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What do you mean by labelled accurately? The AI only predicts how an individual self-labelled on a fairly public dating service, not how this person feels or behaves in any other way. There are so many headless torsos on Grindr (or any other gay hookup app) because many men don't want to self label as gay when they look for sex with other men. These men could very well be looking for women on Tinder.

The fact the the authors of the paper rush for innate explanations (hormone levels in the womb...) that they have no expertise to comment on instead of much more obvious behaviors (maybe self-labelled gay and straight people upload different types of pics or take care of themselves differently, on average), is a clear violation of Occam's razor.

The "average gay face" is similar to the "average straight face" with glasses on, a better angle, and a couple of pounds less.

That's not irony, that's the paradox of tolerance [1]. An open society can tolerate all opinions except for opinions directed against an open society.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

It's not because it's common that it's not harassment, there's no causal link here.

When you say feature-rich I hear cluttered. I don't want a tool that does everything, there's the cli for that. I want a tool to help me visualize things and build queries and sub-queries.

Professor isn't the only career possible with a PhD.

Can you give some examples?

He didn't care for the lifestyle that money can bring. He was living in a nondescript suburban house near Lausanne and kept his old car for 20 years. Much like Warren Buffet, he was one of these self-made fortunes for whom money is a way to keep tally.

Well that's how it works. If you want healthcare to work for everyone, you cannot expect that insurance will reimburse treatment from top doctors outside of rare conditions (where top doctors are the only doctors). Sport related injuries are extremely common. Why should an insurance reimburse an incredibly costly treatment when a normal treatment is good enough for most people? By definition, you cannot have an insurance that covers everyone but sends you to a top 1% doctor. What would the other 99% used for?

Scrabble, at a top level, is a game of memorizing as many words and combinations as you can. Some top players in english don't even speak english very well. That's a pure memory game.

The Google Pixel 2 starts at $649. Pixel prices are comparable with iPhones.

HSR's right-of-way will be here for centuries. If you buy 147 brand new A380s, they'll be outdated in a decade or two.

Union Station is or will by a direct subway ride away from a lot of dense pockets in Los Angeles (Red, Purple & Blue lines when the regional connector opens). Yes, the train will come to LAX as well, but transfer will be less convenient and likely less direct than from Union Station.

> I imagine that in the US, this will be much the same. Or will be the moment after the first attack on a train. I don't see any long-term security gains here, the US is simply not Europe.

Even in Israel you don't have that kind of security check before boarding a train.

So, a credential? In the countries and states where the title is protected (it's not everywhere), you often have to pay dues to a professional organization to claim the title. It's not enough to have the diploma, you have to pay every year too.

The A380 doesn't make sense for cargo. Too much volume for the weight it can lift. At the average plane cargo density, an A380 cargo would be at weight capacity way before it gets to volume capacity.[1]

The A380 cannot lift much more than a B747. But it has more volume, which comes in handy for passengers, not for cargo.

[1]: https://www.flexport.com/blog/airbus-a380-no-cargo-equivalen...

edit: 747 n° mistake

I have flown the A380 in economy multiple times. It is a premium experience. The plane is so big that you don't feel turbulences as much. And it's relatively new, so it's very silent. On the upper deck, because of cabin curvature, window seats have a large armrest opening and doubling as a generous chest where you can put all your stuff and keep your legs free of clutter.

It's not "just learning a few things". Some software engineers have years of experience on the job despite no CS education. In the end it's about how much value you bring to the company. If your diploma helps you deliver that value, great. If not, your diploma is irrelevant.

I'm always very weary of companies that tell me I'll earn more money because I have a PhD completely irrelevant to the job I'll be hired to do. It signals that they're valuing the wrong thing, and that doesn't make me want to work there.

If you do the same job, and do it equally well, why should you have a different title?

Lending dynamics are different in a gold standard economy, with a fixed amount of currency, because banks do not have leverage on lending.

Today, banks need only have ~10% of the money they lend in deposits. The rest is new money. With a fixed money supply, banks can't do that. You divide by 10 the amount of money available to lend. In a gold standard economy, money supply available for financing is much, much more restricted.

The modern economy is a constant bet on future economic growth. Failed bets translate into inflation on a macro-scale, and painful leveraged losses for banks on a micro-scale. With fixed money supply, you cannot bet at all and potential growth is, by definition, much slower.

In modern systems money can be created by banks lending money. That's an interesting property as money creation is tied to the course of the economy. However, this can lead to inflation if the amount of money created actually exceeds the growth in economic activity.

In the gold standard model where the amount of money is completely uncorrelated with economic activity, you have inherent deflation. Deflation is a serious threat, as it pushed people to hold onto their currency (as the real value automatically rises) instead of spending or investing it.

Bitcoin is really a digital gold standard. There is no way that a gold standard currency can support a growing economy efficiently.

It is much, much more efficient to invest in public transit to serve existing job centers.

A large part of a Bloomberg terminal value is the status. It's not like the UX is what's blocking evolution of the terminal.

If they believe that the company will make money in the long-run. Otherwise it's just putting bad money after good. You can only bail out a company if you believe it will become profitable. You can't subsidize rides eternally, it does not make sense for investors.

Sure, there's average differences between groups. Between almost any two arbitrary groups you'll find significant differences.

The problem is that there's a very slippery slope between stating a difference, ascribing causality (the difference is due to biology, for instance), and justifying it as a moral imperative (we should treat men and women differently).

It's dangerous because if differences between groups are easy to pinpoint, they're much harder to explain. Even if you can get to a plausible causal mechanism, it doesn't say anything about how things should be anyway.

Evolution doesn't have a purpose. Just because you can eat meat doesn't mean you have to, or that you should. You can have a meat-free, protein-heavy diet.

Most of meat products are so processed that they are indistinguishable from plant-based substitutes anyway. If you try an Impossible Burger without knowing it's plant-based, you wouldn't notice it's not meat.

Beside, are you seriously denying anthropic climate change?

There is major difference in the rights you have before and after you cross the border. That's true for foreigners, but for citizens too.

You don't need to root your phone to install whatever apk you want on Android. Just download and install the app.

> it’s incredible hard to “start small” because your being judged against all the incumbents

Then you're probably addressing the wrong market. I found _The Innovator's Solution_[1] by Clayton Christensen pretty useful to understand that. You want to address a market that is underserved or not served at all by the existing big players. Often, it's by providing a service that is much simpler, much less powerful, but cheaper and/or more accessible than the existing solutions.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Solution-Creating-Sustaini...

If you have a limited supply of currency in a growing economy, it's inherently deflationary. So far I haven't seen proposals for cryptocurrencies that can grow as a function of the underlying economy. Maybe there are some.