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by pjlegato 4y ago
Yes, a bit. Then they'll eventually be happy when they find something they do like. The recommendation algorithms help. If it was only a few high quality productions, the chances a consumer ever finds something they like at all is much
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by pjlegato 4y ago
Most media productions -- almost all -- are not profitable. They don't attract enough viewers to make back their production costs. A few productions are immensely popular and make back many times their production costs. It's not p
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by pjlegato 4y ago
People don't write bugs on purpose. That hardcoded string that you know is correct is sometimes not actually correct.
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by pjlegato 4y ago
The article mentions in passing that pro golfers are usually excluded from the standard / cheaper insurance policies.
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by pjlegato 5y ago
The general categorical answer to that question is not known. Some linguists think it might be so, others disagree. Within the Indo-European family that includes Latin and Sanskrit, the empirical historical process seems to have been that t
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by pjlegato 5y ago
It's a question of relative positioning along spectrum, not a binary state. Real languages are not "synthetic" or "analytic" in an absolute sense. They are "more synthetic than this other language" or &quo
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Cursive may well functionally fill the role of social class shibboleth in certain circumstances and specific social environments, but that is very secondary to its highly practical primary function: you can write _much faster_ in cursive th
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Linguists refer to these traits you're describing by classifying languages as being more or less "synthetic" or "analytic."[1] Broadly speaking, synthetic languages tend to encode information by modifying words (e.g
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by pjlegato 5y ago
If you have n officers working at a given time, and there are (some number larger than n) crimes happening in different locations, you can only physically respond to at most n of all the different crimes.
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by pjlegato 5y ago
On the contrary; London Breed cut the SFPD budget by $120 million in 2020[1]. They are nearly 50% below "fully staffed" officer levels. Ask any SFPD officer about this, or call a station. They're generally happy to complain a
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by pjlegato 5y ago
SFPD is not ignoring crime; they are vastly understaffed, as a result of London Breed's "defund the police" move in 2020. They do not have the resources to respond to all crime anymore. They have to do triage with the deplete
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by pjlegato 5y ago
As a longtime San Francisco resident, I can confirm: yes, it's that bad. I posted another comment above with more details.
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by pjlegato 5y ago
I can confirm, having lived in San Francisco for many years: street conditions were never great, but over the past two years, they have gotten far worse than ever before. Street-level crime is rampant now throughout the city, and particular
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by pjlegato 5y ago
The article specifically addresses the differences between what the Netherlands does and what San Francisco does, and why San Francisco's outcomes are much worse.
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Wallaroo.ai | Senior DevOps Engineer / Heads of Product and Product Marketing | Perma-REMOTE / EST core hours Want to help define what painless MLOps at scale looks like? Want in on the ground floor of a Series A paradigm-defining
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by pjlegato 5y ago
The modern theory and application of logarithms are largely the work of one mathematician working in isolation (which is highly unusual): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_logarithms * https://en.w
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Accurately copying Bargue perhaps qualifies Picasso as a serviceable mediocre realist. It doesn't mean he was "great," which was the assertion here. His early realist works were bland and uninspired, if technically proficient
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Yes, and worth emphasizing: this "surviorship bias" phenomenon is common in comparisons of the present to the past. People imagine quality was higher, standards were higher long ago.. they weren't. We just don't retain t
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Bank of America was founded in 1904 -- well before credit scores became a thing -- to provide banking services to Italian-Americans, who could not usually obtain service from other banks due to ethnic discrimination.
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Wallaroo.ai | Senior DevOps Engineer / Heads of Product and Product Marketing | Perma-REMOTE / EST core hours Want to help define what painless MLOps at scale looks like? Want in on the ground floor of a paradigm-defining company
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Pennsylvania is not in the Midwest. According to most regionalization schemes, it's in either the Northeast or the Mid-Atlantic region. e.g.: https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Wallaroo.ai | Senior DevOps Engineer / Heads of Product and Product Marketing | Perma-REMOTE / EST core hours Want to help define what painless MLOps at scale looks like? Want in on the ground floor of a paradigm-defining company
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Farming in the US did not shift overseas. American farming output in 2021 is higher than ever, approaching 3x WWII levels[1]. Farming in the US rather consolidated around massive economies of scale, where a few large industrial-scale player
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by pjlegato 5y ago
San Francisco and New York, the most walkable and densely built urban areas in America, are famous for their extremely high rents. This is a function of extremely high demand for housing there. Apparently a whole lot of Americans _don'
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Wallaroo.ai | Senior Frontend, Backend Engineers | Perma-REMOTE / EST core hours Want to help define what painless MLOps at scale looks like? Want in on the ground floor of a paradigm-defining company in the artificial intelligence &#x
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Many outages are caused by malicious actors attacking your infrastructure. This cause may not be apparent at all until much later. It's better to avoid leaking any information in general during the incident, as it's often not imme
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It allows you to define a GUI / DOM specification, with transparently embedded serverside commands that do things like "query the database for the list of users who meet criteria X." No annotation or other special action requ
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Perhaps others have a different value system than yours, where vacations are less interesting than risky bets. Is that not valid? Are they not grownup adults with full agency?
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It is clear that Munger and Buffett have a vastly different value system than you -- one where rumination makes them happy. They could easily be living in giant mansions in Monaco, feasting on gourmet food cooked by personal private chefs e
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by pjlegato 5y ago
Admiral Hyman Rickover -- one of the most successful engineering managers in history -- had about 40 direct reports: https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm > "Some management experts advocate strict limits to the numbe

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