ryankupyn

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by ryankupyn 5y ago
And we should let them all in - the people who are leaving Russia now have an ardent desire to escape what is fast becoming a totalitarian state, while the Ukrainians are, of course, fleeing an invading army that has shown callous disregard
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
It's worth replying specifically to highlight how wrong the original comment is, but the evidence that was cited by the Russian government to justify their invasion was clearly fabricated. For instance, an alleged car bombing in Donets
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
I think the key distinction is that, for the most part, the current generation of cruise missiles are targeted and launched with a "human in the loop" - that is, a person actively makes the decision to fire the missile at a specif
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
"Omicron" also has the advantage of being easier to hear and understand in english - "Nu" can cause confusion because it sounds so much like "New".
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
This is an intriguing concept, but given that the submarine is small and suitable for mostly high-value cargo (whisky is the example cargo given in the article) I'm not sure how it'll offer significant advantages over other forms
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
I think that a lot of this makes sense from Google's legal perspective, where antitrust litigation is a constant consideration and any internal document mentioning market share or competitors could be used against them. I'm sure t
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
I think it'd be risky for Carvana if they tried "cornering the market" on used cars - unlike houses, used cars fall in price pretty quickly and new-car production has the potential to increase as car manufacturers respond in
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
I think the challenge is that if the rewards were high, Twitter employees (with the advantage of inside information) might be tempted to "tip off" an outsider in exchange for a cut of the reward, rather than just reporting the iss
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
I think this is a really good point, and I think that if anyone is really committed to promoting free-speech-maximalist approach to the web they should be focused on building tools that make is easier for people to host and distribute their
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
The critical thing is that this also requires a growing population - which is not guaranteed in all places/timeframes!
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by ryankupyn 5y ago
I think the most concerning element in the ProPublica piece is that there might be individuals inside the government who are willing to exfiltrate extremely sensitive private information and hand it over to outside parties without any publi
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by ryankupyn 6y ago
Having the pay ratio be relative to the "Median San Francisco worker" might have some interesting effects - for financial/tech firms who want to avoid the tax they might just shift their ~25% lowest paid workers to an office
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by ryankupyn 6y ago
I'm a big fan of ISL - one of the best intro machine-learning oriented textbooks out there IMO. If you're looking for book that still offers a broad survey while going a bit deeper into the math, I recommend Elements of Statistica
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by ryankupyn 6y ago
I'll add that my main hope is that the scale required for launching large satellite constellations will also make it cheaper to launch space-based telescopes, but it's far from clear that would be a major benefit (after all, laun
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by ryankupyn 6y ago
I'd note that while a broken unemployment system would affect statistics on the number of claims made, the official unemployment rate is calculated differently, using the Current Population Survey, and doesn't incorporate data on
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by ryankupyn 6y ago
You can't extract any more information from the image than what the satellite originally acquired - you could make an "error correcting" model that creates an image that appears to have higher fidelity, but the additional det
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by ryankupyn 7y ago
Possibly still a reasonable buy for him even at 3-6x what was expected if the higher price generates enough extra press coverage.
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by ryankupyn 7y ago
I didn’t quite get that paragraph, because flexibility of schedule is an important criteria for determining if someone is an employee or a contractor in most of the the US! (In California this isn’t true as of fairly recently, but most of t
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by ryankupyn 8y ago
The real risk there is that it would incentivize landlords to select the highest-income tenants possible (more so than they currently do).
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by ryankupyn 8y ago
It's worth noting that printing money and giving it to the banks is effectively the same as taxing cash - it causes inflation and reduces the value of Yuan-denominated assets (though there are ways to manage this). By doing this, the
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by ryankupyn 8y ago
I'm really interested in seeing how this will play out if solar continues to get cheaper. I'd imagine that at a certain point, the panels themselves will be cheap(er) compared to the installation cost (so that the cost structure c
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
The MTA is comparing single-ride fares with "effective" cost per ride of a then-$81 30 day pass, which they amortize over around 70 rides, which is a bit high for the average person in my experience (though not ridiculous). It mig
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
The most frustrating thing about this is that these aren't even official government cards (they're issued by the union instead), so it's harder to crack down on them through your elected officials. Even if you banned cards (a
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
I'm struck by how significantly the effect varies between states - according to table 2, 25% of the transfers (around $1.55 billion) are accounted for by Connecticut and Delaware alone (which collectively are around 2% of the US popula
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
Same here, though that is conditional on a friendly environment for financing to reach the longer term. And it also assumes that skill in the (relatively) low volume production of rockets can be transferred to mass production of cars.
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
The source is a bit misleading - the 12.8 trillion includes money the fed spent to buy assets, driving interest rates down. They've been slowly unwinding that position, and it's not as if they were giving the money away.
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
I think the rapid score moves are psychologically useful. For every person who slides rapidly downwards on a few unlucky hits, there's another who gets a few good shots, shoots up the board, and thinks "hey, I'm actually not
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product? If I had to guess, this is
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
I wonder what the compliance rate was? I've found a cold-shower regimen hard to stick to - effect might actually be larger if there was a way to verify and sort out anyone who was sneaking in a bit of warmth.
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
I'd actually be inclined to have an escalating fee (as a % of sale price) for a higher final price (relative to an independent appraisal) if I were a seller - just to keep the incentives aligned.

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