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by asciident 1y ago
CS and DS people are getting more applied and gaining domain expertise, and can do a lot of economics work now. Academic economists, especially those who primarily do data science / big data, seem to basically be doing Masters-level da
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by asciident 1y ago
Or cheating in other ways, like collusion rings [1], reviewers using LLMs to review, or authors putting text in their papers so reviewers using LLMs to review will give them a favorable review [2] [1] https://cacm.acm.org/op
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by asciident 4y ago
3% is actually not bad for what it gets you: fraud detection, not having to lug cash to the bank every day, reduction of theft and employee mistakes, better recordkeeping for taxes, a way to handle refunds, and cleanliness. Small merchants
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by asciident 4y ago
I'm generally wary of suggestions to overhaul a working long-lasting sociotechnical system. Everything that has been around for decades is patches on patches. The the world wide web, ipv4, IRC, the US constitution, the telephone system
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What Is the Future of College – and Does It Have Room for Men?(freakonomics.com)
5 points by asciident 4y ago|0 comments
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by asciident 5y ago
It's an obligatory warning, otherwise people (even here on HN) will decry your methods as mainly due to privilege, and irreproducible for the average perso.
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by asciident 5y ago
Agreed, Apple is far worse on being monopolistic and draconian, but people give them a pass because they have cool design. Everything they're doing with iMessage, the iOS and Mac App Stores, AirPods, Safari, etc. are all extend and emb
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by asciident 5y ago
Because each person still uses about 10 full wardrobes in their lifetime, 100,000 prepared meals, a few dozen smartphones and other electronics, a mountain of disposibles like diapers and napkins and takeout containers and masks. People nee
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by asciident 5y ago
Even more awkward is when you're having a conversation with someone who is trying even harder to get you to talk about yourself, while you're trying to do some of the same. Then it's a competition to see who can say the least
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by asciident 5y ago
What does it say about people using it for research?
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by asciident 5y ago
I don't see how that's a better example, and you missed the point. Your example is about someone doing something unethical as part of their job. My example was about someone doing something unrelated to their job duties. That&#x27
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by asciident 5y ago
That seems like a dangerous line of thought. Imagine a software engineer (maybe one who writes code for airplanes or medical equipment) writes some sloppy code late one night and puts it on their open source github, and the commit log is &q
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by asciident 5y ago
I would be thrilled if kitchen-only joints replaced sit-down restaurants. I have about 20 sit-downs within walking distance, only about 5 are easy for takeout, none which serve higher-end food. If there were a few higher-end food options ($
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by asciident 5y ago
I think to be more precise, the headline should read: "Minimum wage workers can not afford renting a two-bedroom home at fair market rent using 30% of their income" That feels drastically different than the current headline.
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by asciident 5y ago
Why do you think your analogy is better than the parent post? The parent post makes more sense to me. People to go stores, and the stores charge a markup. In your analogy, the mode of transportation charges the markup, which in the app stor
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by asciident 5y ago
It's an interesting idea. Wouldn't the cost of raising funds, replacing all the signs, etc. be also damaging? What about having a clear "no speeding at all on speeds over 50mph" announcement, and start a campaign to enfo
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by asciident 5y ago
There's been evidence of this for a while. 1) lots of regular working people getting suspicious notices about unemployment being filed in their name 2) high numbers of these reported cases. Even though many of those notices end up unop
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by asciident 5y ago
I've seen this comparison in a few articles. It makes no sense at all. It's like if I said Microsoft's market cap ($1.942T) is larger than the GDP of Russian ($1.7T), or Apple's Market Cap ($2.125T) is double the combine
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by asciident 5y ago
Speaking of charging, does anyone know if usb-c charging is properly implemented? I've bought a number of new devices with usb-c and am disappointed they require the old usb-a to usb-c cable to charge. Has anyone tested with a Macbook
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by asciident 5y ago
It was more like them selling $300 of movie tickets (I'd watch one a day) for $10. Everyone only used them for the arbitrage.
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by asciident 5y ago
I wish there was a way to turn off "external content", and only view content created by your friends. If my friend has an opinion about something (even if political, or a social issue), and they post it, I'm interested in rea
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by asciident 5y ago
I don't know. Do you remember the Foxconn due to the low pay and abuse they were getting to make Apple products? Or how Apple is trying to restrict our software freedoms with walled gardens and lawsuits? Everything they do is about con
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by asciident 5y ago
It looks like Umami does some of that. But I found that Google Analytics does none of it, and in fact year-over-year seems to cut back on the amount of useful information. The main advantage now is they show referring search terms, which se
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by asciident 5y ago
It's at least double that now. Rental cars may be triple.
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by asciident 5y ago
Honestly the issue is that schools don't want calculators (computers) that are too powerful because there could be an app that can just do the homework for students, or let them communicate during exams, or search on the internet. So s
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by asciident 5y ago
Yeah I think you're unusual. I and my family each have price points in my head, once a restaurant charges more than that on the total line, we look for other options. $5 for good enough lunch, $10 for a great lunch, $20 for gourmet lun
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by asciident 5y ago
Again, there's nothing that says the patches with vulnerabilities made it to stable. Did you read the ZDnet article and look at the links that in that article in the relevant paragraph? I'm not "disagreeing", I'm sa
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by asciident 5y ago
Can you cite a source of Greg saying this? I read this article which is the closest I could find that reports this, https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-bans-univer... which says, """Romanovs
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by asciident 5y ago
Both of those reverts suggest those were just non-malicious contributions that the maintainers reverted just in case (and reapplied after review). If that's the proof, then I think you are mistaken. Maybe put another way, if someone sa
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by asciident 5y ago
I think you are misunderstanding what happened. They emailed the patches to the maintainers, and when the maintainers responded "this looks good", then told them there was a bug in the patch. They never committed a bad patch to th

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