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by tech_ken 3y ago
IIRC BeauJo's is going this way as well after the original owner is retiring.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
>Because it can be hard to get everyone in the same room, most votes are held via a Discord server. People respond to proposals with a thumbs-up emoji for yes, a thumbs-down for no, and a monocle to signal they want further discussion —
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Doesn't any landlord who defects from colluding stand to gain though? Like how Georgists argue that their land tax won't get passed directly on to renters because if it's applied to the whole market at once then absent perfec
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by tech_ken 3y ago
As an aspirational, on/off vegetarian this always strikes me as extremely funny. People (particularly the "omg BACON" mega-carnivore types) get sooooo precious about certain types of meat being "gross" or "weir
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Lebesgue measure is a lot of annoying terminology, but the end result are basically integrals that work like how you intuitively "want" them to work. Basically so long as you never have to evaluate one using the actual definition
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Oh that's quite slick, I don't use a Mac currently but plan to switch over in the nearish future, I'll check out automations. Semi-relatedly I really like the CD collection portion of your website! Makes me want to implement
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Lots of different ways of motivating KL, but I think one that's frequently neglected in the ML era is its relationship to a likelihood ratio test. Kullback and Leibler originally characterized the KL divergence as the measure of the ab
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Tangentially related to OP but has anyone found a smooth way to move purchased music from Bandcamp to a private storage location somewhere? Currently I'm downloading music manually and dropping it into a sync location, which is kind of
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I fully agree, but it's a tall order given how unpopular it is both among voters and politicians. Governor of CO just tried it and every single municipal lawmaker was howling for his head. The bill some of his allies introduced to the
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Can't downvote you but impressed at your tolerance for that scummy feeling
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by tech_ken 3y ago
My city's property taxes are among the lowest in the nation for an urban metro, so that's not really a big factor. However you're right that tourists spend a lot of money in our food+drink and entertainment industries, which
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Unfortunately I have to agree, and our housing market is REALLY bad. I think the AirBnB issue is relatively small potatoes next to big money real estate holdings firms, who've really gone wild scooping up single family housing and rent
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by tech_ken 3y ago
My city (Denver) has definitely pushed tourism HARD over the last decade, and in my view it's had mixed results. If you're a developer or like a certain class of restauranteur it's been pretty great. I also imagine it's
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by tech_ken 3y ago
A better title would be "low-touch real estate speculation doesn't pan out for some people". AirBnB flippers have wreaked small havoc in my city, scooping up all kinds of units that would have otherwise sold to people who wou
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I could have used a clearer definition of "mimetic desire" as well as a better linkage to the "scapegoat" outcome. Maybe I just need to read the original book, but as described here it felt super wooly.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Wow what incredible timing, I was just looking for something like this yesterday!
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by tech_ken 3y ago
And they’re providing me with a way to look busy at work after 4:30 so it’s kind of an even trade IMO
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Interesting, looks like they've already implemented some logic to avoid this case, but it's not hard to get around: https://chat.openai.com/share/123fd705-82bf-45f6-87e5-325060... Edit: oh wow you can really
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I'm not sure where things stand now, but just prior to the pandemic I remember reading that the labor market was historically inelastic for workers of all stripes. Between non-computes, implicit collusion, and the emergence of gig work
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Well no, it's literally the employers who move their capital to regimes which allow more exploitative working arrangements to boost their profit margin. That they are so unwilling to accept a reduce share of the company's net inco
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by tech_ken 3y ago
But the problem is that the labor "market" has many weird inefficiencies not found in the usual "buyer X selling widget Y" model of the free market. For example, the poorer you are the less elasticity you have in your la
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by tech_ken 3y ago
It’s cost of living is also much higher than Texas no? To me this seems like a far more probable explanatory factor than laxity towards crime or lack of open carry laws
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by tech_ken 3y ago
>application of coercive force (which is what makes a government a government) must be avoided at any and all cost I think this statement is eminently reasonable. Although a monopoly on coercive force is one important defining feature of
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I'm aware what I was asking for. I appreciate the reference, seems like a good fit for my needs, have a good one!
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by tech_ken 3y ago
This looks perfect for my needs, thanks a bunch!
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I wish I understood this, but lack a lot of the background in CPU architecture beyond a very superficial understanding (ex. what is meant by "branch prediction"). Can anyone recommend me a good source to help me get up to speed on
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> my point is that you may need to apply moderate, reasonable and proportionate levels of force and/or coercion in order to achieve X Fine and acceptable, even to most progressives I think, but also in my opinion entirely tangential
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I absolutely agree it's a problem with shelter beds, but this is exactly what you're talking about. Coercive force is useless at best unless there's something effective that you're pushing people into. Pretending like th
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by tech_ken 3y ago
But Texas also has a large homeless population, despite being tough on crime and drug use, so your proposed solutions are clearly deficient. Conservatives love to pretend that every social problem can be resolved by throwing everyone in jai
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Let's say this morning you force someone into a shelter bed, euthanizing their dog and throwing away their tent and other bulky property in the process. What are you going to do tomorrow morning? Is that bed now reserved for them going

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