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by verteu 3y ago
> He says police beat the driver, which made him release the brake pedal, so the car creeped forward Fortunately there's a video to show this is an obvious lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfcLfoNkFk
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by verteu 3y ago
And "over 43%" of white admits are legacy ("ADLC"). I had no idea the proportion was so high!
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by verteu 3y ago
> who's really got standing to object? Other stakeholders, such as government regulators or the extra patients killed when PE takes over their hospitals and nursing homes [1]. [1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w28
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by verteu 3y ago
https://archive.is/OXZZJ
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by verteu 3y ago
Surely it's more cost-efficient to treat the root cause of homelessness (likely 'high rent prices': See charts in https://www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/homelessness-is-a-housi... ).
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by verteu 3y ago
One of the linked papers [1] describes several approaches to this problem (known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference ). They generally agree with the 10-15% ROI result. For example: - Regression discontinu
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by verteu 4y ago
Sounds rough -- how'd you administer & what was the approximate dose?
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by verteu 4y ago
The blogger is wrong. Supplementary tables S10 and S11 [1] show IQ scores dropped as a whole (stratified by gender only). The result is statistically significant. [1] Pages 16 and 17 of the Word document under "Appendix A. Supplementar
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by verteu 4y ago
No it wasn't -- you're misreading "number of murders" as "murder rate per 100,000 people."
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by verteu 4y ago
> SF had 40 murders per 100,000 people [last year] No it didn't. It had 56 murders [1] and a population of 808,437, so 6.9 murders per 100k [2], vs London's rate of 1.42 murders per 100k. [1] https://sfist.com/2
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by verteu 4y ago
Per FBI Crime Report statistics[1] the murder rate in SF is LOW for a major city. It's 60th of 83 major cities (Top 3 most dangerous are St Louis, Baltimore, Detroit). I defined murder rate as "Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter
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by verteu 4y ago
Don't be intimidated! The person who first invented complex numbers called them "useless" and "mental torture."[1] Subsequent mathematicians have simply gotten used to them. You'd invent them, too, if you spent
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by verteu 4y ago
Great idea to compare "what you pay" vs "what you get" between countries. I'd love to see further analysis downstream: How much revenue per capita each country collects, and how it's allocated. (IIRC, the conve
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by verteu 4y ago
I'm surprised BNB is only down 4% since Monday's news: https://www.binance.com/en/trade/BNB_USDC?theme=light&type=s...
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by verteu 4y ago
I would, but it's such a hassle to enter my address and CC info on every manufacturer's site. The last 3 things I bought were shaving cream, toothbrush heads, and a cheap tennis racket. Do I really want to signup/purchase&#x2
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by verteu 4y ago
How so? I had a positive (applicant) experience with TB. It saved me time by providing a unified phone screen for several companies.
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by verteu 4y ago
It's only free money if the probability of depeg/collapse/bankruptcy is zero. One thing I've learned from Anchor protocol, Celsius, FTX, etc: The probability is never zero.
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by verteu 4y ago
Genuine question: If a bank invests all customer deposits in 10y treasury bonds, and then interest rates rise, is it solvent? It seems this is essentially what made SVB insolvent.
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by verteu 4y ago
Which meds have you tried? Usually after trying 1-5 types, people find one that helps significantly.
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by verteu 4y ago
My interpretation is "If you're unsure enough to flip a coin, then... 1) Being forced to quit your job would make you 5.203 out of 10 points happier(!) 2) Being forced to start your own business would make you 5.203 out of 10 poin
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by verteu 4y ago
You should quit. There's a randomized controlled experiment on this exact topic. See column 6 in page 28 of https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22487/w224... On average, people who fli
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by verteu 4y ago
+1, I've been to 5 or 6 therapists and 80% of the progress came from the first or second session. The remaining sessions were almost always repetitive and useless to me.
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by verteu 4y ago
OneMedical bills your insurance, so you're responsible for buying insurance plus all copays and deductibles. It looks like Galileo offers many services with no insurance required: https://galileo.helpscoutdocs.com/artic
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by verteu 4y ago
I don't think so. Per Lastpass's description of their architecture, their server never sees your unencrypted passwords. (Though substantial metadata, such as the website URLs, are not encrypted.) To get unencrypted vaults, they&#x
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by verteu 4y ago
As a former Sr ML researcher at Google, I do have a cursory understanding of AI and its risks. But as I mentioned in another comment, the current discussion feels like we're blaming a slot machine's bytecode instead of the casino
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by verteu 4y ago
IMO, Facebook's problems (body image issues, fake news/clickbait) aren't caused by a genuine inability to control their "AI" algorithms[1]. The root cause is they prioritize profits over user well-being. Framing the
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by verteu 4y ago
The risks of "AI harm" seem overblown to me. The negative examples in the news (eg Sydney) look more like PR problems than societal risks. While improved LLMs will aid bad actors in spam/astroturfing, there's almost noth
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by verteu 4y ago
Which other languages did you have in mind?
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by verteu 4y ago
As a simple alternative, I had good results using Craiyon with prompts like "cute sloth, company logo, vector art, simple".
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by verteu 4y ago
Fascinating! Any notes on the implementation?

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