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Comment #42558990
Like elves in _Shadowrun_.
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Comment #42558943
And mentally. We never stop playing. Note the popularity of memes about "adulting".
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Comment #42013940
> esoteric The legal concept doesn't feel esoteric to me. In contrast, "companies" creating governments is quite rare in my mind. The historical concept you're referring to was eve…
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Comment #41990410
When it goes the other way, would it be more appropriate to call those gangs, not companies?
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Comment #41990379
Just assumptions, not extremely strong assumptions. Ordinary least squares performs well in a large variety of cases.
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Comment #41968958
A company is meaningless without a government and law enforcement. The existence of a barrier is necessary for a company to have practical value as a legal concept.
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Comment #41891236
If I only earn when I treat, then I have an incentive to over-diagnose. Insurance thus forces me to document my diagnoses, and I spend much of my time on documentation and appealin…
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Comment #41885970
It'd still occur in a single-payer system. The problem is fees for services instead of fees for results.
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Comment #41717443
If not predictability, then regularity, and I believe that's a fundamental misunderstanding -- the system is chaotic.
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Comment #41694364
If only that weren't called a "cycle" as if it had a predictable periodicity.
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Comment #41654741
Isn't the jury responsible for determining what's reliable evidence?
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Comment #41217443
You're right. Thanks for being that guy!
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Comment #41028916
Democrat leadership and large donors may have moved left, but the voters haven't. Which is why Biden was having trouble with some groups previously thought locked-in Democrat.
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Comment #40916892
If the author wrote, "This is satire," it'd ruin the satire.
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Comment #39637473
I'd bet that the median claim is quite different than the mean claim, because the outliers are so large. Much like the "shocking" statements you hear about wealth distribution -- t…
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Comment #39637459
It seems like the ideal plan is a high-deductible with no maximum, like catastrophic medical coverage.
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Comment #39576445
Liability is more about medical costs, no? If it were bounded to vehicle cost, I'd self-insure.
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Comment #39574780
Why Polars and not Dask?
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Comment #39508273
You can solve that with careful licensing agreements.
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Comment #39498588
That was my guess, too :-)
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Comment #39498584
Semantics, I suppose. Those ANNs were Markov chains, in a sense.
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Comment #38867996
They can compare sales figures with other notebook brands', if they buy some competitive intelligence or do some sleuthing. Opportunity cost of lost sales.
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Comment #38836087
> some kind of signal Low sales is a signal. Also, they can hire a UX researcher.
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Comment #38765111
So, that "I am as constant as the northern star" simile is a little mixed?
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Comment #38750445
Unfortunately, to carry that low annualized rent forward, one must move annually.