genedan

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by genedan 1y ago
My hope is that we can at least get a Civ game with a competent AI...
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by genedan 1y ago
Actuary here. I don't work in ILS but I'm familiar with what you're talking about.
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by genedan 1y ago
It depends on the details of the product. In theory you could get a product that doesn't have a cliff and it will be priced accordingly. These are basically equivalent to options in finance.
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by genedan 1y ago
For anyone looking for a good anime, I would recommend Planetes which is about a crew that protects the Earth from space debris.
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by genedan 2y ago
My dad was one these ARVN soldiers. In the final days of the war he and his drill sergeant stole a helicopter as Saigon fell and flew west, expecting to keep fighting. They wound up in a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually made it to th
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by genedan 2y ago
When I used a power meter, the data could be exported in some kind of machine-readable format like CSV. All you do is change the numbers.
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by genedan 2y ago
I'm thinking one way to easily do motor doping is via the bike changes. A rider swaps a doped bike brought in by the team that wasn't checked at the start during the easy portions and rides 100km saving watts along the way. They t
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by genedan 2y ago
Rideshare and delivery apps have enabled more people to do those jobs than before.
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by genedan 2y ago
Technology can also reduce the skills needed for jobs. For example, you no longer need to have an entire city's streets memorized to be a taxi driver.
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by genedan 3y ago
Even if the loans weren't subsidized by the government, the schools wouldn't do it. It's more likely they would be financed by banks like they are with other goods.
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by genedan 3y ago
There are still elevators like that in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago. In addition to the elevators, it's a great place to be if you're a musician. There are studios, practice rooms, and musical instrument shops too.
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by genedan 3y ago
Since ChatGPT relies on Stack Overflow and similar sites for training data, it's only really going to be as good what's already on the Web. So it can't replace these sites in their entirety, because if those sites decline, so
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by genedan 3y ago
In one of his lesser-known roles (Apollo 10 1⁄2), Jack Black plays a kid whose family is involved in the space industry. It takes place in my hometown, Clear Lake. Even though it takes place a few decades before I was born, I was able to re
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by genedan 3y ago
Even if you "win" that mission, you get the losing cutscene and the commander chews you out for not meeting your objectives even when you did and are put on the losing path - at least that's what happened in my copy of the ga
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by genedan 4y ago
>We need an industry agreed-upon certification exam. I'm an actuary who had to take 10 of these for my profession (pass rates 20%-40% each sitting, takes 4 months to study for each one). They come with the same complaints about fals
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City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue(kotaku.com)
161 points by genedan 4y ago|123 comments
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by genedan 4y ago
Yes they do.
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by genedan 4y ago
I'm Vietnamese-American, so I'd say making me pho every once in a while. Yeah...I know you can get it here in the states, but having it at home made me really appreciate that simple things can really bring happiness.
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by genedan 4y ago
Where I grew up in Texas, this was called the Robinhood Plan where rich districts sent money to poor ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_plan
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by genedan 4y ago
Have you Transport Fever 2? The AI manages growth of the cities while you work on building out the logistics. The better your network, the faster the cities grow. Since there are planes involved I would classify the scale as being nation-si
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by genedan 4y ago
It only returns one book per genre over 6 genres. I was expecting to find a certain book set in my hometown (Clear Lake in Houston), the book is called "Friendswood," based on the real Friendswood, TX, and uses the same street nam
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by genedan 5y ago
Economically, this puzzles me. I'd think that if quantity supplied were so high the equilibrium wage would drop to the point where excess people would stop trying to become doctors, or at least to the point where surgically implanting
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by genedan 5y ago
O'Neill cylinders are also frequently depicted in the various Gundam series.
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by genedan 5y ago
Yeah, these are some books on the syllabus: https://bookstore.ams.org/text-57 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1715689.Theory_of_Intere...
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by genedan 5y ago
It's the same reason other notations get invented, it makes calculating things and communicating concepts regarding insurance products faster and easier. One pain the ass I have though is needing to install the actuarial symbol LaTeX p
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by genedan 5y ago
Actuary here. There's a subject called mathematical interest theory that explores time value of money beyond simple and compund interest that you learn in grade school. It makes use of this notation and is part of the US curriculum for
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by genedan 5y ago
Some economics textbooks that cover the topic of mutually assured destruction make analogies between nukes and patent stockpiles.
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by genedan 5y ago
> Imagine how many parent would just stick their kid into the worst school for 1-2 years to get that. This actually happened when UT started applying the rule. Parents moved their kids to less competitive schools.
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by genedan 5y ago
I'm from Texas, went to UT when it had the 10% rule. It was a problem for kids who went to competitive/affluent schools that were so competitive that one or two Bs would put you out of the running. So you would get some lopsided s
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by genedan 5y ago
When I was growing up, my mother was at IBM designing software for the space shuttle, and the street next to my house was named IBM. I was named after one of their senior engineers. So the company played a big part in my childhood and was e

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