Tycho

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by Tycho 6y ago
Napoleon, Caesar, Paton - functioning but abusive top-level battle managers, nothing more.
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by Tycho 6y ago
It's possible he started giving one pre-canned answer and then realized it was the wrong one and that he should have been using another pre-canned answer.
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Shrinking Income Inequality(wsj.com)
2 points by Tycho 6y ago|1 comments
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by Tycho 6y ago
IC = Individual contributor? Never seen it abbreviated before.
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by Tycho 6y ago
On the other hand, smart phones have to some extent replaced a bunch of much larger products - desktop computers with large monitors, landline telephones, handheld cameras, recording devices. Not to mention, all the physical media replaced
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by Tycho 6y ago
I think software engineering gives people visceral feedback on principles/strategies that transfer well to other domains, but aren't as obvious to people in other domains. For instance: loose coupling, modularity, type checking, u
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by Tycho 6y ago
However you characterize the Capitol riot, it's fair to say it was a huge story. And the NYT flubbed it badly - they misreported the most incendiary detail, spreading the false claim that a police officer had been bludgeoned to death
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by Tycho 6y ago
I hadn't thought about it from that perspective. Funny thing that occurred to me about the famous iceberg principle is that Hemingway had a large unpublished/abandoned volume of writing on Nick Adams, the fictional hero of many of
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by Tycho 6y ago
This reminds me of an interview with Ernest Hemingway who mentions how he was influenced by great artists who were not writers, for instance, Cezanne, and (I think) Mozart, and others. When the interviewer pushes for more detail, he elabora
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by Tycho 6y ago
How many programmers graduate from Berkeley each year and how many are employed in the FANGs in the Bay Area? How many Berkeley graduates are in the top 0.01% of available talent, given all the other people who want to work for FANG’s in th
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by Tycho 6y ago
This story is on Yahoo!, which serves numerous stories on its homepage from outrage rags like HuffPost , TheDailyBeast , The Independent , and The Guardian. And, what's more, doesn't allow users to customize their feed by f
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by Tycho 6y ago
Maybe some billionaire could set up an institution to keep scientists honest. Like it wouldn't try to do any original research, it would be purely dedicated to finding whether published research replicates, verifying the statistical an
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by Tycho 6y ago
“Slippery slope” is not a “fallacy”. Is there a name for the fallacy where people think just because a type of argument has a name then it must be a fallacy?
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by Tycho 6y ago
It’s a power play. Having a word that you can say, but others, under penalty of termination and ostracism, dare not utter, demonstrates that you have some power over them and raises your status. (Some people don’t grasp this dynamic and tak
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by Tycho 6y ago
What negative effects are those?
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by Tycho 6y ago
What was the potential sequence of events that could have resulted in the rioters seizing control of the government? Even if this handful of unarmed citizens had somehow subdued the numerous armed guards protecting the Senate, the most th
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by Tycho 6y ago
This paper talks about a strategy of buying OOTM options and the massive returns it would (occasionally) generate, and how to properly judge such a strategy. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.2524.pdf
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Electric car battery that will take drivers 1500 miles without needing to charge(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by Tycho 6y ago|0 comments
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by Tycho 6y ago
It seemed to me that the web would be a big deal [...] If I wanted to get rich, here was the next train leaving the station. What other trains have left the station? What ones are leaving now? I'm referring to growth areas that are n
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by Tycho 6y ago
Interesting that pg never really had a corporate job. Once you get into a big organisation, the risk adjusted ROI of focusing on your career within the corporation (or industry) just seems hard to beat. I suppose if your skills are marketab
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by Tycho 6y ago
I’m curious why the NYT hasn’t been the victim of a large scale hack/infiltration/leak/exposé. With all the shenanigans their staff seem to pull and the enemies they make, you’d think their communications and files and financ
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by Tycho 6y ago
I think team work is good for inducing extended periods of focus. I can’t remember ever feeling distracted when I was trying to win a game of football. Unfortunately most work is quite solitary.
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by Tycho 6y ago
Just as the the last four years afforded conformist journalists the fantasy that they were part of some sort of “resistance” fighting a tyrannical dictator, the events of January 6th afforded self-aggrandising members of Congress the fantas
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by Tycho 6y ago
For an ordinary citizen, is there any real benefit in following 'the news?'
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by Tycho 6y ago
Finance and the Good Society by Robert Shiller is a good book which outlines the vital functions the financial sector fulfils for a civilisation.
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by Tycho 6y ago
Your game of loose association, where just because some individual made some outlandish remarks in the past, or they “liked” something objectionable on social media, then anyone who voted for them or share a political party with them or did
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by Tycho 6y ago
The source was the Vice article linked in the Twitter thread you posted. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/b... I don’t want to keep spending time on this. My position
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by Tycho 6y ago
They applauded her after she apologized for promoting QAnon. It’s incredible how rather than indulge in a microsecond of self reflection, people like you just latch onto the most extreme caricature of your opponents that your media vendor
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by Tycho 6y ago
I think probably <0.1% of R voters think rich people secretly eat babies, and it was certainly never an idea entertained on cable news. Whereas there was practically non-stop media focus on the Russian collusion conspiracy theory and I t
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by Tycho 6y ago
Assembling a mob is almost always a bad idea as it tends to get out of control. What’s notable about the Capitol riot is that it was a rare instance of Republicans doing this. The only other instance that springs to mind is “Charlottesville

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