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by vajrabum 4y ago
The federal reserve dividends are set by statute and are an unvarying 6%/yr and have been since 1913. So, in this case, the 'fed stakeholders' are the US Congress. Moreover the amount of stock owned by member banks is also se
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by vajrabum 4y ago
This is fun from the article: "Normally we think of the CAP theorem as applying to databases, but it applies to all distributed systems. Centralized databases do well at consistency and availability, but suck at partition tolerance; so
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Oh, you mean the border where the seizures of fentanyl are at record level and almost of what comes in, comes through the ports of entry in trucks and not some random spot on the border on somebody's back just like you'd expect?
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by vajrabum 4y ago
In any corporation many, if not most managers, directors and VPs are not measured by revenue impact. Not they don't have a revenue impact but that they aren't measured by it because the contribution is indirect. In those cases, I
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by vajrabum 4y ago
But notice in a public school environment the hard incentives ($$$) are all on the administration. So, it's attendance, tests and grades, maybe followed by class size. Yes, there's incentives for students to cheat but cheating is
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Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing(frontiersin.org)
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Lots of linguistics researchers would disagree about the existence and necessity of universal grammar or Chomsky's 'language acquisition device' and in fact the success of LLMs and statistical models which very clearly have n
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Hermes was among other things, the messenger of the gods in the Greek pantheon. I'd guess they were thinking of that as the context for the name. Of course, he also the psychopomp, the god who guided dead souls to the underworld. That
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by vajrabum 4y ago
It's apparently a retail business in Japan. https://www.welcome-aeon.com
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Just business doesn't usually lead to massive losses in an advertising revenue at an advertising business to the point Twitter is giving away ads. I'm not sure what it is but it's not just business. https://masha
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I think its interesting in the discussion of bullshit in the humanities article there is no knowledge or acknowledgement of published bullshit in STEM. And yet pretty much every competent STEM academic is going to have seen a lot of it, per
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by vajrabum 4y ago
No need for an undergraduate degree to practice medicine? Well perhaps not but if you look at the list of classes required to enter most medical schools, and the content of the curriculum most anybody is going to be hard pressed to get in,
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Yes, there's in fact good evidence that the amyloids are likely an effect rather than the cause, arising from the long history of failure of drugs aimed at the amyloids.
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Politics includes history which none of this discussion has. It's more than a little scary how many nuke plants in California were built in seismically active spots no sane engineer would have chosen if the risks were properly understo
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by vajrabum 4y ago
I was wondering how this compares with xv6, which is a Unix v6 like 32 bit system written for teaching so peeked at the book and the code. I've only scratched the surface but the developer of the project says that he's deliberatel
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Orkut by the way was created by a Stanford trained engineer at Google. It wasn't Brazilian. Rather it had a Brazilian community.
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by vajrabum 4y ago
I used to work on avionics of a mostly newer vintage than this but I love this sort of technology. Thanks for sharing and if you get around to digitizing the manuals I'm sure they'd be fun to look at too.
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Find a preprint of the paper referred to here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05259 Here's the abstract: The deluge of sensors and data generating devices has driven a paradigm shift in modern computing from arithmeti
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by vajrabum 4y ago
I got curious and looked. It's not intro to computer science, but intro to computer systems (i.e. systems programming and high level computer architecture). https://cs.brown.edu/courses/info/csci0330/
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by vajrabum 4y ago
The major reason for the initial excitement about containers was the relative efficiency as compared to VMs. I understand that Firecracker has a low memory overhead and a fast startup time but I'd be interested to know what the virtual
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by vajrabum 4y ago
I'm a little doubtful about applying a story about the behavior of people whose brains have been surgically split in half to the rest of us who still have a corpus callosum. It's probably stretching my point but you could even say
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Cropping the outliers is often a hidden abstraction. That might be good for recognizing things but for making things it's likely to be a problem--take the cupcake example. What's the robot (program) going to do with the cupcake? P
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by vajrabum 4y ago
No it's simply an example of the sort of duty that management does not delegate to ICs. There are many.
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Engineers generally don't take over the manager's responsibilities unless they're technical or reporting responsibilites. Generally it's another manager. Most companies require management involvement in P0 incident respo
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Can you provide evidence for that assertion? My read is dictatorships are famous for only letting a small number of people talk and frequently those people are in a risky situation when the dictator changes their mind.
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Hmm. "Tune In. Turn on. Drop out." - Timothy Leary's most famous quote.
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I'm confused. I went and looked at the editorial by Paul Krugman. Here's the quote: "To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And
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by vajrabum 4y ago
Did you see they restored the 2 Olympic medals for the pentathlon and decathlon to Jim Thorpe just the other day. Long overdue.
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I wonder if the miracle involved more managing up and trust up than down. On more than one occasion I either been a consultant or worked with consultants who pretty much repeated what the internal experts were saying but management didn&#x2
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That's interesting. Can you expand on it? What does Springsteen do as a influencer?

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