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xapata

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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.