xapata

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by xapata 2y ago
Like elves in _Shadowrun_.
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by xapata 2y ago
And mentally. We never stop playing. Note the popularity of memes about "adulting".
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by xapata 2y ago
> esoteric The legal concept doesn't feel esoteric to me. In contrast, "companies" creating governments is quite rare in my mind. The historical concept you're referring to was even more of a legal concept. Those co
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by xapata 2y ago
When it goes the other way, would it be more appropriate to call those gangs, not companies?
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by xapata 2y ago
Just assumptions, not extremely strong assumptions. Ordinary least squares performs well in a large variety of cases.
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by xapata 2y ago
A company is meaningless without a government and law enforcement. The existence of a barrier is necessary for a company to have practical value as a legal concept.
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by xapata 2y ago
If I only earn when I treat, then I have an incentive to over-diagnose. Insurance thus forces me to document my diagnoses, and I spend much of my time on documentation and appealing denials.
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by xapata 2y ago
It'd still occur in a single-payer system. The problem is fees for services instead of fees for results.
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by xapata 2y ago
If not predictability, then regularity, and I believe that's a fundamental misunderstanding -- the system is chaotic.
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by xapata 2y ago
If only that weren't called a "cycle" as if it had a predictable periodicity.
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by xapata 2y ago
Isn't the jury responsible for determining what's reliable evidence?
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by xapata 2y ago
You're right. Thanks for being that guy!
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by xapata 2y ago
Democrat leadership and large donors may have moved left, but the voters haven't. Which is why Biden was having trouble with some groups previously thought locked-in Democrat.
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by xapata 2y ago
If the author wrote, "This is satire," it'd ruin the satire.
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by xapata 3y ago
I'd bet that the median claim is quite different than the mean claim, because the outliers are so large. Much like the "shocking" statements you hear about wealth distribution -- the largest 10 are bigger than the bottom 50%
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by xapata 3y ago
It seems like the ideal plan is a high-deductible with no maximum, like catastrophic medical coverage.
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by xapata 3y ago
Liability is more about medical costs, no? If it were bounded to vehicle cost, I'd self-insure.
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by xapata 3y ago
Why Polars and not Dask?
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by xapata 3y ago
You can solve that with careful licensing agreements.
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by xapata 3y ago
That was my guess, too :-)
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by xapata 3y ago
Semantics, I suppose. Those ANNs were Markov chains, in a sense.
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by xapata 3y ago
They can compare sales figures with other notebook brands', if they buy some competitive intelligence or do some sleuthing. Opportunity cost of lost sales.
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by xapata 3y ago
> some kind of signal Low sales is a signal. Also, they can hire a UX researcher.
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by xapata 3y ago
So, that "I am as constant as the northern star" simile is a little mixed?
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by xapata 3y ago
Unfortunately, to carry that low annualized rent forward, one must move annually.
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by xapata 3y ago
> Two of the suggestions made were brontobyte (from 'brontosaurus') and hellabyte (from 'hell of a big number'). (Indeed, the Google unit converter function was already stating '1 hellabyte = 1000 yottabytes&#x27
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by xapata 3y ago
> EB I pine for the day when "hella-" extends the SI prefixes. Sadly, they added "ronna-" and "quetta-" in 2022. Seems like I'll have to wait quite some time.
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by xapata 3y ago
From the anthropology I've been reading, it seems that many societies got by with debt -- and complex forms of it! -- with no need for money. Especially because of their long lives and stable communities, debt relations would be effec
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by xapata 3y ago
If there weren't so many cars and the associated danger, it'd be easier to use public spaces and not feel like your "small" apartment is cramped. I bought a house and miss my 2-bedroom apartment. Enough that my wife and
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by xapata 3y ago
Feel free. I can be your pseudonymous villain.

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