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721.
by piker 2y ago
Yep. Sure, call it what you want, but (1) and (2) have proven not to work. The federalist political system has a weakness in that it incentivizes politicians to advocate for endless spending on behalf of their constituents. That means a per
722.
by piker 2y ago
Definitely not, but there don't seem to be any structures which counter the political incentives to continuously increase spending. And only one federal government in the last 50 years has run a balanced budget.
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by piker 2y ago
A great question! I can't think of anything that will. I think one idea would be to trim the budget broadly every year in a similar vein to align with receipts and let the people periodically decide anew what to fund.
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by piker 2y ago
Terence Tao is an inspiring person in a field we all find compelling. He's formalized the plight of such field here as a result of the administration's approach to cost-cutting. That doesn't mean that it isn't necessary.
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by piker 2y ago
Any idea what a clinical trial to approval roadmap might look like? Vested interest.
726.
by piker 2y ago
Then either you edit the results as suggested in TFA or those comments are in fact not yours. Grammatically correct or otherwise.
727.
by piker 2y ago
Perhaps you might spend 5 minutes reading the quoted comment again and note the absence of "democracy".
728.
by piker 2y ago
> Edit:// "In principle" chinas gov stands for stability, economic development and national unity... As did Stalin, Mussolini, Hirohito and the National Socialist Party. It's the "how" that matters.
729.
by piker 2y ago
This is probably true, but at least in principle one of those foreign nations stands for free speech and democracy and the other stands for censorship and authoritarianism. [Edit: hey Europeans commenting and downvoting below, note the word
730.
by piker 2y ago
The UK is almost twice the size of the largest US state--California. And that comparison doesn't fare well for the UK. The UK is below the US' poorest state in terms of GDP per capita.
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by piker 2y ago
Interesting the author neglects to mention the Gap statistic[1] for the stopping criteria. It's a bit of a mouthful, but it does provide a metric for determining how many clusters the data indicates are present as compared to a random
732.
by piker 2y ago
You’ve described an individual instance (“your IQ”) while considering a population variation. You’re right in the first instance, individual 2 point variation between tests, say, no big deal. But the second, yes, you would be concerned if t
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by piker 2y ago
My experience as a expat in London is that new things aren’t really being built in Europe today, and that fact is greenwashed over to keep the people here from recognizing how miserable the infrastructure and housing are compared to modern
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by piker 2y ago
You think SCOTUS or en banc tribunal is going to overturn it? If not, then it’s in fact granted.
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by piker 2y ago
Interesting. An example would be helpful. Perhaps I should have been clearer that it was a programming error that allowed the cursor to get to a state where it wasn’t visible.
736.
by piker 2y ago
What about the fact that the assert causes a panic that crashes the program? Is there not a better alternative of doing your bounds checking as a first class aspect of the function and returning an error? If someone is deep into a session w
737.
by piker 2y ago
Yes, I think those questions probably underly my choice not to flag it. It just seems like a really slanted hit piece not worthy of HN. Didn’t flag.
738.
by piker 2y ago
I’d flag it but that doesn’t seem fair. Just an obvious hit piece. Wonder what’s motivating the author. I only made it a few paragraphs in.
739.
by piker 2y ago
...and what proportion of the public school teaching population is equipped to evaluate critical thinking on such subjects? They're testing for some binary issue spotting at best.
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by piker 2y ago
> First-person conscious experiences. Pain is a qualia. The way the color blue looks, as opposed to say the color red or green, is a qualia. The sensation of hot or cold is a qualia. When someone stubs their toe and says "ow",
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by piker 2y ago
That's an interesting rebuttal if you can suggest near-future architectures which don't require their own nuclear power plants to reliably calculate 13 x 54.
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by piker 2y ago
Which languages do you use?
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What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization(moxie.org)
11 points by piker 2y ago|0 comments
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by piker 2y ago
A common problem, no doubt, with a lot of training context. But man. What a time to be alive.
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by piker 2y ago
We're just hypothesizing why at the population level abstinence from alcohol might not actually cause cognitive decline as (somewhat) implied by the data. Don't take it personally.
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by piker 2y ago
Yes, the parent comment incorporated and was consistent with that. I.e., there's something confounding these results. It then hypothesized the confounder.
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by piker 2y ago
A hunch would be that alcohol abstinence is strongly correlated with religious fundamentalism which is correlated with lower income and cognition.
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by piker 2y ago
This post dramatically underestimates the tenacity of the US plaintiff's bar. Doubly so as of late given the rise of litigation funding.
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by piker 2y ago
Also the OS will cache a lot of the reads even if your database isn’t sophisticated enough or tuned correctly. Still could be a fun exercise, as with all things on here.
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by piker 2y ago
Yes, like the court system … specifically class actions in the United States have been established for this exact purpose.

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