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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Politicians brag about the U-3 unemployment (that they've gamed), but actual economists look at U-6 (unless they need to do a comparison going back a century, when U-6 didn't yet exist). During covid politicians bragged about covi
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
That was the original idea, and that's what Amazon claimed, but IIRC they never got over 70% automated. Phrased differently, 30% of all transactions were still entered by a human overseas watching cameras at the time they decided to pu
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Yeah there's still a long way to go. Until these things actually try to consistently spit out SARGable queries, look at the query plans, check for covering indexes, etc. they're going to write worse queries than an entry level dat
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
There are many different orders of Catholic priests, but Pope Francis was a Jesuit and his teachings reflected that. Many of the Catholic universities (and even high schools) in the Americas were founded by Jesuits. Popping into the church
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
> The labor wages themselves are a factor, but an increasingly minor factor in product costs. Not disagree with your main points, but labor inputs are still very much a huge part of product costs, and often the biggest driver of where to
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
I don't think this is necessarily an issue of censorship so much as it is highlighting that Facebook is clearly a fucking news publisher and should be treated as such under the law. It's time to revoke section 230 for any social m
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Then the comment I was replying to was incorrect.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Cars aren't like iPhones, and shipping cars across oceans really only makes sense for luxury vehicles, which is the real reason why Chinese cars aren't available in the U.S. yet. Most non-luxury foreign cars available for sale in
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Raw intelligence isn't the only thing that drives our empathy toward animals though. I'd argue that it isn't even the main thing. We care much more about an animal's biological/genetic similarity to ourselves, which
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Stock and equity aren't really for motivating employees. They're for attracting employees, and then aligning their goals with those of the shareholders. The first software startup I worked at didn't give out equity, and when
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
The core issue is that those ad blockers are easy to defeat. The only reason ad companies haven't invested energy in defeating them (yet) is because they're not popular enough. Once they are the only option in Chrome, it's ju
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
I'd learned about the internment camps from a human rights perspective, and the loss of family businesses, but I'm ashamed to admit I'd never learned about the economic impact until now. I had to check the veracity of this, a
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
> if they axed the entire opinion section and beefed up news coverage, that would be a win. They're kind of doing the opposite though. They're stripping the text-based news coverage and replacing it with short form videos and p
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
I was about to comment that humans consume orders of magnitude less energy, but then I checked the numbers, and it looks like an average person consumes way more energy throughout their day (food, transportation, electricity usage, etc) tha
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Probably accurate enough to learn how your body responds to different foods and exercise, to help prevent pre-diabetes, to help with general weight loss, and to help endurance athletes in their training. But there is no universe it will be
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
I think you need to exercise in order to get past a weight loss plateau though. If you simply cut back on calories by 20% - 30%, your body will adjust to the new norm within a couple months, and you just expend 20% - 30% less energy. You ha
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
The Fed has stated that one benefit of a small amount of inflation is that it provides employers with a mechanism to effectively revise wages downward without employees quitting (by denying them an annual raise), but yes - they have never s
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
> At the time I guessed that he was much smarter than me — that it would take me years to become as investment-savvy as this guy was. You lucked out by mistakingly believing he was intelligent. The classic scenario is when your neighbor
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Buying still has a ton of tax advantages and gives people access to an incredible amount of leverage that they wouldn't be able to get otherwise. For what it's worth, I don't disagree with you, and I think renting makes more
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
> calling the Spotify owned content “slop” is kinda unfair to the creators. No artists are proud of having to create Muzak.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
I think the main bottleneck right now is training data - they've basically exhausted all public sources of data, so they have to either pay humans to generate new data from scratch or pay for the reasoning models to generate (less usef
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
It exists as of last week with Canvas.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
She did not marry into wealth - she herself grinded at Amazon in the early days.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
> It should definitely not be median but something like 20 percentile threshold works best. We could just start with the goal that everyone has access to basic medical care and a roof their head, like many other wealthy nations. If we wa
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
There's a rule of tens online: for every comment, there are ten interactions (like an upvote/down ote), and for every interaction, there are 10 views. So, every comment on a post roughly equals 100 views.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Windows Phone was actually great though, and would've eventually been a major player in the space if Microsoft were stubborn enough to stick with it long enough, like they did with the Xbox. By his own admission, Gates was extremely di
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Surely, most of the usage is from non-native English speakers. Auxiliary verbs (like "does") are not required to form questions in Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and probably many other languages.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Many major music artists release limited-run vinyl records, with unique coloring and packaging and often booklets as well. It's often to monetize their back catalogue by giving people a way to buy a gift for a fan. I think there's
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Most Americans support a public option, which is the transition step toward a healthcare system that more closely aligns with other first world nations.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
Airports are starting to bring back the ability to walk around without a ticket! You obviously still have to go through security, but a ticket isn't required.

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