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by akhmatova 4y ago
My sql is so much more readable with common logic extracted into ephmeral models. Sounds great. My concern though with DBT is the cognitive overhead and just plain ... weirdness and clunkiness it seems to introduce as a cost to obtaining
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Excellent analysis. But the issue here isn't that someone made a mistake somewhere. But rather, that at a very high level: Amazon knows perfectly well that a certain percentage of its customers are getting screwed over, just as it kn
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by akhmatova 4y ago
But unfortunately misleading: IBM was founded in 1898 by German inventor Herman Hollerith as a census tabulating company. (1) IBM was created in 1911 (initially as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company) as an amalgamation of four c
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by akhmatova 4y ago
https://archive.ph/qiwSs
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The Texas Public Policy Foundation's crusade against climate action(nytimes.com)
5 points by akhmatova 4y ago|1 comments
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by akhmatova 4y ago
The 1979 Iranian revolution was the pendulum swinging back hard the other way. There's nothing good to say about the 1953 coup - but in no sense was the 1979 revolution a "swing back the other way", let alone a hard swing.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Compared to people who do useful stuff. Like you know, teachers, healthcare workers, etc.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Why do they continue getting fat contracts even if the general consensus is that it doesn’t work out well? Same reason McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell continue to earn tens of billions in profits each year. Despite the fact that
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Intel plans to simulate this kind of old-fashioned hiring by hosting a job fair in the metaverse early next year. Tech workers—or people who want to be tech workers but have unconventional backgrounds—will strap on virtual-reality headsets
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by akhmatova 4y ago
This attempt to exculpate the robot's actions (more more directly: the actions of its human programmers) is just ... bizarre. Yeah, the robot didn't specifically "grab" the boy's finger. It grabbed a piece while t
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Interviewing != "soft skills", and it wasn't soft skills as such (in the legitimate sense of the term) that the poster was objecting to. But rather that set of weird, contrived rituals (which pretend to measure soft and other
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Yup - those fleshpots where the code base is too convoluted, or everyone is "too busy" to tend to such matters as who gets notified for what (and to, you know, update these settings once people leave the org) probably have lots of
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Waste of talent is not correct it's more like talent actively being used for harm. Well put, and I stand corrected.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Which is "profitable", but again - a waste of talent.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
What would the motive be to make a fake research paper? Few things are more seductive than the knowledge that your cause is just. And that you, and your tribe, just have to be right.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a advocacy group based in Washington DC with long ties to tobacco disinformation campaigns and more recently to climate change denial. Many of its claims have been debunked. Here are a few ex
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by akhmatova 4y ago
We haven't been talking about the mere fact of someone saying that -- but rather the context in which it was said, and to whom it was addressed. These being very, very different things.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
You need some physical, trusted party to reconcile the state of the paper with the state of the real world... Otherwise known as working State with an army, a navy, nukes, and democracy (for stability), or some semblance thereof, and all
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by akhmatova 4y ago
I read enough of it to perform a basic smell test, yes. And in fact it's pretty easy to spot some of its more obvious shortcomings, as other reviewers have. Exactly as we would expect to find in the output of ideologically-driven acad
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Does that make them assholes? No -- in this guy's case it's the other things he's saying, and the broader context which brings him into that territory.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
The thing is there's a (not-so-subtle) difference between "inviting" people to speak and, in effect, forcing them to.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
It "works", but with negative side effects whose impact you seem to be underestimating the importance of. Meanwhile it's quite easy to encourage people to speak up more (and to take risks while doing so) via other, infinitel
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Also obligatory is to point out the fact that the "study" was not peer reviewed; that it was written by economists, not public health experts (and has been severely criticized by several people who are recognized experts); that on
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Uber faces 550-passenger lawsuit over alleged rape and assault in US(theguardian.com)
8 points by akhmatova 4y ago|1 comments
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Because the world might be going to hell in handbasket, or it might not. And either way, there's essentially nothing that that you or I can (reasonably) expect to do about it. Or not quite nothing, but probabilistically speaking, eps
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by akhmatova 4y ago
It's also pretty easy to do, actually. The not being an asshole part, anyways.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Like, "Bob? What do you think of this? Would you ever use it?" It's actually kind of obnoxious to call on people like that. Even if it may seem like a "leadership thing" -- which may explain why it seems such a f
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Because it has been observed that if someone is talking too much at a meeting (and especially if they're talking about nothingburgers) -- usually it's a dude (at a rate disproportionate to their prevalence within the group).
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Strong leaders are willing to tell people things they don't want to hear. Right, we get it. But if they can't manage to do that without being condescending to their customers (and like this guy, generally sounding like a bit of
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Many are not required, but do it anyway of course. Either because they're shitting their pants (irrationally believing that these people are both willing to commit, and capable of committing great acts of sabotage on their way out).

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