Gunax

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by Gunax 3y ago
Unfortunately, I think it's the only way to do it. Corporate incentives are weird. Firing people is tough. If you don't force it, people find a way to just go along with the status quo. If you let them, managers all report that th
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by Gunax 3y ago
Back in 2008, Facebook was hailed as the tool that would set democracy free. > The Web, a perfect medium for genuine grass-roots political movements, is transforming the power dynamics of politics. There are no barriers to entry on sites
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by Gunax 3y ago
I am getting increasingly skeptical of juries. For one, I just don't think we are very rational. And I am including myself in that. And, like this case, the personalities reflect exactly what happens when you gether a dozen individuals
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by Gunax 3y ago
I suppose it is for discussing, but does the discussion actually promote justice? Afterall, that's why we have juries. I am not sure whether the deliberation actually increases or decreases false verdicts.
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by Gunax 3y ago
I take it that it's very difficult to anticipate the scenarios to test. QA did a good job testing inputs to the orderBeer function. But they forgot to examine the other functions.
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by Gunax 3y ago
I think Americans have unrealistic expectations. From my perspective, you're all wealthy. There's a reason people are climbing over fences and walking through the desert just to live as migrants in your country.
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by Gunax 3y ago
We don't need this. The solution is to create a regulatory and legal environment that encourages building--not to directly enter the construction market.
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by Gunax 3y ago
Tldr but wouldn't ask if it steel and concrete be found? If dinosaur bones and trilobites can last hundreds of millions of years, steel and concrete should also.
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by Gunax 3y ago
The history of the dispute is quite messy, and shows how these things never end. It involves miltiple treaties ratified and then disputed. I find the analysis particularly ridiculous. It of course blames the USA--a country which has never u
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by Gunax 3y ago
I think I have experienced this at past companies, including Amazon. But the limit was very high. I recall setting the contribution to something like 80% or 90% and maxing out after a few paychecks. But in general: I agree with you. Why sho
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by Gunax 3y ago
Employers say 'we cant find anyone and we are offering $XYZ' where $XYZ is some astronomical amount. And yet the experience of applicants is often very different. They apply and never hear back. Or they never receive offers that m
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by Gunax 3y ago
I'm not sure I agree that 'zip' is lost. I would say the metaphor has always been ambiguous. If you zip something irl, without context, what are you doing? I can see it being either sealing a bag or merging.
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by Gunax 3y ago
Everyone seems to agree that this seems like a very high number. And I also found it shocking to the point that I think there is something being misinterpreted. For one, I am not sure if 'making' 79 cents means that is the entire
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by Gunax 3y ago
I saw this link earlier and ended up tl;dr it because the preface is so long. Just ship the preface. Now that I am reading the content I find it interesting. It's hard to navigate in the web view because chapter headings are difficult
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by Gunax 3y ago
Stallman's only mistake was equivocation. He should have held firm and never apologized. It just gives ammunition to his enemies. So he didn't actually do anything wrong, even by the author's admission. But if it makes someon
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by Gunax 3y ago
But we would not expect the coin toss to have a correlation. Whereas we might expect a correlation between actual and perceived ability. So yes, both are null results, but only one is interesting. For instance, we would probably expect ther
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by Gunax 3y ago
My concern with economic debates is that there are always enough statistics to play with to make whatever point desired. For instance: why compare wealth and not income? And if we do, at what age? Do we compare individuals, or households...
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by Gunax 3y ago
A contract may have been formed, but maybe the contract has a clause that exempts pricing errors. Without reading the contract, we cannot know. But given that the context was constructed by HP, there are likely multiple legal escapes.
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by Gunax 3y ago
And I still have no idea what this startup does , its plans, or how it operates. I expect more from WSJ
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by Gunax 3y ago
JavaScript as used in the web seems tough. I wouldn't recommend trying to teach the DOM internals. IMO an intro course is about fundamentals--loops, functions, parameters, etc. Everything else is just obscuring what is important. It&#x
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by Gunax 3y ago
US laws and constitutions were created to stop tyranny by making it very difficult to change anything. The result is most laws need a supermajority to pass. That's probably good at stopping bad laws, but it really stops all laws. IMO
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by Gunax 3y ago
While these things are usually tacky, it was more accurate than I expected. Partly that's because it's from 1982 and isn't very old. The first page suggests you might be able to store the entire library of Congress on your ho
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by Gunax 3y ago
Mythbusters will always be his magnum opus. I actually see it often as something that he might even want to move on, but his audience will not let him.
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by Gunax 3y ago
I am generally skeptical towards anti trust laws--though i do recognize that they are necessary. They give the state too much power to decide who is a market winner. Too often the definition of anti-competitive comes down to political favor
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by Gunax 3y ago
It seems as though we are in competition with the ad buyers. And it turns out, the ad buyers will usually pay more to show an ad, than the recipients will pay to not show it. I was once a member of a forum that ran on ads. Users asked and b
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by Gunax 3y ago
If even Alphabet cannot get a toehold on Apple devices, then other competitions have no chance. In this case, I strongly favour opening the IPhone. Not because I care about Google, but because I care about completion at large. 25 years ago
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by Gunax 3y ago
> The idea that Russia or China would magically become democratic utopias without violent social upheaval is extraordinarily naive. It happened to South Korea and Taiwan. And almost happened to Russia. I really don't think it&#x27
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Not of all these schools participate in AA. Caltech notably does not.
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While that's true, there seems to be enough for universities. He has the grades, the SAT, and the extra curriculars. I feel like we are missing something. Someone with perfect grades, SAT, and leading a competition coding team should g
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by Gunax 3y ago
It's true that unis and corporations care about different things. However, I am surprised that he would only be accepted at two of those universities, given the grades, SAT, and competitive coding. Most of those schools are solid but n

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