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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Depends on the use case, but if you are working on web servers or other long lived processes the JVM is pretty close to native and can even beat native code thanks to JIT compilation.
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Great question
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
yes and in this context lobbyist means someone with a clear agenda, not a legal designation. You're the one making up meanings to suit yourself
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
We're not in court. If someone clearly has an agenda then calling them a lobbyist is just fine
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
She's a shill for the meat industry. Stop believing everything you read
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
"She was also criticized for being an ally of the meat and dairy industry. ". She's not a scientist (did an "American Studies" degree in college,) just a dirtbag who makes her money shilling for a murderous industry
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
"Only tangentially relevant"
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Yes we need to decrease CO2, so the people who emit the most need to reduce the most. Nations don't emit CO2, people do
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Also China and India are investing a crazy amount into replacing coal. Its just a slow process since they have to balance it with economic growth. Governments there are pretty cognizant that they'll be pretty badly affected by climate
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
The yachts aren't issue, i think the issue is more the insane amount of power that kind of money gives individual people (instead of institutions , which tend to have more checks and balances)
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
The reality is almost all of the best devs work at top places and get paid top money. If you need that quality of dev you need to pay that kind of money, now theres a strong argument that in some cases mediocre devs are fine and I'm sy
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
This is false, 99% of engineers at top software companies have a degree and a lot have masters or Phds (especially those doing more specialized work)
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Your ideas aren't worth that much to be honest
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Large companies make tons of money and will hire talent for cheap from startups
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Okay maybe hes not a right winger , just pseudo scientific
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
I would not trust Scott Alexander on real science. He's a pseudo scientific hack with an agenda
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
I love how dog people feel the need to talk about how much they hate cats at every turn but cat people kind of like all animals
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
But then you have to believe that every major twitter or instagram influencer is equally intelligent or manipulative, which frankly seems unlikely. I didn't say they were dumb, I just said I didn't think they are uniquely brillian
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Well my argument is that all of these guys were the "right person for the job". They didn't rise to the top of a traditional competitive scene like a college exam or a race to a technology, they found that their brand of narc
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Sure Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump share similar personality traits that make them very successful in the internet dominated world. Its not something that I dismiss, but I don't think of them as being master manipulators o
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
This isn't about foreign policy, this is about domestic food prices, which are more politically important than foreign policy for any government in any country
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
It all depends on how define intelligence, If by intelligence you mean the ability to reason about and solve complex problems then education definitely improves intelligence. However, if you choose to define it as something innate then by d
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
That fact that you don't shows you to be bootlicker to power
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Generally most of software development (including what you would think of as maintenance) is counted as R&D for tax purposes
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
Not in the short run. In the short run markets can be irrational (which I believe they are with Tesla), in the long run sure
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by amusedcyclist 4y ago
It certainly requires a lot more skill and patience than web development. I don't think you need an graduate degree, but i think in fields that are time consuming and complex the graduate study experience is generally helpful. Ofc ther
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
By occam's razor, it's likely that companies have come to the conclusion that work from office works better in most cases. Nothing more or less than that. Now you can disagree with the conclusion, but it does seem to be a growing
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
I'm just not sure "smartness" is the limiting factor for progress. Astronomy is an old science and we're very much at the limits of our ability and understanding. "AI" is a very new field (maybe a science idk)
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Thats vaguely insulting to all the people who do work on astrophysics, I work in AI and i'm pretty certain the average astronomer is a lot smarter than the average AI researcher. Its mostly a matter of pop culture perspective, astronom
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by amusedcyclist 5y ago
Our understanding of the world is so advanced that revolutionary changes are bound to be rarer and when they do happen they're understood by a tiny fraction of the population. In fact most people have absolutely no idea what Einstein d

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