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by repsilat 6y ago
Funny, I think it's exactly the other way around -- people wring their hands about things that don't matter ("plastic in our bloodstreams") but tend to act appropriately. Don't panic. Carry on. Treating a threat as
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by repsilat 6y ago
Oh dear. Let me be clear that my post meant only to refer to voluntary immigration.
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by repsilat 6y ago
I think the argument survives being pushed back to colonisation, but maybe that's just me moving goalposts. I certainly don't know my American history as well as you do, and to be honest I'm more interested in learning more t
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by repsilat 6y ago
Subsidies to bootstrap into economies of scale can make sense. When you go from filling 0.1 jets or 0.1 containers or 0.1 ships to filling 10.1 jets etc, the costs come down and usage (and utility) go up. See Amazon, and I guess Uber if the
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by repsilat 6y ago
Yeah, that's the zero-sum thinking the US needs. "We'll take all the people in your country who are smart and hard working enough to support themselves here." It's what the country was built on. In my home country
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by repsilat 6y ago
More vice versa. Guards look more general (being able to express not-equal, and less-than etc), so special semantics for `x,x` only seem warranted if it's very common.
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by repsilat 6y ago
Right -- I thought TFA's conclusion was correct, but the argument was unconvincing.
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by repsilat 6y ago
Thanks, I think this is convincing (where most of the arguments in TFA, especially the Buffett quote) were pure equivocation. As an outside investor, if a company is not profitable accounting for stock compensation then the book value of yo
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by repsilat 6y ago
One thing people have made is array languages. The "primitive" operations apply to arrays of data, so branches around individual elements can't be expressed. I think it's also generally less expressive, though. Writing L
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by repsilat 6y ago
Maybe? Lots of people replaced their sorting algorithms with Tim-Sort because runs of alrealdy-sorted data are empirically common (at least in some workloads). I've seen it myself, in use-cases where sort keys change slightly from iter
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by repsilat 6y ago
It could make sense to vote against watering down the bill if you think the watered-down version is more likely to pass. This amendment could be the opposite of a poison pill (a "spoonful of sugar"?)
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by repsilat 7y ago
Maybe the court didn't think stopping non-essential goods was a way to reduce the risk. Maybe they thought that essential goods are worth the risk, but non-essential goods aren't. That seems like it might be closer to the business
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by repsilat 7y ago
Advertising was targeted then. TV ads were bought by geography, channel and timeslot. Newspaper ads targeted people who read newspapers, radio ads targeted people by channel and time of day, billboards by geography etc etc. All of those thi
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by repsilat 7y ago
To play devil's advocate, advertising is a social good, and better advertising is even more of a social good. How many times have you heard someone complain, "I just bought a desk lamp, and now I'm getting loads of ads for de
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by repsilat 7y ago
This is a good point. The importance of sick leave isn't the gross expected balance of pay and work -- as the grandparent points out, for some values those things will be equal, and employees won't prefer one or the other. (Or, be
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by repsilat 7y ago
"The curve" is mostly driven by people who don't know they're infected passing the virus on. People who are deliberately infected and immediately isolated will be much less likely to infect others. Not to mention, there
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by repsilat 7y ago
> So honestly, I would argue that paying people to dig ditches (vs do literally nothing else, though at that point you might as well just give them cash) is in and of itself beneficial This is the point -- paying people to dig ditches
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by repsilat 7y ago
Sure, it's a big part of life for many, but my question is whether it'd be better if it were cheaper. If all of the staff were replaced by robots and prices dropped by 20% GDP would go down, but society as a whole would be richer.
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by repsilat 7y ago
> The restaurant sector generates $3 trillion in annual sales worldwide, and provides employment to a vast number of individuals Can someone with an economics background tell me whether this is a sound argument? It looks like it coul
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by repsilat 7y ago
If they're only different by a constant factor, then both have the same interesting properties and neither is much more difficult to calculate than the other -- at least for sinusoids. If something is proportional to one, it's nat
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by repsilat 7y ago
I think it's pragmatic. Most "arguments" outside of maths and computer programming aren't made through chains of bullet-proof logic. They're more often made by analogy, by authority, by appeals to shared but not un
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by repsilat 7y ago
I mostly agree. Some nits, though: > permanently less productive A short-term reduction in profits reduces the discounted sum of future returns. Not as much as if interest rates were lower, though. Also, the example of the virus could
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by repsilat 7y ago
This assumes a return to trend, right? If stocks are temporarily depressed you can get them at a discount. If stock prices are permanently lower as a result, though, it's certainly not good for you. And, believe it or not, this is prob
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by repsilat 7y ago
For me sort|uniq is nine times slower than LANG=C sort -u but `sort -u` on its own is only marginally faster than sort|uniq. I can't remember exactly what LANG=C does, but I think the it makes sort not need to do some fancy un
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by repsilat 7y ago
You pay IV on one side and get it back on the other, don't you? AIUI high IV just means the spread won't start "paying off" until closer to expiry.
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by repsilat 7y ago
> Of course because it's options you always have to consider whether the market perception of IV isn't already too high. For example SPCE is a ridiculously good short but "the market knows" and the IV is ridiculous t
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by repsilat 7y ago
The problem with Prop 13 isn't that it keeps taxes too low, it's that it disincetivises downsizing by making your taxes jump when you move into a smaller place. I don't think it's all (or even most) of the problem, but i
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by repsilat 7y ago
> The notion that only serious work can educate someone is something I hope future educators can dispel This sounds super weird to me. I thought rote-learning was totally out of fashion, and now under-practiced because everyone thinks
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by repsilat 7y ago
It's not just selfish. If the school admitted fewer anthropology grad students, the marginal rejected candidate would say "Just let me in, I don't need to be guaranteed a postdoctoral position, and I'll work for a pitt
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by repsilat 7y ago
Maybe this goes without saying, but for a fixed accuracy the number of samples required to estimate the distribution parameters does not depend on the number of samples available. Maybe if you need to sort more samples you need more accurac

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