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by princeb 6y ago
seriously don't come! the locals who really want to do those things have long moved out of the country. those who choose to remain here enthusiastically enforce the order of the country. caning and hanging continue to enjoy popular sup
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by princeb 6y ago
it wasn't too long ago that interpretable models are seen as unimportant in the field. the value of prediction is so much more valuable than any other result of machine learning application. explanatory models were considered fuddy-dud
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by princeb 6y ago
written cantonese is almost the same as written mandarin. the problem is that spoken cantonese is not much like written cantonese. it's a combination of pronunciation, accent, idioms, and sentence structures. best advice is for speaker
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by princeb 6y ago
the 2012 crisis was 100% the reason i did my masters degree. it was the same for nearly 90% of my class. a lot of my peers decided to take a second major the moment their job offers at the bulge brackets got cancelled. a handful of seniors
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by princeb 6y ago
in singapore, it is the opposite. the working class tend to be multilingual - nurses, deliverymen, (food) hawkers, construction workers, odd-job labourers. when you think of someone who has to juggle multiple languages - mandarin, cantonese
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by princeb 6y ago
how many actually think of their jobs being decades-long certainties though? in this market, the likelihood of maintaining a salary for 2-years, 5-years, 10-years are so abysmally small compared to all the other lock-ins in life - housing,
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by princeb 6y ago
it's not really about money or resources, although they played an important part here its about the fact that the police, the public prosecutor, and the district judge all somehow failed to notice that the claims made by the upper-clas
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by princeb 6y ago
i used to eat at pret a lot when i used to work in the City. the egg and spinach pot was my go to lunch most days. it was just nice for a one person meal. the sandwiches were more than enough for me. when i lived in chicago i didn't ea
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by princeb 6y ago
how do you know those bias mitigation techniques are not skewed by bias? and if you verified it/came up with it yourself, how do you know you are not skewed by your own bias?
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by princeb 6y ago
> he knew personally in various parts of the world who have firsthand experience and write him about it. i cannot even be sure that my version of truth is the truthiest version of the truth out there. i cannot say much more about the peo
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by princeb 6y ago
apple has never ever targeted that kind of gaming market. there are a lot of video games you cannot play without bootcamp on a mac. i wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they have been trying to jettison the fornite group. it's
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by princeb 6y ago
that is one the of the amazing things about living in or close to downtown. the apartment is good for private uninterrupted rest. entertainment can be outsourced or abstracted away from the 'home' - stand-up shows, musicals, theat
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by princeb 6y ago
> This seems like a rather obvious outcome it was not an obvious outcome. if it were obvious, you'd have the answer to your question.
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by princeb 6y ago
to go full conspiracy theory, standards of fair trade, e.g. labour standards, worker rights, IP etc, exist to cripple emerging economies, to contain their growth and limit their ability to compete. political spin doctors have wrapped this u
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by princeb 7y ago
funny because tesla began by making normal looking cars when everyone else were making i3s and Zoes and Leafs. How the tables turn.
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by princeb 7y ago
the two japanese characters in overwatch were more "blizzard" than japanese. one of them, before doing some special skill, would shout "taste my blade" in japanese. unsurprisingly, this phrase also appeared in the warcra
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by princeb 7y ago
no ones going to jail from MCAS auto-correcting planes into the ground.
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by princeb 7y ago
i liked the ribbon! it expanded out the nonsensical menu dropdowns from the previous excels. most users memorized shortcuts because they didn't want to remember functions they needed four levels deep. it's not like the ribbon dest
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by princeb 7y ago
you may not know what face it is, but you do know that it is a face right? it's like saying you know someone is in front of you if he were standing in up, in your clear view, but the moment he's lying on a couch in centre of your
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by princeb 7y ago
> they bear no risk how does the existence of loan defaults jive with the idea that loans have no risk?
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by princeb 7y ago
ideally, the loan is directed towards productive activity- the sowing of seeds purchased today for a harvest tomorrow, the construction of a factory today for gadgets tomorrow, the stocking of a store today for sales tomorrow, a home loan t
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by princeb 7y ago
i wonder when we will go straight to the next era and make the steering wheel and accelerate/brake pedals touchscreen features rather than a physical control. this will be as revolutionary as apple taking the number pad out of a mobile
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by princeb 7y ago
"When Fed Fixes Repo Markets, Don’t Call It QE: Brian Chappatta" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-23/when-t...
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by princeb 7y ago
second life gets a second wind
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by princeb 7y ago
> Long story short: 2 weeks later my account is unfrozen for no reason. I was never given a reason. it is illegal for the bank to inform you of any AML investigation undertaken whether internally or the FBI or fincen or any of the other
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by princeb 7y ago
america's global presence in commerce is the backbone of american finance's global domination. nearly every country in world has a mcdonalds, starbucks, microsoft, ford and gm and the hundreds of thousands of enterprises ranging f
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by princeb 7y ago
i wonder if there was a general feeling in the 80s or so that the shrinking of the world - through the internet or whatever else technology people of the 80s may foresee - would cause the world views of different communities around the worl
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by princeb 7y ago
exactly, if you were a power user you'd still remember your lotus123 / commands. you wouldn't need either a menu bar nor a ribbon. microsoft kept a lot of the features the power user uses. the menu is not one of them.
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by princeb 7y ago
when i was in the army, i knew a few guys who swore by smoking before a fitness test. they'd suck down a cigarette just before the run and then pound out a quick 9 minute 1.5mi. it's not something i've bothered to test. i jus
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by princeb 7y ago
the author barbara demick is remarkably prolific especially in that part of the world and an especially gifted writer. if you enjoyed this article, i recommend her book "nothing to envy" likely the most revealing books written abo

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