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by pimmen 8y ago
I agree. In the US, the equivalence of a packed Boeing 747 of people die every day because of medical mistakes. It's the third leading cause of death. If you could reduce that number by 1% through this policy, that would mean thousands
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by pimmen 8y ago
The problem could be formulated better, basically it's about reaching consensus about what the state is right now through a lossy medium. Your suggestion is to have a default, which is a good idea, but it doesn't really solve the
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by pimmen 8y ago
0: Ray Dalio, Principles I'm halfway through it right now, I like it a lot. It's good for helping me reflect on how I learn through my experience and how I best form habits. 1: Daniel Yergin, The Quest I loved The Prize and
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by pimmen 8y ago
I used to consume news the same way you do when I was your age, but now that I'm entering my 30s I consume a lot more local news. I want to feel updated about what happens in the local schools (by far most of that is regulated and budg
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by pimmen 8y ago
Their response was not ”we don’t care” to the Cambridge Analytica and political ads scandal because when they didn’t respond at all at first the public became angry and politicians threatened with regulation. That’s why Zuckerberg eventuall
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by pimmen 8y ago
Basically this post. The whole debacle around Cambridge Analytica and political ads on Facebook is basically the consumers saying; "Congratulations Facebook, you conquered news publishers by piggy backing my cousin's puppy picture
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by pimmen 8y ago
For comparison: in Sweden there was a chain of gas stations who installed plate recognition cameras to record people who didn't pay for the gas (if you opt to pay cash, you get to fill your car first and pay later, with this system in
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by pimmen 8y ago
It changes a lot. Content creators want an API to quickly check who owns the domain that violates their copyright and without citing legal reasons to do it. Having it done through snail mail changes the game entirely.
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by pimmen 8y ago
I would however argue that if you can tell the difference between a good and a bad solution of the problem (through some utility function, or fitness function for evolutionary algorithms) you do have some understanding of the problem. But,
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by pimmen 8y ago
I became passable at software development and could then create stuff I like. I didn't realize just how creatively challenging and empowering software development is when I started studying engineering, I knew I was ok at math and just
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by pimmen 8y ago
We humans often run into new discoveries by basing it on stuff we already know. We knew that combustion engines could rotate an axle. We knew that axles could drive a wheel. We knew that wheels turning could drive a cart. Thus, the automobi
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by pimmen 8y ago
My grandfather is 79 and got his alzheimer's diagnosis this fall. He's lived a long, absolutely amazing life and inspired me to become an engineer. He's the kind of man that if he wants something done, he learns what to do an
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by pimmen 8y ago
If you would get it wrong, such as setting the income level too high, how would it be worse than now? And it’s not set in stone, why not try? You would increase tax revenue and thus have more resources to deal with the problens. And there’s
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by pimmen 8y ago
Sorry, the emails you said. Correspondence with students of personal matters is classified, they aren’t allowed to hand that out. Everything else is just up for grabs!
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by pimmen 8y ago
A program and year maps to an entry in a database. There you will see how the groups were partitioned, what the lowest GPA was in the group for grades, what the lowest score on the scholastic aptitude test was in the second group and some i
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by pimmen 8y ago
This is just such a weird world for me as a Swede. Here, the universities are under the same transparency rules like government agencies, meaning that you can even ask to go through your professor's inbox if you want (if they work on c
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by pimmen 8y ago
> But there are other considerations at play, too, aren't there? Oh god, yes. The housing crisis is extremely complicated, what we see now in Sweden is the result of a perfect storm. In the 90s Sweden had a surplus of houses from
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by pimmen 8y ago
In Sweden we removed the property tax completely which has shaped our housing market a lot. People over consume living area and use their homes as retirements savings since it’s dift cheap to sit on it, contributing to the housing crisis we
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by pimmen 8y ago
If the amount of goods and services you can purchase with the currency increases over time, the currency is deflationary. Disinflation is a slow down in the decrease of the currency value, but if the value of the currency is increasing it’s
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by pimmen 8y ago
A related issue is that most crypto currencies are deflationary. This makes people not want to spend them and they become poor currencies because they stifle economic activity. You can easily prove me wrong, too; use your crypto currencies
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by pimmen 8y ago
A big problem though is that a college is such a big institution with an array of faculties in it and every single course credit can piggy back that reputation. The government of Sweden does routine quality checks on the university program
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by pimmen 8y ago
Swedish here, I'm convinced things are not that bad across the sound. I've seen people with masters degrees deliver really good ML systems. In my team the person with the highest education is also doing a PHD but the majority of u
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by pimmen 8y ago
Never said becoming a median salaried neuro surgeon was more likely than running a decent startup but it is an argument against MDs having a smaller earnings cap than other professions.
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by pimmen 8y ago
Hiroshi Yamauchi was a very harsh man in some regards (at least most would agree that he was blunt) but the way he built Nintendo is admirable. He knew what many managers don’t, that you need to find talented people that you can trust and h
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by pimmen 8y ago
I wouldn’t say that either, there are bio-tech startups you can join (only if you fail there’s a high paying job at the nearest hospital waiting for you) or you can climb within drug companies if you have the correct specialization to becom
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by pimmen 8y ago
And sometimes you need to break that deflationary spiral, if for example all wealth has accumulated among a few people who don't want to spend or invest. If we see breaking this as a public good this needs to be initiated in some way b
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by pimmen 8y ago
Yeah, and the stability of that market is what we're discussing. If this market is either unstoppably deflationary or unstoppably inflationary it become unstable.
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by pimmen 8y ago
I graduated high school in 2008 and wanted to work before continuing with my academic career, and I was absolutely astonished by how many employers don't keep you in the loop as an applicant. That being the Recession, I now understand
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by pimmen 8y ago
It’s not easy going into medicine but it is more reliable than many other paths. In finance you can be very dependent on the market conditions, same in law (without a lot of business activity businesses don’t need to consult lawyers), in re
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by pimmen 8y ago
And who determines which new cryptocurrencies can be created and accepted? Because that risks runaway inflation again if anyone can do it and everyone has equal acceptance.

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