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by tech_ken 3y ago
This article makes a number of statements which run counter to empirical research I've seen on this topic, and doesn't cite anything to support these claims. My understanding is that the majority of CA homeless are in fact from C
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by tech_ken 3y ago
It's kind of like how the modern standards of mathematical "proof" don't extend backwards very well. Nobody would say that Euler wasn't one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, but much of his work was very u
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by tech_ken 3y ago
That’s a good question, tbh I have no idea. Yeah presumably if the user base increased then the number of nodes would also grow, but definitely unclear to me what level of latency (if any) is required for privacy
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I don’t think any typical internet user would accept Tor’s latency. User behavior has indicated again and again that convenience and frictionless-ness is the overriding priority for the majority. I appreciate the work done by the Tor commun
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I can only respond to your stated positions, as I did here. Regardless of who you are, if you want to regard this as a policy debate that's fine but to me that's a clear lack of respect for what is a civil rights issue, and is obv
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by tech_ken 3y ago
No. It is fundamentally different. You don't view it as morally different because you don't respect the civil rights of people who who are LGBTQ+. While you are entitled to your moral view, you are not allowed to conflate it wit
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I’m simply trying to be as accurate in my descriptions as possible. I apologize that you find it rude, but I don’t want to be misunderstood. Shoehorning the holocaust into this is extremely derailing, and again reads as bad faith strawmann
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by tech_ken 3y ago
IDK how you feel about using legal force to strip someone of a civil right, but that seems pretty active to me. It's certainly less of a stretch than characterizing OP as "blatant lies", but I guess your standards for precisi
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I have no idea why all of you settled on "OP was equating taking their civil rights to genocide" but the reading seems clearly bad. "Trivialising genocide" is quite a take and one which I think is clearly silly. The same
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by tech_ken 3y ago
That's nit-picky, contrarian drivel and this whole discussion is like 10^-6 in terms of actual relevance compared to the original topic. You are literally using the language one could use to distinguish between the two: "Eich does
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by tech_ken 3y ago
This comparison is beyond facile, so much so that it reads as basically a bad faith attempt to jam up the conversation with nonsense tangents. Trying to take away someone's civil rights is fundamentally different from outlawing a cri
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Okay, thanks for explaining!
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I mean no doubt The Constitution is great, I'm a very big fan, but the US is less than 250 years old which is nearly nothing on the stage of history. Let's see how the next few decades break before we elevate them entirely to deit
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Gazprom? Maybe someone else will come up with the other 2
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Isn't this exactly what happened? My understanding of history is that up until like the 16th century North Africa, the Middle East, and India were global leaders in science and industry.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Some podcast I was listening to made an interesting argument along these lines around tea, although more in the context of the industrial revolution. Their point was that tea, a stimulant, was absolutely central in motivating workers to get
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Andrew Gelman is truly our Vladimir Lenin
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Advice appreciated but I'm exceedingly familiar with experimental design haha, what I understand far less well though is the integration of the toolset into a business/product development context. I can see how having a staggere
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by tech_ken 3y ago
How does an typical NHST A/B system resolve this?
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I can’t say that I did the proof out, but intuitively I would expect the posterior distribution over arm-probabilities would converge to something equal? The other option is spurious convergence to a bad posterior, which could maybe happen
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Doesn’t that problem also exist with NHST based A/B testing?
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Sort of a generalized PEBCAK
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by tech_ken 3y ago
If the main objection to constructing a real-time product monitoring system for A/B(C/D/E...) decisions is that optional stopping is bad why not throw away the null-hypothesis sig testing and instead treat the problem as a mu
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Two answers: * In the US there's a narrative that unions add layers to bureaucracy to a process that should (from an IMO limited "pro free market" position) efficiently settle on an optimal solution all by itself. Many people
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I have a pet hypothesis that Fibonacci Retracements accidentally lines up with some reasonable noise quantiles (or something, I'm not a finance type) and thus is a sound strategy, but for the wrong reasons.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Right but the ability of you and many Americans to live in such low-density areas is fully supported by the massive amount of resources directed towards car-centric infrastructure. The problem you refer to- that public transit cannot servic
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by tech_ken 3y ago
That is a big block of text which reports a rather obvious fact: public transit in the US sucks. I fully agree with this fact. I think that this is a fact because of our car fetishism. I think we need to have less car fetishism and more pub
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I rented a Tesla while on a business trip a few weeks back (not by choice, the rental agency just gave it to me in the Economy class) and I absolutely hated the UI. The basic car interface has converged on its standard form after decades of
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Because it can get you to a location substantially faster than by car, in a way that doesn't require you to waste all your time and attention driving? The US has bent over backwards to accommodate cars and we're still seeing astro
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by tech_ken 3y ago
TBentirelyH I think at the point of my life I’m at right now (a 30-something tech worker) I think I’d opt for cigarettes and death at 70 over death at 80 and two 1-hour commutes every day of my life. I don’t smoke frequently, but the times

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