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by tech_ken 3y ago
> It is always a little frustrating to hear from a certain kind of politically motivated poster who is very interested in in-depth critiques of any theory of crime except their own conviction that poverty is the sine qua non of theft and
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Okay sure but most people with a steady 9 to 5 aren't buying industrial volumes of crack. Poverty creates big demand for the worst of the drug trade. Moreover, the drug dealers who are earning big exploiting this aren't going to b
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I mean nothing social has a completely deterministic behavior. There are lots of higher-order effects that act differently on different types of crime. Nevertheless it's not hard to find studies documenting the very strong link between
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Rich people abusing drugs have to get them somewhere, and they're probably not traveling to skid row to get them. I agree that drug dealers and drug users probably have different dynamics, but the reality is that police prosecute both,
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> "why crime occurs" -- because there are always criminals, and they seek out opportunity? How about that? "Criminals" are not some kind of universal entity that exists by default. They are people engaging in differen
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I saw a talk by researcher Kristian Lum a few years back that I think made this case far more effectively. Her point was somewhat limited to drug crimes, but she pointed out that if you look at medical data (where people tend to be fairly h
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Two explanations First: Prophet is not actually "one model", it's closer to a non-parametric approach than just a single model type. This adds a lot of flexibility on the class of problems it can handle. With that said, Proph
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Classic clickbait title. This is barely a treasure cache, let alone a hoard! edit because I'm getting downvotes: this was meant as a joke, reading "hoard" made me expect a mountain of jewels but clearly this is not clickbait
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Natural monopoly in the formal macroeconomic meaning of very high fixed cost with virtually zero marginal cost (ex. it costs ~nothing to transmit an extra watt of power, fly one more passenger, insure one more person, etc). In these cases b
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I mean I'm just saying that it's a regulated monopoly as the article was saying that airlines used to be.
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Idk why everyone interpreted this comment as asserting that we should switch to a centrally planned economy nationally, I'm just clarifying that the argument "centrally planned economies don't work, therefore nationalizing na
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>or sectors of economies I would argue that the energy sector of most developed nations as a counterexample. I think we can go back and forth all day about the extent to which they are true command economies, but the ultimate point that
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That's a trivially true statement for any descriptor which can be applied to both a business and a nation? National economic collapse generally means civil war and anarchy in almost any case.
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> There are probably a bit too few customer and worker protections, but on the whole, airline deregulation shows just how bad command economies are at planning and allocating resources. Isn't each individual airline is itself a comm
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The idea is similar/equivalent to a stack of git deltas yeah? Each line is a change of one of two types and then you combine them to get a net change?
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Extremely good point, I don't really game outside of online chess so I can't say that I have a very wide sample pool. TBH the chat I used to see when my brother was playing League blew any chess experience I've had out of the
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Oh I'm familiar B) Used to use this CLI tool "ledger" to keep the books for a small nonprofit I was treasurer-ing for. Awesome tool, and (in conjunction with this read and a few others) it taught me a ton about all that good
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I'm referring to the OP which discussed the technical justification for their choice. An employee from the firm also elaborated a little more elsewhere in the replies
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That seems a touch melodramatic, is a somewhat more thriving indie smartphone repair market truly "liberating"? It's not like someone has a gun to your head to buy an iPhone
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Chess players are some of the saltiest people on Earth, people can get really mean in chat. Also cheaters galore
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>Surprisingly, we also don’t use negative numbers (you may have encountered software ledgers that store only a single positive/negative balance). Instead, we keep two separate strictly positive integer amounts: one for debits and an
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Psychoactive phenethylamines??? I've never heard of that, I'm just really into nasal decongestants.
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Curious about how this aligns with the bioavailability point discussed in the article. Presumably if the gut lining is where the bulk of metabolism occurs then IV sidesteps this and increase the bioavail drug, leading to improved efficacy.
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"Phenethylamines I Have Known and Felt Kind of Meh About"
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I was wondering the same thing, definitely seems like generating the raw waveform runs into all kinds of weird issues (like they touched on in this post). I would imagine that training data would be a serious chokepoint here. Given how much
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Interesting read, I've definitely heard similar things through various podcast-y outlets (I think there was a "The Weeds" episode about this phenomenon a few years back). I could see an argument that all the engineering talen
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> tech used to be about solving hard problems that made human life better It's unclear to me when this was ever "purely" true. Tobacco companies, for example, definitely used cutting-edge (for its era) agro-tech to increas
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An interesting read, I'm sympathetic to this viewpoint but I also feel like it's kind of an inevitable trend. > Granted there are other Linux distributions like Gentoo, Alpine, Void, NixOS, etc. that are still conservative in s
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And vice versa I'd say. Windows rolled out the WSL for a reason, there are many workflows that Linux is best for
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Don't most leases prohibit rent hikes for some period of time though?

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