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yt-sdb commented on Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive (1939-1945) sa-kuva.fi/neo?tem=webneo... · Posted by u/kocsonya
yt-sdb commented on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker congestion-pricing-tracke... · Posted by u/gotmedium
So far, none of the data provided by the linked site would suggest Manhattan will see a reduction in transportation times. This is with the Monday snow however, which I'd imagine
caused delays by itself.
I will say, being in Manhattan, their seems to be less traffic on the road. I wonder if Google Maps traffic data is using a rolling average of ~7 days or something
Are you sure? Compare before/after for the main affected regions (Holland Tunnel, Queensboro) versus the unaffected regions. We definitely need more data, but I think there's an immediate reduction in the obvious places.
yt-sdb commented on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive signal.org/blog/signal-is... · Posted by u/mikece
Some of these things raise an eyebrow and I'd like them further broken down (but in the mean time, I'm still donating):
* $19 million for 50 staff
- That's $338k/head on average. At face value for a nonprofit, I'd like these costs broke down as this seems excessive. There is far cheaper IT labor available outside SV.
- I'd drop these features if possible, or give them to donors.
- I was actually expecting this to be far higher
- Long term storage should probably be donor-only
- Servers could likely be optimized by going hybrid cloud with colocation and owning own hardware, but again, was surprised how "little" they're spending on this.
- Stop contributing and supporting the "Your phone number is your identity" problem.
- Move towards helping educating society and establishing a set of encryption keys as their long term identity
> $19 million for 50 staff. That's $338k/head on average.
How did you compute this? 19/5 is 3.8
I have been seeing more and more usage of 'ex post' and 'ex ante' lately. What do they convey that isn't conveyed by 'after' and 'before'?
"Before" and "after" are generic terms. A car might stop before the crosswalk (space). You might eat dinner after work (time). But "ex ante" and "ex post" specify a relationship to an (random) event or to specific information. For example, a data scientist might compute a quantity "ex ante". This means that the quantity was estimated using only forecast data. No historical data was used. It would not make sense, however, to say that a car stops ex ante the crosswalk.
I could have easily said "afterwards" and "beforehand", but I like "ex post" and "ex ante" when referring to before/after having access to specific information.
if you would have to do it again, would you change something on your methodology? I assume there were some unnecessary time sinks here & there
I don't think so. My problem was that I had a weak grasp of many basics concepts, and more critically I did not know in which areas I was weak. So while it's easy ex post to say "I could skip such and such section", it would have been impossible to make this judgment ex ante.
And in fact, I think a failure mode many people make is trying to predict which things they already know and then skipping those. This allows for blind spots to persist.
I suppose the one way to skip things correctly would be to have a coach. But that comes at a new cost ($), but maybe that works for some people.
And more generally, I would take almost no health advice from American footballers, many (most?) of whom will go into old age with ailments and injuries due how they treated their bodies.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMZ1O6uFdAE