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by jwie 2y ago
Marshmallow tests are more a test of the child’s priors about adult reliability. If the child has reliable parents they tend to pass the test. The children of reliable parents do better in life, which is obvious. The test also fails to acco
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by jwie 2y ago
Our Man in Havana is a very good book about the topic. Secrets are a dark illiquid market where there’s high demand for things that don’t exist. So naturally there’s a lot of supply for that information. The fact that is almost all bogus is
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by jwie 2y ago
Might not be the same, but reading computer code and Ancient Greek or Latin are remarkably similar skills. I could be convinced that parsing a language at that resolution isn’t how language processing works for general use, but that’s like
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by jwie 2y ago
This is Google saying “if anyone is going to monetize your site’s reputation it’s us.”
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by jwie 2y ago
Orders should have some durability and it would probably change behaviors enough to make hft go away. If you list a buy or sell order it just has to be in force for some period of time, say a minute or something. HFT shops will say this wou
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by jwie 2y ago
It is a little curious that the skin was applied with consent, but not removed with it. I was lead to believe that Harvard was where smart people were. The simple thing to do would be to remove the book from circulation, not destroy the thi
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by jwie 3y ago
This is essentially the purpose of money laundering, so a lot.
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by jwie 3y ago
The fact that there's no formal difference between tax payments and scam payments should be tickling the part of your brain; this means something.
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by jwie 3y ago
The Dead Internet Theory was only slightly ahead of its time. Used to be real people pretended to be girls on the internet. These days I can’t even get an honest real fake person pretending to be an attractive female on LinkedIn.
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by jwie 3y ago
This has the same pattern as the Vivendi deal with Blizzard back in 2007. In both instances, the game end of the deal had peaked already, and there was nowhere to go but down. Nothing a few billion dollars can’t fix, maybe some “new content
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by jwie 3y ago
It's amusing watching streaming turn into cable, but somehow worse. At least we got some public access programming out of cable. Piracy is a service problem. Valve proved digital piracy can be beaten by commercial solutions. The proble
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by jwie 3y ago
As a member of the collectible asset class, Jordans are not falling like the rest of the cohort. Most collectibles are -90% these days. Jordans selling at humble discounts isn’t a sign of weakness all things considered.
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by jwie 3y ago
Huh I wonder if I could setup a local police force to do keyword research now for cheap with a few overbroad warrants.
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by jwie 3y ago
Destroy the cameras.
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by jwie 3y ago
With any sufficiently large industry if that industry produces externalities powerful lobbies will emerge to make the harms as unclear and detached from the industry as possible. We only see the failures of this activity. There are many mor
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by jwie 3y ago
Globalism is an economic system so fragile marginal increases in shipping costs produce existential threats. This is either an unserious article or the entire notion of global economics needs revisiting.
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by jwie 3y ago
This is a significant omission from the article. The other part is how do you really measure efficacy of these systems? Unless you did some secret shopping, which in this case would be paying people to defraud public services occasionally,
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by jwie 3y ago
The first order problem with spam calls/sms is you probably opted in to something. Most spam, like it or not, you asked for, and they can almost certainly prove it. The TCPA lawsuit business was so lucrative for years that a lot of eff
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by jwie 3y ago
One key problem is nobody, none of the suits anyway, want to believe that there are essential, hard problems that can't be outsourced, can't be commodified, can't be shortcut in any way. It's the business version of the
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by jwie 3y ago
Good for what? Analytics are an instrument panel, it’s a set of gauges. How it looks depends on what you’re trying to accomplish and the conditions of the system.
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by jwie 3y ago
LEOs are ideal enterprise clients. Predictable, high budgets, very easy lock in, one success will create many other opportunities. Eventually the surveillance drone will identify the criminal, sell the criminals information to a bondsman, a
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by jwie 3y ago
Perhaps we should modify our schedules rather than altering the time the clock shows. The time doesn’t really change. We should abolish savings time and stick to standard time year round. The real arguments for savings time are for economic
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by jwie 3y ago
Put yourself into the oncall rotation for starters. For a US exempt employee it would be fairly straightforward to push oncall expectations into a role. But in other countries with robust labor protections it might be more challenging. Ulti
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by jwie 3y ago
It’s unlikely this is as interesting as the headline suggests. Maintaining a list of professionals is challenging. There are very simple input problems with this kind of data. The professional, in this case a therapist, but it really doesn’
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by jwie 3y ago
When a capitalist degrades his products to ensure profits it’s good for the economy and he’s a captain of industry. When the worker degrades technology to ensure a job he’s a Luddite and terrorist.
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by jwie 3y ago
Argon is more dense and inert.
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by jwie 3y ago
The easiest way to get a geolocation is to ask the user. Maybe they’ll just tell you, and if that’s good enough for your application there’s no need for such solutions.
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by jwie 3y ago
Interesting that they won’t infer a location from an IP or other information they have. Seems like they just want the location data and have an excuse to demand it.
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by jwie 3y ago
Tenured faculty at university still exist to provide an aspiration to academic labor that they too can receive tenure. They're more like jackpot winners. Casinos need to produce some winners, but only because nobody would play otherwis
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by jwie 3y ago
When creditors sell debt to collections they should be required to allow the debtor to buy their debt back at that price. Of course they'll never actually do that. Usurers are unreceptive to any notion that you won't pay every las

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