alexandercrohde

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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Eh, I know several of engineers who wouldn't interview at either facebook or amazon, because of their reputations. Maybe not a lot of people quit in disgust on the spot, but I have a hard time believing that the "name value"
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The internet doesn't need parrots(blog.alexrohde.com)
2 points by alexandercrohde 6y ago|1 comments
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
I think the story is that he's a government official, presumably operating on inside information. Thus it's a conflict of interest. If I'm an official charged with managing public health, and I use my early/special aware
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
>>> To replace out MediaWiki with a Java-based alternative (XWiki) ended up taking a total fo 24 dev-years over 4+ calendar years for the team He can call himself 1x, but if he can stop just 1 colossal failure like that he can eas
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Meh, give us data or nothing. The secondhand (hearsay) of an anonymous internet identity is inadmissable in the court of my opinion.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Uh great, then he should cite his own test's accuracy rates and the other tests' accuracy rates and let the data bear that out. Conveniently, he refuses to say how accurate his company's own tests are...
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
A hundred times better than teenagers smoking.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Deleting email messages is 100% a thing. I saw it happen myself (and confirmed with coworkers) at one unicorn I worked at.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Which is why employees are disincentivized from trusting those managers.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Meh, it's been my experience that those charts are borderline worthless. The truth is promotions are probably only fractionally about performance. A lot of it is budget, creating pr/"buzz" [even if it's proportional
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
This will be a boon for their competitors
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Not to be a buzzkill, but I'd like the exact opposite. An operating system with no asm, no C. Processors are over 1,000x what they were when I was young, I wish I could trade some of that 1000x for fewer security holes.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Uh great... yeah just walk right into the CEO's office and tell them what's wrong... 0% chance of that coming back to affect your career....
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Maybe not surprised, but morally outraged certainly
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
I think people are outraged not because it's illegal, but because it's unconscionable. I think the general understanding is people shouldn't have outside-work activities be held against them, maybe it's time for the law
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
I think it's fear mongering because it makes people worry whether grocery stores will be able to stay open. As somebody who lives in NYC, I can tell you right now, that if they didn't, it would cause a panic (right now my local gr
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Well, these store have to stay open, no matter what. So I guess there's nothing to be done, other than have low-risk populations ready to fill these roles. Seems a little bit scare-mongery to me.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
How is you calling that guys numerical point worthless any different than if you said "Those grocery store workers aren't professionals, they don't know the odds, their opinion is meaningless" ?
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
What? So only people who bag groceries are allowed to double-check the math?
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Seems fine. I've been using Skitch for a while, which seems to have all this and more (except gifs). Super easy to drop annotated screenshots straight into slack. https://evernote.com/products/skitch
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Well, I wonder how we get that information out there. Maybe you should make a youtube video for other doctors, and show them 20 example X-rays, and indicate why they are or aren't covid.
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Since this isn't double-blind, I wonder if there's reason to upvote it to the top of HN now versus after the research progresses a little more. Sometimes early signal, even if inaccurate, is very valuable (e.g. bitcoin). With alle
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We don't have a clear exit strategy(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by alexandercrohde 7y ago|0 comments
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
I think the distinction between Kayfabe and propaganda is that the audience knows and chooses to suspend disbelief of Kayfabe because it's engaging to them. I like this article because I think Kayfabe is a much better explanation of
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Maybe you mean this as a joke but it absolutely was. At one point Joe mentions he and Carole made a lot of money off each other. He ran a whole internet show on the premise of vilifying her, and her whole "Cat Rescue" zoo couldn&#
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
That's one theory, but the evidence is mixed. For example, I believe in cruise ships, where everybody was tested the CFR was ~ 3%. However maybe the age distribution was older. There are a lot of factors, some cause underestimating o
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Social distancing will save at most 1million lives (mostly 60-is 70 year olds, who had 10 years left anyways) in America. 6 months of quarantine in the US would cost 2 millions lifetimes of going outside. Full lifetimes, that is, not 10-yea
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Hate to break it to you, but hospitals are going to be overrun either way. 70-year-olds outnumber ICU beds 1,000 to one in many counties, some counties have no ICUs, some counties have no hospitals! [1] Because hospitals will be overwhelmed
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
I don't know where these numbers come from. But given a the current 1.1% case-fatality-rate in America (even before hospitals are overwhelmed) and that more than half of the population is estimated to get it, I don't see how it&#x
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by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Yeah. The more I learn, the more confident I am that nobody has a real plan, and it's just a fiesta of acronyms and agencies who are only pseudo-educated (e.g. couldn't recite essential statistics about mortality rate once one a v

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