TimPC

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by TimPC 3y ago
This is only true if you are measuring growth in extremely dumb ways. Most metrics for growth are revenue-based and if the growth is creating revenue there is nearly always enough money to pay for the roles created to grow the company. If
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by TimPC 3y ago
They look at differences across comparable regions that got the vaccine and regions that didn't with time period controlled for so I'd say they account for that.
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by TimPC 3y ago
The article doesn't say but my understanding is this was a 13% reduction in all-cause mortality as in they measured the number of children who died during the time period and that went down by 13%. Not that 87% of malaria related death
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by TimPC 3y ago
I'm not saying your ability disappears completely. I also think it depends on the job market you're in. At my current company we interview under 1 in 1000 applicants because we get over 500 applications a day for open roles. The j
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think the right strategy is to try and select for a place that rewards you properly for hard work in interviews. If you're in a place that doesn't slacking is generally bad for your career so my advice is mostly to move on rathe
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think it's a bit disingenuous to frame this problem as "we want to tax billionaires because they should pay more tax". While a small minority of people do actually feel that way, realistically the context is just about ever
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think it's a fair precedent. If Google feels the content is not defamatory they can take that position in court with consequences if they are wrong. The downside is this ends up like the DMCA where companies are likely to take down a
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by TimPC 3y ago
The problem is you get 10% of a tiny number because most of the profit gets outsourced to other jurisdictions. This global minimum tax idea allows you to charge taxes for profits in other jurisdictions that are undertaxed so it lets you hi
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by TimPC 3y ago
This is a disingenous take. They are comparing the marginal rate on the poorest 10% of Americans without deductions applied to the rate after all deductions and tax avoidance of billionaires. Most of the bottom 10% pay very little in incom
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think UBI and flat tax are fundamentally incompatible. Reasonable levels of UBI require high taxes, and doing so with entirely flat taxes will be quite punitive on the middle class. I think the vast majority of the population think there
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think it makes a lot of sense. The best replacement for an outlier is the closest thing to the outlier that isn't an outlier. Resampling doesn't make a lot of sense because your new point is completely disconnected from your ol
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by TimPC 3y ago
I'm not sure about this. I think soaking the rich is likely more viable (at least in popular vote terms) than a regressive tax like land value. Middle class people will at certain points in their life have over 100% of their net worth
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by TimPC 3y ago
This isn't true. Land Value Tax is more regressive than wealth tax. There is a large contingent of Georgists who call themselves geolibertarians who basically support land value tax as the only tax that has a moral basis. They are fin
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think the specific implementation isn't that hard. The main idea is to provide an incentive to build by not taxing structure value. If you're taxing a territory that is currently half structure value and half land value you can
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by TimPC 3y ago
You aren't going to get decentralized free open search that's any good because search lends itself to being a business because of the absurd costs involved. The bare minimum table stakes are 1. Index the entire internet and 2. Hav
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think this one annoys people because when engineers hear AI they think of a bunch of techniques that mostly didn't work and caused an AI winter. When they hear ML they think of the latest and greatest techniques that have moved the
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think the point is that if you're a moral relativist across the range of morals encountered in human societies you're hardly a moral relativist at all because from the space of all possible moral positions you've accepted a
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by TimPC 3y ago
Artificially clean gives you too many false positives. Most researchers I know these days start on CIFAR10 which is much more real world and has far fewer false positive signals. A portion of the hype in CV is a paper showing a technique w
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by TimPC 3y ago
The whole point isn't to do better. It's to show that enough information survives compression that you can still get very large signal. Compression is intended to make things harder and still does.
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by TimPC 3y ago
It's a bad benchmark because it's artificially clean. It's effectively a 2d dataset with no occlusions. So nearly everything you try on it will work, and many things you try on it won't scale to typical image problems.
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by TimPC 3y ago
No but, I've seen plenty of women say: I want to wear heels and still have my man be taller than me when we are dancing.
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think a working model of a technology union would have to work closely to professional sports unions or acting unions that support wide disparities in pay. I think historical tech opposition to unions is people not wanting the idea of a s
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by TimPC 3y ago
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of fields where the output of your best and worst employees don't differ dramatically. Worst is generally some passable minimum not someone who refuses to do the job entirely. For plenty of assem
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by TimPC 3y ago
Sure but BigTech offers a significant boost in comp over start-ups so you are really trading away some of the upside for stability. I like being able to do things like pay a mortgage in a HCOL area out of base salary without dependency on s
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by TimPC 3y ago
This fail when asked about cases not wholly within what it knows about is a problem with lots of AI not just expert systems. Neural Nets mostly do awfully on problems outside their training data, assuming they can even generate an answer a
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by TimPC 3y ago
The debt load is worth the risk for someone who's wanted to be an engineer all their life and has seen signs in their schooling they are likely to be good at it. I think the debt load is very questionable, for someone who is at the ma
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by TimPC 3y ago
Sure but if you are accidentally jailing an innocent person it's quite likely that out of all people you could convict you had the most evidence for convicting that person. I don't think the model that lets more guilty people go
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This reflects the disparity in the east vs west and the focus on society vs the individual. It's better from an individual rights perspective that an innocent man isn't imprisoned but in societies that put far less weight on indi
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I don't think arguing for some safety standards proportional to the life of the thing being used is arguing for stopping all invention. I think the most charitable reading of your critique is that you are using the Slippery Slope Fall
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I think the standard for using a chemical that never breaks down and exists forever is that you to the best of research ability have shown it to be safe. It's crazy that we allowed companies to just make this stuff and we are stuck wit

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