cool_dude85

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by cool_dude85 8d ago
Relevant, interesting problems that we have some immediate hope of making genuine work on might be, if not finite, quite difficult to produce. And it's also plausible that AI will not do as good a job of producing these as it does at s
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by cool_dude85 8d ago
The chart is as non-specific as could be. It improved in some very vague metric by some amount at different (increasing) levels of training.
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by cool_dude85 10d ago
Wasn't this all supposed to be decentralized? How can a foundation choose to unilaterally "pause the sidechain"?
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by cool_dude85 1mo ago
Got to the place where he says "As you can see, this is identical to the d/dx() operation except that the result is not divided by dx." What does it mean with his d() operator to "divide by dx"? All of a sudden it s
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by cool_dude85 1mo ago
No offense to you, but we had to do these kind of exercises in grade school on days when a sub was in. You'd get together in a group and work through the logic puzzle on a structured form (i.e., it let you represent what you know about
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
The union is negotiating with management, i.e. those with hiring and firing authority who direct the work of others. Same as a for profit.
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
>my general understanding is that the unions are protectionist dreaming of things that were true before but not today, but they want to keep things as they were. This mindset really baffles me, as a unionized guy with a white collar emai
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
I said contract negotiations, you said strike. Even in this example, and there is an army of scabs outside the door, if a strike and its associated costs would cost the employer 75 million, it would be rational to give the union its 50. Any
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
>What’s a union going to do if (doing a lot of work there) AI significantly reduces the demand for software engineers or tech workers generally? Aside from general job protection stuff, the general answer would be that they can ensure th
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
Yes, but it's uncommon enough that doing so is called "voluntary recognition" of the union, acknowledging that the expected process is to file the cards and then do the NLRB election.
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
Right to freeload laws work as I describe. Although no employees are forced to "join a union" in the sense of signing a piece of paper joining the union, in all cases they are union employees in practice. That is, the union collec
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
>By federal law, if a company has a union, the union must represent ALL non-management workers, even those who do not pay dues. This is not true. There can be non-union job classes even if the employer has some unionized employees. Even
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
No, you need the signed cards to take to the NLRB and get an anonymous election.
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
No, it doesn't. There is no such thing as an "open shop" in the US, even under right to freeload. Union membership is determined by job classification. If you are working in a unionized environment, and your job title is a un
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
That's not how it works. You need the signed cards to hold an election. Employers can, seeing a large majority publically willing to sign the cards before they have any solid protections, choose to forgo the election on the basis that
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
\me plays ahhhBeer.wav
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by cool_dude85 2mo ago
Never played the backyard games. For me, the ultimate nostalgia trip along these lines is the excellent Little League Baseball for NES.
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by cool_dude85 3mo ago
The US has historically been quite opposed to the workers becoming shareholders.
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by cool_dude85 3mo ago
So, are the landlords wealthy or not wealthy? I don't get it.
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by cool_dude85 3mo ago
Who owns the capital for those future investments? Who will receive returns on those investments?
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by cool_dude85 3mo ago
Question begging, basically. The contention is that they were railroaded and maliciously overprosecuted, it's hard for the answer to be "enough to convince a jury of their peers."
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by cool_dude85 3mo ago
Imagine you are a restaurant reviewer. Your job is unquestionably to go to restaurants, order and eat food, and write a review. The restaurant's job is to provide you food to eat and review. You go to a new restaurant, and order some d
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by cool_dude85 3mo ago
If you're reliably beating the market over a long time horizon by picking specific stocks, you're a billionaire, or soon to be.
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by cool_dude85 3mo ago
Selling winners and buying losers sounds an awful lot like "buy low, sell high".
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by cool_dude85 4mo ago
In the US it's illegal for someone who's not a postal worker to put things in your mailbox for exactly this kind of reason.
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by cool_dude85 4mo ago
And when you find that your state senator's votes don't actually matter, will we start engaging in federal politics? I suspect, if it makes the right person a buck, that even once the federal legislature votes against it, you&#x27
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by cool_dude85 5mo ago
I believe there are still some echoes of the concept. Even top engines will play certain grandmaster draw lines unless told more or less explicitly not to. So if you were playing a match against Stockfish you'd want to play the Berlin
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by cool_dude85 5mo ago
Merging all the iota sounds into ι, and ω into ο destroys too much grammatically. I don't understand what the point of this is?
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by cool_dude85 5mo ago
Right. So, no left wing party, not even a center left party, has been in power in Ireland in its history. But I'm supposed to believe that it's one of the most left wing countries in Europe?
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by cool_dude85 5mo ago
Ireland, the country with 2 center right parties that differ with regards to patronage networks and political history from 1940, is one of the most left-wing leaning countries in Europe?

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