boreas

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by boreas 5y ago
The fact that pharma has managed to obfuscate true prices is its own indictment of US healthcare. (edit) made my comment a bit less confrontational in tone
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by boreas 5y ago
It's very interesting, the comment you replied to seems to be using a typical free speech canard in support of increasing censorship. Their argument doesn't seem relevant to the policy discussed in the article at all.
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by boreas 6y ago
I simply don't have the personality to work hard. In general, I don't believe people change after adolescence. Therefore I am most focused on contentment with the person I am, while nudging myself gently towards greater discipline
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by boreas 6y ago
This is why I found this essay very interesting but not very useful. I don't have trouble identifying interests, I have trouble pursuing them with the intensity of a PG. I don't mean this as a criticism at all. I don't think
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by boreas 6y ago
Huge thanks to whoever posted this link first on HN. It's my favorite history blog by far. Even if this may not be the most popular entry...
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by boreas 6y ago
Practically speaking, network effects make it nearly impossible for alternative platforms to achieve the scale of their mainstream ancestors. Right-wing communities exiled from Reddit have much smaller audiences in their new homes. I'm
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by boreas 6y ago
Hope this gets a response - I don't see a paper. If there is a paired dataset, I guess this could be "easy". The stylegan "input" is essentially used to control parameters at various stages within the network, so yo
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by boreas 6y ago
You might be interested in the novel "The Goldfinch". It's pretty relevant to this post, and somewhat relevant to your comment. But it isn't a heist so to speak.
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by boreas 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjQX8HVtG4
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by boreas 6y ago
I would hope that increasing density doesn't require much upfront investment. It's definitely true that density creates more strain on public goods like roads that are disproportionately funded by yesterday's taxpayers. I gue
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by boreas 6y ago
I wonder if there is any data on how upzoning affects suburban property values. I would prefer not to live in a single family detached house next to condos. Then again, the optionality to put 10+ units on a lot has to be worth something.
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by boreas 6y ago
Personally, it strikes me as profoundly illiberal that we allow and expect from local governments such complete control over private use of private property. It is probably one of the most important policy issues from an economic/socia
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by boreas 6y ago
I meant "best" in the sense of achieving some sort of maximum total utility, mean utility, median utility, etc. My point is that instead of inspecting every economic relationship for "winners" and "losers", we
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by boreas 6y ago
Ridesharing created a more or less competitive market for this slice of the transportation sector. Competitive markets are the best way to allocate resources. If you don't agree with that, it will be hard to have a productive discussio
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by boreas 6y ago
I didn't see the article at the time but from skimming it I'm sure I would have been fooled. GPT-3 fits snugly into the pattern of "AI does intelligent thing -> we decide/realize thing doesn't reflect meaning
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by boreas 6y ago
People spend so much time on the "meta-conversation" about the ecosystem of ideas, and so little time talking about the actual ideas themselves. What are these repressed debates people are so anxious about? Is it just race stuff?
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by boreas 6y ago
Also relevant to note that Trump wasn't supported by a majority, as OP seems to be implying. He won in the arbitrary schema of the electoral college.
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by boreas 7y ago
I've got a question, a lot of startup websites have a similar look to this one. It's a look I actually really like. What technologies are they all using? How would I build a site like this? wappalyzer doesn't give me anything
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by boreas 7y ago
Possible, but it seems simpler that they included luxury items from the Islamic world in their burial practices without understanding or worrying about the religious connotations of the script on them. Ibn Fadlan observed the "viking&q
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by boreas 7y ago
There are many choices in the policy space, but the decision about how to treat an individual advertisement is essentially binary. The line between truth and falsehood must lie somewhere, and I can guarantee you that different political fac
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by boreas 7y ago
Somehow the scariest part was the erasure. Articles that praised Tiyip’s achievements are now being systematically deleted from the internet. His name and legacy are being erased, even from the list of presidents of Xinjiang University. I
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by boreas 7y ago
Completely off topic, but it took me three tries to parse this: There’ve been rumors for years that Ive had one foot out the door
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by boreas 8y ago
I wouldn't take it for granted that he's telling the truth on that. He has been riding on My Lai credibility for so long, but some of his recent stuff such as his piece on how the OBL assassination went down is completely wack.
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by boreas 8y ago
You need to provide statistics for extraordinary claims about housing being purchased by foreign investors and not used. Common sense says it should be a very marginal phenomenon. After all, renting out property should almost always be wort
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by boreas 8y ago
Unfortunately, vague statements assigning blame to ambiguous external actors (like yours) are very much a part of the discussion. Demand isn't artificially inflated. More people want to live here than there are housing units. So we nee
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by boreas 8y ago
I am pretty sure that property is required for Chinese messaging services, not discouraged.
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by boreas 8y ago
I recently read the IB text and loved it. Someone already mentioned the fact that IB has more historical material than Marco Polo, but there are a bunch of other contrasts as well. Most importantly to me, Marco Polo follows a sort of ethnog
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by boreas 8y ago
Totally agree. And the amount of sexual access these upper class medieval Muslims had is pretty insane. Not only does IB marry women and leave them, he buys "slave girls" all the time on the cheap.
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by boreas 9y ago
When people make vector embeddings for words, it's fairly common that the embedding for one language is just a rotation of the embedding for the synonym in another language. So I think the higher level (and lower dimensional) represent
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by boreas 9y ago
As an aside, is there anyone else extremely disappointed with the quality of discussion over at /r/cryptocurrency? This conflict over IOTA has been unfolding for a long time and the guys on that subreddit defend it fanatically, ac

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