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by abj 6y ago
I agree, I avoided using the word union. In an ideal world, this would be a union. In (what I worry might be) the real world, the word union conjures unhelpful barriers to action. I'm less interested in fighting idealogical battles. I&
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by abj 6y ago
Great point - there will be a giant incentive to defect. I'm not interested in policing it. I'm interested in raising the incentive for people to say no. I'd do this by offering another job board for people who aren't li
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by abj 6y ago
What if we form a group/site that refuses to do leetcode interviews? This seems like a classic coordination problem. If enough people refuse, companies will have their talent pool limited. We could use this group to help match companie
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by abj 6y ago
Some great, sane ideas on improving copyright law [1]. The amount of resources the current copyright laws waste is surprisingly high. "For software, the direct costs every year of defending infringement suits from so-called "nonp
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by abj 6y ago
The last sentence really nails what's behind that queasy feeling some workplaces give off when you can't specifically figure out why they feel dishonest. "The feeling of inconsequence is reinforced when Hastings flat-out admi
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by abj 6y ago
While not perfect, Montessori seems like a good start to demonstrating that kids can choose to study. The Montessori Method of Education, developed by Italian physician Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on sci
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by abj 6y ago
Oh, that's great to know. I didn't realize that was happening. Thanks for the clarification.
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by abj 6y ago
This comment is fascinating. It feels like it's written by GPT-3. It almost makes sense at first glance. If you look at bgee's comment history, all the posts are about China. > [citation needed] The police officer in the video
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by abj 6y ago
Thanks for the link, that's too bad. I remember watching his videos years ago. He seemed to really like living in China.
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by abj 6y ago
Ah that makes sense, thanks. I was wondering how other western youtubers had channels full of interviews.
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by abj 6y ago
"Individuals cannot accept interviews without government approval." [12:06] Does anyone know if this is a law?
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by abj 6y ago
It was easier to learn than the alternatives (UDK, any of the Java engines) and consistently added clearly useful features. Jump to 2019, their networking solution, UNet is abandoned. Multiplayer is a perhaps a top feature developers/p
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by abj 6y ago
> I'm quite bearish on Unity in the long run Unity definitely seems like it has lost sight of what made the engine rise to prominence in 2010-2015. > I've honestly wondered a lot why Unity is successful at all Unity was the
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Unity2020 – A Plan to Save Our Republic(articlesofunity.org)
1 points by abj 6y ago|1 comments
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by abj 6y ago
Edit: It looks like Apple is not removing all Unreal Engine games. See Brandon Smith's comment below. Is this confirmed? Apple would be removing PUBG Mobile (#5 in Strategy, millions in revenue - which Apple presumably gets 30%) which
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by abj 6y ago
It's fascinating that from the 1950s to the 1970s employment was hovering around 57%. Formal employment has actually increased 1970-2015 as workers in our economy became more productive. It's interesting this correlates to the dec
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by abj 6y ago
A 2019 OECD paper analyzing European satellite data estimates "that a 1 µg/m³[!] increase in PM2.5 concentration (or a 10% increase at the sample mean) causes a 0.8% reduction in real GDP that same year. Ninety-five per cent of th
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by abj 6y ago
We need a Hippocratic Oath for those that manage and deploy capital. A Hippocratic Oath for only Software Engineers is addressing the symptom, not the cause. Most of us don't wake up and think, "How can I make user's life wor
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by abj 6y ago
It would be fun to see what 100+ people think of an element of the modern world, like the smell of gasoline. Would the smell of gasoline get over 2 stars? Would carbonated water get under 3 stars? These are questions I want to know the answ
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Show HN: I made a website to rate/review elements of the human experience(anthropocenereviews.com)
1 points by abj 6y ago|1 comments
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by abj 6y ago
This is an important perspective. I'm grateful for what I have, but I deeply struggle with the same feelings others have shared in this thread. Knowing that I'm fortunate to not be subsistence farming doesn't fill that hole w
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by abj 6y ago
I'm one of the those people that have the luxury of making choices misaligned with their economic incentives. What you've mentioned is great, actionable advice. I also agree that personal responsibility is a cop out, but at least
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by abj 6y ago
All of these tasks seem like more useful than assigning jira tickets. How do we fix the incentive structure to incentivize all these tasks? I'm genuinely interested in helping, but I'm not sure how except through some effective c
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by abj 6y ago
I've experienced this problem in small companies/side projects I've started. This a great perspective and great take on the problem. I'd love to help out in development/anything you'd need help with, email is i
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by abj 6y ago
LAN hosted games are the golden area. Online game servers are a really interesting example of brittle software. When the server is shut down, the game breaks and the software _is_ unusable. This often happens because of the misaligned incen
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by abj 6y ago
Welcome to the club! There's tons of us. Some people recommend starting a lifestyle business https://www.indiehackers.com/ There's a lot of business that use Zapier for automation and are low/no code If you l
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by abj 6y ago
Thanks for the very insightful response, you're right. All those problems are barriers to using the ML practically. So it seems like the technology actually is the problem.
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by abj 6y ago
What human like abilities would a scaled up version of GPT-3 have? "Would it be worthwhile, even if it represented another large leap in AI capabilities, to spend up to 10 milli-Manhattan-Projects to scale GPT-3 100x to achieve human-l
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by abj 6y ago
Could I ask what the CNN article got wrong? I'm curious how different their story was to the actual attack.
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by abj 6y ago
Wow this is unbelievable. Thanks for the link. "The case arose in the context of condemnation by the city of New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property, so that it could be used as part of a "comprehensive redevelop

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