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by amitkgupta84 3y ago
I'm not sure how this article would be any different if Culdesac had written their own "journalistic" article about itself and paid The Guardian to publish it.
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by amitkgupta84 3y ago
If our current scientific understanding of cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology, etc. doesn't fill you with awe and humility, I don't know what will. If it doesn't fill you with gratitude that we have even the slightest abil
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by amitkgupta84 3y ago
There are many dimensions by which to compare healthcare systems (e.g. availability of care, cost, quality, speed) and different samples and statistics to consider (means, medians, 10th-percentiles, different demographic groups e.g. differe
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by amitkgupta84 4y ago
This article is based on this paper: https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02... It looks at some recent time period (roughly, during COVID) and breaks down the growth in money spent by wh
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by amitkgupta84 4y ago
This was too dumb. First, the intro with the dog analogy. If you remotely see your relationship with your employer as you being the beloved family dog, you're the problem. Second, the author quotes a paper on downsizing in a journal an
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by amitkgupta84 4y ago
You're right about the first part. I actually am Canadian, though haven't lived in Canada for over a decade. Absolute brain fart on my part. If you asked me outside the context of this article what Rogers does, I would've lis
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by amitkgupta84 4y ago
The content producers (NHL) and publishers (Rogers) neither own nor operate the content distribution networks (ISPs). However they make commercial terms with each other to give one party exclusive rights to distribute the other party’s cont
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by amitkgupta84 4y ago
Discriminating based on race/sex is racist/sexist. It’s sad today that many people (racists and sexists) staunchly believe the opposite of the above when discrimination is going against the race or sex who “deserve” it, going so f
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by amitkgupta84 4y ago
Several, but most recently an app to generate SMART Health Card QR codes to easily put your Covid vaccination info in your Apple Wallet. App: https://akgupta.ca/smart-health-cards Source: https://github.com/
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
That’s right, you nailed it.
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
Yeah, it's a matter of whether you want to address problems proactively (nip them in the bud), or reactively after you have a crisis on your hands. If you live in reality, you can see problems and growing trends, and take action (or at
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
I mean more like, you can generally eat food from grocery stores and restaurants and trust it'll be pretty safe. You can get medical operations and pharmaceuticals, and generally trust them. There are actually extremely large problems
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
> The most important takeaway is to avoid new tokens that haven’t undergone a code audit. Code audits are a process by which a third-party firm analyzes the code of the smart contract behind a new token or other DeFi project, and publicl
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
1. The data I’m referring to is in the link I was referring to. See how far left on the spectrum SF is. Take also your figures on registered voters in each party. I suspect SF is many standards deviations from the national mean split. Can w
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
Both problems may be present, but I think one of them is the bottom line/root cause. It’s a numbers game. I don’t think there are enough who are in touch with reality to influence election results.
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
I think the problem is San Franciscans are out of touch with reality. The root problem is not the GOP brand; despite the flaws in the GOP brand that is not the bottom line.
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
No one is saying every geographical subdivision needs to reflect exactly the aggregate distribution at the national level. I expect the split in individual cities to deviate from the national mean split. Based on my subjective experience li
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
I was thinking of 2018, but I don't remember Ellen Lee Zhou being Republican, only Richie Greenberg. Four unaffiliated-but-Democratic candidates ranked higher, Ellen and Richie were next both with less than 5% of the vote. Mark Leno an
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
Good question. I didn't mean this to refer to a specific politician, I meant that SF isn't the kind of place where such a politician could thrive. I think in a healthy place, you would see a healthy balance of right and left polit
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
Based on who San Franciscans has been electing, it seems too many live in world of progressive delusion far removed from reality. Reality got too real, now elected officials react. If only the citizens of SF could bring themselves to suppor
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
There’s a lot of confusion in this thread, and the original post. To diagnose the problem with the proof, it’s worth knowing why proof by induction works, to thereby know how it actually works, and then diagnose which part of how it’s m
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
I mean “valid” in the mathematical/logical sense. It does not follow from the stated assumptions that n > 1, in the inductive step is this proof. This has nothing to do with the idea that it can be common practice to prove claims of
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
The base case is not n=2, it’s clearly stated as n=1 in the proof. The inductive step works fine if you introduce the premise n>=2. It is not valid to introduce that premise. The inductive step is therefore wrong. The proof in the post i
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
You just said it. The base case is true. The inductive case is wrong. You called it true “with sleight of hand”, but that’s more of a poetic statement; mathematically it’s simply wrong. One could write a completely different proof where the
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
The inductive step introduces a premise that “requires a group of horses with one removed to still have a horse remaining.” It is not valid to introduce this premise. The inductive step is not valid.
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
You're 100% correct. I would be more unequivocal -- saying that the problem is the base case isn't just a little weird, it is incorrect. Your analysis nails it.
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
First, just to state the obvious, if you can accurately describe a notation in words, you can do an Internet search for it. When that fails, math.stackexchange.com is a very active and helpful resource. You can ask what certain notation mea
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
How do you know that? I’ve only seen vague stuff from Roblox about the outage. Did you read between the lines in one of those posts and conclude it had to do with Hashistack interoperability? Would love to know what you read that implied th
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
Of course, but I think there’s a benefit to having these be first class states rather than just labels.
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by amitkgupta84 5y ago
How will you handle PrivateLink and VPC Peering connections into customer VPCs/Vnets with the multitenant architecture?

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