bigthymer

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by bigthymer 3mo ago
From the students' perspective, it is better to not be allowed in than fail out midway through. One test is cheaper than years in college.
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by bigthymer 3mo ago
> Are banks that concerned about velocity? Yes
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by bigthymer 3mo ago
> medicine will always be the most secure and stable career, still has a shit life-work balance too. It only is because it effectively has a guild\cartel system preventing an oversupply of doctors and that we have an aging population tha
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by bigthymer 3mo ago
> The research overwhelming says its a good practice. I disagree. From what I've read, the data is more mixed. More tracking optimizes for the top achievers. Less tracking optimizes for the lower and middle. Less tracking probab
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by bigthymer 3mo ago
Having multiple parallel tracks for different types of students is controversial. Schooling tends to be cyclical with periods with more tracking is popular shifting to periods of less tracking and more classroom mixing. It really depends
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by bigthymer 4mo ago
Why?
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by bigthymer 5mo ago
While prescription drug marketing to consumers is an issue in the US, I think the actual problem in this situation is people Googling their issue then coming to the doctor with the conclusion of their investigation instead of letting the do
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by bigthymer 5mo ago
Typical commodity cycle...most commodities work like this
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by bigthymer 5mo ago
Yes. From what I've read, they can't stop enrichment unless they deploy soldiers for occupation and they are unwilling to do so.
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by bigthymer 6mo ago
Virginia recently became the 2nd state to allow it. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/virginia-to-becom...
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Faster, thinner: Colleges are swiftly trimming a B.A. degree to three years(hechingerreport.org)
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by bigthymer 6mo ago
> Near zero interest rates + COVID remote work + PPP loans = Booming economy One more factor to add to the equation...when everyone went remote during COVID, all brick-and-mortar businesses had to quickly move to conducting their busines
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by bigthymer 6mo ago
> Puff piece with 1000+ words that doesn't ever assert anything in particular that the author was wrong about His article mostly talks about other things but I think his title is sufficient. He says that he never thought that the n
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by bigthymer 6mo ago
More money is flowing into commodities. Gold price going up feeds into more mining.
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by bigthymer 7mo ago
Personally, I think the Firefox browser right-click options are one of the more useful right-click menus. The one on the Apple OS is a better example of excessive and worthless.
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by bigthymer 7mo ago
> Maybe I'm just remembering badly, but I don't remember encountering this twenty years ago; back then the rules were clear that you either didn't accept credit payments, or you did and it was the same price as cash My mem
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by bigthymer 7mo ago
> Can the source database for an LLM be one-way, in that it does not contain output from itself, or other LLMs? I think, for public internet data, we can only be reasonably confident for information before the big release of ChatGPT.
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by bigthymer 7mo ago
From my understanding, it wasn't the bombing that motivated Japan to surrender even though this is commonly taught, it was the recent Soviet declaration of war and fear of invasion/occupation.
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by bigthymer 7mo ago
I think the logic goes something like...in a democracy, government policies should reflect the will of the people. The majority of the people are against exporting jobs overseas when the economy at home is not doing well, especially when t
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by bigthymer 7mo ago
We would have to prepare for a deluge of accounts posting\commenting just for the sake of accumulating karma to be able to downvote.
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by bigthymer 7mo ago
The YouTube numbers surprised me the most. I agree with you. I was expecting a rise in viewership.
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by bigthymer 8mo ago
I wonder if the students are going into film but actually just want to work in social media in which case it all makes sense.
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by bigthymer 9mo ago
I actually think this is a deal only Buffett could have made. By bringing on Buffett as an investor, it sent a signal to the market that the bank was solvent and improved confidence in the company. Another investor would not have brought
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by bigthymer 9mo ago
> The truth is Americans do want this I'm not so sure. Sure, they want the benefits that are provided. However, if being aware of what the costs are to get those benefits apriori, I'm not sure Americans would think the exchan
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by bigthymer 9mo ago
I think over the last few decades, he could make deals just because the Buffett name held so much influence. If Buffett was investing, then others could assume that the company won't go bankrupt.
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by bigthymer 9mo ago
Ever since USDS got renamed as DOGE, they've had trouble recruiting people. I suspect this move is maybe an effort to shed DOGE's negative image.
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by bigthymer 9mo ago
Rails renders partials https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#pa...
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by bigthymer 9mo ago
A youtube talk about the book for the lazy\busy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCeaQUPaze4
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by bigthymer 10mo ago
> Selling (even pre-selling) tickets to debates between people who haven't agreed to participate in your debate is insanely misleading marketing. When I initially read your comment, I agreed with it. But, on second thought, if the
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by bigthymer 11mo ago
Is it just me or has the amount of data collected changed? Last I checked, the locally stored data just identifies known business locations that have been visited. In the past, when I clicked a business location in the app, it would show

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