kevinnk

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by kevinnk 9y ago
I think a total household income of ~150-200k is right around the cutoff for 4 people to live in Palo Alto together. You can split that up however you want though. In my case, that's 4 people earning ~50k rooming together. In the case
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by kevinnk 9y ago
I rent in a house and split 4 ways. My share of the rent is a little over 1k.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
I live in Palo Alto making about $55k and live fairly comfortably; my actual living expenses are probably closer to $25k. It would be hard to have a family, but I get by just fine having roommates.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Facebook and vid.me as well. And twitch for streaming.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
It's one thing to lie, it's another thing to lie about something that could easily be found out and possibly get them sued. The risk/reward ratio seems way too high for Facebook to lie (unless they were forced to.) That'
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by kevinnk 9y ago
> A Facebook exec's claim doesn't count as proof. How about an official statement from Facebook itself over a year ago[1]? If it was true, people could find out by decompiling the app and make Facebook look absolutely horrible.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
It's still up in the air I think - you can see from his blog[1] that others in the the committee prefer a syntax more like meta::type interface(const meta::type source) { // … basically same code … }; [1]
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by kevinnk 9y ago
If I understand you correctly, the way you'd address this is by using counterfactuals. See this course[1] for an overview and this paper[2] which talks about the bias problem in the context of movie recommendations. [1] http:/&#x
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Communism is not authoritarianism (except maybe in practice). Lots of communists are essentially anarchists.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
> You genuinely think the type of people who subscribe to subreddits like coontown and fatpeoplehate are going to have their mind changed by people on the internet? Yes, because I've personally met such people. > I've had no
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by kevinnk 9y ago
"Real income growth" is the growth in income post inflation.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Lots of clubs/community orgs are like this. The community soccer org for the city I grew up in had lots of turnover in the management due to voting.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
A friend of mine got an offer from a startup in Palo Alto that he wanted to negotiate. He literally walked across the street to another interview and had a counter offer when he met with the founder of the first company the next day.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Actually, there was a bunch of blow back and the main researchers behind the result stepped down. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21656-leaders-of-cont...
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by kevinnk 9y ago
> if these folks were earning more, someone else wouldn't be doing that job, so the overall earning that the set number of jobs would support wouldn't change one way or the other from the tax revenue point of view. That's
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Very cool! Good binding libraries between C++ and Python have been super useful for my projects in the past, and I'm glad to see something similar developed for Rust. For anyone reading the comments first, this is a fork of rust-cpytho
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by kevinnk 9y ago
You need a TLS connection to get the NIST beacon, which requires a seeded rng. That seems like a chicken and egg problem.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
> IMO, what these adversarial examples give us is a way to boost training data. That's basically the idea behind GANs.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
I think the more fundamental connection is that when goods are perfect subsitutes for each other, under perfect information you always choose the "cheaper" good (where "cheap" is defined by whatever metric you're us
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by kevinnk 9y ago
PORC is one of the largest police advocacy organizations in California state. SAM is funded largely by private individuals (yes, "individuals" not "individual", although its single donor is Julie Schauer). Notably absent
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by kevinnk 9y ago
The biggest funders of the anti prop 64 campaign ("Adult Use of Marijuana Act") were private individuals and police unions.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
http://www.nber.org/papers/w23532?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_mediu... Total payroll fell, so your explanation is not consistent with the data.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
"the average low-wage worker in the city lost $125 a month because of the hike in the minimum." This is the bad news.
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Okay, I think we're talking past each other at this point so let me be as clear as possible: the original comparison was between TSVs and logic in DRAM. Both of these are a way to get DRAM on chip and as physically close to the core lo
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by kevinnk 9y ago
> Do you see interposer style designs as linking up terabytes of DRAM? I don't think we're going to see a terabyte of dram on an interposer for a while (4GB is about the max you can get commercially right now). I'm not sur
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by kevinnk 9y ago
The point of my post was there's not much upside that integrated DRAM/logic has that TSVs don't, but plenty of downsides. Regardless of Venray's claims, there's a reason modern high performance parallel architecture
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by kevinnk 9y ago
You can make logic on a DRAM process, but either your logic will be slow or you'll have to increase the cost of your cost/power consumption of your DRAM cells. With separate chips connected with TSVs you can have your cake and eat
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Manufacturing logic on the same wafer as DRAM is difficult since the processes are so different. On the other hand, manufacturing on separate dies and connecting with an interposer or TSVs gets you tremendous bandwidth and relatively low la
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Foldcoin is very similar to what you're describing. The problem is that it's not actually clear we can do what you're describing in a cryptographically secure way - foldcoin for example essentially relies on the security of t
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by kevinnk 9y ago
Can you name a major political group or politician in SF that takes that stance? I'm not super integrated into SF politics, but everyone I know who's against restrictive measures like the OP suggests aren't voting for stricte

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