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by alexpetralia 3y ago
From the video, it looks like a small enough wedding that it was not a wild party, but large enough there was a coordinating team who did not clean up: https://twitter.com/christinaqi/status/1719988127048352182
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Bureaucracies need not necessarily reduce the average. If they only truncated the tails - equally removing the top performers and the worst performers - then we'd expect the average stays the same. If the distribution is right-tailed,
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
And who is on the losing end in the bankruptcy? Who keeps underwriting these deals? It used to be syndicated bank loans (often repackaged into CLOs), but now it is jumbo private credit funds. The banks ended up losing (which is why they are
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The Latecomer: A magazine about the long-term future of humanity(latecomermag.com)
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
What is perhaps also interesting is that nearby cities can use the same language with entirely different histories, nuances and meanings. This in fact explains why so many groups fail to communicate clearly!
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
But who proposed those changes? Ultimately the CEO is accountable.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Not dissimilar to how large organizations operate today! Humans operate at the edge collecting sensory data (making measurements, inputting forms, etc.) and the "brain" is a giant management and software apparatus in the middle.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Space and time (the abstractions) are lingisuric concepts, so this is perhaps not too surprising, but nevertheless interesting.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Sure, I could almost choose any one on Google as they all follow the same template - here is one: https://coderthemes.com/hyper/saas/index.html 1. Six top-level stats jump out at you: customers, orders, revenue, g
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
* Design matters a lot - if it looks bad, people won't look at it. * Layout for dashboards is almost completely formulaic. A panel for selected high-level stats (user growth % increase from last year, user % increase from last month, #
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
The new register size!
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
This title is somewhat misleading. "Google contractor careens into creek after 100mph cop chase" may be more appropriate.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
If you fine the companies, the behavior would stop very quickly.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
This is a very uncharitable reading of what he wrote.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Routinely in New York City at least, you can kill someone using a motor vehicle almost with complete impunity. The driver who led to Sammy's Law (which still hasn't passed) only received a 180 day license suspension a year and a h
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
(deleted - posted under the wrong comment)
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
You should review the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Whatever your opinion is, it was not worded in a productive way.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
This is such a wonderful quote.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
No, placing orders and then canceling them is very common and makes up the majority of orders. It is not spoofing. Spoofing is about the intent to mislead the market.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Anything and everything is permissible in the name of safety.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
This work looks super promising. I am excited to test it out, thank you!
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
Yes, exactly: bias + imprecision = inaccuracy.
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
I wrote about precision here if you are interested. You first need precision before you can start even talking about accuracy (otherwise there is no "center"). https://alexpetralia.com/2023/01/31/wha
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
Consciousness is a reaction to stimuli. If we didn't have consciousness, we would not achieve our goals as effectively.
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
So is this like Fivetran, except between clients as opposed to vendor-client? If so, any idea why most data integrations tools have not done this (or have they)? What is so tricky that they could not extend their tools to cover a customer&#
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
This feels like a job posting for lemons. Edit: This was a reference to Akerlof's "A Market for Lemons"!
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
Out of curiosity, how did you calculate this?
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
At least 1,400 employees are listed on LinkedIn as working there. Are they all imminently going to be out of a job?
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
And the MacBook is so "greedy" that it will always connect to my Bluetooth devices before anything else can, forcing me to take out the MacBook, open the lid, sign in and disable Bluetooth.
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by alexpetralia 4y ago
You should basically follow conventional wisdom if you are doing conventional things, and follow unconventional wisdom if you are doing unconventional things.

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