dlokshin
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Comment · 1 year ago
"Interventions" might be experiencing the effects of Goodhart's Law. I agree that I intervene in my Tesla about once every 2 weeks, but not because it's about to get into an accident, but because it's doing something I really don't want it to do. Uber drivers do things I don't want them to do, too. If I could intervene, I would.
Comment · 3 years ago
Was fun to google image search "car drives into wet concrete." Humans are worse drivers than I thought!
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=557782243&sxsrf=AB5stB...
Comment · 7 years ago
If you're in a Physics masters or Ph.D. program and are thinking about dropping out because academia is not for you, please email me: david [at] TraceUp.com. We are hiring people like you.
Comment · 8 years ago
Interesting marketing choice that all of the images are of the actual glasses, and none of the images are of what your eyes see.
Comment · 9 years ago
45 million people died over 4 years in Mao's Great Leap Forward from starvation and execution. 10+ million people died in Stalin's gulags alone. Are you really trying to equate this with healthcare in America?
Comment · 11 years ago
This added to real GDP being more than 25% higher than it was in 2000, makes this surprising in the opposite way than the article's intent (to me, at least)
Comment · 12 years ago
Esri is completely bootstrapped, not in a tech hub, and doing north of $1B / year in revs.
Comment · 12 years ago
I meant it in this sort of comparison: if you uproot the house, and drop it in Palo Alto on the same size plot of land it's worth more. If the programer gets up, and moves to San Francisco, his labor is also worth more. Same person, same house, different demand (and supply).
Comment · 12 years ago
Because demand is less. The wage is still dictated by supply and demand. The supply is probably less, but the demand for that labor is far less. The demand for an engineer in the midwest is higher than the demand for an engineer in Thailand because there are less time barriers, language barriers, etc.
A house in Palo Alto, CA costs more than the exact same house in Dexter, Michigan. If they were made of the exact same materials on the exact same size of land, you wouldn't expect them to cost the same either.
Comment · 12 years ago
:0! Thanks. Added.
Comment · 12 years ago
Went to Harvard, had a bunch of friends and interacted plenty with people at MIT and would be happy to jump on the phone with you and give you a more in depth view of my experience. Email is in my HN profile.
Comment · 12 years ago
Except for the part where this is 37 weeks and not 25 weeks which is 30% of the entire duration of pregnancy. The story is from AOL is at the 5 month mark which means it could be even earlier than that.
Can't go back to watching Fox News because I don't have a TV. Nice, red herring, though.
Comment · 12 years ago
My first comment was directly pertinent to the French model, but same for UK--US survival rates are higher for sub 37 week old babies.
Comment · 12 years ago
In the UK they give services, and reasses on an ongoing basis, so different than the French. Added some info for under 37 weeks, where the US comes out on top.
Comment · 12 years ago
The assumption here being that a live birth is as likely in France as it is in the US. What we should be looking for is percentage of survival for infants born sub 25ish weeks or something like that (I don't have that data).
UPDATE: And as we see from this paper from the WHO, live birth in the US is not what it means in France, for example. In the US it's any sign of life, in France and Belgium it's living for some period of time: "it has also been common practice in several countries (e.g. Belgium, France, Spain) to register as live births only those infants who survived for a specified period beyond birth"