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by thousandautumns 8y ago
No offense, but the perception of the US outside of the "diversity bastions" like SF, NYC, LA, etc. has jumped the shark. People now assume that racism and hatred is rampant outside these areas, and it isn't remotely the case
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I agree, and I think the discussion of suburban vs urban doesn't focus on it enough. As a single (or at least, childless) person, the city absolutely is much more appealing to me. The moment I had children the city became much less des
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
This is absolutely not the case in the metro areas I've lived in. Suburbs are generally much more affordable than the neighboring urban centers.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Too cold? I visited in January and couldn't believe how nice it was. It may be my Midwest frame of reference, but everyone else was walking around in short sleeves and perfectly comfortable so I doubt it.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
> (Yes, my dear aspring data scientist, do not load everything in a huge DataFrame, go learn yourself some SQL :-) ) You really don't even need to know SQL anymore to keep things out of memory. In R, the dplyr/dbplyr package ha
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Its not unambiguously good news. There are several countries such as Japan and Sweden that are looking down the barrel of inverted population pyramids in their immediate future and the consequences are expected to be dire. Yes, overpopulati
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I use it. About 6 months ago I deleted my facebook and instagram accounts. I found that I didn't miss my facebook in the slightest. I didn't miss much about my instagram, but I did find that I missed how easy it was to share photo
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
WL was provided with a large cache of Russian leaks in 2016, about half of which had been previously published, the other half of which had been previously unavailable. They declined to publish any of it.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Due to the way reddit is subdivided, it mostly keeps that toxicity quarantined to the groups that revel in it. For people who want to avoid it, it isn't particularly difficult to.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
They actually were called out for giving Trump such a high chance of victory by many. In particular, the Huffington Post accused Nate Silver and 538 of intentionally biasing their results to make it seem like Trump had a better shot. Someho
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I'm unsure what you are talking about, but as the other person stated, 538 gave Trump a 30% chance to win. If your colleagues interpreted that as a surefire thing then that reflects on you all poorly, not 538.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
They can be wrong. The problem is that you are looking at a single data point. Judging their performance requires viewing all of their predictions, across all elections, and seeing how often their predicted probabilities match up with outco
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Only the people who don't understand basic probability dropped them
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Because it isn't just for vegan/vegetarians. I love meat, but as I have become more aware of the implications of a meat based diet, its hard for me to justify my food choices. I would love a plant based product that tastes like me
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Why should pharma companies not be allowed to market their products?
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
There's plenty of industries that do. Tech makes much more. In fact, pharma on average spends a greater proportion of revenue on R&D than just about any other industry.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
How so? The products they make are different, but at the end of the day they are both industries living in the capitalist society we've created, driven by the same incentives, and largely operating by similar principles. How is it mora
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
How is there a lack of market pressure in the pharma industry?
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
That's not that uncommon in the US either though. My mother had an issue that required seeing a dermatologist, and just getting in to see a dermatologist was initially going to take about 6 months. After calling for a month, she was ev
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I believe the entirety of the game is set in a fictional equivalent of east of the Rockies, so I doubt it.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
For those who would like to play Dwarf Fortress, but are turned off by the incredibly steep learning curve or the offputting visuals, I suggest you look into Rimworld. Its similar to Dwarf Fortress in that it is a procedurally generated sto
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I would argue most cities outside of a handful of the largest metropolises. I would argue that outside of the LA, San Francisco, New York, Seattle, DC, Boston, and maybe one or two more cities, affordable housing is well within the 10 minut
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
It explains on the website what it is. And if you are going to rail against something, you should understand what you are railing against.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
This is correct, and I was making a simplification. A better example would be a curved hill.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
It's only useless and deceptive if you willfully do absolutely nothing to understand what it is, or how it differs from the other models 538 has, which apparently is the case for Taleb.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I've been following this spat since it reignited several weeks ago, but also since Taleb first attacked Nate on Twitter back before the 2016 elections, and it has been the final nail in the coffin as to any supposed credibility Taleb c
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Absolutely disagree. People have a tendency to think forecasting is simply making a binary prediction: something will happen or it won't. That simply is not the case. It's more than that. It's quantifying uncertainty. In actu
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Seems like a high risk investment if you aren't sitting put for a long time. If you plan on living in the house for a decade or more, the chances of you losing money seem pretty low. But people are less likely to sit put in one job or
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I wonder if there would be much of a market for the zero-G simulation plane experience, where they have faux-windows that are just ultra high-definition video of the Earth/space. I'd have to imagine with the already strange experi
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
What they mean is by "moving so fast" is, it's moving so fast horizontally . Imagine being at the top of a steep mountain and throwing a rock directly out from you. The rock will continue to move horizontally, due to the for

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