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> Alignments. Bullets, bullet types. Margins. Sections. I mean, for white collar work this is the equivalent of making sure someone knows how to use a semi-colon. It's a "skill" in scarequotes because basic proficiency is
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With Excel its: Do you know arrays, UDFs, Solver, lookups, mastery over chart design, and cell formatting. With word it's basically: Can you do a mail merge and a table of contents? Congrats. You're an expert.
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"Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Yes? Then it wasn't us."[0] Are you old enough to have had a chance to use your eyes and look and see what's happened to computer games over the past twenty years? Things went from
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Right, but so what? If the optimal strategy is a 50-50 split against someone else playing the optimal strategy and at least a 50% win against someone who is not, it doesn't follow that if they other player plays crap every game that
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This is a good comment. What I would add is that the system feels hopeless for a lot of people right now. The things that used to be possible for people not wanting to rent aren't an option any more. I know someone who literally lived
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> If you play optimal strategy, you will win against any opponent except one that plays optimal as well How does the example you're responding to not win 50% of the time? Rock v Rock = Tie Rock v Paper = Loss Rock v Scissors = Win T
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I agree with your latter point. Fully out of country[0] citizens and maybe permanent residents after a certain amount of time. But not the high flat tax thing. For the income portion of my compensation, I pay around 50% and it's not ba
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> It benefits the user AND the developer Notably it benefits good faith developers. I.e., the developers we actually want making games. The developers that lose under this model are the ones that make poor quality games. Though I admit
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The hard part is that UBI is extremely, extremely expensive. The variant I'm in favour of goes something like: 1. $12k / year to everyone 2. 50% flat tax (on non-UBI income) 3. Small federal land value tax on non-wilderness proper
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Well, another way of looking at it is that the observer is not the same as the decider. So ultimately your reference frame is only current within the locus of your own mind and any decisions you make get broadcasted out to observers in the
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This is a great article, and if I were writing path-critical code for the situation the author describes I'd use an AST too, but I still munge me some text and most of the time it's good enough. The problem with using AST librarie
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It has already evolved. I don't want to rehash everything here, but I wrote something that made the rounds at the Munich security conference some years back and the bottom line is deterrence to massive cyberattack is via nuclear weapon
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Right, but why doesn't this observation lead to the next logical conclusion? If we can prove that in the future we would draw incorrect conclusions, why is it that we can pretend to understand the past at all? This is a stronger statem
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It depends on the CS professor and university. At U of Waterloo, for example, there are two separate degrees one can get as a CS major. One that's a BMath, the other as a BCS. I studied engineering (BASc) there, and while the website m
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What if adversarial systems result in asymmetric arms races and the game theoretic best move is to work for a corporation that is so short sighted as to go to battle against their own employees and to work for them diligently and intelligen
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I'm working on a project right now that uses __init_subclass__ and it works great, but takes some tricks (like having classvars with types set) in order to get mypy to cooperate. But it's way easier to reason about than metaclasse
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I don't know many lawyers making anywhere close to what I make as a software engineer. Software development isn't perfect, but the compensation, hours, freedom, time off, potential upside, even stupid stuff like being able to wear
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The problem of discrimination black people face is very real. Four or five years ago I was traveling to DC and booked a room in a home for a week near the outskirts. I'm white. The owner was black. He had a white wife, so they could ha
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I work for Clubhouse. I only ever speak for myself on boards and social media so it really is just me talking when I say that the team is awesome. ONSITE California and REMOTE USA, with some wiggle room for Canadians here and there. Lots te
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I agree with hooande with two small caveats: 1. If it's something you think is inherently short term (say it's about NFTs and you don't think they'll last) take a portion of the excess income and invest it elsewhere, eve
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I was advocating for this for years but gave up when I talked to someone at Pager Duty that was just straight out against it. For almost irrational reasons. I kept trying to make the case that for a company like their that literally can&#x2
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> Google's translation is good, but it's not that much better than what you can get OSS. Disagree on this one. For the languages of the European Union and a couple other outliers, sure it's close. For the long, long tail o
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Well, for many sectors it wasn't even an arms race at all. It was just getting pwnd and not caring because the attackers basically stole the data and it didn't really disrupt your business. Now with ransomware the arms race part h
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This is what we have at the University of Waterloo, my alma mater, in Canada. Two semesters of study, then alternating study-work-study-work etc until you graduate. It takes five years instead of four and you graduate with industry contacts
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Good. We're finally, FINALLY getting some pressure to fix all these broken systems. I was literally losing sleep over some of the crazy shit I saw. It's still a tire fire, but at the very least there is some movement to fix it.
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It actually is especially difficult at scale for non-trivial applications. Large databases won't be able to atomically change every instance which may lead to very frustrating bugs where collisions cannot be allowed. For example, on a
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Of course. I'm away from email tonight, but I'll be back online tomorrow. Please reach out.
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I took the long, long road to end up back where I started: Mere Christianity. I've felt the presence of God in the world my whole life, but the way the right wing media lied to me about global warming and other things had me re-evaluat
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Because millions of people in poor countries will die. Not everyone has had access to the vaccine yet. Not saying this can go on forever, but this isn't solved yet.
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I've been severely depressed and borderline suicidal twice. The second time was worse than the first. Baking a single potato was the first sign I was pulling out of it. I could barely walk. It was bad. I prayed a lot, and I'm usua

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