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by whakim 4y ago
There are two factors at play here. The first one is a matter of archaeology. During the majority of the Roman period, most things were written on papyrus (or sometimes slices of wood or wax tablets). (Stone and clay tablets were also used
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This is not wholly accurate. While it is true that under the Obama administration some conservative groups were inappropriately targeted by the IRS, a report released by the Treasury Deparment's Inspector General in 2017 found that suc
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In addition to this description of the Dark Ages/Enlightenment being wrong, it's worth pointing out how incredibly eurocentric it is ("humanity forgot how to read"). Even just in popular imagination, the 6th-10th centuri
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But where are the cars themselves coming from in this scenario? Are these still other people's cars which Lyft/Uber are essentially paying you to put on their platform? I don't think you can afford to pay people that much les
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> Historical myths and legends of were not controlled in the same sense that modern fiction is. I think this point misses a bit of context - notably the contrast between oral and written literature. Many historical legends and folklore o
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My experience (described above) provides a direct counterexample to this.
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Thanks very much for clarifying. My original point was that these staff and their salaries are often lumped in with "stereotypical bureaucracy" when discussing administrative bloat, and I think they're a greater percentage th
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> Administration doesn't consist of the people at that lower level. This isn't the way "administration" is calculated. Statistics showing "administrative bloat" point to growth in spending on "staff&quo
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I'd love to see the data on "insignificant compared to the administration," because it doesn't fit my actual experience in any way. (I'm not saying you're definitely wrong, but I hope you might slightly re-eval
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I would caution against such sweeping generalizations about where the money goes. Statistics usually show tremendous increases in spending on "staff" (i.e. non-faculty) salaries, but those staff do a variety of things. For example
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It's almost impossible (for any of us) to do an apples-to-apples comparison, because there are a huge number of non-frame-material variables: tires, wheels, bars, seatpost, fork, geometry, etc. etc. Some of these factors (e.g. tires) m
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These sentence embeddings transform chunks of text into n-dimensional vectors. The key feature of these kinds of embeddings is that semantically similar pieces of text produces similar vectors (even when the words themselves aren't the
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But everyone knows they can get a better deal than Carvana/Carmax/etc. - they're selling to Carvana because it's convenient . In theory, Akerlof's lemon theory could lead to a situation in which Carvana has to un
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I don't actually think buying cars sight unseen is the main obstacle here, because what you're describing (folks taking advantage of the system) represents a tiny percentage of transactions. I think the biggest issue is that you
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The thing is, we may have evolved to deal with chemicals that killed us and/or caused serious harm, but there's no evolutionary mechanism that selects for good health - surviving and reproducing are all that matters.
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There's a difference between not having the title and not having the title in hand . What Carvana does in this respect isn't illegal.
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I will add that there isn't a great return on scaling a car dealership like this. There aren't sufficient arbitrage opportunities to outweigh the costs of transporting cars around and complying with a hodgepodge of state laws.
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The reason this happens likely isn't negligence, but is instead a fundamental flaw in any kind of two-sided car marketplace. First, you have to buy the vehicle, and in many cases when you buy a car you have to pay off the seller's
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"Completely wrong" based on what? The conceptual definition of adolescent wellbeing is an area of robust debate involving a number of different interacting areas (e.g. physical, emotional, sociocultural, etc.)[1]. The markers of w
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I think it's inevitable in the long run, the question is just whether those breakthroughs come too late for Meta (my guess is they will). The salient point is that given enough time, hardware limitations won't be an obstacle to a
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Yeah, tack on another $115 or so for the 1TB of storage. And as a sibling comment mentions, on-demand pricing means it isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. In almost every case other than a hobby project it feels like the conve
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I understand that there's a big difference between a guarantee of a relatively small amount of money and a low chance of a huge amount of money even if the expected value of the former is higher. To also state the obvious, lots of peop
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Yeah, this begs the obvious question - who are startups for? Sure, people love ownership and the sense of mission/purpose, but if the argument is that startups are only for people that love mission/purpose so much that they&#x27
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This just sounds like you fundamentally misunderstood how asyncio works and applied it to a use-case which it wasn't suited to. Why would you use async if you're doing a bunch of CPU-bound work?
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This might be the case for CS PhDs, but it certainly isn't for the vast majority of Stanford PhD students in other departments - many of whom are earning less than half the amount you cited. A large percentage of Stanford PhD students
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As a sibling commenter noted, these figures around "staff" employees are super misleading and tend to cherrypick the most egregious examples of administrative bloat. For example, I worked for several years as a staff researcher at
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I think the key area of novelty here is the relationship to consciousness and thus the great unsolved questions over what precisely consciousness is and what purpose it serves.
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I can't express how much I dislike the advice to be "data-driven" and collect all the data you possibly can because it could be useful someday. While this may or may not be sound business advice, it's deeply unsettling t
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I totally agree with the first part of your comment. I want to add that there's a real possibility that legislation to address this (totally legitimate) issue goes too far and makes it even harder for non-wealthy people to run for publ
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This is purely about your preferences. You're arguing for a world in which the vast majority of people give up something they really like in exchange for something they really don't care about. "Abusive" is quite liter

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