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by JackFr 2y ago
To my ears, there is nothing more cringe than “work hard, play hard”
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I knew about such periods from reading the handbook when I was working for a global company where US was 3-4 weeks depending on title and other locations were ~3 months. From a practical perspective, how does that work? I understand if you
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Japan’s per capita GDP has been flat for 30 years. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/jpn/jap... . You can describe that as ‘recently’, but it’s an entire generation.
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https://www.amazon.com/900-Days-Siege-Leningrad/dp/030681298... The 900 Days is an eye-opening and compelling book about the siege of Leningrad. Highly recommended.
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I mean it’s kind of the opposite of a randomized double blind study, so from a public health stand point it’s an anecdote, a single datapoint with any negative results presumably unreported.
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Why shouldn’t establishment Democrats revile Bernie? He has been independent or third party his entire career, except during two brief stints where he joins the Democratic Party to use their national apparatus to run for president, much to
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by JackFr 2y ago
I’ve come across (possibly written) code that upon close examination seems to only work accidentally — that there are real failures which are somehow hidden by behavior of other systems. The classic and oft heard “How did this ever work?”
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It’s not productivity, it’s instilling norms in juniors.
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So the patent system and medical device regulations that prevent imports, two things specifically controlled by the government , create a situation which allows the maker to charge a ridiculous price. I would rather they reformed patents f
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"Eat More Mangoes"
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>Domokos and colleagues devised an algorithm for smoothly converting geometric tiles — either 2D polygons or 3D polyhedra, like the bubbles of a foam — into soft cells, and explored the range of possible shapes these rules permit. In 2D,
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Sailors Install Starlink on Their Littoral Combat Ship(twz.com)
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Might be good as an exercise in a workshop on requirements gathering, as part of an interview absolutely stupid.
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There is an alternate explanation. The piano is fine. The soloist is an asshole and likes to make people jump through hoops. The conductor does or doesn't realize this, but either way doesn't want to upset the soloist. The pia
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by JackFr 2y ago
> a friend called the state lottery a tax on stupidity. I'm pretty sure that virtually all of the stupid people buying a lottery tickets understand that lottery tickets have a negative expected value. But so does insurance, and yet
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What is the mandate of ARPA-H as compared to NIH? NIH already hands out $30 billion a year for research. Is the structure of the ARPA-H research different in an appreciable way?
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Average depth of Lake Michigan is around 300 feet. Longest dimension is about 300 miles. If you drew a map of Lake Michigan on a sheet of letter-sized paper, the paper would be thicker than the average depth of water.
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> but I can't see where the bus is or get any kind of estimate of when it's going to arrive at the busstop. Not true in New York City. See all the busses and all the stops. Estimated number of passengers and arrival times. h
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by JackFr 2y ago
Up until the early 90's if you wanted a stock price intraday, you had to call your broker. Your alternative was waiting until the morning and getting previous close from NYT or WSJ.
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Insurance companies would decide. Raise your hand if you think that would be better.
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> we are the beautiful emergent results of natural computational What is beauty?
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What’s something you believe in without proof?
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There’s fear and there’s revulsion. I have a visceral revulsion to cockroaches but I’m not afraid of them in the sense that they could do me any harm, but colloquially we say I’m afraid of cockroaches.
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Despite the circular nature of the roads, the major circles in DC do not function like traffic roundabouts, nor we're they designed with such considerations. On the other hand I suppose most traffic roundabouts don't have parks in
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Someone is cheating on a LearnedLeague One Day Quiz…
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Gombe Chimpanzee War. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
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Is island-of-stability stability like 1 second stability or 1 million years stability?
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There seems to be some amnesia about the sort of company AT&T was. AT&T was first and foremost a profit maximizer. They were the poster child for abusive monopolies. Remember until the 1980s, literally no one owned a phone. All ha
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The evidence pointing toward monopoly is IBM TJ Watson Research and Xerox Parc.
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I took a polygraph about 30 years ago a Ft. Meade during a background check for NSA. Honestly it took like 45 minutes, guy was totally pleasant and he treated it seriously, but it seemed mechanical, strictly scripted, and more like a box c

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