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by MarkMc 7y ago
A few things to consider: - What is the chance that we develop an effective vaccine in say 6 months? In 18 months? (I'd love to see this question tackled by the Good Judgement project [1]) - Singapore appears to be doing a good job o
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The problem is that the bathroom policy wasn't the only change. Around the same time you had many people suddenly labeling Starbucks racist for having two black men arrested [1]. So how much in the 7.3% decline of traffic is attributab
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> Google often seems to have the attitude "if we build it, they will come, and if they don't, the idea was never feasible in the first place". This comment echoes Paul Graham's observation about the wrong attitude fou
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Elon Musk: 'The fighter jet era has passed'(cnbc.com)
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"I remember one case quite clearly where the project's dollar estimate was identical to a local vendor in Australia yet the man hours were an order of magnitude greater. Yet even then, there was organisational push-back on the loc
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> It can be a tough sell to hire 3 remote employees for the price of a cheap team of 10 from an outsourcing firm if your company only looks at the numbers. Can you expand on this? I would have thought it was cheaper to hire the remote em
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This view is supported by looking at question counts on Stack Overflow over time: http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=react-native+flutter+ios+reactj...
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Somewhat similar is the effect of income on a man's popularity: https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*N0OGjZ9WDff4gOrf.png
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Drop in cancer deaths reflect failures of our society. Really.(bostonglobe.com)
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> Prediction: no actual "self driving" (to a point where driver can legally be asleep) on public streets till > 10 years from now We already have "driver-asleep self driving" on public streets: https://w
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by MarkMc 7y ago
All the haters seem to be piling onto Lambda and its CEO, but looking at actual reviews by students it is clear that most students are very happy with Lambda: https://www.switchup.org/bootcamps/lambda-school And the pr
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It should be illegal. The company has a strong incentive to undervalue the asset, and 98% of the time IP assets are transferred to a related overseas party it is to minimize tax. Countries would be better off if they simply did not allow IP
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Brexit supporters talked about creating a 'Singapore-on-Thames'. But in Singapore all construction work is performed by cheap, low-skilled men from South India who are given temporary work visas. So it seems that Britain is actual
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The blowback on this is interesting. If you find out that your bank sells your mortgage obligation to someone else, you don't really care. But if you find out that your coding school sold your ISA obligation you might feel it indicate
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by MarkMc 7y ago
Good example of second order thinking
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Elon Musk is getting closer to a massive payday(businessinsider.com.au)
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Tesla overtakes Volkswagen as world's second most valuable carmaker(reuters.com)
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by MarkMc 7y ago
Lots of people are arguing about 'when full self-driving cars will happen' without giving a precise definition (and therefore without having to think too hard about the problem). The article describes Level 5 as 'full compute
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Google becomes third U.S. tech company worth $1T(marketwatch.com)
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An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia(ilya.sukhar.com)
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Although Sam would have lost this bet, I respect that he had the courage to make a forecast with a specific number and a specific future date. Too many pundits make grand but imprecise predictions like "AI will become dominant in the n
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Useful for attracting talent, I guess
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I initially thought Michael Bloomberg had issued a fake press release. Title should really be "Bloomberg LP fined..." to distinguish the company from the man.
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by MarkMc 7y ago
I've been a Google shareholder for more than 10 years, and I would love it if Alphabet spun off Waymo so I could dump my Waymo stock. My view is that the market undervalues Google and overvalues Waymo but unfortunately Mr Page and Mr B
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Interesting article. Here's Abrash's wry summary of the problems facing AR: Leave aside the issues associated with tracking objects in the real world in order to know how to virtually modify and interact with them. Leave aside, t
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Sure, but given enough effort perhaps we can figure out what the important details are that make the difference between 'dead' and 'mostly dead'?
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Interesting - thanks. But it seems to be focused on active lifespan so maybe they would view hybernation as cheating. Here's an article about Aubrey de Grey, the guy behind the Methuselah Foundation award: https://thenext
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Does this suggest that humans can be put into 'hibernation' to extend their lifespan? (Edit: I mean would be possible in future if we had a better understanding of the process?) If I was rich enough I'd host a competition to
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by MarkMc 7y ago
> it's an easy out to avoid taking action at whatever stage of the 'pipeline' you happen to be working at...you need to look for other ways to find talent that bypass that problem Another 'easy out' is to simply
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Tyler Cowen's best non-fiction books of 2019(marginalrevolution.com)
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