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by tfehring 6y ago
For context, it looks like about 5% of California's prison population is female (by sex) [0], and there are something like 2-4x as many trans women as trans men [1] in the population as a whole. So that discrepancy is probably pretty c
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by tfehring 6y ago
That's true in principle, but many of the shareholders of US corporations never pay those taxes in practice, either because they're not US residents or because they avoid capital gains taxes through tax-advantaged accounts, trusts
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The cited report is probably a better link. Posted article doesn’t add much value IMO, and it omits valuable information about the specific tactics these companies used for tax avoidance. https://itep.org/55-profitable-corpo
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by tfehring 6y ago
In response to your first paragraph: I was raised Catholic, and for a long time I’ve been a little bit envious of my Jewish friends’ ability to still associate themselves with their religious identity even after they no longer identify with
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On-demand service is drastically less efficient than fixed-route service. That's the main reason Uber/Lyft is already several times more expensive than bus or train service for the same route, and it would be even more expensive i
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I think something to that effect was implicit in "the bundle itself includes a Julia runtime," but I vouched for this comment anyway since it's an important limitation and the parent comment evidently wasn't explicit eno
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It's complementary, since unlike R/Pandas it can fit too-big-for-memory data - I've used it ad-hoc to store big-ish datasets to pull into R. Though if you're using Python I think that use case is mostly superseded by Das
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Production processes more generally, yeah. A farmer using 1913 technology can’t even come close to competing in today’s market. It would be hard even in high-end price-insensitive segments (think farmers markets and farm to table restaurant
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by tfehring 6y ago
I use DuckDuckGo by default but I probably add !g to redirect to Google 2/3 of the time. DDG seems to be a little bit worse about rewarding user-hostile SEO spam [0], but honestly the main reason is that with Google I can use [1] to bl
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Using a loop and `if` statements as the book does is unidiomatic, the `replace` function (and the in-place equivalent `replace!`) work as you’d expect. https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/collections/#B
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Also confusion and decision paralysis for new users, as well as limiting new features to only a subset of users unless someone takes the time to re-implement them. And lots of FOSS projects end up as abandonware, and consolidation can incre
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by tfehring 6y ago
Just to put some actual numbers behind this: it looks like 3% of AP Computer Science exam takers are black [0], and 6% of computer science and engineering graduates are black [1]. But only 1% of "technical workers" at Google, Micr
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by tfehring 6y ago
The R packages plyr/reshape2 and subsequently dplyr/tidyr. Data manipulation in base R can be pretty painful (awk arguably even more so, and Pandas didn't exist yet), and going from that to an environment that's syntacti
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No you're not. It doesn't seem that far off for Minneapolis, the metro I'm most familiar with, but the fact that the premiums for Silicon Valley and Seattle are only ~20% and ~4% respectively seems suspect. Maybe high-paying
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Happens to the best of us, no worries!
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Trump took office in January 2017. Eyeball test suggests the pickup you're seeing started in late 2015.
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In my experience getting Kodi set up is a massive time sink, to the point that the programmer time needed to set it up would easily double the total cost of a typical home theater setup. Admittedly my experience with it is a few years out o
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by tfehring 6y ago
Lots of reasons, see e.g. [0] for a brief explanation of a few of them. [0] https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/why-is-deflatio...
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by tfehring 6y ago
Would be interested in seeing the 99.9%ile execution time for BTC vs FedACH transactions. The page linked in the parent comment provides statistics for "timely" processing but doesn't indicate the actual time(s) that that sta
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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'd expect that iOS being an open platform is neither necessary nor sufficient for that. As I understand it, Epic could allow users to load free custom skins today, even though it operates on a cl
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Should it be different for similar games that aren’t free (gratis) then? Should I be required by law to be able to load third-party items in Call of Duty?
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Or Fortnite, for that matter? Why should I be forced to buy skins with Epic’s in-game currency instead of loading my own?
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Obviously this was actually a thing. The whitepaper is really entertaining. https://ponzico.win/ponzico.pdf
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by tfehring 6y ago
> Why did this reporter have to go and publish Scott's real name when Scott requested him not to? It's just not a nice thing to do, simple as that. As the saying goes, journalism is writing something someone else doesn’t want
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by tfehring 6y ago
I use R and the Tidyverse extensively. Exploratory data analysis is definitely clunkier in Julia - you need the `@pipe` macro to patch up some limitations in native pipes, there's no `dbplyr` equivalent that I know of, and despite Juli
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Maybe WebMD uses a third-party database for some drugs, but they probably don’t for aspirin, and if they do they shouldn’t.
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Yeah, I agree with your interpretation and that makes sense from Microsoft's perspective. Just one open question that that raises: does a name and employer count as "contact details"? Do Microsoft's terms allow Canonical
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Yeah, I thought about that possibility, but I'm skeptical because the usefulness of Canonical getting that data directly from Microsoft seems really minimal. Whatever data Microsoft is collecting from its clients (I'd think it&#x2
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I guess I don't understand the quote from Microsoft's statement. Canonical provides "implementation and technical support," right? But they're not allowed to use user data from Microsoft to market those services? Ho
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by tfehring 6y ago
Inflation isn’t strictly a measure of the monetary base. The dominant factor in “inflation” of (almost?) all cryptocurrencies is demand, not supply. Now, you can make the argument that that’s not really inflation - that BTC won’t predictabl

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