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by xiler 6y ago
Nuclear companies generally aren't prepared to assume full liability for nuclear accidents [1]. This makes me pretty skeptical that nuclear power is really that safe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93And
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by xiler 6y ago
Roads are non-rivalrous (to an extent). Meaning during off-peak times a private toll road would likely be under utilized if it were not regulated/subsidized. Another reason is that if a road happens to be the shortest path between a po
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by xiler 6y ago
> actual unions are a far cry from how they are portrayed as helping the worker. I think it's a fairly well established industry trend that, on average, union membership is a net positive for the worker. https://en.wikipe
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by xiler 6y ago
Another measure is major sector labor productivity (labor inputs vs outputs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workforce_productivity#/media/...
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by xiler 6y ago
> And I would also expect that social mobility would decrease as an economy "matures". If you're in a developing country seeing 7-10% GDP growth, then you'd hope mobility is higher than an economy growing at 1-2% per
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by xiler 6y ago
Interesting read, but supposedly when we're talking about changes in social mobility we really care about the change in the percentage of people that are richer than their parents? Indeed towards the end of the article the author say
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by xiler 6y ago
> We seek to do this as far as the law allows us to do, and other companies do that as well. We operate within the rules placed on us by the legislatures of this country and its states. Sure, but this is an antitrust hearing and trusts a
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by xiler 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
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by xiler 6y ago
He also works on Google's Knowledge Graph https://research.google/people/vrandecic/ https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
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by xiler 6y ago
Off the top of my head the risk of identity theft and black mail are probably biggest reasons why privacy is important. This is especially concerning when you realize how "secure" data often leaks and becomes public. https:/
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by xiler 6y ago
https://www.opensecrets.org.za/agm/
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by xiler 6y ago
Employees are subject to intense competition for employment, while big companies face much less competition [1]. This means that, all other things being equal, big companies are less unaccountable than their employees. While this dynamic ce
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by xiler 6y ago
I'd say that's a bit of a false dilemma. Countries like South Korea and Taiwan have dealt with this problem far better than other countries despite having very few lockdowns [1,2]. Instead they have made use of government funded d
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by xiler 7y ago
I think this practice is a bit worse than other forms of electioneering since it is not clear if views being expressed come directly from the candidate or not (unlike a TV ad or a rally). When governments do something similar this, their me
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by xiler 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
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by xiler 7y ago
I think the company-country analogy is stronger than you claim. > A nation uphelds the law whereas a company uses proxies (lobbying) to make laws Once companies can influence the government, any special abilities of the government (expor
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by xiler 7y ago
Fair points, but on the other hand, to quote Page and Brin: "we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline’s homepage when the airline’s name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expen
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by xiler 7y ago
Note though that when many of the former soviet economies liberalized some of their economic and social outcomes were initially not so great. They experienced high inflation and, in some cases, a sharp drop in life expectancy. [1,2] I under
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by xiler 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
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by xiler 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18369384
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by xiler 7y ago
If you haven't already, I highly recommend you read We by Zamyatin [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29
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by xiler 7y ago
Has anyone looked into creating a cooperative data labeling service similar to Scale AI, except where labels are owned by the people who created them? Perhaps this might even increase label quality by aligning the interests of the labelers
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by xiler 7y ago
In the related work section of their paper they mention that WANNs are related to genetic programming [1], a subfield of evolutionary algorithms. Genetic programming is quite a powerful tool. IIRC, a few years ago, a researcher evolved expr
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by xiler 7y ago
IIRC objects experiencing acceleration (e.g. planets orbiting each other) are not subject to Galilean relativity like objects that are moving at a constant velocity (e.g. ball being thrown on a train). So when planets orbit each other, ther
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by xiler 8y ago
You could try this using WordNet https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
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by xiler 8y ago
I'm not sure about 'non-physical labor' but an IMF report [1] found that in many industrialized countries, such as the US, Germany, Japan, etc., depressed wages correlate strongly with low labor union participation rates. Sur
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by xiler 9y ago
In the current economy I feel co-ops are bit too radical to remedy the imbalances of power within large businesses (where it really matters). We might need something less aggressive like the widespread promotion of Employee Stock Ownership
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by xiler 9y ago
> The low labor share in the 1980's is then out of line with the rest of our results. However, it is compatible with the fact that wage growth and labor share started to fall early in the 1970's, caused by factors not present i
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by xiler 10y ago
In particular see the "Mary the super-scientist" thought experiment for a nice explanation of the difference between the two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument http://philosophyfacul
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List of datasets for machine learning research(en.wikipedia.org)
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