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We've never been accepted, but my experience with application process indicates this isn't strictly true. We're not getting any more charismatic, but they have continued to show interest in us applying. Not sure if that's what everyone gets or not.

It doesn’t sound like you’re applying online, so this might not apply but: Write the most fragile resume parser you can. Now make it so your resume can be parsed by it. This made a world of difference for me last go around.

This is comparing a foot to a mile

I honestly had no idea JAX was useful outside autograd, due to my own tunnel vision. I even used it with other libraries to do this kind of work. Is there a term for this type of mistake?

Almost every time I've heard this mentioned it's framed as "I live in such a backward place, they have a law that requires everyone to own guns."

The title is a bit inflammatory, but in this clip from Scalia's testimony relates the overall concept well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_gd--UO0

> We don’t have the stats on how many people the active braking has saved from a collision.

In the article, there were several links at the bottom with stats on the impact on Volvo cars in the US: https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2111. The stats aren't directly equivalent, but I think it helps to support your argument.

What portion of student's would you estimate ask you or the TA about exercises?

Which part of Manna does this remind you of?

Our state has a program that covers tuition if you are in-state, received good grades in high school, and continue to maintain those.

Of my (undergraduate) classmates, I believe 60% were out of state, including out of country. Unfortunately, most that came from states with similarly ranked public schools did not have access to a similar program in those states.

My payments to the university totaled $60k for 7 years, undergraduate and masters. (I lost full tuition coverage my first year.)

Any chance the first link is fake?

Not a lot of people. What would be the modern day equivalent? It certainly isn’t dating, that’s too broad. Maybe “I started seeing someone”?

So if misery of the poor and inequality largely aren't the same, there might be a path where inequality increases while the quality of life of the poor also increases?

From the quote, I read:

"most people can end up miserably poor" == "ever-increasing inequality"

Which begs the question - is the misery of poverty due to the lack of access to important goods or services, or because of the relative wealth standing?

> Boats have had a higher level of autonomy than cars for a while.

This is really a mixed bag - some categories of vessels have had more advanced navigation systems for decades, but on the the other hand a family minivan is about two decades ahead of a bowrider that goes for about same price when it comes to autonomy.

More directly addressing the article - marine autonomy is an easier problem technically, but there is a significant market problem. Aside from water taxis, there is not the same compelling economic case for autonomous small boats as there is for commuter cars.

Disclaimer: I work on ADAS systems for recreational boats.

Can you explain your reasoning and or insight for these conclusions? Personally I see Comma.ai as more likely to "never figure it out" than Cruise and others, but I lack special insight.

Probably a lot. On another level, do you think there is a universal ordering of addictions, or might it depend somewhat on individual proclivities? Say, might ones real addiction be porn, and they use gambling as a less harming replacement? The caveat being the maximum levels of practical harm are much larger for some addictions than others.

You can try to come up with or attempt to improve an existing technical solution - whether it be a green alternative to reduce emissions or carbon capture/terraforming. If you want a place to start, alternative power sources for freighters would have a huge impact.

> Now that the US has shown it can ban foreign tech companies if it's in their own interest, and all the moralizing talk about the free market has been exposed as the self-serving propaganda it has always been, what reason do be exactly have to keep playing this game where we are the biggest losers?

One of the ideas behind the structure of our republic is that there can be peaceful changes in power between different governments. What I mean to say is that the US is not one person, not even the US government. So, the moralizing talk about the free market has not always been duplicitous as you seem to imply. The protectionist actions you see now are just taken by the current government, who even on its own, doesn’t seem to have harp on the need for a free market very much. This is especially true when you compare it to the last government that was backing the TPP, something that was promptly killed after the regime change.

Otherwise I agree with your conclusion, European countries should chart their own way. Gotta watch those negative interest rates though, might be a little trickier in a closed economy.

Who are you quoting?

I just looked at the System76 laptops, and they are strikingly similar to the Powerspec(Micro Center)/Sager laptops? Is the resemblance superficial or something else?

You could change the title to be "What Americans should know about life in California" and the conclusions would still be largely accurate, with the exception of Healthcare and Jobs.

Not typical in the US afaik. In my undergraduate, I had one course taught by a graduate student, and he was somewhere around twice my age. Recitation is typically taught by a graduate student, but taught is a loose word. Seems like recitation is really group office hours with one of the professors graduate students.

Did the Treasury improve the bank operations for the better? It’s difficult to imagine that they’d do the same jobs as private creditors, considering 1. The Treasury decision makers stake in the longer term performance of the banks is low 2. The Treasury has money as an institution of government, even in a downturn, and has come to possess through political means. Private creditors have some come to possess, and more importantly keep/remain solvent during a downturn, the money they have to lend through means and methods more closely related to the effective operations of the banks. Not that every private creditor who ended up in control would do a better job, but on the whole firms would be more effectively run in the long term. Especially when it comes to avoiding risky leveraging situation as we’re in now. Not a britbong, so my understanding of how everything works over there might be wrong

My experiences tend to agree with the GP. One thing to consider is that the withdraw effects may be proportional more to the intensity of an addiction prior to quitting rather than the length of time addicted. If you're drinking one cup of coffee a day, but vaping the equivalent of one or more packs a day, your nicotine withdraw may be far more severe. Conversely, if you smoke one cigarette a day, and consume the equivalent of 12 cups of coffee a day in caffeine (caffeine pills or energy drinks). This may sounds ridiculous to you, but if I were to interpolate your experience with my anecdotal sample set, it sounds as if you were vaping well over the equivalent of two packs a day. This is really extrapolation, I can't say I know anyone who has had panic attacks while going withdraw who otherwise would not have, and my sample includes people who have gone through withdraw from a pack a day + vaping. Obviously the sample is small and anecdotal. Also, I've neglected to find supporting sources. I acknowledge that you are probably relaying the events truthfully, but you are essentially downplaying the addictive potential of caffeine here similarly to how you accuse GP of downplaying the addictive effects of nicotine. In summary, caffeine withdraw is a thing, and can be worse than nicotine withdraw. I don't think you need to have some dark motive to state that.

SH is the inverse fund for S&P 500 [1]. The fact that SH is non-zero should indicate someone has money backing that position. SPY has something like 20% short volume, although that is difficult to translate to long term short interest.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SH

Wait, so government funding supports the drug through the whole discovery and FDA validation process then just hands it off to the pharma companies? That seems broken

This talk from the MIT fusion lab lays out some approaches they have for solving problems in current fusion reactor design, in particular dealing with the radiation problem in a cost-effective manner. https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4

"I will say that it takes a certain level of privilege to say one shouldn’t discuss politics at work." Can you clarify the meaning? As it reads to me, if one belongs to a marginalized group, one would suffer disproportionately from making such a statement. I'm not quite clear on the semantics I suppose.

On another note, anecdotally, how many people have had a work relationship or project suffer due to discussion of politics at work, or alternatively, improve? (This being a reason not to discuss, it would be beneficial to sample for how likely it is to occur negatively.)