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by sdenton4 2y ago
The obr is not the only source here, but one among many. You seem very invested in ignoring evidence that before wasn't a great idea. This suggests you're more interested in ideology than evidence-based reasoning. It's distre
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by sdenton4 2y ago
The scary part is that when the consequences come, these people tend to look for a new scape goat rather than learn anything...
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by sdenton4 2y ago
"Would be a run on the pound" is forecasting, just like expecting that Brexit will eventually be neutral or slightly positive. The article reports agreement on past/present facts.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Right - I included the bottom line on trade. There's plenty more context in the article, and only a small sliver is at all good for the Brexiteer. Everyone agrees it's been between 6-30% worse on the trade front, and the OBR estim
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Well, no, actually. It's not hard to look at the expected effects of brexit and examine whether they are occurring. For example, decline in small forms exporting to Europe due to trades friction. "But the working assumption of the
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by sdenton4 2y ago
And with the rest of the world covering to electric, we can expect negative economies of scale alongside the financial problems of economic contraction for combustion car makers. The coal companies started going bankrupt long before the end
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by sdenton4 2y ago
The birds don't seem much to care about our magic invisible lines... Sorry, bud, it's just monkey stuff.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
A major source of administrative and non-teaching staff is that many universities have added things like 'a hostpital' on the side. This is reasonable when you're running a med school with a research component: you need patie
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Well, at one time he was obsessed with going to Mars... Now he seems more obsessed with being the most based twitter user and wrecking people's lives for upboats from his cronies.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Congress has lots of power, it's a question of whether they do anything. Currently the Republicans are uniformity falling in line with the authoritarian executive orders, even those that abrogate well established congressional powers.
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The president signs laws, for example...... This isn't hard.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Looking at the solar data pages: Fascinating that the average power usage in Alabama is more than double California. (10kw vs 4kw) I assume that's lots of air conditioning? Or perhaps downstream effects of appliance regulations?
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Nah, just has to convince Trump to replace Vance with him, and then do a regicide.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
"Just killing passengers" isn't meaningfully worse/different than your average mall shooting... It sucks, but it's not quite as severe as turning the giant flying tube of jet fuel into an improvised ballistic missil
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by sdenton4 2y ago
guys it's 2025, let's have a throw-down fight about the monty hall problem.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Well, there's this, which comes close: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Art+and+Craft+of+Problem+Sol... Most of the math competitions people are working on are high school math competitions - these have problems f
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by sdenton4 2y ago
There is, in fact, a large body of work studying classes of problems which are hard to solve but easy to verify. So I'm not sure why this kind of usage is a surprise to so many people.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
And parental education, race, and household income are also all correlated with one another... And the paper you cited makes the point that the correlation between socioeconomic background and test scores has increased substantially since 1
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by sdenton4 2y ago
I think Chomsky showed that, thanks to universality, English is a perfectly general language encapsulating all important properties of human language, so those don't count. (/s)
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Note that cultural transmission of humpback whale song is well-known and studied. Here's an example article on movement of songs across Pacific ocean populations in the span of ~2 years: https://royalsocietypublishing.org&
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Labor! You need it to turn the bill of sale into a data center and keep it running. The bargain basement would be even cheaper otherwise...
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Yeah, just like how the Odyssey became worthless when people started writing things down, the bible fell into obsolescence with the printing press, and Ulysses was usurped by the internet.
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Oh, sure, but I'm not an immigrant. /s
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"should not apply" - ha. Did you not just see the January 6th pardons? This is the new coup.
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Python is pretty accessible, too... Should we pay people to write it? I had some great comp lit courses in undergrad, which exposed me to some really fascinating work that I wouldn't have found otherwise. Especially a course on literat
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by sdenton4 2y ago
Zuckerberg coming out strong for free speech, and then sending employees who push back on anti-DEI policy changes to HR... Free speech if you're a billionaire.
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There's going to be some degree of measurement error, which will likely be greater for objects which have not been observed many times. Multiple observations should allow both better estimation of the object attributes (average out the
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by sdenton4 2y ago
ChatGPT seems pretty knowledgeable about Spotify's TOS, for example... So no way for the bot to plead ignorance. :) "Hey, ChatGPT, what are the terms of service for Spotify?" "I can't provide the full, up-to-date te
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by sdenton4 2y ago
This looks like an excellent step towards being able to apply consistency to generated images across a series.
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Mickey Mouse animated the shovels with the big spell book, and now they're marching around and need shovels of their own...

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