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841.
by WJW 3y ago
The more illicit it is, the more you should consider keeping books on paper the old fashioned way.
842.
by WJW 3y ago
If it hadn't been called out in the media, how many people would have caught onto that?
843.
by WJW 3y ago
It is possible to artificially induce depression in mice, yes. Obviously, the whole field is insanely fraught with ethical dilemmas.
844.
by WJW 3y ago
I know from personal experience that "big" customers can negotiate incredible discounts on egress bandwidth as well. 90-95% discount is not impossible, only "retail" customers pay the sticker price.
845.
by WJW 3y ago
As if the average manager can reliably tell the difference.
846.
by WJW 3y ago
Is Softbank also a majority bondholder of WeWork? AFAIK the shareholders (ie mostly Softbank in this case) are last in line during bankruptcy, well after other creditors like employees, suppliers and bondholders.
847.
by WJW 3y ago
Companies being inefficient has been around for WAY longer than agile and/or modern management practices. Franz Kafka wrote his novels in the 1910s, after all. In software specifically, Fred Brooks already wrote about the problems with
848.
by WJW 3y ago
There are plenty of businesses that don't rely on hype, you just won't find them on HN. The average supermarket chain, steel mill or insurance company just produce valuable goods or services that people and/or businesses want
849.
by WJW 3y ago
My bank card doesn't even have a battery.
850.
by WJW 3y ago
Probaly Lex Fridman himself, and then he paid a lot of marketing specialists to get that done.
851.
by WJW 3y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
852.
by WJW 3y ago
You guys. Median income in the USA is about 76k per year (according to https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen... ). 230k will quite literally put you in the top 10% of income earners in the USA, and pro
853.
by WJW 3y ago
1. Usually it's a multi-way tradeoff between how much data you want to use, how much compute you want to spend, how much time you have available, how much training data you have available and how accurate you want the embeddings to be.
854.
by WJW 3y ago
It's never an easy problem when people have the option to just not work for your company at all. You'd have to make it extremely clear upfront too, or the amount of lawsuits would be never ending I think. Finally, it would be inte
855.
by WJW 3y ago
Weird comparison, because builders absolutely do specialize. The whole word "plumber" has to do with someone who only does the piping and none of the other jobs in needed in constructing a building.
856.
by WJW 3y ago
That's a fantastic article and it makes a very coherent point about why "Belter civilization" will never make economic sense, but I think it could still work very well as a society of authority-mistrusting homesteaders. Like
857.
by WJW 3y ago
It kinda depends on the scale I guess? At some point in the growth of on application, pulling out the Big Tools can be helpful to get your application out of a local maximum. Not everything needs that level of design though. Just because
858.
by WJW 3y ago
It's 30-40% gasoline because that is what the refining process has been optimized to produce that. You can get other hydrocarbon mixes by choosing different process parameters. Also, a huge part of oil refining is already shortening th
859.
by WJW 3y ago
I'm sure that's how it was intended but tbh I have only seen it used in settings where the person in charge would still want to assign a value to the ticket "so that we can move on" even if the devs were not at all in ag
860.
by WJW 3y ago
In addition, any actual conversation wouldn't just require devs that can talk in business terms but also business people that can talk in development terms. Otherwise the only territory that can be usefully covered by both parties ar
861.
by WJW 3y ago
I recently discovered that if I put a plate between my food and the keyboard, the keys don't get nearly as dirty as when I put the food directly on the keyboard. Life hack!
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by WJW 3y ago
And if the loan doesn't get paid off? That city/state is now in a huge hole, having spent money that could've been used to build schools and maintain roads on buying companies off their retiring owners. In any case I don&#x27
863.
by WJW 3y ago
> you can't hire two part-time coders to do the work of one full-timer because the additional coordination costs in terms of additional meetings, additional equipment (i.e. laptop), "It would be more expensive" is clearly
864.
by WJW 3y ago
That is one of the core themes in the books yes. The Minds are actually good godlike AIs. Not even in a "scheming behind the backs of the humans" kind of way, they genuinely care for all beings under their control (both humans, no
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by WJW 3y ago
Nor does the Culture force individuals or groups into joining, though it is not above meddling in the culture (heh) of other populations to make them (say) stop genociding each other. FWIW, Banks himself stated that exploring how a "pe
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by WJW 3y ago
It is only anecdotal evidence of course but I went for 24 hours a week back in 2019 and my employer (a ~unicorn scale-up in the Amsterdam region) was not fussed about it at all. I'm a software dev and was one of the two employees with
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by WJW 3y ago
Explanatory page at https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/arbeidsovereenkomst... (Dutch only AFAICT, sorry) Employers are almost required to approve a request to work less hours than full time. The reasons why it wo
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by WJW 3y ago
I some times make the following observation: When I was 15, I thought I had grown up quite a lot and looked back on my 10-year old self as someone who was just getting started. When I was 20, I thought I had grown up quite a lot and looked
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by WJW 3y ago
That depends. What is the price of exceptionality? In other words, which percentage of your lifetime earnings would you be willing to give up to not add a plywood backboard (or the software equivalent)? 10%? 50%?
870.
by WJW 3y ago
I made a cabinet for my wife and it was both significantly more wonky AND more expensive than the IKEA equivalent, even if you counted my labor as being worth zero euro per hour. It also took several months instead of just ordering one. Sti

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