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ralphmelish··on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company Preps for Mass Layoffs
And has >50% of the votes via special shares. He is basically unaccountable.
ralphmelish··on Anxiety does not cause bad results in exams
The original paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095679762211193...
ralphmelish··on Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero
So your prices are constantly changing? How much do you pay on average for a kW?
ralphmelish··on Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero
That's quite interesting. Prices seem quite cheap compared to what I'm paying right now. Too bad they are not taking new customers.
ralphmelish··on Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero
That's why I asked. Thank you for your detailed explanation.
ralphmelish··on Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero
It doesn't change during they day, it only changes when the government approves price increases. I guess variable means a different thing in the UK. Do you have peak and off-peak prices?
ralphmelish··on Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero
What are the kWh prices in Amsterdam? I'm in London and would need to consume more than 1,700 kw to pay that much (£0.3866 per kWh, £0.3849 standing charge).

Edit: I'm also on a variable contract

ralphmelish··on SAT score distributions in Michigan
The US Census Bureau have been categorising Indians as Asians for more than 20 years. I'm not interested in any racial discussion, just stating how they are classified as.
ralphmelish··on SAT score distributions in Michigan
You are wrong. 'Caucasian' is used to classify white Europeans.

The US Government defines 'Asians' as 'having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.'[0]

[0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/note/US/RHI625221#:~:....

ralphmelish··on Economists are flocking to Silicon Valley
Exactly. People like Hal Varian or Susan Athey contributed nothing. That is why all this companies have Chief Economists and hire Econ PhD on a regular basis...
ralphmelish··on H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
Get a license for what? I don't really understand the relationship between bureaucracy and buying a book... You can buy anything you like from anywhere in the world, pay your duty online, and have it delivered to your door. I did it a couple of times with DHL, Royal Mail, and never had any issues.
ralphmelish··on H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
UK doesn't have 18% inflation, that is just a projection from Citigroup [0] (if gas prices continue to grow it will probably get there, like the rest of Europe). Inflation is at 10.1%.

I'm not sure why you say 'low salaries'. Adjusted by cost of living, salaries are not that low [1]. Median (removes those salaries from 'money laundering industries') salary in London is almost £39.7k [2]. Adjust that by cost of living, and it is higher than median income in San Francisco or NYC [3].

Infrastructure is miles better than the US. Public transport, while expensive, works quite well. The US has virtually no public transport whatsoever.

Housing and renting is expensive in every major city, it is not a problem exclusive to the UK.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/22/uk-inflatio...

[1] https://neilkakkar.com/salary-calculator-by-city.html

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/416139/full-time-annual-...

[3] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocit...

Edit: format

ralphmelish··on Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?
The Elements of Statistical Learning is by Hastie et al, not by Goodfellow. Goodfellow wrote Deep Learning. They are both available for free on their websites.
ralphmelish··on How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years
I know they exist, but they are not the norm. They even call them 'international bank accounts' in most cases (I think HSBC calls it that, or Barclays). Most common bank accounts will require proof of address in the respective country. I don't think it is expected to specify all that in the app description.
ralphmelish··on How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years
I've just checked the description in the Play Store and it says 'Open a full UK bank account'. Maybe that is new, but it is pretty clear.
ralphmelish··on How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years
It is not a simple app, it's a bank. Not sure how you expect to open a UK bank account not living in the UK...

Edit: I've just checked the description in the Play Store and it says 'Open a full UK bank account'. Maybe that is new, but it is pretty clear.

ralphmelish··on Science Is Getting Harder
I believe he is talking about this thread: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1450324226129338369?lang=...