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by B-Con 5y ago
That isn't a license to misuse words in a way that forgets your agenda whenever you want.
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by B-Con 5y ago
This is an interviewer fishing for trivia knowledge. There are better ways to gauge knowledge competence, but this is an easy way, so people do it.
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by B-Con 5y ago
How much of the R&D was financed by taxpayers? Seems like it should be a proportional ownership stake, not all or nothing.
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by B-Con 5y ago
While interesting, not too surprising, right? Their heart rates will be low during the calm parts, high during the tense parts, etc.
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by B-Con 5y ago
I think of economics as having the classic two sides of theory and practice, but with the quirk that the practice is grossly inefficient because it's a dynamic feedback system based on itself. Engineering takes theoretical principles a
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by B-Con 5y ago
cgpgrey's concise overview: https://youtu.be/nQHBAdShgYI
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by B-Con 5y ago
Note particularly: > However, YouTube retains the top spot for overall time spent - not per user - as it has many more users overall. The HN title directly implies this, not the real start. It's misleading and needs to be changed.
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by B-Con 5y ago
This kind of training is incredibly standard practice at large companies.
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by B-Con 5y ago
Every now and then I'm reminded of a) how much of HN has never worked for a large company, and b) how unfamiliar much of HN is with common business and legal practices. Too many thought leaders masquerading as engineers.
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by B-Con 5y ago
I see a reasonable amount of political/social content. I think it's there, you just didn't engage with it enough to get it in your FYP. I must have accidentally liked a couple things to trigger it, so now I'm ignoring it
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by B-Con 5y ago
The three "S"es. Sleep, sex, sickness.
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by B-Con 5y ago
> 41% of women and 44% of investors of color say they bought and sold crypto over the last year, compared to 38% of women and 35% of investors of color > 13% of Americans bought or traded crypto over the past year, compared to 24% who
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by B-Con 5y ago
Looking at the data[0] the article links to, it's interesting that, percentage wise, the bottom 50% have 4x more than in 2011, yet half what they had in 1991. If the 1% share is gaining, then who is losing? It looks like the 50-90% cla
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by B-Con 5y ago
What I find interesting is that this is very modern thinking, putting the individual's priority for themselves ahead of the group. Other societies/philosophies would disagree, and state that the individual should accommodate the b
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by B-Con 5y ago
"There's a consistent track record of being wrong, we should learn from it" is not garbage, it's the bare minimum for engaging with the topic intellectually and honestly.
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by B-Con 5y ago
I don't use Facebook anymore, but in the past... I guess? At a minimum, you could unfollow people/pages that were too low signal:noise to be worthwhile, and mute the ones that you wanted to follow but not here from. Crude, but eas
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by B-Con 5y ago
> All in all, it feels like Facebook thinks I'm an idiot and treats me accordingly. This is the way of social media algorithms. I suspect it makes sense be cause the majority of users are indeed "idiots", in the sense of d
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by B-Con 5y ago
Source on Google doing front loading?
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by B-Con 5y ago
This is very common. It's basically the point of paying in RSUs and not in fixed dollars, to give employees incentive to care about the company/stock performance.
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by B-Con 5y ago
I've always been perplexed by this, too. Aren't the two most important aspects of the research the data set and the study methodology? Why on earth would you skimp so heavily one of them? I don't work in the sciences, but thi
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by B-Con 5y ago
FTA, 1% threshold for income is 400k-ish.
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by B-Con 5y ago
I interpret the article's tone as more of: > Let's be precise. The actual 1% are not the ultra-wealthy, they're doctors, senior SV engineers, and regional Vice Presidents. That's not who people are protesting wall str
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by B-Con 5y ago
I moderate r/crypto . It's about cryptography, not cryptocurrency. Imagine the spam we get.
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by B-Con 5y ago
The Q1 earnings statement says ad revenue is way up.
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by B-Con 6y ago
Sounds like a team health issue. Sounds like a hard time, my sympathies. In my N years of experience, very few engineers are in an environment where only they have meaningful context on what they're working on. Generally any non-trivia
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by B-Con 6y ago
As a math major at UCD, I never saw Lee's essay, so I'm guessing it's from the past few years. I did read Halmos's, though. It was helpful for me because I was starting from a very programming centric frame of mind and I
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by B-Con 6y ago
It would be a difficult law to enforce, but that's different from if the law is written. Many laws inherently have a hard time being enforced.
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by B-Con 6y ago
I'd like to see data on academic performance in specialties. Most well-paying first world countries employ specialists (eg, doctors, programmers, lawyers, accountants, etc). Recall Simpson's paradox in statistics, where a general
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by B-Con 6y ago
Employers are incentivised to have pay reports underrepresented so new goes don't negotiate for more. I don't know what actually happens, but following the money is usually a good first place to look.
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by B-Con 6y ago
This is a 5 point rating system. Personally, I try to stick to as few points as possible. The consumer of the rating (in this case, the code author) usually needs to know one thing above all else: Do I take action or not. A two-point system

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