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by unishark 6y ago
> As someone who has been on both the research and industry software end, there’s really not that much difference. Requirements change, you build that into your plans. Frankly, a lot of best practice software development that gets total
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by unishark 6y ago
Id say this goes in the same category with the benefits of war. Death is also a tragedy for the person who dies. That adds up to a heck of a lot of tragedy. Perhaps old people would be far less resistant to change if their mortality wasn&#x
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by unishark 6y ago
So minicab companies pay more and charge less than uber? How does that work economically? And wouldn't everyone just switch to the mincab companies, both drivers and passengers, if that's the case?
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by unishark 6y ago
Your example is not as logically meaningful however. An example of something not being done (i.e., negotiation) can serve as a proof it is not necessary, assuming it was legal. The converse doesn't work. Maybe your experience is with c
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by unishark 6y ago
> Take away the gig economy part from Uber and it becomes a regular taxi market, an industry that has been around for a hundred years already, with all the checks and balances installed already (from driver and passenger rights to ride
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by unishark 6y ago
Insurers have actuaries to make sure they don't go bankrupt. They would be plenty happy to just sit there as middle men skimming off a cut forever. With standardization of care it becomes a lobbing fight as every other player in the in
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by unishark 6y ago
If you literally sell huevos as your business there may be a problem. Otherwise, as the other poster says, it's just about avoiding confusion. There can be Bob's Hardware and Bob's Grocery store as separate trademarks.
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by unishark 6y ago
One explanation I've read is that heavy addicts build up such a tolerance that they need dangerously high doses in the first place. If they quit for awhile like in this story, their tolerance drops and what they could previously handle
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by unishark 6y ago
> Your argument had nothing to do with the difference between principles rooted in physics vs mathematics. True. Where did mathematics come in? Math does not abstract away the fundamentals in the way that I am talking about. Whether you
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by unishark 6y ago
I'm not sure about that. I'd always heard about it in the context of "deplatforming" people by actively getting them kicked off whatever social media or getting them fired from a job where they can influence society. May
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When it's against individuals it starts to become harassment and bullying, depending on the severity. These are not things we generally care about protecting organizations from, just individuals.
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There was also ebay feedback which was key to shopping for a lot longer I'd say.
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> They’re way too negative and usually list weird one off problems or shipping issues. That's presumably why they said "read" the negative reviews. Obviously you don't then base your decision off negative reviews that
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by unishark 6y ago
In statistical terms, a biased model has error in its estimate even with infinite data. This can happen if the model is too simple, for example if it classifies samples into two classes when there are really three, or if it uses a linear cu
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by unishark 6y ago
> So when you don't know the difference between two things you assume there is no difference and not only disregard those better informed than you who claim otherwise, but try to tell them how simple their profession is? Are you re
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by unishark 6y ago
Your field may look vast to you but from where I'm sitting I couldn't even tell you what is different about the principles needed for tv mounts versus helicopter flexbeams. Both sound like statics class to me, presumably decades a
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by unishark 6y ago
You mean using experimental data rather than theory? It's still connected to the underlying science, which is the key component. It's like saying the difference between a peninsula and an island is one of degree. Yes in a sense, b
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by unishark 6y ago
> That's an interesting thought but I'm not sure if it can be applied to software. Part of what makes security hard seems that it only takes a single point of failure in a chain of dependencies to go bad. I think this is the po
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by unishark 6y ago
I totally think we should be teaching logical fallacies and such in schools. Along with basic ethics (as in the various competing schools of thought). But in fairness to the average person, scammers have to play big numbers games to find su
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by unishark 6y ago
> It's hard having ideas and then lacking the social skills to bring them forth. This article kind of reminds me of a professor I knew, but I'd describe him as the opposite: big on vision, self-promotion, and the whole social g
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by unishark 6y ago
Are you talking about political correctness now?
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I think almost every state has laws protecting breastfeeding in public. Otherwise the issue in the US focuses overwhelmingly on parents wanting to prevent children from seeing nudity. How "public" can saunas get? There are also sa
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by unishark 6y ago
> Yeah, whatever % of Chinese who blame the West are the mirror image of westerners blaming China, and they're all absolute morons. But you're a westerner blaming the west, so that's cool? Anyway doesn't one of the si
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by unishark 6y ago
> After all, aside from the whole "no evidence" thing, what does it matter if it's a lab accident or a bat bite or whatever? Indeed because both of those leading theories point the blame at China. So if people want to blam
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> The tone and tenor of the investigation has always been to find a way to absolve local politicians of responsibility for their incompetence in managing this issue by blaming China. I think you have this backwards. The obsession has alw
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by unishark 6y ago
You mean because his reasoning is Austrian and not Keynesian it is wrong even when the crash happens which he predicted would happen? That's convenient. Gold has also done pretty well hasn't it? You can list wrong predictions all
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by unishark 6y ago
I think the headline is misleading. Only 12 percent flatly said they couldn't pay for the expense. The 40 percent includes everyone who would take on debt and pay it off over time (i.e. not immediately in the next cc statement), or els
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by unishark 6y ago
I suspect they don't lack depth so much as have depth in other technologies which aren't used. If they don't want to stay on the treadmill of building expertise in the next new thing, then they move up to jobs based on the wi
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by unishark 6y ago
> The boy who cried wolf was eventually correct too. A broken clock is right twice a day. Etc. Yes. That's what I said. You said he was consistently wrong for 15 years. I don't know who to believe regarding gold and bitcoin, b
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by unishark 6y ago
This is a different goalpost. The story is about the top 1 percent versus the bottom 90 percent.

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