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by zwaps 5y ago
If they arrived in the 1800's, would they not be dead by now?
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by zwaps 5y ago
30% is a ridiculous tip in Europe, also in Germany. Generally you round up, or give 10% if it's an occasion.
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by zwaps 5y ago
On top of what has been said, if you want to do some more advanced statistical analyses (in the inference area, not ML/predictive field), then chances are that these algorithms are either published as R or STATA packages (usually R). I
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by zwaps 5y ago
I know very few people who can consistently drink alone, and drink very little. Maybe once or twice a year would be fine, but who does anything with such long frequency? Rather, I see people who normalize alcohol consumption on a pretty reg
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by zwaps 5y ago
I wonder if it were possible to create a language with the power of Haskell, but with a better, more mathematical-like syntax?
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by zwaps 5y ago
All of these things are illegal for good reason, they harm people. But, the argument is simple: In all these cases businesses do something illegal and therefore either need to be stopped, or stop existing. People who use this tech are crim
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by zwaps 5y ago
For what’s worth, Windows is paid and there are better alternatives to all the other things you mentioned. I do not use any of them.
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by zwaps 5y ago
Since it is a two sided platform, not a single product ("phone and apps"), and as Apple is constraining the payment downstream market, and causing harm to the consumer (30% markup), there is a case. Some textbook rulings will appl
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by zwaps 5y ago
What a weird take, but I do enjoy you make it, because it proves my point: From your perspective, it is a simple mechanism. People speak the same language, so they must hang out together. As I already explained, Game Theory can be good to c
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by zwaps 5y ago
Interestingly enough, if something is bad in the US, it can also be bad elsewhere. Even worse though, there are indications that this behavior is institutionally supported and desired in China. After all, if the local governors make rules t
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by zwaps 5y ago
I know this was a big issue for Thinkpads throughout the years, but as much as I care about the feel of a keyboard, I have never cared about the layout. I guess we all have our pet peeves.
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by zwaps 5y ago
I miss my Thinkpad T400-420s I especially miss the keyboard and that particular pointstick (with those buttons). It is really weird that since then, keyboards just have been getting worse. Build quality otherwise has improved, especially on
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by zwaps 5y ago
For one thing (for me, at least): The keyboard. I have yet to see a good keyboard on a modern laptop, and I use a lot of different ones. Some people do not care, but I do. There's some keyboards that are "still decent", but a
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by zwaps 5y ago
You might misunderstand what a model is supposed to do in such research papers. Schelling's model elucidates a mechanism where small individual preferences (probably not even worth calling a 1/3rd preference a "bias") le
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by zwaps 5y ago
Your answers feel like you are engaging in cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, you recognize in your article that "non-core" work is not rewarded in academia. In particular, however, the situation is dire for current PhD studen
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by zwaps 5y ago
In my case, Google doesn't work too well. I usually have something in mind when I search, and Google doesn't offer any customization for me to put it in. Instead, it shows me what it prefers. For example, I frequently need to sw
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by zwaps 5y ago
We can make this short: There is a continuum of causal/counterfactual techniques in economics. This continuum ranges between "calibrated" simulation models and "econometric" models. The latter are statistical approa
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by zwaps 5y ago
Adjacent to the article in the op: What __is__ your recommendation for setting up remote backup for private use? I am thinking of something that can be used to sync and / or backup different devices for people of differing tech affinit
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by zwaps 5y ago
Compared to European cities (except parts of London or Frankfurt etc.), US cities have always felt dead to me. Even Chicago and New York. There's previous few places in these cities where one can sit outside somewhere interesting. Spec
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by zwaps 5y ago
"GNUstep is a free, object-oriented, cross-platform development environment that strives for [...] elegance" Well personally, I gotta say, I dig the 1995 optics of this.
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by zwaps 5y ago
First, you can sync your browser with your Firefox account, so this is I guess what you want? Second, for the Google (Gsuite, Android) integration, you could just use a work browser (aka Chrome). Third, if you use all that Google stuff in y
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by zwaps 5y ago
It is utterly naive to think that Facebook does not plainly ignore the regulations here. They have done it everywhere else. And once the data is in the model, the Goose is cooked. Who cares about a few million fine? In fact, Facebook would
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Ask HN: What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?
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Love the timeline of failure and success (the latter of which is what one usually sees). I think there may be some who breeze through grad school, likely by being in a strong research environment beforehand, or by having lots of support. I
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Someone else itt said that Tesla is ranked last in terms of reliability https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/Tesla-ranks-almost-dead-...
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by zwaps 5y ago
AMD's support - not just for new or old GPUs, but in terms of all sorts of compatibility changes, usability parity and regressions is staggeringly bad. Given that compute is important, and many people use their GPUs for compute of some
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You know, you are probably right statistically, although the true coefficient is biased (maybe in either direction) due to selection effects and societal endogeneity. However, I always wonder, when people say things like "if you are a
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"Rudolf Caracciola's record (in the 1937 Mercedes-Benz W125) of 432.7 km/h (268 mph) over the flying kilometre on 28 January 1938, remained the fastest ever officially timed speed on a public road until broken on 5 November 2
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by zwaps 5y ago
DDG is now even with Google imo. Used to be different for sure. But nowadays, it's a back and forth. For a lot of people DDG is strictly better: You live anywhere that is not the US and therefore have to deal with a thing called "
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by zwaps 5y ago
As a European, I am pretty sure. These cases are fought for years, and theorized over for decades. In the meantime, the companies have gained or lost market share, profits and future revenues move in whatever direction, and the court ruling

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