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Github code: https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords

Always been curious how that architectonic style and weird abstract statues got so common in most cities around the whole world, while never met a person who actually liked them. In theory we live in a free society, so there's no reason different cities and countries should have the same style, specially when the general public doesn't seem engaged with it at all?

The only things that come to mind is that maybe it's very cheap to produce, or maybe the inside culture of the architecture world / art world really likes those things, and has a much higher influence than mainstream culture on how those things are produced.

Prestigious institutions in different fields have been producing terrible knowledge and terrible predictions for a very long time. From the World Health Organization, to the economist elite in 2008, to the nutrition world, to psychology...

We don't seem to live in a world where one can just trust prestigious institutions, but a world in which those prestigious institutions need to be built.

These type of things is why I always use a real programming language rather than shell scripting. Can't wrap my head around all the different pitfalls of treating random string outputs as input for other commands without first validating and parsing them into an actual data structure.

>reports

People who already believed it, will believe the reports. People who don't, won't.

Nice headline, but a lacking article.

Gives credence to the voices saying that the protests final goal is to centralize the economy into a few huge companies with government overview.

People who aren't whites or asians.

It doesn't seem to work in my browser:

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No idea how it works. Click on "start" and nothing happens.

Also the fact that many market players got bailed out by governments when things went south. They may have been aware that this would happen all along, which would mean the explicit market game and the real market game are 2 very different things with very different rules.

But this is experts we are talking about. There's supposed to be some degree of translation between models and real life. The point of the fallacy is that this translation can be very debatable and restricted in many fields, and that a good observer with decent intuition can beat those models easily.

If this was about a purely intellectual roleplaying game with internal rules there would be no discussion in the first place.

Or they knew all along that the government would bail them out, so they were playing a very different game than everybody else.

It's trendy this week to take simplistic positions regarding law enforcement, so people jump into that train. It costs them nothing, it makes them look good, and it makes them feel good about themselves without actually changing anything.

>but scale isn't a problem many people need solving when 2TB of RAM fits in a single box.

What's the price of that on the cloud? I know I can run crazy big tables on DynamoDB for a couple of dollars. I don't know what 1 month of a relational database with 2TB of RAM costs on the cloud, but I am pretty sure I can't afford it.