CityOfThrowaway

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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
What you're saying might be true. My sense is that the political project of doing a full-on tax-and-entitlement reform that results in a more sane system is impossible in the US. At the ideological/theoretical level, I absolutely
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
You're right, the problem in the US was multi-causal. I mention that case because it is probably the best large-scale deployment of a UBI-like program any country has ever done. While we can't completely untangle the exact contrib
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Yes, of course giving people money makes their lives better. It especially works when a very small subset of the population receives such treatment, such that their relative income is higher than those outside the experiment. The issue with
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
People are reading way too much into the Waymo incident. It was Chinese new year. There was a bunch of drunk people in the street. Somebody messed with the car, and then somebody else did, and so on. Until somebody threw a firework in there
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Yes, and in my experience the lore around both the vileness and power of the owner is fully invented by the staff. In many cases it's just teenagers being dramatic and coming up with external reasons why they are dealing with suboptima
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
We can compare this statistically by looking at accidents per 1,000,000 miles driven of autonomous cars vs humans. Over long mileage, the rate of prevented accidents shows up in the data as a lower overall accident rate. I don't have t
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
I'm 90% sure the people that did this project did it because they got nerd sniped by it and got to hang out with nat while earning a reasonable salary
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
“Given the lifespan of venture funds, we expect to continue this work for at least the next decade,” he wrote. “Our work continues to energize us, and we are as committed as ever to the mission of Foundry" Weird article. The firm is no
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
I think it'll be more like AWS, where the cost of each service keeps going down but they entice you into more usage and better models
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
They did address it... by completely eliminating the department. They didn't deep dive retro it, but in that, we know the answer.
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Peopleware is a classic https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Demarco/dp/0932633439/?nodl=1&dpl...
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Strong agree
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Yes, making as many kid-related things as possible tax-deductible is a sensible way to provide "subsidies" that incentivize more children.
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Not OP, but if you love working on things that are important, hard, and an up-hill battle... try working in InfoSec!
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Most of the time, this is a useful frame. With that said, there are some types of software that exist to deal with complexity external to itself. External systems (integrations, screen scraping systems, etc.) can break without fault interna
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
To use gravity, you only have two options: 1. Knock things down that are already high up and hope they break at the bottom. Or, 2. Haul things up and then knock them down. #1 only works in an extremely limited number of cases and gets exhau
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
I'm also curious about how to think about chunking for Doc-to-Doc similarity. Say I have an input document that I want to use as my search query and a database of potential results documents. It's not clear to me that I should sim
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
More expensive
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
They are just doing what they need to do. Additional investment dollars are not guaranteed and companies need to get profitable. When money was easy to find and nobody cared about profits, companies could afford generous operating policies
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Yes! Where specifically in the global economy are you more excited about than the US?
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Does anybody know who manufactures the chips for these?
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
I have the same mouse and it works fine: 1. Hold the cmd key on your keyboard while spinning the scroll wheel to zoom in and out 2. Click and hold the scroll wheel and move the mouse around to pan
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by CityOfThrowaway 4y ago
This CEO also has a history of punching down on Twitter. A very bad look.
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by CityOfThrowaway 4y ago
Startups rely on a lot of infrastructure that society provides. Things like supply chains, energy grids, financial systems, and defense. When the infrastructure we rely on functions well, our community can be ignorant to the fact that we ar
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by CityOfThrowaway 4y ago
When all of the money is in one bank, the fees it would need to charge to insure the same deposits is much more. There are many ways that banks might fail. Most of those are idiosyncratic and unique to the bank's operations. When the m
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by CityOfThrowaway 4y ago
PG is an international treasure
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by CityOfThrowaway 4y ago
Interesting that they say: > At Flexport, 2023 is going to bring extraordinary velocity – we are in the process of doubling our software engineering talent and moving to single threaded business organizations to build world class product
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by CityOfThrowaway 4y ago
"Wage Requisite for a Single Mother to Support an Entire Family with No Other Income Earners", which is a radically different benchmark than "living wage" which implies "for anybody, in all familial situations"
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by CityOfThrowaway 4y ago
The point here is that if 60% of people are living at or below the wage level that the definition implies is not livable, then it is the definition that is wrong.
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by CityOfThrowaway 4y ago
Yes, this is my point though. The term has been defined in an ivory tower by people who seek to control other people's lives. The use of the term "Living Wage" is a politically charged word that _implies_ it is a number that

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