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by savanaly 10y ago
The question of what makes Bach sound like Bach is, needless to say, not addressed. The actual thing they're reporting is: '“You need to be able to say from 3 seconds and 50 milliseconds to 78 milliseconds, this instrument is play
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by savanaly 10y ago
The more relevant question is not do they but if they could would we want them to?
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by savanaly 10y ago
Right, and if you redistributed the monetary wealth down to the starving people, they would quickly buy up all the slack in the existing food chain and still not have enough food. If we're lucky and the free market is allowed to operat
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by savanaly 10y ago
To expand on this poster's point (at least, I think this is where you were going with it), one of the biggest differences in perspective between non-economists and economists is that the former focus more on money and the latter more o
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by savanaly 10y ago
>tracking down the people who voted against you. Tracking down every single vote against you, or just a large batch of them for retaliation? If it's the former, I can't really see the purpose. If it's the latter, you can d
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by savanaly 10y ago
I think the quote "If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter" applies.
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by savanaly 10y ago
I went to one of these programs in America and my starting salary was "only" 85k, mainly because I took a job that wasn't in New York or SF. Most of my classmates who took one in one of those high cost of living cities did 90
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by savanaly 10y ago
I dunno man, the internet is a pretty big place. If you're hitting the level of popularity with this stuff that of the people who see your first fake news article, a significant portion of them then see it when it's published in a
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by savanaly 10y ago
The article title was a bait and switch! Honestly, I don't know much about the domain registration business but I had always imagined it worked even suckier than the way he describes it working in this case.
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by savanaly 10y ago
Source.
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by savanaly 10y ago
Ok, put in that light I understand why there's a gut reaction of negativity. But when evaluating economic welfare of society, it is nearly an iron-clad rule to view all humans equally, and the scalpers are no exception. So we should tr
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by savanaly 10y ago
I'm truly sorry if my comment affected you negatively, it wasn't my intention. I used to be an econ tutor and sometimes my urge to just type my thoughts that way comes out and I regret that it sounds like lecturing. Anyways, why d
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by savanaly 10y ago
I feel like if you truly groked capitalism, you would be able to point out lots of its flaws, but also to realize that scalping is definitely not one of them. With supply limited like this, the optimal social outcome is for the X units pr
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by savanaly 10y ago
Just because you found one for sale on ebay doesn't prove the part about the bots at all...
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by savanaly 10y ago
Had to google that one myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city
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by savanaly 10y ago
Terrific, hilarious page. I'm in the camp that likes glenn's humming though.
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by savanaly 10y ago
To some people, jQuery and bootstrap are overkill (motherfuckingwebsite.com, etc). The rule of thumb is if someone is using a more complicated stack than me then they're foolishly overengineering their app and if they're using a s
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by savanaly 10y ago
I'm curious, since the facial recognition algorithms they are testing are created with ML, would adding the instances of someone wearing these glasses to the training set result in a version that wouldn't be fooled? Or is the meth
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by savanaly 10y ago
It's hard to notice or care about the fortunes of great, big, but faceless companies, and indeed I never paid attention to all these studios getting renamed and shut down. But it's eay to notice a single individual, and in this ca
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by savanaly 10y ago
In the spirit of "teach a man to fish" I'll plug this handy resource for consumer electronics that I think makes very trustworthy and good recommendations. [1] And they have an entire article devoted to the topic of laptops.
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by savanaly 10y ago
I've heard it said that wagering on real life events (presidential election outcome, climate change, etc) is "a tax on bullshit."
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by savanaly 10y ago
"Silent compensation" definitely is compensation. To turn things around, I don't know for certain but I doubt Google puts in its software engineer contracts "we are paying you $X less in salary because of the free food&q
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by savanaly 10y ago
That's a point in favor of banning it, because we have minimum wage laws and piling on disadvantages would allow employers to effectively get below the minimum wage. In practice that probably isn't necessary because the employer d
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by savanaly 10y ago
>The only thing a non-compete does is say that Employee A cannot work in their chosen field for some period of time after they are fired or quit. In doing so it offers no consideration or compensation typically in the contract. I know yo
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by savanaly 10y ago
Wouldn't this be the sort of indirect, gut level factor that betting markets would capture better than anything else? And they have Trump winning at around 15-20%.
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by savanaly 10y ago
I don't think you should feel guilty about writing that criticism. I feel almost completely the opposite as you do about DFW's writing style, but I recognize it's very much a subjective matter of taste. He gets a lot of hype,
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by savanaly 10y ago
I did a coding bootcamp. It helped in a combination of all the ways you mentioned. Most importantly, I think I needed a way to commit myself to spending 8+ hours every day on learning coding for awhile. I don't have the personality&#x2
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by savanaly 10y ago
I don't agree with this analogy. It's not like google is offering to redo your site in AMP for you. You still have to do the lightweight optimization yourself. You're just using a library that will guide you in how to do it b
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by savanaly 10y ago
Isn't that asking the impossible though? From the way it's told in the article, Chipotle combed as exhaustively as they could through their ingredients in the immediate aftermath and as soon as possible, searching for the culprit.
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by savanaly 10y ago
The most convincing argument I read about why Walmart pays their employees less other than the fact that they're greedy bastards is in [1]. "Costco has a tiny number of SKUs in a huge store -- and consequently, has half as many em

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