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by tfehring 6y ago
https://freethoughtblogs.com/gruntled/2014/05/08/the-s-guide...
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by tfehring 6y ago
I completely agree! But I'm wondering whether those benefits are incompatible with the benefits of Weave.jl. E.g., can an arbitrary Pluto notebook be woven to a PDF? If so, why are they separate packages - and if not, is it because of
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by tfehring 6y ago
Genuinely curious, what makes Weave and Pluto "completely different" styles of notebook? Is there some reason that Pluto features like interactivity and reactivity couldn't be incorporated in Weave, at least in theory? I get
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by tfehring 6y ago
Honestly my impression is that management consultants don’t need to be above average to add value, they (or more accurately, the people who implement their recommendations) just need to be empowered to actually do stuff. The recruiting from
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by tfehring 6y ago
Huh. I wonder what the impetus for that was and what the purported advantages over Jupyter are, since reactivity seems like the main value add of Pluto.jl - and a significant one at that.
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by tfehring 6y ago
You can (and people frequently do) trade options on RH, which are inherently leveraged. But RH is just a broker - it’s not on the other side of the trades itself.
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by tfehring 6y ago
BlackRock isn’t a hedge fund, it’s (primarily) an index provider and just holds stocks including GME on behalf of clients who invest in wide swaths of the market at once. Most of the profit has probably gone to passive investors who own a l
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by tfehring 6y ago
Why would evictions impact the poverty rate? Isn't it just the share of people who fall under a certain level of income, without directly accounting for things like housing insecurity?
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by tfehring 6y ago
There’s a similar (but smaller) differential for other medical professionals too. But more generally, when I’ve done high-level comparisons of medical spending between the US and Western European countries, it seems like every single cost
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by tfehring 6y ago
One annoying thing about being a generalist is that domain experts in any given area that you need familiarity with can't help but complain about how little you know about that domain, ignoring the fact that your job requires equally d
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by tfehring 6y ago
> This is meaningless without comparing it to how many instances of hate speech or calls of violence exist on competing sites like Twitter. What would you bet that it's not more than 98? The better comparison would be instances of
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by tfehring 6y ago
> It just doesn't make sense, unless you believe Parler is bad in some kind of way and the only way they could've been bad is political. Not the previous commenter, but Parler absolutely did commit wrongdoing, and that wrongd
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by tfehring 6y ago
I think mirroring free speech standards under the law is probably a good starting point - i.e., censoring is bad by default, but not all speech is protected, and calls for violence and insurrection are a relevant and timely example of non-p
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by tfehring 6y ago
There are at least a million people, and likely several million, in Chinese concentration camps right now, so it's clear that they don't have to cross international borders to commit human rights violations. The lifting of million
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by tfehring 6y ago
An example from my field: in financial modeling the typical pattern is to calculate an initial cash flow followed by further projected cash flows at fixed intervals (e.g., monthly). The natural way to store a series of cash flows (besides a
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by tfehring 6y ago
> I'd like to have the VA thumb drive handoff and the GA under-the-table ballot stash explained please. I can't find any information about "the VA thumb drive handoff". Do you mean this event [0] in Wisconsin? And I
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by tfehring 6y ago
Just glancing at the linked spreadsheet, I see way more than 4 events in 2020 for which termination is pretty clearly justified and necessary, so this trend seems to be driven at least in part by a change in behavior by professors and not j
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by tfehring 6y ago
Bad for US resellers and drop shippers. But I can't see it having much impact on US-manufactured goods.
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by tfehring 6y ago
Great article, thanks for sharing. But I think this misses the mark a bit. I agree with the general point that the folks who think they want to live in 1960s New York wouldn't be caught dead in the most similar places that exist today,
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by tfehring 6y ago
Reminds me of Howard Temin, whose widely dismissed research in the 1960s and 1970s was critical for our understanding of HIV/AIDS a decade later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Martin_Temin
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by tfehring 6y ago
I think the difference from academic studies that fail to replicate is less about capability and more about the fact that experimentation in adtech is fundamentally straightforward and occurs under far more idealized conditions - those you
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by tfehring 6y ago
Or stuck some spring flowers in it.
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by tfehring 6y ago
And also a strong proponent of effective giving. The charities he gives to (generally malaria-focused ones) can save a healthy human life for less than $5,000 on average. https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-chariti
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by tfehring 6y ago
The unit I'd use is car-minutes. In a 30-minute commute you might observe 200 car-minutes (this is a total shot in the dark to be clear) closely enough to notice a mistake if it happened. So if you notice 1 mistake per commute on avera
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by tfehring 6y ago
We aren’t even close to maxing out what could be accomplished with economic sanctions! The US and Russia still have a direct trading relationship!
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by tfehring 6y ago
In the 50s Google would have been unionized and firing would have been harder, not easier, than it is today, all else being equal.
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by tfehring 6y ago
You can get free or very cheap health insurance in most of the US if you have low or no income, including if you're bootstrapping a startup. "Most of the US" means the dark blue states in [0] plus Wisconsin. [0] https:/
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by tfehring 6y ago
Isn't outperformance by assets with greater duration - e.g., stock in companies whose expected earnings are way off in the future - what fundamentals would suggest should happen in a decreasing interest rate environment?
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by tfehring 6y ago
Yeah the distribution of returns isn't symmetrical, but the expected return is still equal to the market return. You could make the argument that that means that expected utility is lower because of decreasing marginal utility, but I
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by tfehring 6y ago
I'm unironically inclined to agree with it, but I'd be interested in reading a more substantial refutation.

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