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by ItsMonkk 5y ago
I'm super excited about this development. I hope that this is a stepping stone to full-blown remote work campuses like I commented on last month[0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27037859
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College was by far the best time in my life because of the environment of campus, even with the pitiful dorm room sizing and sub-average dining options. If I could move to a campus - perhaps that was focused on people in their thirties - wh
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> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. - Goodhart's Law > The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more
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The assumption that the first thing you should do is read the article has never been backed up by any sort of logic. Doing so means that you must trust the metric that is the HN scoring system. A system that can easily be gamed by bots and
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There's a scene in Netflix's The Queen's Gambit where two skilled Chess players are driving to New York. During the monotonous drive, they decide to play Chess. But they do so entirely verbally, no board involved as they are
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"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart's Law It's not even just about academia in general, it's a universal problem caused by lack of personal accountability through the global
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The core problem with Reddit is that it calls them communities, but for 99% of the subreddits the name of the subreddit is based on the content, not the people. This leads Reddit into these fractal content relationships where you can only r
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by ItsMonkk 5y ago
One of the most important posts I read on here was on weirdness budgets. Most people want to speak with people with opinions +/- 5% of their own. If you go beyond that limit, people will ignore you and seek feedback from those within t
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This is an interesting article because as I was reading Martin's suggestions I agreed with every single one of them. 5 lines of code per function is ideal. Non-nested whenever possible. Don't mix query/pure and commands/
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I don't know of any system that works like this currently, but it seems like you are asking if you can switch branches, do the work, then your "dry-run" is a pull request complete with all files changes which you can approve
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Finding is a query. Deleting is destructive. Make sure that you are not nesting your destructions within a query. You would first build a pure function that read the files and returned matching lines. You could then display the count of the
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I think a large part of the next 10 years is us figuring out that frameworks are an anti-pattern and that everything is going to have to move to libraries that abide by CQRS.
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"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Amazon reviews are just another metric. If you do not have personal accountability, the measure will always be gamed. The reason that reddit is the only place on t
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by ItsMonkk 5y ago
The author is mostly right, in this meta the best thing you can do is leverage as much as you can and pray that it doesn't burst at the wrong time. But that takes luck. Incentives drive behavior. If you perverse the incentives, the ec
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by ItsMonkk 5y ago
Gold is not good because it is naturally deflationary. Our current system is not good because it is inflationary. What you want is for the increase in the money supply to match the increase in productivity. What we care about is a stable M2
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You would get 100% of the reward of one transaction, a price that you yourself paid. And that's fine, since memoization of the block is work that needs to be done. And the block would be valid if it was not missing any transactions. Th
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by ItsMonkk 5y ago
This has all been worked out. See CRDTs[0]. But CRDT's actually are a harder problem than Bitcoin. When you have a local square, you don't even need CRDT's. > And your node doesn't have to always be communicating, it
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The Byzantine General's problem states that messages can be corrupt, missing, misinformation, or otherwise unreliable. Thus to avoid exploitation by the few, we need some PoW mechanism. The Bitcoin network is not this. The Bitcoin netw
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Note that this weakness was discovered early on. Bitcoin actually uses a sum of difficulty, not longest chain. You can't just mine more 1 difficulty blocks. But your point stands, if the US Government is mining bitcoin it is plausible
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I've done a little bit of research into event-sourced databases and journaling filesystems, but not nearly enough to be on expert on them. I think this article touches on exactly the crucial point. If I have a private key to my coins,
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You can not rely on metrics. A letter of recommendation from someone you have never met is just another metric. You keep thinking of this from the top down perspective. India might have such scale that perhaps nothing else is possible. But
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You're still thinking of it in one big sort. That's the centralized method. That relies on metrics. You want several gradual sorts from the bottom up where each sortation relies on personal accountability between the different tea
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by ItsMonkk 5y ago
Use the start-up model whenever possible. 1. Take as many bets as you can. 2. Pay a great deal of attention to those bets. Guide them. 3. As soon as you know the bet failed, let it fail. Entrance exams are an anti-pattern. They commit to mu
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by ItsMonkk 5y ago
I know more about the South Korean system. They grade to a curve. When the students get better, the test gets harder. Their students spend 16 hours a day studying for their university exams, and start at the age of 12. 46% of students are d
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While I am not Indian and the only thing that I know of this is what I have read here and from having watched 3 Idiots(2009), all metricization is the same. You can not test intelligence, you can only test knowledge. But everyone wants to k
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Unless this is the bottleneck and Standford isn't harder than NJIT and at Google you work at on some project that gets cancelled and you never actually had to be all that good to stay with the Elite. Intelligence is speed. Knowledge is
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To answer that question we need to consider top down Vs bottom up. What Congress does is bottom up. After the stimulus went out, the amount of retail sales skyrocketed[0]. The first round single-handedly rebounded us back to where we were b
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Well at least we both agree to 100% inheritance taxes.
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Hence why I said that the shift can be done slowly over 20 years. Say ramp up the taxes 5% per year until home prices reach equilibrium.
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> Making less by working means they are essentially paying someone to work. Note that this is one of the benefits of the UBI. As it is universal, if you get a job you will keep getting your UBI. So there will never be a time where this o

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