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by _yb2s 10mo ago
American pickups are very practical for what they are designed for. Your 4 cylinder hatchback is not going to pull a 20,000lb trailer up a steep grade, or haul enough lumber to frame in a house, or a 7,000lb bed full of gravel. While there
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A lot of German SUVs are heavier than full sized American pickup trucks, even when they look much smaller.
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You can do that with a standard muzzle
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In both cases- ageism and racism, the employer culture is hiring less qualified workers based on criteria other than skill and competence. That necessarily means they have a lower caliber of expertise on average, as they are artificially de
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The way hiring works is a reflection of company culture. If they can’t execute a hiring process that hires the most skilled and competent instead of the youngest and best looking, guess what kind of coworkers you will have to deal with? Any
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If botox is required to secure an engineering job when you have a long proven track record of solving hard technical problems successfully- the company is a fraud and the jobs are fake.
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by _yb2s 11mo ago
“Reality has a well known liberal bias” -Stephen Colbert
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I already did in my comment
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All languages have things like that, but from my experience developing a number of widely used scientific software packages for both Python and R, those sort of bugs happen a lot more in Python. Rs copy on write, for example makes it a much
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Lean into it and shave your head… I started balding at 18 but regret not shaving my head until my mid 30s… it eliminated all of my anxiety about it, and women seemed to find me more attractive.
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No, R is a serious general purpose programming language that is great for building almost any type of complex scientific software with. Projects like Bioconductor are a good example.
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Doing computational biology for several decades in about a dozen languages, I do think R is a much better language for data science, but in practice I end up using Python almost every time because it has more libraries, and it’s easier to f
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by _yb2s 11mo ago
It's a different crowd here, I want to discuss those things with this crowd, not the one on reddit.
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I see these comments on most HN threads that aren’t about tech stuff, but to me these are the best part of HN. I think it should include things people in tech who are also humans find interesting and want to discuss, like this, not just dis
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You have a right to have firm boundaries and communicate them clearly to your partner. Doing so will usually make a relationship and life together better, not worse because your partner will respect your honesty and strength. If her doing t
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by _yb2s 11mo ago
Not at all- human connection and love are important and hard for most people to live without. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that. The problem with incels is they feel entitled to that, and use it as a basis to fuel hate towards o
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by _yb2s 11mo ago
That sounds very similar to what happened in the USA where native children were taken from their families in a deliberate attempt to wipe out their culture, summed up by the phrase “kill the Indian, save the man.” Outrageous this is still h
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Unfortunately, the racist worldview on display in those chats is extremely widespread- and you are in a uniquely small privileged group if you’re neither on the receiving or delivering end. A lot of middle class and wealthy people are victi
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by _yb2s 11mo ago
> there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically And Summers himself is one of them- he spent most of his career making things analogous to that essay actually happen
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It is reassuring that I am not the only one that sees this. These emails reveal a much bigger conspiracy than just the sex trafficking- that was just an in house blackmail material generator for him that he was using to control powerful peo
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Yes, he was “joking”- he is what the Internet calls a “Schrödinger's dbag,” it was only a joke if people don’t agree, but if they do it’s what he really believes- a cowardly way of communicating. In the context of his career, his actua
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by _yb2s 11mo ago
We disagree about the tone, but that aside- a person capable of writing this essay as a dry satire would need to possess a level of empathy and introspection that the rest of his life personally and professionally demonstrates that he does
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If it had been tongue in cheek or satire, that would suggest he also had enough capacity for introspection and empathy to see what is wrong with it. Looking at both his career and personal life suggests that he does not.
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It seems dead serious to me, and is consistent with everything else we know about him.
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That’s what he claimed it is, but I don’t buy it. I’m a big fan of satire and deadpan humor, and that’s just not what this is- the tone is serious, and he put a lot of thought in how to argue the point. Monsters exist, and this guy is one.
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You don’t- without that knowledge you would not know what to pay someone to build and why. It’s also going to be extremely complex and unreliable, and likely not street drivable or street legal.
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Which was what my parent comment referred to. Comments replying to mine act like it's unreasonable for me to talk about US federal agents in the context of this subject, when those are what the article mentions specifically, many times
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The "other side was doing X anyway, so we should do it to them" claim is always paired by first falsely accusing others of doing what they eventually intend to do. It's a deliberate strategy of manipulation that preemptively
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> Or maybe you're telling yourself that a raging racist president is lighting Diwali candles in the White House for "show"? I dunno, doesn't compute for me. Trump was sued for running racially segregated housing that
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I was naive enough to believe at first that the MAGA movement was actually about the surface issues they claim to be concerned about, but in continually trying to be understanding and steelman their positions, and in also personally knowing

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