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by zhdc1 5y ago
> But if you’ve been using anything other than last-gen Macs to compare against, the M1 feels more like catching up to current performance standards as opposed to the media narrative about being faster than anything else out there. I don
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> Teaching them to do statistical analysis in Julia will involve you spending 80% of your time teaching them Julia and maybe 20% of your time teaching them statistical analysis. This works until they run into a use case that doesn't
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by zhdc1 5y ago
It's 80% about having a point and click interface, 10% about path dependency effects, and 10% about whether or not they have a paid license.
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> What is your background? Academic research, so more econometrics/data science work, but I have some experience with application programming that I've managed to leverage. > Most people I know who are either statisticians o
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> For my use case, R is absolutely terrible compared to some for profit statistical package / language. Which one? I've switched most of my work over to Julia, but I'd much rather use R or Python than Stata or SPSS.
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> Let's say from.. I don't know, 50 years ago. Taxes were increased such that social security is 2-3x what it is now. Some level which basically guarantees you have descent money for retirement. Sure you should still save some
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> You need more money, which means either higher taxes or more people earning taxable money. The speed of population growth is declining, which is a big problem for the latter, and the former clearly has its limits. What's worse is
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> Instead of real retirement plans, higher guaranteed social security. This comes out in practice as PAYGO, or "pay as you go". A lot of countries use this model, and it goes bad quickly when tax receipts aren't enough to
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> It was super annoying when I returned to the UK with my dual UK/US wife and we couldn't invest in the same passive funds (or rather, we could, but at punitive tax rates) because US seems to like their citizens wherever they l
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by zhdc1 5y ago
I don't think I've ever heard this argument. I have, however, heard the opposite argument: nuclear power plants are now extremely safe because of safety regulations, so we should build more of them.
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> btw, russians are officially considered colored in US as I understand. As far as I'm aware, Russians were never subject to Jim Crowe laws. There was, however, a significant surge in discrimination against Slavic (mainly Polish) im
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> I’m blown away by how anti-crypto this discussion is. I hadn’t realized how negative the prevailing sentiment is on Hacker News. The more I learn about crypto (which isn't a lot), the more I agree that digital currency is the way
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> I used to think this (as a euro), then I met an American and he explained that he ended up better off in Europe on a "lower" salary because he hadn't considered the hidden costs of living in the USA. This is going to be
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> I've been dabbling in AI recently, and I keep seeing FB's name appear all over the place. They were associated with some work that wrote human readable instructions on how to cook something- given only a list of ingredients.
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> If Facebook is successful not innovating, why would they want to hire innovators? There's a larger question that I'm still trying to work out. Meta has something like 71K employees at this point and spends over $21B a year in
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by zhdc1 5y ago
Why are we assuming that short term changes in share price have anything to do with underlying fundamentals? Meta prints money. They brought in $40B in net income off of $115B in revenue last year. Income attributable to Facebook + WhatsApp
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by zhdc1 5y ago
It looks like he's using vanilla Leaflet and a tile map. Gdaltile My guess is that he used GDAL to color and tile the DEM. GDAL can work with hgt files, but the DEM he used probably came as a bunch of geotiffs (I haven't checked,
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> This is way too early though. It very likely is. > I’d compare them to Microsoft during the Windows CE PDA area. I completely agree. Smartphones turned out to be as much of a hardware issue (capacitive touch screens) as a software i
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> Why would it take off, if it is treated as an "unprecedented amount of advertising space"? Imagine you're thirteen years old and have a choice between Apple's AR take on eye wear, or vanilla eye glasses. I would be
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> When I can just slip on a pair of VR/AR glasses and throw away my monitor is the moment I believe VR/AR has "made it". They also have to last a good amount of time between charges (wired AR glasses are likely going
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> Meat - sorry, Meta - is going to be taken down by antitrust actions long before any of that becomes possible. I doubt this. There's no recent precedence for splitting apart a company of their size. > The social element is more
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> I’ve found Oculus to be a novelty. It’s fun for the first 20 minutes, and after that, it gathers dust in a drawer. VR headsets likely aren't the answer. Unobtrusive smartglasses may very well be the answer. Like I wrote in my prev
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by zhdc1 5y ago
I'll go contrarian and argue (for the sake of arguing) that the decision to transition to Meta now makes sense if you think that two things will occur: 1.) Wearable VR becomes affordable, unobtrusive, and ubiquitous 2.) You can monetiz
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> The problem is, it doesn't scale, especially in a city as big and violent as Chicago. It only works so long as police keep their foot on the gas (so to speak); they minute they let up on traffic enforcement (because of competing p
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> One way I'm trying to make sense of is the following: The left is used to being the underdog, the ones fighting for reform against powerful, conservative institutions. This isn't necessarily true. The Democrats in the US had
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by zhdc1 5y ago
People evaluate large purchases - in part - on whether they can afford the monthly payment. Low interest rates and comparably high rents make people more willing to pay more for property. Higher interest rates, which may be on the horizon,
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by zhdc1 5y ago
Political scientists are generally focused on national governments and/or international organizations. To paraphrase a well known economist and political commentator, modern governments are essentially insurance companies with their ow
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by zhdc1 5y ago
> As for the woman on the other end of the line, she seems concerned with statutes of limitation. She’s married now and lives a quiet life in a large Midwestern city, collecting coins. Guessing there's a chance this might be her?
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by zhdc1 5y ago
If you're looking for a list of concrete steps, this has worked pretty well for me: 1.) Identify an area of your life you want to improve. It can be anything, but it should be something you can see meaningful progress towards over the
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by zhdc1 5y ago
Very cool. Do you mind if I send you an email at team@protontypes.eu? We have an on-going (academic) research effort that may fit the criteria on your contribution guide : )

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