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by tfehring 5y ago
I really hope they're not taking advantage of big names + engineered complexity + financial naïveté to gouge their customers on price. There's a long history of seriously predatory practices in this space and the cost of VCs'
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by tfehring 5y ago
Yeah, mortality risk is only part of the picture, and probably not the most relevant part for young and healthy people. But there are lots of other medium-term (at least) impacts of COVID that have already been observed, and at this point I
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I doubt Google will lose anywhere close to 20% of its staff, and I assume Google doubts that too. I expect the rest of FAANG+ will follow suit, and there won't be that many jobs where you can earn a FAANG-level salary without being vac
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by tfehring 5y ago
"Mandate" means something very different when performed by a private employer than by a government entity. In the former case it means something like "make continued employment conditional upon." Google employees are per
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by tfehring 5y ago
The short answer is that income is a significant factor but it's complicated. The difference in life expectancy at 50 between the lowest and highest income quintiles is about 13 years in the US [0] vs. e.g. 8 in Denmark [1]. (Other Eur
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Or more realistically, a caret/parsnip-like interface that lets you seamlessly use either R or Julia as a backend.
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Numba is great for pure functions on primitive types but it breaks down when you need to pass objects around. PyPy is fantastic for single-threaded applications but doesn't play nicely with multiprocessing or distributed computing IME.
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by tfehring 5y ago
Here's his model: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14UkIkzBCfcQzYZagC5qo... It looks like the 7% and 13.6% figures the article quotes are the initial revenue decreases for a single quarter, which the mo
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My concern is that the person who agrees to the CLA (generally the individual programmer) may not actually be authorized to assign ownership of the IP - since if they're subject to an IP assignment provision, they don't own the IP
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A few states have similar laws to California, but the majority (even weighted by the number of programmers) do not. If I'm the maintainer of an open-source repo, there's no way I'm willing to risk accepting contributions from
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Sure, but with fixed hardware resources you risk the site going down with traffic spikes like this, with AWS you have access to calculatorless options that can easily scale to handle increased request volume.
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I don't have a ton of experience in E&O, but I do work in insurance and I don't think this is right. Buying a policy to file a claim for an event that already happened is called fraud, and while it does happen, it's gener
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I've interviewed a few DS candidates from teams that were very invested in particular data/ML platforms who I could have sworn were doing this. ("How would you implement X if $PLATFORM didn't implement it for you?"
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I don’t disagree, but the technical term is “synthetic” and substituting “fake” for “synthetic” in a headline and first paragraph doesn’t seem like that crazy of an editorial choice.
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https://meditofoundation.org/
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Federal loans probably prop up demand and tuition but I disagree that colleges or college towns would be unsustainable without them. The ROI of at least a large subset of college degrees is high enough that they’d be worth financing with pr
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by tfehring 5y ago
If you tax gasoline to $1,000/gallon (and other emissions to the same price per CO2e) it doesn't matter if the money gets spent on carbon offsets or not, the deterrent effect would dwarf the removal effect. Revenue-neutral tax+div
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by tfehring 5y ago
But they're not undermining a carbon tax. They're supporting it, based on their understanding that American voters are extremely sensitive to gas prices, far beyond an extent that could be considered reasonable, and that for tha
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I agree that 86% of those Calories would otherwise go to waste. But considering how bad animal agriculture is for the environment just in terms of direct impacts, I doubt that feeding them to animals is an improvement over the alternative y
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It's true that most of the food consumed by livestock isn't edible by humans - [0] says 86% - but livestock are so inefficient at converting food to edible nutrition that they still generally consume more than 1 human-edible Cal
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Maybe this one? https://www.businessinsider.com/gun-deaths-in-florida-increa...
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by tfehring 5y ago
For reference, Wikipedia lists her net worth at ~$115 million (as of 2018, likely higher now). It looks like ~$20 million of that is real estate but if she just put the rest in the S&P 500 that would give her over $5 million worth of AA
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by tfehring 5y ago
At a glance it looks like that's materially the same mechanism that was used by IRON [0], which blew up last week after they had to mint too many of the stabilizing tokens to try to retain the USD peg. Am I missing something? [0] http
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by tfehring 5y ago
I still don't see how you get to a cryptocurrency that's broadly useful as a currency without enough price stability for it to be a unit of account in some sense. Tesla may have accepted BTC for payment, and it might do so again,
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Profitable to build != profitable to hold.
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Can't speak to the others but insurance couldn't really work that way and compete on price with traditional insurers. The only way for the "policyholder" to be confident that an untrusted "insurer" will have th
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Medicaid has provided free healthcare to people with qualifying disabilities since long before Obamacare. Obamacare did encourage states to expand Medicaid to low-income people regardless of health status and provide them with funding to do
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by tfehring 5y ago
Those full stack roles are still relatively common (though decreasingly so, as you pointed out) at companies with small data science orgs, on the order of 10 people. But they're still usually called "data scientist," while I
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Plus ~$6k in federal income tax on the $18.3k at a marginal tax rate of 32%. And maybe state taxes on equity comp too, not sure if or how that would be taxed in CA.
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The FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund has a balance of over $119 billion as of March 31. No need for money to be printed. https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile/stat...

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