be eye-opening view into the range of noise that people with large social wakes deal with. It's a small slice of empathy that I (a
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
This could be said of any economic good. "1 Tulip bulb will always be 1 tulip bulb. It's just that people but them with a bunch of different currencies and all the other currencies have been really volatile relative to tulips (tho
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
Outside of scientific computing, I typically go to Spyder on one-off scripts and smaller projects. I like Spyder over PyCharm for smaller projects because there's less startup cost and the code cells functionality is handy for the &quo
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
Even just applying filters or some more recent, casual killer photos would be helpful. For some, the "photo scanned from newspaper" look was identifiable.
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
> made-up number, but doesn't feel far off. Pew Research says 18% report getting news primarily from social media (fielded 10/19-6/20)[0]. November 2019 research said 41% among 18-29 year olds, which was the peak age group
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
Was there a breakup fee on this one? I'd expect it's pretty standard to waive that when it's due to unforeseen regulatory obstacles.
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
Presumably short for "Silicon Valley".
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
>The connection between web scraping and the case cited seems pretty tenuous. The link is another case, Linkedin v hiQ, that is being held pending this case and presents the same question of what counts as "accessing without authori
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
> Otherwise this digital dollar is nothing more than a cheap marketing trick to counter the rise of crypto. Even if banks continue to exist as they are, there is one meaty impact that a purely digital dollar would create: it would allow
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
I agree with the concern. Tools like this (e.g. myTunes / ourTunes) tend to be used primarily to avoid paying for music that was produced to be sold. If you believe (as I do) that the supply of quality music creation / music disco
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
>then doesn’t that value have to come from somewhere? It's not necessarily zero-sum. The trinkets may well be worth more to people than the privacy benefit. In fact, if the car owner saves $100 and buys a trinket, they presumably t
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
janpot, I think you maybe reacting to a strawman. It's clearly never in the public's interest to favor ANYTHING over the public's interest. There are , however, many cases when it is in the public's global interest f
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
I don't claim expertise on this topic, but it's worth noting that on this point, a VC's incentives are potentially misaligned with the founder's. In funding rounds, VC's themselves have enough experience to avoid ac
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
>Is there a legal or internal Google policy basis for the distinction that you're setting up? I understand OP to be distinguishing between "overbroad" and "not overbroad" warrants. The legal basis for that distin
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
Are you suggesting Yahoo getting rid of WFH wasn't an effort to boost employee performance? Or just objecting to the idea that "it wasn't working" suggests absolute performance was poor? Rereading the announcement memo
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
If I understand the distinction correctly, my freedom of religion example is a conflict between two negative rights (the prohibition on preventing a religious practitioner's worship versus the prohibition on taking the unwilling virg
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
> The whole point of rights is that they're non-conditional. I agree with the broad point about the importance of the right to consent/ refuse treatment. But, surely, there can be places where individuals' rights conflict
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
It means the former (can't give treatment a patient doesn't consent to). Are there specific types of situations you're thinking about? Outside of cases where the patient is unable to provide consent (minority, mental incapaci
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
I'd imagine it could be hard if a company folds. No money to pay to keep servers running. No money to pay employees who know SQL to keep working. Possibly, you could mandate that all software include a working self service data retriev
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
If this is a topic that interests you, I'd encourage you to listen to the oral arguments/ opinion announcements from the landmark supreme court cases: Bakke [0] and Grutter [1], the latter of which parent references. The legal und
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
> Also, I agree this is not close to comprehensive, but the best I have seen. If someone here can keep a more comprehensive status I promise you many parents would pay something for access to that status. For those interested, two more e
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
But surely, you'd concede it's far less useful. No international email, social media. No access to foreign websites: IP addresses are personal data [0]. Possibly, service delivery is feasible if you set up a warehouse in both lo
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
MIT announced roughly the same plan 2 weeks earlier. [0] https://covid19.mit.edu/initial-decisions-about-fall-at-mit
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
I don't think it's as common to hire consultants to announce layoffs as the Up In The Air / Office Space caricatures lead people to believe. Layoffs are a huge distraction for a business, and so, don't happen except at

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