the88doctor

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by the88doctor 3y ago
Incentivizing quality over quantity always leads to more fraud. It happens in academia, and it happens in sales (e.g. Bank of America scandal). If I need more of X to get promoted or to get my bonus, then it's easiest to just create
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by the88doctor 3y ago
I've moved 22 times in my life. I've never moved from an area due to a single neighbor, but some areas you just feel different than everyone living around you. That causes you (or at least me) to think about moving.
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by the88doctor 3y ago
I definitely need to move out of Florida before having kids.
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FinCEN proposes new rule for residential real estate held in trusts or LLCs(fincen.gov)
75 points by the88doctor 3y ago|70 comments
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The global fight against HIV is at risk(science.org)
61 points by the88doctor 3y ago|96 comments
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by the88doctor 3y ago
Not sure what data you're looking at, but that's completely off. Trailing 12 month food inflation is over 4%. Transportation inflation is over 10%. Services excluding energy are up 5.9%.
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by the88doctor 3y ago
3% construction loans would majorly undermine the Fed's effort to fight inflation
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by the88doctor 3y ago
"I wouldn't underestimate how... having one company as both your registrar and cloud service provider can impact the choice of which otherwise commodity service to use." THIS. Even if I'm just spinning up a simple blog
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by the88doctor 3y ago
True, but I think a human graphic artist would have known what I was asking for
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Gene editing of microbiome may help prevent asthma in children(universityofcalifornia.edu)
4 points by the88doctor 3y ago|1 comments
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by the88doctor 3y ago
The generator isn't very accurate. I prompted "a sad bald construction worker" and I got a smiling construction worker wearing a hard hat. Only 1 out of 3 adjectives was implemented.
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Crypto casino 'Stake' loses $41M in hack(rekt.news)
1 points by the88doctor 3y ago|0 comments
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by the88doctor 3y ago
I started my PhD doing algebraic topology and tried using TDA for a couple industry projects before eventually switching to work on quantum computing algorithms because I decided TDA wasn't that useful. It's definitely a solution
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FDA Approves First Vaccine for Pregnant Individuals to Prevent RSV in Infants(fda.gov)
1 points by the88doctor 3y ago|0 comments
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by the88doctor 3y ago
Chess is one sport where I didn't expect transwomen controversy to even be relevant -- physical abilities don't even come into play.
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Telemarketer Fees to Access FTC Do-Not-Call Registry to Increase in FY2024(ftc.gov)
4 points by the88doctor 3y ago|0 comments
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by the88doctor 3y ago
A lot of the toasters shown from 1910-1940s only toast one side of the bread at a time and have a flipping mechanism to then toast the other side. The flipping mechanisms seem like they would be nearly as expensive as just adding a second
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by the88doctor 3y ago
Does this mean no one will be trying to reach me about my car's extended warranty?
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by the88doctor 3y ago
The Market Wizard series has several good interviews with traders with verified records that significantly outperformed for decades. The ones who used TA invariably say that it used to work but became less and less effective as computers b
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by the88doctor 3y ago
Sadly, not only is it legal, but it is incentivized. Financial service providers have enormous civil and criminal liability by tech company standards, and some regulations require them to use "risk-based" approaches to decline se
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by the88doctor 3y ago
I hope you sold your Nvidia and locked in those profits.
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by the88doctor 3y ago
Do you mean for video content specifically?
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by the88doctor 3y ago
That's exactly what I was wondering. Why send the entire dataset when you can just send the schema and ask the AI to generate queries and then translate query results back into natural language?
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Why is the US Solicitor General trying to change the law to help patent trolls?(eff.org)
4 points by the88doctor 3y ago|0 comments
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by the88doctor 3y ago
Traditional economists model traditional economic incentives. Behavioral economists try to understand all the gaps in traditional economic models such as why people don't steal as much as they can when there is 0% chance of getting ca
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FDA Finalizes Rule to Deregulate Hearing Aids(fda.gov)
278 points by the88doctor 3y ago|140 comments
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by the88doctor 3y ago
"Helped shape" != "Dictated". It makes perfect sense to have industry members be a part of discussions about regulations and problems related to their industry. Industry members shouldn't be able to dictate the ou
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by the88doctor 3y ago
The claim that EARN IT would make "prosecution of child sexual abuse crimes more difficult" is inaccurate. The bill only creates a voluntary set of guidelines for companies, not a mandatory set of guidelines. Companies would be
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by the88doctor 3y ago
That's a scarily good comparison. Children need to be protected, but it feels like there is a steady erosion of basic rights to privacy, free speech, free expression, and free choice that are being justified with "whatever it tak
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by the88doctor 3y ago
I think it's a combination of risk aversion and the cost of acquiring information. Most people don't do extensive (or any) research before voting. They choose a candidate based on party affiliation or the information on TV. So f

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