amusedcyclist

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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
eh if you were a senior at FB people will give you the benefit of the doubt in a lot of cases. If you're interested you should apply
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Do you have strong CS fundamentals (generally acquired through university education) ? Because that stuff really matters if you want to work on stuff related to hardware
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
lol people will be lining up to offer them jobs so I think they'll be just fine
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
WSJ is an absolute rag. FT is very good and worth the money
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Yeah most tall players are better shooters than in the past. But with the exception of Kevin Durant, none of them shoot like the short guys
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Changing culture to stop seeing intelligence as some unchangeable fixed thing is probably better than having a bad measure of "intelligence".
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Yup the author describes how it's possible to see such a correlation even if they were uncorrelated. But the same would apply if they were slightly correlated. But I am neither intelligent nor beautiful so take my words with a grain o
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
It's a great article and there is probably a lot of truth to it but I suspect people who are constantly told how great they are are actually more likely to be jerks. I don't think beauty / intelligence are entirely uncorrelat
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
The NBA is at the top right of the graph (for basketball skills) so you shouldn't see any such weird anomaly there. Suspect its actually just a biological thing that your hand eye coordination worsens at the 'extreme' heights
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Its still ground breaking work...
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
I imagine theres lots of groundbreaking stuff to work on at Twitter. Lots of opportunities to apply AI, do cool distributed systems research, build specialized hardware to optimize video, build new types of databases, apply computational so
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
It says about 12k are software engineers. Now it does say 40k total employees instead of the real number but I suspect software engineers are much more likely to be on linkedin. Still fairly confident that its closer to 10% than 33%.
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
There were some contradictory signals about this in the article. In one bit Mark says they are continuing to focus on the metaverse but he also says some people at Reality labs will be affected. But it sounds like the apps teams are going t
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Programmers don't make up more 10% of fb's employee base anyway (a guess) so if you assume that fraction at both fb and twitter you're looking at about 1500 additional people looking for jobs not 15000. Suspect this has littl
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Going off the article it sounds like most of the layoffs are in business and recruiting so I suspect a small-ish fraction of the layoffs will be programmers
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Are we supposed to find every forced attempt at satire funny ?
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Elon did try very hard to stop it.
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Do you have any reason for that claim ? To an outsider, The US is mostly a supersized version of Canada or Australia. A lot of its current success depends on - its geographic location and strong connection to the early core of Industrializa
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
1. you just need to sound proof your place. 2. Biking in Barcelona is pretty cool actually and theres mountains right outside. Ideally you wouldn't need to drive your bikes to start biking. 3. sure but most people don't need a rid
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
He asked for proof not for cliches
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
HN does lean conservative, I don't. Are you telling me I shouldn't express my views on here because people would disagree with me ? "In addition, every leader on the world stage enact primarily conservative policy because it&
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
yeah and thats bad policy.
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Her policies were terrible. Gutting the tax base, subsidizing energy demand in an inflationary environment. Almost all conservative policies are terrible but these ones were so bad that there was a run on the pound. I'm glad you'r
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
True but it could have been staffed by other people and created the same things if history had worked out differently. I don't think diversity should be the aim of a company but I also don't think the gender and race of SV employe
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Yeah parental pressure is likely filtering Asian boys out of playing basketball
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
"The algorithm found an objective truth". Man you really have no idea how any of this works do you
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
There are lots of obsessive Elon fans which has also created a set of obsessive Elon haters. I don't like him but I don't see how he'd do a much worse job of running twitter than the guys running it now
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Don't feed the white supremacist trolls
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Why not ? I would argue that most teachers provide a more valuable service than most lawyers (For my definition of value atleast). Lawyers have strict licensing requirements while teachers don't, which would be one of the major differe
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Libertarians are generally more interested in ideology than policy research

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