pjschlic

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by pjschlic 5y ago
The details of how this is done seems to matter quite a bit, and if I'm reading this[0] right, if the officers have the discretion about when to turn them on or off use of force might be higher compared to no body cams. [0] https:&#x2
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by pjschlic 6y ago
One thing I haven't seen in the discussion is the effect of the tax on the distribution of outcomes. I'm not sure what the latest numbers are, but if 90% of startups are near 0 return for founders, and 1% are the home run swings w
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by pjschlic 6y ago
If I can continue your analogy (though I admit it's a little confusing) - if a gang member is caught breaking the law and we have another law preventing prosecution, let's fix that bug. Structural issues which create gangs need to
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by pjschlic 6y ago
When you say 'as long as the end user is not financially benefitting' - is the end user the lab conducting the test? You said in an earlier comment that the reimbursement for testing is too low to justify buying expensive equipmen
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by pjschlic 8y ago
The innovation is personalized hydrogels built to avoid rejection, not the induced pluripotent stem cells which were re-differentiated into things. The key was the structural materials which hold those cells. https://onlinelibrar
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by pjschlic 8y ago
[ie, up front]
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by pjschlic 8y ago
Did you have (even a vague) source for this - I'm willing to search for it given even a vague gesture? I think this indeed sounds like it could be strong evidence, so I'd love to see it. Indeed, I would also think that a high skil
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by pjschlic 8y ago
Yours is not a unique sentiment, but I find it so disheartening. Vague laws enforced selectively are bad for the rule of law. Is the schadenfreude from sticking it to whatever American company is selected worth that?
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by pjschlic 9y ago
This sounded interesting, do you have a link to this study? I was going to try to do this analysis for where I live, and after looking up median income for the area, I realized I wasn't sure what you meant by 'down payment and int
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by pjschlic 9y ago
1) A major difference is the fact that currently they are generally 'unfunded' in that the money isn't actually invested on your behalf. 2) The next is where the risk resides - even in cases where they are fully funded (ie: s
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by pjschlic 9y ago
It looks like a combination of semantic analysis not being there for the automation to work at the time and maybe some regulations issues (with each state probably having their own, I imagine compliance is/was more difficult)?
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by pjschlic 9y ago
If I recall correctly from my bioinformatcs classes (years ago) - the non-coding DNA still serve many functions - a protective role by containing sequences which stabilize the structure of the DNA, or providing binding sites used in promoti
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by pjschlic 9y ago
Is the process of adding 'rooms' which are actually arbitrary 'things' (like your laptop, company car, or spare parking permit which is picked up from reception) in calendar not a viable hack for some reason? I imagine t
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by pjschlic 9y ago
This sounds like a great case for publishing negative results: it will result in meta-analysis about what practices routinely cause bad results and then those papers will be used to reduce the number of bad results. Labs keeping secrets in
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by pjschlic 9y ago
Supreme court justices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Suprem...
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by pjschlic 9y ago
I imagine that a company can present a plan for complying with a ruling which they also disagree with. Maybe you seemed to be implying they were contradictory?
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by pjschlic 9y ago
I get you might not have officially trained a model, but similar model evaluation questions might apply to your diagnosis system. For example, did you do any hand tuning of thresholds? Did you do this tuning while looking at the scans, or d
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by pjschlic 9y ago
I think the 'new FCC' comment is a reference to the current FCC Commissioner being a former general council at Verizon (though it was awhile ago). Additionally, he's been strongly opposed regulation of the telecoms and oppose
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by pjschlic 9y ago
Speaking for myself, I tend to alternate between fiction and non-fiction books. Generally, fiction books are story-driven (any sci-fi/fantasy/general fiction) and center around relationships between characters overlaid with some o
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by pjschlic 9y ago
I think he is saying that this is not capitalism. The existence of bailouts and government programs to direct the markets is not capitalism's 'need' for those programs, despite any politician's attempt to sell that idea
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by pjschlic 9y ago
Nit: number formatting - is there such a thing as a fractional prescription, why is there a "NNN.0" highlighted everywhere, and are you also able to add in the commas which will make it clearer the magnitude when scanning?
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by pjschlic 9y ago
I bought a house in Seattle 2 years ago through Redfin, and had a GREAT experience. We had started with a more traditional realtor first, but the Redfin one was way more responsive. Maybe it's realtor-specific.
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by pjschlic 9y ago
The original 4.8M valuation (which is his strike price - extrapolating from his share price and ownership %) has now increased to ~40M (extrapolated from 20M raise, estimating ~100M preferred shares valuation and 40% of that for 409A valuat
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by pjschlic 9y ago
FTA: "Amazon’s founder has added $10.2 billion this year to his wealth and $7 billion since [Nov 8th]" - I'm going to interpret that as meaning that it's 10 billion over the course of a full year, which makes more sense
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by pjschlic 10y ago
Counterpoint: my sister is an NP in Illinois and her employer did effectively this. She was asked to sign a new contract with strictly less benefits after having worked there for 9 months (specifically I think they wanted to reduce the vaca
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by pjschlic 10y ago
Could I ask for a little clarification about your critique? I understand what his perspective is: socializing the cost is a moral hazard (people will make different decisions if they don't have to pay the cost of them). That's the
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by pjschlic 11y ago
This reminds me of the recent Planet Money "The Experiment Experiment" and they pointed out some journals requesting pre-registered experiments (pre-commited experiment methods and analysis submitted to somewhere online before the
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by pjschlic 12y ago
google.com/compare Maybe this should have been a Show HN, but I've been working (mostly on the mobile version) for over a quarter now, and while I'm usually a lurker here, I was so excited to launch an actual consumer product
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Google Introduces US Car Insurance Comparison(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by pjschlic 12y ago|1 comments
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by pjschlic 12y ago
Am I missing something here? I tried to use his number to run a net present value assessment of a few example cars and came up with wildly different numbers of NPV. I think a Tesla is cool, but if you are trying to save money by buying a

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