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by LargeWu 6y ago
Would be very interested to see how this addresses one of the primary underlying pathways of misinformation - confirmation bias. Many people believe information because it confirms their worldview; whether it's provably true or false i
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by LargeWu 6y ago
If you consider that their aim was to overturn an election by force, then yes, it was a coup attempt. I think they were counting on the military and law enforcement rank-and-file (which overwhelmingly support Trump) to join them.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Not to mention, in recent years there's been a rise in adoption of Nazi symbology: 88, Nazi salute, swastikas obviously, plus co-opting of Norse runes and symbols they perceive as associated with the Aryan race. But it's not just
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by LargeWu 6y ago
That, and always beginning them with a weather report (at least for U-Boats).
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Yeah, you're right, the original video I saw was tightly shot and only showed the weapon. There was a similar video released later where those officers where coming up a staircase from behind.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
There was at least one person near her in the video of that women getting shot who was clearly armed with an assault rifle. She may have been unarmed but was storming the chamber with other armed people. The security on the other side had g
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Perplex City was awesome, and I still miss it. It had a really unique storytelling mechanism, the cards were generally pretty fun, high production values. I thought the second season suffered a bit when they introduced human actors as chara
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I was in the same boat. I used to love the technical aspects of programming, but eventually it just turned into a grind. My solution was to move into management. This is not the right path for everybody, since it's basically a complete
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I live in a major US city and there are still areas within city limits where I can't reliably get cell coverage.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Let's look at this a different way. How many people dealing drugs are doing so because they feel they don't have better prospects. How much does drug abuse cost society? If society took the money they put towards policing, treatme
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Given the well-documented penchant of police to use “fits the description” as a pretext to harass the public, especially people of color, I would say it is borderline negligent to allow the use of algorithmically generated probable cause ju
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I think inflammation is something we understand at a much deeper level due to western medicine. Chinese medicine has a number of herbs that are thought to reduce inflammation, without necessarily having an understanding of what is happening
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Well, yes and no. People have known that the sky is blue for as long as we've had a word for the concept "blue". It's only more recently that we've discovered the sky is blue because of how different wavelengths of
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by LargeWu 6y ago
“Nit-picky” is the other side of the coin as “attention to detail”
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I just took a job that should put me on a management track, but I had been fishing for product jobs as well. I think one way or another this will be my last programming job. If the mgmt thing doesn't work out, (the opportunity I'm
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by LargeWu 6y ago
One of the primary reasons I'm trying to move on from being a software engineer is the expectation that I'm supposed to be fluent in dev-ops type work as well. That domain, for me, is something I have absolutely no interest in, an
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I disagree about the college format going completely online. There is so much about the college experience that is not directly related to earning a degree. It's a place where most people are exposed to new ideas, new types of people.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
In practice, "knowledge transfer" is pretty much a joke anyway. Unless they have been documenting important things to know along the way it's usually at best an ad-hoc, partial data dump of the most recent thing they were wor
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I've had the opposite experience: bad abstractions generally cause more pain than duplicated code. Generally this is because bad abstractions tend to leak their bad-ness into the code around them.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Often it's because they are being pressured by leadership not to. Leadership's bonuses and promotions are dependent on developers delivering value NOW.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Regulation, in general, exists primarily as a response to exploitation. If drivers felt they were getting paid equitably, had fair dispute resolution, had access to benefits, etc., there wouldn't be a need for this.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
No, he's not talking about the technical features of blockchain. He's talking about the general shadiness of a nontrivial number of actors in the cryptocurrency sector itself, which have had a propensity for deceptive marketing, a
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by LargeWu 6y ago
As somebody who has been interviewing recently, the format I've preferred is from TestDome. I've never used leetcode or others but I imagine they're similar. I had 4 coding problems for which I had to pass a set of test cases
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Well, it's clearly a tradeoff. By staying in the Valley, you are prioritizing having options at many startups at the expense of home ownership. I live in Minneapolis. Not as wide ranging options here, but many of them are at fortune 50
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Indeed. Don't be fooled by North Dakota as the top GDP per capita state in the US. There are a relatively small number of landowners in the western half of the state making crazy passive income from oil rights their great-grandfathers
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Winnipeg (pop. ~780K) is the largest municipality in the same box as the Minneapolis metro area (pop. ~3.2M).
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Assuming you are playing individual games, yes. But, if you are playing a series of games up to X points, the cube does come into play somewhat.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Not really. There are a lot of strategic decisions to make, and those decisions aren't about money. In poker, almost all of the important decisions are directly about wagering. When wagering has no real value, neither do the decisions.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
You seem to view "it promotes gambling" as a negative. I happen to think backgammon is a great game precisely for this reason. The fundamental skill in backgammon is managing variance. Since there are many possible outcomes of the
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by LargeWu 6y ago
But, again, it's not like this is the only company selling masks. It's not price gouging if there are tons of lower cost alternatives. They're offering an upgraded experience, some people are going to want that, and that&#x27

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