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by knn 7y ago
Your assumption of a 100% savings rate is not quite reality though. More realistically, suppose both people save 50%. Then in 20 years, the rentier is about 2x richer than the worker. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/
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by knn 7y ago
This is a really thoughtful piece. I'd never heard of Buber before this
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by knn 8y ago
Agreed - there are a lot of aggressive homeless people downtown, and in berkeley as well. Some guy was cussing me out and trying to pick a fight with me the other week when I was just walking along. Definitely true, SF really is unlivable
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by knn 8y ago
Obscene wealth next to in your face poverty is nothing new, nor particularly special about SF. I don't deny it's a big problem, but this is pretty much what every major city wrestles with. Nor is this unique to our time period. Fo
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by knn 8y ago
What do you mean by recent? There's been a whole society of rentiers living solely off investment income in most countries for at least the last 300 years, if not several thousand years. It's extremely well documented, especiall
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by knn 8y ago
What you're saying is not exactly true. It's not necessarily competition from PE firms, it's high market value of good businesses. From the letter: "In the years ahead, we hope to move much of our excess liquidity into b
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by knn 8y ago
The BFG repo cleaner is pretty handy for the same purpose as well!
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by knn 8y ago
I'm picking through the author's paper and I don't buy this conclusion. I have a bone to pick with his evidence: for example, he makes a comparison between "willingness to expend time to drive to obtain an accidentally l
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by knn 9y ago
in my experience, doing deep learning is a lot harder than building simpler ml models. training times are killer, need lots of data, overfitting is a challenge, hard to interpret results, lots of things can go wrong. deep learning is the
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by knn 9y ago
Exactly - if you want to make choices based off what's economically the best (studying CS), that's fine. But there's so much beauty in the world that is "impractical" to reach for (like studying music, art, seeing
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by knn 10y ago
Sorry you had that bad experience (I would be pissed too), but the logic of (you having a singular bad experience therefore company will likely die) is next to baseless.
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by knn 10y ago
tenuous.
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by knn 10y ago
It's a great opportunity for those automating. I'm totally for automation as it creates wealth and I think is good for humanity in the long run, but people suffer from automation (losing jobs, homes, provision for their families)
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by knn 10y ago
Biking!
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by knn 10y ago
That's very interesting. In competitive SSBM (smash bros melee), movement is one of the integral parts of the game that give it its depth. Top player's movements can differ greatly from each other.
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by knn 10y ago
I will avoid buying 'smart' appliances for probably forever. Besides having mostly useless features, I'd rather not have another electronic probe in my life relaying all of the details of my life to everyone.
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by knn 10y ago
I agree that more technical projects require more cleverness/training, but most things don't require genius. Terry Tao, field medalist, argues strongly that one does not need to be a genius to be a professional mathematician. ht
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by knn 10y ago
Same thoughts as mine. Seems like ML was just thrown in the title to get more hits.
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by knn 10y ago
Interestingly, I go to a big state school that is somewhat a playground for the international Chinese elite. It's very common to see chinese international students driving $80,000+ cars and many of those same students cheating in clas
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by knn 10y ago
The news feed eradicator has been a very good solution for me. I can still message, participate in groups, but that damned newsfeed is blocked! The newsfeed is engineered to suck up all of our precious cognitive space and fill it with mos
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by knn 11y ago
AI by Russell and Norvig. Machine learning by Murphy, Elements of Statistical Learning by Hastie et al. Just a few good ones out of many!
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by knn 11y ago
trained to a particular voice ~= trained to a user's preferences!
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by knn 11y ago
Many people would agree with you that race doesn't say that much about a person. However, it's quite naive to argue that racial issues are not a part of every day life. We live in a world built on racial divides and conflicts.
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by knn 11y ago
Good on you! Squats are awesome. But don't forget to do prehab work or neglect your hamstrings! Tendon/muscle tightness or muscle imbalance can lead to some knee pain when squatting frequently. Stretching/foam rolling shou
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by knn 11y ago
Sure, squats strengthen your core, but the core isn't a set of magical muscles that automatically make you faster. Strong quads, hams, and glutes are more important. Squats train your legs/posterior chain/core (and upper bo
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by knn 11y ago
Not hacker news, but amazing story
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by knn 11y ago
I'm totally fine with FB charging businesses for advertisement. It's a free market, they can choose not to advertise there. Not a terrible exchange imo. However, Yelp extorting businesses to pay them to remove bad ratings/
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by knn 11y ago
Yep, horrid title.
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by knn 11y ago
Have mixed feelings about this like I'm sure many do. Greater convenience, but less and less privacy.. Our Fb/goog/nsa overlords know what we eat, where we shit, all of our conversations and relationships. What a scary wor
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Greece crisis: PM Alexis Tsipras quits and calls early polls(bbc.com)
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