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by 40acres 8y ago
I would argue that it's thinking programmatically and applying that mindset to a computer. When humans interact with each other there is a lot of subtlety and nuance that is embedded in that communication. I can say something to you bu
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by 40acres 8y ago
This seems like another description of the overton window. The Overton window, also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. The term is derived from its originator, Joseph P. Overton, a former
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by 40acres 8y ago
Is a PM similar to the PO (product owner) role using the agile definition? It seems to me that PM's have a higher level view and take responsibility for the whole product (for instance, the PM of Gmail) while in Agile the PO is taking
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by 40acres 8y ago
Interesting trend I'm noticing with Facebook data controversies: 3rd parties are exploiting Facebooks connectedness to exponentially scale the # of accounts targeted by an attack. Both Cambridge Analytica and these hackers were able to
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by 40acres 8y ago
Regulation is coming. If data is the new oil these are the oil spills that lead to the EPA.
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by 40acres 8y ago
It was sad to watch so many "intellectual elites" fawn over MBS' "reforms". Wow women can drive and go to football games. Wow folks can watch Black Panther at the movies. All the while the Saudi government is bombin
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by 40acres 8y ago
Bingo. To add more information to my previous point, a lot of the Lake Oswego residents lobbied against the train because they were afraid of homeless folks being in their neighborhood. The light rail in the Portland, OR area does not have
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by 40acres 8y ago
Lesson #1 seems deliberate to me. Post war, many urban centers in the US experienced white flight, it seems rational to assume that since these folks moved away from the cities to get away from minorities they would be against infrastructur
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by 40acres 8y ago
Two things strike me after reading this. 1: How much conflict has been spawned due to the UN Partition plan which created Israel? I haven't dug deep into the factors that led to this decision (I'm sure the aftermath of the Holocau
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by 40acres 8y ago
I know that psychology is particularly devasted by the replication crises but aren't branches of research affected as well?
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by 40acres 8y ago
There's a lot of pop science and good marketing around behavioral science but at it's core I think it helps complete the picture of what economic research tries to deliver. Prior to being introduced to behavioral economics my expo
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by 40acres 8y ago
How competitive is capitalsim anyway? What's the best measure for it? When I look out in the economy I see massive industries that are being protected by their governments for various reasons: some of it political, some of it effective
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by 40acres 8y ago
I know diversity in tech is a hot button issue but I think hidden underneath the politics of it all the most important reason to champion more diversity is AI. I don't think we're anywhere close to general AI so any AI system out
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by 40acres 8y ago
I used to pirate music, tv and movies a lot. Every hit show, every interesting album. For me the downsides were tied to the hassle of finding good quality streams, there wasn't much friction but there was enough that when streaming cam
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by 40acres 8y ago
When it comes to Fortune 500 companies, I think employees are looking for their employers to display the types of values they hold in their actions. Whether that means removing support for conflict minerals, fair wages, etc. In all, its und
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by 40acres 8y ago
This, and the other replies to my question, seems about right. When I fly the #1 thing I'm looking for is cost, following by # of layover(s) and time of layover. Once I'm actually in the air there is not much that distinguishes De
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by 40acres 8y ago
Is there an economic term to describe the type of market that the airline industry seems (from my point of view)? It seems like operating an airline is such a capital intensive industry that once you've established yourself you can &#x
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by 40acres 8y ago
Agreed, I think you've stated your point better than I have further down in the thread based on my down votes. The American press is not perfect, but over the years I've been really impressed with the journalistic skill of our maj
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think similarly to how Dr. Ford knew she would be questioned and pushed into the spotlight when making these allegations public, Bloomberg similarly would've had to calculate the risk that Apple, Amazon, and China would push back on
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think it's in the interest of both companies, especially Amazon as AWS servers are critical to this story, to maintain an appearance of having iron clad security systems both to investors and customers.
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by 40acres 8y ago
This back and forth between Bloomberg and Amazon/Apple reminds me of the recent allegations against Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh. In both situations it's difficult to identify who is telling the truth and is probably impossible
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by 40acres 8y ago
For me, the most important thing was to budget. I used the YNAB app and made a line item for all of my spending. It took a few months to adhere to the budget but once I did I got the ball rolling. I also did not know how to invest, so I did
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by 40acres 8y ago
Personal finance. I never took a budgeting class in high school and college, my parents lived paycheck to paycheck (still do), when I earned my first internship I was making over $1000 per pay period, that was a lot of money for someone who
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by 40acres 8y ago
I don't know much about montary theory but from what I do know it seems unlikely that in my lifetime the US dollar will be threatened as the world's reserve currency. I can only think of the euro, yen, renminbi, rupee and perhaps
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by 40acres 8y ago
Totally agree about Portland, I'm aiming my critique more at the institutions that make up "silicon valley" rather than California as a whole though. Maybe that wasn't clear.
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by 40acres 8y ago
True, California in general is pretty diverse. I believe it's "majority-minority", but what about the folks who make up the "culture" of the valley? The workers, VCs, professors, etc. Based on the diversity reports
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by 40acres 8y ago
Can you provide more info on what you mean?
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by 40acres 8y ago
From the outside (Portland, OR) looking in, it seems like SV not only has a diversity of race issue (which I DO believe can drive different thoughts, look at a map of where most black Americans live -- spoiler alert: it's the south, I
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by 40acres 8y ago
This is one of my favorite features of Inbox. Sounds like more transparency is required but overall this is pretty nice to have.
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Planet Money #886: Modern Monetary Theory(npr.org)
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