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by ajb 2y ago
Here is a doc explaining a Bayesian search algorithm; not sure if it's precisely what GP has in mind. https://github.com/Ealdwulf/BBChop/blob/master/BBChop/doc/Ba... (Edit- had wrong link
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by ajb 2y ago
Guilds were anti-competitive and anti free market, in that they regulated the number of people who could enter a profession, and practice it in a particular town. As such, that's against the interest of employers and most people who
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by ajb 2y ago
Your theory reminds me of this (long) article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-...
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by ajb 2y ago
Not really. It's not massively likely, but if you do manage to drill into one fixing it is pretty costly. And that's not taking into account the risk of electrocution Check out the Gosforth Handyman on how to avoid pipes and cable
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by ajb 2y ago
Wonder if that is the last industrial processing still done in central London? If you don't count university labs.
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by ajb 2y ago
I was around in the 90's, yes. If newspapers are your model of a better alternative - pre internet, newspapers were funded largely by advertising. Yes, they also took subs and sales, but they could not operate on that alone. A very lar
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by ajb 2y ago
There is a sense to this but it depends on the kind of business you're in. The more novel your business is, the more the customer will need to try it out before they are convinced it's good value. Similarly, where you are deliveri
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by ajb 2y ago
Absolutely. Wasn't trying to make an exhaustive list.
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by ajb 2y ago
Statistically, you can't rely on having a non-repressive government for your entire lifetime. The US has been fortunate in missing out on it for quite a while, but even then there has been HUAC and J Edgar Hoover, even if they didn&#x2
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by ajb 2y ago
I'm a bit puzzled by this comment. By saying you have an option "C" you are indicating that there is some other factor, intrinsic to ads, that you object to. Which is a valid position - others have mentioned some- but, you do
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by ajb 2y ago
Right, so there is a genuine moral case for Mozilla doing this. It depends why you hate ads: A: the main problem with ads is tracking and privacy invasion B: the main problem with ads is manipulation and seizure of my attention If you onl
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by ajb 2y ago
Do you have any evidence for this, or is it from intuition? People have been putting bells on cats for generations, so if it was an issue someone probably investigated it by now . My anecdotal experience is that cats adapt very quickly to i
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by ajb 2y ago
Someone else suggested the whistle, which looks a plausible off the shelf solution. But otherwise: Mount a bell on your cat. Maybe more than one, with different sounds - collar, back and (if you can get him to tolerate it) a leg. Then train
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by ajb 2y ago
Others have addressed the process to get paid (legal, factoring, collections etc). And tinco's comment (currently top) on disengaging emotionally is essential reading. I thought it might be useful to describe what some classes of non o
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by ajb 2y ago
Okay, that's a good analysis. I'm too tired to work through the math bit right now, but you may be right. One question in my mind, though, is why is it that that most recruiters solve the coordination issue the other way - first f
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by ajb 2y ago
There's a bit more signal than that. Also, it's harder for them to try and sell you into any random role, as you can tell that they are doing it when it doesn't match the description you were interested in. On first look, tho
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by ajb 2y ago
What they don't do is cold approaches to candidates. Candidates applying to their website is - actually what they do. It sounds like they would probably do listings when they are big enough, so I don't see how it's a differen
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by ajb 2y ago
Well, okay, but turn it round: what do you have to lose by listing the jobs? Some people will be convinced to sign up without them, but if you list them, some additional people will sign because they are interested in those jobs. Maybe some
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by ajb 2y ago
They don't list company names. That's why I didn't say they list company names. Generally, they list everything but the company name.
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by ajb 2y ago
Interesting, but the website still does the usual thing of pushing people to the sign-up page without giving much information. If you're pitch is "we are aggressively honest" then an an indication of the jobs available seems
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by ajb 2y ago
L4S (or at least, the dualq implementation) uses a shallow buffer. You can't get 1000ms of latency if your buffer is only 15ms. Although the title claims there's no way round latency spikes, their paper [1] explores the case where
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by ajb 2y ago
That's slightly different. analog phone lines suffer from 'line echo', which is an echo generated by the phone line itself - because the same pair of wires is used for signals traveling in both directions. If you're thi
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by ajb 2y ago
Interesting. 7-11 is one of the example's in Rumelt's book on strategies[1]. In the chapter on 'pivot points' (by his definition, areas where effort yields significant reward) he outlines that 7-11 focuses on different t
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by ajb 2y ago
"second factor" (can't edit the above any more)
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by ajb 2y ago
Don't know about calendars. They are one of the better ones for multiple address - there's a limit on the number of a) domains) and b) email addresses you can reply from (but no limit on the number you receive from, with a catch-a
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by ajb 2y ago
I always feel conflicted by these kind of announcements, because for me there is significant value in spreading my dependencies across different companies, to reduce risk. I think Proton are great, I would like them to succeed - but I'
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by ajb 2y ago
Wow yeah narrowboats were not the cutting edge of haulage in 1907. Interesting about the Stand edge tunnel. I admit, I'm not that keen to go through it
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by ajb 2y ago
It's for freight, though, and if I understand it correctly, the force of the upward movement is automatically converted to horizontal movement by the pulley/rail system. So there's potentially no need for anyone to be on the
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by ajb 2y ago
Isn't the point of pre-tensioning is not the actual tension on the reinforcement, but the pre-loading of the concrete - so it needs to happen everywhere in the volume of the concrete, not just next to the reinforcement?
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by ajb 2y ago
Oh it ended up owned by Porsch? So confusing. I remember the short squeeze, but usually I don't follow this stuff. I wasn't really quoting $58B as the price Apple would pay - just an indicator of the size of VW. But probably the w

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