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by pimmen 9y ago
Then make the search for each individual a separate query and put a processing fee on it. That would make such a lookup scale very poorly.
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by pimmen 9y ago
I wasn't talking about medical costs, I'm talking about benefits received while you're sick. This article is about Norway, and just like in every other Scandinavian country, after a while the state pays for their medical leav
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by pimmen 9y ago
Then, I don't know, don't give it to yourself in that way but rather re-invest in your company if it really is your turnover? Those poor business owners who are making so much money that they're attracting competition can&#x2
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by pimmen 9y ago
You've earned all that money, it's nothing to be ashamed of so I don't really see how that's making you more uncomfortable than everyone being able to look up your expensive sports car at the DMV. However, if you're
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by pimmen 9y ago
Because there might be social stigma around your medical condition, the fact that you've ever been homeless, that you don't have custody over your children and aren't receiving benefits or any number of things. You earn your
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by pimmen 9y ago
Don't see it as a threat, see it as me finding out what the market value is of my labor and then informing you about it. I'm going to do due diligence before asking for a raise, if our company was launching a product and I found o
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by pimmen 9y ago
I like the free market. However, when something has completely inelastic demand and the people most in need of your product is not your target group (as in, sick people often have problems making ends meet, since they're sick and all)
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by pimmen 9y ago
As soon as someone starts pulling out anecdotes to generalize people, I don't read much past that. And seriously, locking up people for not living in homes and working? We used to do that in my country back in the late 19th century, it
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by pimmen 9y ago
This looks cool, perfect for people trying to get an intuitive feel for algorithms. I hope they'll implement even more algorithms, maybe machine learning algorithms like k-means or SVM would lend themselves good to visualization.
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by pimmen 9y ago
If it's the former, it's classic anti-competitive practices that merits anti-trust charges.
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by pimmen 9y ago
I like what he's describing, but as he said, this could never be done in a quick manner. We will probably not see it in our lifetimes. Regions need other regions to help them when things are going badly (and if we are to experiment, we
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by pimmen 9y ago
Nobody's saying that "explaining" is the same as "teaching". Nobody's saying that "basic understanding" is the same as "mastery". This is just to get people started, it's not a substitu
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by pimmen 9y ago
> "Er, they may be left with a warm and fuzzy feeling that they have some "understanding", but let get them to do some multidimensional analysis and see how they do." Nobody's having any delusions that explaining
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by pimmen 9y ago
> "But I also do research, and I absolutely do not expect deeply technical topics like advances in aerospace engineering or gene regulation or cosmology to have "simple explanations" that I can understand." There&#x27
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by pimmen 10y ago
But what that means in practice is another thing entirely. For example, the DPRK and the ROK are still at war with each other, but that just means that they stare down each other at a border. The UK could be officially outside of the EU but
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by pimmen 10y ago
> "While they cite that the popular vote strongly favored Hilary, they forget why the electoral college was created. To help rural America from being completely ignored while the cities with denser populations sway the votes towards
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by pimmen 10y ago
I don't think your analogy holds water. I know the health risks of veggies, they're not that bad compared to missing them out completely. I make a conscious decision to risk it when I eat veggies, but I accept that veggies have un
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by pimmen 10y ago
Or, like Watson when it played Jeopardy, not respond at all if the confidence is under a certain threshold.
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by pimmen 10y ago
Yes, and in this case it's just the amount of man hours spent monitoring the system divided by the number of lights because in this case there's not many decisions to be made by the monitors.
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by pimmen 10y ago
Just like Stackoverflow though, you would have to use achievements or something in order to give users more influence over time, lest we have a rogue troublemaker deleting everything. But what are those achievements going to be based on for