Maybestring

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by Maybestring 8y ago
>This is when the government had a vision and the nation had a collective aspiration. The moon program was always controversial and it came close to cancelation several times.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
So you order the $30 mod chip that will definitely exist.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
How risk is propogated through correspondent banking relationships is (I think) not common knowledge.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
This is basically the left take. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/mental-health-psychiatry-clas... 'The rise of psychiatry was funded by America’s Gilded Age industrialists. Their aim: to cast society’s ills as
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>There is just one domestic commercial bank in the country and it is at risk of losing its only correspondent banking relationship with another bank in the US. Is that a statement of fact, or a threat the IMF is making?
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by Maybestring 8y ago
You can see the key behavior by fixing one end of a belt, and moving the free end. You should find that there is a way to apply and remove double twists in the belt without twisting the free end.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
It's actually not even bad if people don't know how to read and write. It's great for tech stocks, and everyone will dictate beautiful letters with their phones.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
This method works because both languages corpuses talk about the same things. Life, death, love, war... they happen to people speaking all languages. To translate whale song, you need data that corresponds to what the whales are singing abo
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Are you confusing unsupervised with model-free? Unsupervised/supervised doesn't say anything about the priors baked in to the model.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
And the ships. Drop an anchor and demand ransom to cut it free.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
The difference between current demand, and the increased demand that would exist at a lower price. I just mean, there are lots of people that would move to SF if they could afford it. This mass of potential immigrants will counter an attemp
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by Maybestring 8y ago
These all seem a guaranteed flop at the consumer level. Limited FOV is going to kill it for almost everyone. I think they would sell more at double the price, if they doubled the FOV.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>The solution to the housing problem is to build more houses. There's way too much latent demand for housing in booming cities to just build your way out. Without rent control, there will be people not benefiting from the boom that
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by Maybestring 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in... See the cold war era for a quick rundown of US interference with socialist governments. I'm saying... when the US instigates and funds a civil war in
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>Thus capitalism is freedom. Capitalism is absolutely compatible with slavery. If you eat seafood, you almost certainly have eaten food harvested by a slave. Not to mention the numerous historical examples.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
This would be a better argument if a major world power hadn't actively undermined all attempts at socialism.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Facebook shareholders aren't facing summary execution. There is no reduction of due process here.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
They should. Allowing large commercial entities to facilitilate discrimination and only going after individual landlords would be an extremely inefficient use of limited resources.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Perhaps most importantly, Napoleon was at the helm of the first citizen-army with a modern sense of nationalism. It was the only military in Europe that appointed and promoted officers based on merit.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Malice is beside the point here is the it? The concern isn't an evil contractor, so much as an incompetent one. Car manufacturers are sued for incompetent use of their products.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Silicon Valley billionaires are spending $400B/yr on space travel? Where is all this money going?
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by Maybestring 8y ago
The sarcastic point is, cow milk is not a replacement for human milk or infant formula either.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>it's just that multiplication and division lose most of their useful properties. Specifically they lose the property of not having zero divisors. There exists sedonions a,b != 0 such that ab = 0
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Right, the almond milk doesn't have the hormones to help a baby cow grow big and strong. You absolutely should not raise a calf on almond milk.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Of course, the liberal revolution in France took the same step. They had trials, but it really just came down to, 'The king is guilty of having been king.' The royal family is an existential threat to the new government.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
I'm not sure why you think a mob of fat people won't be able to over power people. A fat man can torch a mansion as well as a skinny man.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
A redistributive property tax.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
The distance from LA to New York is bigger than 2000mph!
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Mercedes was entering an allowable disclosed higher emission mode with an unallowable, undisclosed, entry condition. In EPA terminology, a defeat device.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>We can have separate race tracks for that. We do have racetracks, and people want to drive regular cars fast on those racetracks.

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