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by solveit 7y ago
You feel left out because you are rightly left out. You're not interested in what they're doing, and so they're not interested in you. I don't see the problem here. Why are you asking to get noticed?
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by solveit 7y ago
I'm surprised too. Do you actually mean that most stats majors learn stochastic calculus or just that it's possible to take stochastic calculus? As a pure mathematician, my experience is that stochastic calculus was only taught to
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by solveit 7y ago
Perhaps the skills just changed. Driving halfway across the country on a motorbike with nothing but a macbook and a phone to tether to, freelancing or remote working along the way doesn't sound so unrealistic.
694.
by solveit 7y ago
They're in politics, consulting, and the like. Not even being snarky.
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by solveit 7y ago
I'm glad you brought up cruise ships because, as you say, they are difficult to flee, and they have indeed been embroiled in human trafficking. Few people think that this means that cruise ships are inherently a bad idea; it just means
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by solveit 7y ago
Everything has unpredictable environment impact at this scale. Name one energy source that can replace nuclear that doesn't have hard-to-predict consequences of unknown but possibly gigantic magnitude on a global scale.
697.
by solveit 7y ago
A LaTeX-generated PDF along with the .tex file used to generate it solves all the problems mentioned by the parent. Now to convince casual users that LaTeX is worth learning... that's a completely different problem.
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by solveit 7y ago
Then your helpful conceptualisation isn't so helpful unless you already know what a monopoly is.
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by solveit 7y ago
Yeah, but they said "most perilous time". It's hard to argue that nuclear annihilation is more likely now than in 1950~1990.
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by solveit 7y ago
Yeah, but the other people matter too...
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by solveit 7y ago
Name a better decade. Seriously. Starting from 1900, every one up to the '40s is out because two world wars, then all of the ones until the '90s is out because we were literally a paranoid mid-ranking officer away from global ther
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by solveit 7y ago
Sure, but then you're playing semantics to grandstand and detract from real achievements.
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by solveit 7y ago
> If poverty is an error, then a 60% error rate on 1 billion requests and a 10% error rate on 6 billion requests is the exact same thing. I can't conceive of the mental contortions you must have forced yourself into to conclude that
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by solveit 7y ago
How large is your company?
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by solveit 7y ago
Wasting time is the feature. The fact that it wastes the caller's time as well is the reason that it works as a sign of respect.
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by solveit 7y ago
It's not a delusional ego trip if it made you a billionaire.
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by solveit 7y ago
> As opposed to the current 1/3 legacy, unclear percentage propped up by wealthy parents, elite prep school system that consistently and efficiently finds the best students. This is a (despicable) feature. Harvard isn't trying
708.
by solveit 7y ago
> Do you think direct mail should be banned too? It should, but only because it's incredibly annoying.
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by solveit 7y ago
> On the other hand, the 'nineteenth century technology' of secret ballots is both obvious and simple. It's a shame that people like Vitalik are so dismissive of it. You can't write smart contracts based on secret bal
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by solveit 7y ago
Physics in idealized situations is incredibly useful, and more importantly, absolutely necessary for understanding non-idealized real situations, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
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by solveit 7y ago
> Firstly, the royal family could care less about the welfare of the average Saudi citizen. This is ludicrous. Every regime cares about public opinion no matter how despotic.
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by solveit 7y ago
> WeWork, WagLabs, and most VC investments contribute absolutely nothing of value to the world. If they didn't exist, no one would even notice their absence. The irony of posting this on Hacker News... Snark aside, to a first approx
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by solveit 7y ago
Excuse you, academics at the top of the food chain have the complete freedom to choose which 60 hours to work every week.
714.
by solveit 7y ago
Who does a PhD because of immense pressure from wallets ? Aren't PhDs a terrible financial choice in the vast majority of fields?
715.
by solveit 7y ago
This seems like handwringing for the sake of handwringing because if we stop using the vaccine, polio will return to infect millions. There are interesting ethical debates to be had on vaccination but this is not one of them.
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by solveit 7y ago
In completely unrelated news , I noticed that a recent Google paper (AugMix) used PyTorch.
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by solveit 7y ago
Good. That means you have good taste and can therefore improve.
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by solveit 7y ago
But federal minimum wage ($7.25) is a lot smaller than, say, the NYC minimum wage ($15), which is more relevant. At the NYC minimum wage, 100-hour work weeks get you about 80k a year, which is about the base pay for an undergraduate new hir
719.
by solveit 7y ago
I'm not sure what you think is happening then. What do you measure economic growth in, Dollars or percentages?
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by solveit 7y ago
Tip: When your voice just won't cut it, whistle.

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