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Comment · 4 months ago
I wish you a smooth transition. These days odds are everything will work out of the box.
Comment · 10 months ago
Unions are part of a healthy market economy. The succesful suppression of unions is a market failure.
Comment · 1 year ago
“ create a single government agency that provides support to the rest of the government. Might easily lose efficiency, as any other bureaucracy”. As opposed to huge corporations that are known to be the pinnacle of efficiency…
Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds like every other successful studio. On the contrary (to making this a bad thing) - they managed to pivot engine twice and ship without tanking.
Comment · 1 year ago
(1) “American economists” only. (2)Also I am sure looking at the political/institutional affiliations of the responders would be interesting. (3) The responders comments show very different reasoning for disagreement. Some focus on stat derivatives, some on model incompatibility and some on more anecdotal evidence. (4) Some answers are bat-shit crazy like “not sure wealth inequality has risen in the US”.
Comment · 1 year ago
This applies to most graduates imo. and even more so phds. :)
Comment · 1 year ago
You are right - the language itself can be a bit messy. R’s advantage is the massive amount of packages available. Almost no matter what niche problem you are trying to solve - someone probably made a package for it. And if not all the functionality is there: you can just add.
Comment · 1 year ago
“Less risk is actually more risk.” - Maybe the title of Nassim Talebs next book?
Comment · 1 year ago
Indeed - its been years since browsing anonymity was possible (without rigorous opsec and inconvenience).
Comment · 1 year ago
You know people are lost in the woods when the they use terms like “100% genuine and obvious. Your personal preferences are not universal and people are not downplaying it the need for controlling feeds. They are frustrated that control of feeds are taken from them from paternalistic profit-driven product managers et al.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes.
Comment · 2 years ago
Its because in the west you will end up in court. In china only laws benefitting the CPC is enforced (hyperbole - maybe.. but still).
Comment · 2 years ago
4090 works fine on Linux.
Comment · 2 years ago
Fair points. Although Windows changed a lot the last 20 years. The hardware issue i can confirm - only reason my desktop workstation is still on windows.

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