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by piker 6y ago
> should have decreased due to lockdowns and hygiene awareness Point is, Sweden arguably opted for none of this.
872.
by piker 6y ago
> tutorials by an IM Joshua Waitzkin Thought I recognized that name. He's the kid on which Searching for Bobby Fischer is based. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Waitzkin
873.
by piker 6y ago
Separate from the video which is entertaining, just wanted to drop a vote for Paperspace which has apparently powered this. The service definitely has some warts and isn’t cheap, but does a pretty great job of allowing one to fire up and ut
874.
by piker 6y ago
A shame that Google Music bought Songza -- a great service -- then nixes itself.
875.
by piker 6y ago
> I feel the television has a huge importance in this country and the fact that millions of americans consider it the source of truth even to declare who is the winner of the most important event of their lives strikes me as unbelievable
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by piker 6y ago
Relevant paper seems to be: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9208795 Looks incredible. Hopefully the weights and code are released quickly.
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by piker 6y ago
[edit: let's rephrase] On the word "use" in federal statutes, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_v._United_States and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._United_States_(199
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Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other(nytimes.com)
650 points by piker 6y ago|191 comments
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by piker 6y ago
> there was baked in DRM saying the current GPS coordinates were restricted seems like you've answered your own question there
880.
by piker 6y ago
...and tipoff the 'suspicious' actor
881.
by piker 6y ago
None of this information is relevant to whether PG&E has a defense for the Camp Fire.
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The Bitter Lesson (2019)(incompleteideas.net)
3 points by piker 6y ago|0 comments
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by piker 6y ago
It seems you're seeking to define a "British caste system" by reference to the Hindu caste system minus the Hindu caste system's defining feature. You're ending up with something like a meritocracy. It's not cl
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by piker 6y ago
> If you are born to servant parents and study hard to become a doctor, you end up at the top of the caste system. I think this is the opposite of a caste system.
885.
by piker 6y ago
Is there a bootstrapping problem with these types supervised of approaches? Per the article: "Current methods used to diagnose and treat depression are imprecise at best, relying largely on subjective answers to survey questions...&quo
886.
by piker 6y ago
Actually didn't catch much of a summary at all there. Just winners and losers?
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by piker 6y ago
> Want to avoid sending your kids to formal schooling Acceptance of perceived weirdness at the intersection of the custody of minors seems like something which should move on a generational timescale
888.
by piker 6y ago
> Uber, for example, could probably lay off 80% of its engineering staff and turn profitable if it was truly necessary. This would be stupid, because then they can't build new products (and thus compete) but they are default-alive [
889.
by piker 6y ago
Presumably this means "hiring one specialist in this area".
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by piker 6y ago
> i.e., you only pretend to be interested. No. The book requires you to take a "genuine interest in people" and must repeat that seven dozen times. It also dismisses flattery and smoke-blowing and favors legitimate praise. I th
891.
by piker 6y ago
...to the extent that such cost of landfill/recycling is internalized to the producer.
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by piker 7y ago
Well, not really. As the saying goes, markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you can remain solvent.
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by piker 7y ago
IAAL and banking on a court voiding a contract provision is tenuous. "adhesion contracts" in the form of website TOS, click-throughs, etc. are upheld by courts.
894.
by piker 7y ago
You mean like instead of abusing them by asking them to volunteer?
895.
by piker 7y ago
Seems opportunistic and unrelated to the current pandemic. The author is discussing things such as food being "the biggest driver of NHS spending as a result of obesity, diabetes and heart disease." And food's "unsustain
896.
by piker 7y ago
Rather, accepting that people will get infected and proposing that if it's limited to healthy people, the community will develop a "herd immunity" due to the healthy people's new immunity.
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by piker 7y ago
Given the ambiguous use of pronouns, it seems you may be talking past one another. GP seems to be criticizing the UK government's approach whereas parent seems to be summarizing TFA's guidance.
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by piker 7y ago
Forbearance is still an option but limited in the number of total months it’s available. That’s always been the case. This seems in addition to that option.
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by piker 7y ago
Interesting to see PG worrying about coronavirus. Otherwise somewhat of a bizarre series of interview questions, including asking him to opine on seemingly random quotes. Perhaps there is some non-obvious context.
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by piker 7y ago
It seems like the US government isn't structured to deploy such resources so quickly (e.g., FEMA's responses to Katrina, Sandy, etc.) and regulation would seem to kill private efforts. Maybe a state or local government could pull

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