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by wjnc 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment (nothing new methodically) but have a thought: these methods were in the field of computer science and operations research (maybe). The popularity of ML and data science is taking place in the same 20 yrs that eve
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by wjnc 9y ago
What I do not understand from a market perspective is why insurers don't cooperate more to fund such research. If a treatment goes from 20k to 1k p.a. the benefits for insurers are clear. They could even fund such research in an equity
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by wjnc 9y ago
It's obviously in no way a compliant statement, so a mere added layer or trolling. I can appreciate the humor. Cookie notices are an annoyance at best. Once website are obliged to work without cookies, then cookie notices would start t
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by wjnc 9y ago
Racial bias can be present everywhere without race needing to be a part of every theory or else face the accusation of intellectual negligence. It's not a persons race that's discriminating... Persons discriminate. Adding a factor
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by wjnc 9y ago
He is making a statement akin to a growth process: wealth and social position accumulate over time and need many generations to come to fruition in that argument. I think the Asian example vs A-A in the US is a counterexample to this argume
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by wjnc 9y ago
I can relate to how hard it can be to do the right thing while being employed. But ultimately I would say it rests on each of us to do the right thing. If you work in a public safety facing job, that amplifies your responsibility. For pilo
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by wjnc 9y ago
Pilots have a professional duty of ensuring safety. If the pilots deemed the situation unsafe, there were enough avenues to pursue (FAA, local inspection). Complaining afterwards and looking for whistle blower protection doesn't absolv
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by wjnc 9y ago
Robert Nozicks' "Anarchy, State and Utopia" (1974) describes how a system of multiple concurring "governments" could work. Quite a stretch from social networks but first thing that came to my mind when reading your
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by wjnc 9y ago
Awesome! Now worldwide ;) Ideas: -Open up to the main local bookers (in my country that would be one firm, Mojo), monetization via referrals? -other awesomeness would include: local clubs and pubs access via API, same monetization. -Main fe
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by wjnc 9y ago
That's a big plus in hacker humour, considering DDoS, swatting and other malicious stuff (get it) flung at Krebs. Edit: are they DDoSsing or donating? If the former, than it's even worse form. Had my hopes up for a second. The art
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by wjnc 9y ago
Near my hometown a Tesla crashed and the crash killed the driver recently. Guess who gave a statement within days blaming the driver for speeding? For a European that was quite the novelty (and probably illegal, although AFAIK deceased lack
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by wjnc 9y ago
I agree. But suppose the difference mentioned (1 sec) is true. That's such a large difference that what they call for (formal outside verification) sounds pretty reasonable. This debate will always be hard since it will involve deaths,
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by wjnc 9y ago
Any government policy has winners and losers. Literally any. All that's reasonable is that governments act in.good faith and with proper accounting of, say, time horizons. They should have figured out that medallions were unsustainable
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by wjnc 9y ago
They should have used a Lambda-function for scaling. It's only code in a zip-container.
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by wjnc 9y ago
But ... your child and your childs' child will inherit our planet. Not saying your reasoning isn't economically sound, but the external effects of all that plastic are clearly not in the price.
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by wjnc 9y ago
My rant was more against the whole cheap plastic toy industry. The big chains definitively sell more cheap stuff (daresay shit) than my eco-self would like. But you're right: Legos, Playmobil and indeed Barbies (my girl is a few weeks
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by wjnc 9y ago
By far the best toy store in our hometown is a 30-yr old store that sells mainly wooden toys, board games, kites and nice dolls. They've survived and even improved in recent years, while the big toy stores merge and get less numerous.
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by wjnc 9y ago
Agree. Statistics is pretty basic at it's linear algebra core as well. Add some optimization. You can study most of the theory in a year or two. It's mastery and smart application that makes all the difference.
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by wjnc 9y ago
If you control for positively correlated variables, the results are more dramatic right? Higher intelligence leads to lower death And higher intelligence to higher income then lower death. So actuarial effects multiply.
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by wjnc 9y ago
I'll second this and on top of that would advise you to try to get some more insights into your personal drivers / personality (I fell for Meyers-Briggs or MBTI, but have to be honested that personality science feels somewhat hand
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by wjnc 9y ago
A few thoughts (EU/NL): -It's hard to find out why you were denied a loan and full transparency is not required. You could ask for how the company has processed your personal details and try to find out but hard to know and hence
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by wjnc 9y ago
It's right there in the regulation under (32) [0] I find your workflow reasonable, but it would fall short under 'free'. Negative and positive action are two different things and in this case the wording is quite clear (&quot
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by wjnc 9y ago
The GPDR asks for a deliberate action to opt-in (“silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity” should not constitute consent). So they should make it a very prominent choice to opt-in. No more opt-out in Europe.
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by wjnc 9y ago
I am EU-based and I guess you are US-based? That would count for some difference in perspective. IIRC Microsoft was fighting both US and EU competition cases and it pretty much handed them a lost decade. Not sure about the current US climat
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by wjnc 9y ago
Step 2, if taken anti-competetively would end up in tens of billions of dollars in fines and possibly the break-up of the company. I don't find it that unlikely, all things considered, but it should be the nail in the coffin.
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by wjnc 9y ago
A few hints from the article: 810 sq miles mapped, a three year project and lidar flying by helicopter. Another giveaway is the search for MH370. In some dimensions Earth is still huge!
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by wjnc 9y ago
More than I could ever think of on this topic (podcast and links related); http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/08/benedict_evans.html
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by wjnc 9y ago
If not kidding: the more skewed the negotiating power, the worse the outcome from an equity perspective. So individual bargaining would favor a fewd make most songwriters worse of. The buyers in the oligopsony (wiki that) will benefit the
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by wjnc 9y ago
I enjoyed both the piece and your comment. I might be somewhat preloaded (both parents sociologists), but the Boston Review might be right to assume that their readers have some background or at least interest in philosophy, sociology, poli
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by wjnc 9y ago
We can make it a little bit more awesome. Many adressess have both a fiber and coaxial cable coming in. Making it a broad competition between fiber and coax. The (only large) cable supplier is Liberty Global, which has responded by bringing

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