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by thelamest 9mo ago
Florida, 2020: 63,217 domestic violence arrests The British arrest stats subsume DV harassment cases, and the original Times reporting quoted a police officer stating that they are the bulk of these numbers. I haven’t found an apples-to-app
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by thelamest 1y ago
Addressing the hypothetical person you’re describing: car infrastructure may solve some needs, but it is in direct conflict with other needs. Give every adult a guaranteed parking space just at home and at work, and the physical space requi
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by thelamest 1y ago
The general topic and some specific ways to estimate a correction are described under this term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_analysis
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by thelamest 1y ago
(Maybe I’m reading too much of a narrative into what you wrote, but–) I don’t think it’s causal like that; it doesn’t have to be. In particular, “wealthy, modern urban cores” tend to be self-sustaining economic force multipliers rather than
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by thelamest 1y ago
AI CoT may work the same extremely flawed way that human introspection does, and that’s fine, the reason we may want to hold them to a higher standard is because someone proposed to use CoTs to monitor ethics and alignment.
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by thelamest 2y ago
It does not come about magically from monetary or even fiscal policy. The demand for housing (and other construction) was and is real. People find use for, and like having much space, while being close together. What was and is lacking is s
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by thelamest 2y ago
>This makes me think that our formal [definitions] of "intelligence" […] and what we intuitively look out for, are really two different things. Just two? You can name so many more terms in this concept cloud, e.g.: personhood,
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by thelamest 2y ago
“Transparency” as leaks from abuse is very, very different from transparency as a policy of easy access – and neither makes you necessarily better informed. In short, a biased selection of information can leave you worse off than having no
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by thelamest 3y ago
For one, finance is a macro force multiplier; it can make or break entire other industries. There’s also a bit of selection (global top) and survivorship (plenty of less visible non-success stories) in the wild money stories you can see out
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by thelamest 4y ago
To expand just a bit more, the map is very blurry. Nation states tap into some real and old sentiments, but are not just a translation of those to a modern political language. They are their own new political projects, with a shape that is
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by thelamest 4y ago
Mars is on (or above) a wiped out Earth level of difficulty already
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by thelamest 4y ago
Counter: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-... (and it isn’t a left vs right thing, Vox is replying to a whole bunch of coverage from all angles; I’ve mostly seen Gilens&Pag
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by thelamest 4y ago
I hope you’ll get a better answer, but a minimal solution is to use snscrape ( https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape ) to download a raw JSON dump of a user timeline. Some caveats: 1. This doesn’t work for all
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by thelamest 4y ago
It’s not a closed system or a zero sum game. The average loan has positive expected value in terms of new, real goods and services being created – so it can be accompanied with an increase in nominal amount of money. The casino analogy falt
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by thelamest 4y ago
Yes. If the (overall) nominal money flows decrease but (overall) real economy size stays the same – to the extent that it’s going to change prices for no “real” reason – people and central banks are likely to notice and may react. Central b
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by thelamest 4y ago
Finding new particles and studying astronomical events has a larger nugget of similarity with the psychology modus operandi than you may think. They’re studying rare or unique objects with extremely finicky measurement tools; enormous amoun
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by thelamest 4y ago
Yeah, yet this bonduary traces a fuzzy and surprising route. Lives are on the line in microbiology, yet Bik uncovered thousands of suspect image errors there ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Bik ). Semiconductor
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by thelamest 4y ago
This is just not true. In the act that established SPR ( https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-845/uslm/COMPS-845... ) there’s much about supply, little about national security, and next to nothing abo
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by thelamest 4y ago
Trimmed inflation measures exist, but this one is not it. They’re not used in a sneaky way, they’re clearly named “trimmed CPI”, “trimmed PCE” etc.
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by thelamest 4y ago
Coordination games and public goods games (which arguably model insurance) work best when people don’t adversely self-select, but coordinate around the social optimum (for insurance, when the risk pool is as large as possible). Whatever can
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by thelamest 4y ago
In general, stock buybacks aren’t socially undesirable, but in this case would be more troubling I guess as they signal the company feels its R&D spending potential was already saturated.
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by thelamest 4y ago
Like the idea and execution a lot! Being IANAF, I like to refer people to chapters 4–7 of this lecture from Robert Shiller’s “Financial Markets” Yale course: https://youtu.be/_B_24GUWdSM?t=1269 (~40 minutes). The concept gi
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by thelamest 4y ago
Probably not news to anyone who works with big data™, but I learned, after additional searches, that using (something like) duckdb as a CSV parser makes sense, especially if the alternative is loading the entire thing to memory with (someth
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by thelamest 4y ago
No it’s not. See e.g. https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545152093501227009 , https://twitter.com/MorganRicks1/status/1545404990457536512 . In what meaning are you even using the term
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by thelamest 4y ago
You can only be sure in hindsight which solution is comparatively or net good. Not all hard work done by smart and nice people turns out to be worthwhile. There are always trade-offs and cryptoassets bring them too. You have good reasons to
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by thelamest 4y ago
Great job! I can see this being very useful, at the very least in the academia. For example, in meta-analytic reviews, you often go through hundreds of papers, identifying, highlighting and annotating the relevant hypothesis test details, a
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by thelamest 4y ago
Transfers can be dirt cheap with normal money (e.g.: Single Euro Payment Area), and your banking system can be transparent enough (the US one already is), if your regulating body cares about it. The average individual neither can change it,
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by thelamest 4y ago
Funnily enough, that SALT deduction was disliked by economists, as regressive, inefficient and mostly pointless. It was bashed by policy think tanks from all sides, e.g. Brookings, CRFB, Heritage, CBPP, and Center for American Progress.
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by thelamest 4y ago
Doesn’t this fit into “other adjustments”? Net operating loss is listed among the examples there.
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by thelamest 4y ago
For more numerous and granular data points, Eurostat doesn’t seem to measure this below country level, however US Census does. At least, I can easily find maps and papers which use that reference, but not the exact data table quickly. I kno

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