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by stult 8y ago
The study doesn't make any claims about the validity of the "actually" profound statements, because the validity or lack thereof is irrelevant to the study. Those statements simply have actual semantic content, as opposed to
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If history is a guide, the research will go on and these protest movements will have only a superficial effect. Just compare Draper Laboratories to Lincoln Labs. Both were MIT-owned partnerships focused on military research. MIT divested of
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It's extreme economic shocks generally. As in sudden changes in economic conditions that lead to a rapid and pervasive decline in living conditions. It's clearly not any absolute level of poverty. The poverty level that will trigg
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That's a terrible analogy. I only use git with my IDEs and only use my IDEs with git (except one weird outside project at work where I have to use a partner company's TFS). So integration makes complete sense. Hell, that's tr
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Simple is better where you need to maintain control, because then a human being can understand the entire system and its behavior becomes deterministic from our perspective. Complexity--practically by definition--means that the system'
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I used to walk past the Harder House on SW 10th and Market every day, where I think the systems PhD program sits. They have these fascinating network diagrams stuck up in the windows, and I was always curious what they were...
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It seems like any sufficiently detailed specification is pretty much already code or is trivial to translate into code. A language for providing those specifications to a synthesizer would likely balloon into a full-blown programming langua
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The antiharassment section could prohibit fraternization. It's pretty vague and points the reader to a separate Q&A document, which I suppose provides more detail on what constitutes harassment.
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Yeah, I'm on my phone so I can't do a full break even on this easily, but here's my rough estimate. If you're losing 1.5 hours of productive work per day, five days per week, and employees are otherwise productive 30 hou
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Exactly, but I would argue that which of these environments you operate in isn't always under your or even your company's control, so debugging skills are indispensable for the overwhelming majority of engineers. For example, I sp
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We'll just make another machine that changes the wheel. Surely that will fix the problem.
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That is by far his most readable work. And his earliest. He became steadily more impenetrable over time.
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Surely the mental anguish that drives someone to take their own life qualifies as a mental illness. We are not talking about someone who chose to die rather than continuing a painful fight against a terminal illness. Maybe it's rationa
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>None of your examples are journalists being penalized for lack of due diligence or for being misleading Rolling Stone after the lacrosse rape case is one example. But more importantly, I think the point above is that journalism is in a
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The EMH is specific to asset markets. So stocks and bonds basically. No (respectable, well-known) economist has ever argued that all markets are always efficient. Also what people mean when they say markets are efficient in other contexts m
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You're right, but to elaborate it's a government granted monopoly via trademark. Yes, you can get an identically made bag for far cheaper, but it can't (legally at least) have the LV logo on it. Which is why so many luxury br
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>I think bw-tress might work specially well for fast-disk storage. That's precisely the claim made in the original paper describing Bw-trees. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2510649.2511251
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by stult 9y ago
Well, at a minimum we certainly know Jesus was a word. In the beginning, at least.
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I don't know that it's that simple. Facebook survives because of network effects. Which means it is vulnerable to mass exodus, sort of like a run on the bank. So maybe no one single scandal will bring it down, but a slow, steady t
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Actually that's not quite true either. Pilgrimages were quite common, and although not necessarily a vacation as we would consider it, many even fairly poor people traveled quite far distances just for the spiritual pleasure of it.
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It also discusses how there was almost certainly no impact on Earth's surface or our ancestors. Apparently the star was unlikely to even have been visible in the night sky.
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One problem with homelessness is that it's in many ways a classic externality. It's often cheaper for localities to provide no services (which cost money and attract more homeless individuals) and instead to encourage homeless p
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Work day length actually increased dramatically during the early industrial revolution. Early factories frequently required 10-14 hour shifts, seven days per week. It was only the labor movement pushing back that resulted in a shorter work
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Or, why is the solution not "who cares, we have electric lights."?
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Yeah my firm really emphasizes the importance of feedback, but insists it happen via formal reviews which then drive compensation. Which is idiotic. You'll never get genuine feedback if you tie it to compensation because the feedback w
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It's possible that there's some autogenic component to pregnancy that is a superior indicator of confidence than self-reporting, though it seems like a farfetched explanation.
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Great article. One obstacle to ML adoption I've noticed in my field (public accounting) is what I describe as the chicken and the egg data/value challenge. You can't deliver value with ML until you have the right data to trai
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I think you're right that this is a mess, my only uncertainty is whether it's garden variety incompetence or active bad faith. For an auditor to fire you, either you have to not be paying your bills for a long time or you have to
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In the interests of disclosure and not as an assertion of authority: I must admit that I am a lawyer and my perspective is shaped by my dissatisfaction with the profession's lack of scientific rigor both in the academic and practical s
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Well hold on. COMPAS performs as well as people but costs less than getting a jury together or paying a professional. So I wouldn't say that's uninspiring. It also performs as well as their simpler model. But they only evaluated t

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