thepete2

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by thepete2 5y ago
One thing I've always wondered: Does the stock market basically consist of insider traders making a profit off of people without that knowledge? I feel like even with immense restrictions on insiders in place, information is so easy to
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by thepete2 6y ago
I disagree. Instead it should be mandatory to choose. Make it a condition for getting a driver's license or even your ID.
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by thepete2 6y ago
Hard to know without more info. It likely depends on the rate with which they release it and the currents, i.e. how the radioactive water dilutes with the ocean. What should matter for the fish consumption there should be the local concentr
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by thepete2 6y ago
Well if it's arranged by a group, you need to formulate a rule for who gets to attend. If that rule is "no whites" that's certainly controversial.
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by thepete2 6y ago
I really don't know why this term is thrown around in the news so much without explanation. What I thought at first (and I think is the obvious interpretation) is that with an effectiveness of 90%, 10% of vaccinated people have no prot
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by thepete2 6y ago
This is a good question that was picked up by a blog I read. IIRC it refers to the ratio of infections in the control group vs. the vaccinated group. Hence an effectiveness of 90% means 90% of cases occurred in the non-vaccinated group. It
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by thepete2 6y ago
But isn't there some redundancy of the parts at least? Of course you can't recover from a failed flip, but having more engines than necessary means some failed ignitions can be tolerated.
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by thepete2 6y ago
1. This isn't just driver monitoring if there can be a "live feed" (and besides I'm not inclined to believe Amazon only uses it for that), driver monitoring would not need an internet connection if there was any value pl
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by thepete2 6y ago
Yes. Notice that if the goal was really "safety" (as stated), the company does not need a "live feed" ever, a warning to the driver is enough. After all his safety is in his own best interest.
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by thepete2 6y ago
yes, and I was glad to see they get so much in donations.
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by thepete2 6y ago
That's definitely a tendency that you'd expect when sites are engineered for engagement and everybody starts out at google. I guess it also means google completely controls the experience of most people on the internet.
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by thepete2 6y ago
Capital is free to move around while people are often held in place by borders. If people were free to cross borders capital would have to compete for people instead of people and countries competing for capital.
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by thepete2 6y ago
The money Microsoft gets from spying on paying users is sometimes called "surveillance dividend". Even if you pay for something, the company can make more money if they also spy on you.
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by thepete2 6y ago
Exactly. The right way to go about it would be changing standard business hours (and school, etc.) twice a year.
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by thepete2 6y ago
Yes, this. Not to say that fitness for test and fitness for reality aren't correlated. They just aren't the same. All in all I just wonder if we don't overvalue competition (the reason I we probably have grades) and undervalu
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by thepete2 6y ago
That's a good one. Reviews are so abused by now, it's almost comical.
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by thepete2 6y ago
I've never used trustpilot, but how do they get away with it? Why are they used at all? Search rankings? But how did they get those?
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by thepete2 6y ago
I'm not even sure what non-distorted ratings are supposed to be. What you mention obviously makes them more inaccurate, but they aren't accurate to begin with. Ratings are a messy human affair, I don't know why we bother quan
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by thepete2 6y ago
As always we don't measure what matters, but what is measurable. There are actually very good arguments against giving grades at all, but it's sadly way out of the mainstream ...
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by thepete2 6y ago
Except if people actually prepare for the standardized tests in some way or another as is usually the case ... "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Your point is still valid though, I find university
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by thepete2 6y ago
What's probably missing from the article is the giant caveat of almost all educational research, which is: *as measured by grades*
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by thepete2 6y ago
I agree. But if we steel-man this,it could make sense for services that can be replaced by libraries. So simple services that could be replaced by a slim library on the user's machine.
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by thepete2 6y ago
I mean come on, deaths by pollution and accidents is all you look at to declare it as safe? What about the almost existential risk and the unsolved final repository problem? (the US at least still doesn't have one). Maybe the risk is l
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by thepete2 6y ago
That's a strange statistic. Saying it is safer by this statistic alone is misleading.
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by thepete2 6y ago
god this sounds awesome
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by thepete2 6y ago
That's exactly what I mean. Great use haha
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by thepete2 6y ago
This is kind of unrelated, but I wonder if a small amount (say 100 signs or so) of sign language (ASL or local equivalent) wouldn't be useful for hearing people in their day-to-day lives. I'm very interested in sign-language, but
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by thepete2 6y ago
Yes. Right after our neighbour starts paying taxes.
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by thepete2 6y ago
There should be an unsubscribe email header for newsletters. Then it could even be a feature for mail clients.
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by thepete2 6y ago
Juan Bennet mentioned in one of his talks how crazy it is that there still isn't a simple way to send files from one pc to another. This is a nice tool.

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