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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
> there can damn sure be extra taxes on junk mail. I'd imagine this would actually be quite difficult on first amendment grounds if you start filtering by sender / message contents and would sweep in things like paychecks if yo
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
It's at 59.9, 30.4, which edges it into the Moscow box.
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
There is actually a LOT of margin in counterfeiting textbooks. Even in the US a textbook costs ~$10 to manufacture. The reason prices are so high is that there's a high fixed cost up front to write/edit/typeset/design&#x
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
The standard advice for this if you want to woodwork as a hobby (not for utility, that is): learn to use handtools. Paul Sellers is a good youtuber for this (and there are many others). The r/woodworking subreddit is also quite activ
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
I share your concern that too much gamification in school helps normalize Skinner-boxy manipulation in other venues (Fortnite, slot machines, etc.). I do think gamification can have positive externalities as well, though. Comparing high sco
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
More typically, broken drm on digital editions, but yes. It's pervasive and typically doesn't require scanning.
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by perpetualpatzer 6y ago
You're reading the opinion section of The Economist, in which the featured opinion is that of outside contributor, Kishore Mabubani, a former Singoporean diplomat.
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
>Socialism is social ownership of the economy Having a large portion of the population with fractional ownership over a broad portion of the economy (via ETFs, etc.) sounds a lot like "social ownership of the economy" to me. Un
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
I'm interested in what triggered this... is this just distributing the ebooks that various textbook publishers are offering free access to for the semester? It seems weird to me that they wouldn't have been doing this sooner if th
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
This is weak evidence as these rules could be implemented at the point of new password entry, prior to encryption/storage.
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
The other piece is that the negotiating supply of podcasts is less concentrated than that of music. With music, if you want to reduce licensing fees, you have to negotiate with a label, who could meaningfully undermine your product by pulli
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
While there's not much meat to the article, the topic of whether and how to police algorithmic decision-making is an interesting one. On the one hand, biased resource allocation can be insidious and giving a free pass to any discrimina
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
It's possible that that would be a "benefit", but I'd expect that it's way down the list behind: * infrastructure buildout costs in cities are reduced because you don't need to run a wire into each individual b
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
You make a good point, that current market pricing may be deflated by Uber's willingness to realize losses in ride sharing. I think it would have come across more clearly and been better received if you'd made that point directly
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
This was my reaction ... it's presented in the article as a fun idea without a market, but seems like a plausible play to build a saleable corpus of facial recognition data.
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
I understood the article to say the policy is specifically $21/hr while on a trip. Is their any publically available data about how much time Uber drivers spend waiting to be assigned a ride? The fully loaded rate is potentially m
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
> We're not there, though. I suspect that's true, but you don't actually know that from this dataset. Some portion of the cost is born by the auditee to respond/defend against the audit and passed on to shareholders&#
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
>Why is someone getting stuff produced at tax-payers expense, peer-reviewed for free, and charging for it, and what's stopping this from being overturned? They're not. Elsevier doesn't produce the research. They filter it
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
Believe SCOTUS actually held off answering the question this year. [0] [0] https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/03/opinion-analysis-justices...
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
>I have no idea what this discount rate you’re talking about is (I don’t think we don’t have anything like that in the UK) He's talking about the discount rate in the sense of net present value calculations[0]. Roughly, the idea is
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
>I haven't figured out how they are still releasing a new game every year. I would expect there are number of factors that militate against the approach you propose: * Fundamentally, what EA owns is the engine. They pay license f
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
I've not been able to find the proposed language. Does anyone know whether there's any planning for the exhaustion of the patent? It's scary to think of the implications human gene patentability without at least carving it
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
> How did you get such deep understanding of that industry? I'm not certain I have. This is just how I'd expect it to work based on the arguments in the slides, my own dinner decision habits, a summer working at Chili's, a
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
I'm not quite as pessimistic on the food delivery market as you are and would be interested to hear your/others' reactions. >Food delivery platforms will get centralized. [...] Because consumers want that. It's more c
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
That's fair. The hype cycle may have died down faster than I remember. Not a big user of either service.
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
Out of fairness, the DoJ reviewed both the Instagram [0] and WhatsApp [1] acquisitions for competitive impact prior to acquisition completion as is generally required for deals of this size [2]. It's not like the DoJ has been waiting o
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
This is a really interesting suggestion and makes a lot of sense. I do think you may be under-estimating the faculty cost on business/econ/law classes, specifically. Faculty in those disciplines tend to be relatively well-paid[0]
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
There's a good discussion of research on this topic here [0]. My personal anecdata was: there was flip and it came when I didn't spend enough time playing to be competitive at multiplayer games. [0] https://arstechnica
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
People come to data science from a mix of CompSci, Business, and Statistics/Research backgrounds, often with some, but not all of the skillset. From what I've seen, it can be hard for people from any of those camps to to look int
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by perpetualpatzer 7y ago
Presumably true, but that stat may be less telling than you think... Last year, every Supreme Court Justice agreed with every other justice most of the time, except Sotomayor/Alito (they agreed 49% of the time)[0]. [0] https:&#x2F

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