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by aparsons 6y ago
I was at Microsoft around the time of Eric’s departure (I left a few months before him). Ironically, the two men arguably most responsible for the success of the Xbox were strongly opposed to the entire “Manhattan” project at the time. Eric
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by aparsons 6y ago
Also their pathetic attempts to get you to use the app are half-baked. The deep links are broken most of the time and just send you to the app store even if the iOS client is installed, where you press open and it takes you to /r/
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by aparsons 6y ago
The legal system certainly need a change - and finally states are moving to decriminalize marijuana possession (as it should always have been). On the other hand, there are crimes where you should certainly be in prison. Hard to argue that
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by aparsons 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/facebook-... There is an ongoing arms race between Ad blockers and facebook engineers. On mobile, of course, theres no way to block ads
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by aparsons 6y ago
Facebook is openly evil and disingenuous in how it fosters addiction, circumvents ad blocking, collects personal data despite claiming otherwise, etc. Google, I feel, is a lot more cognizant of the ill effects of their practices and is gene
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by aparsons 6y ago
Apple with ObjC, Msft with C#, ...
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by aparsons 6y ago
I’m sorry you feel that way. But Timnit is an internet bully with an army of Twitter minions, with the stones to write a ridiculous “How To Apologize” document she tweets at researchers she doesn’t like. I maintain this is an excellent firi
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How Microsoft Crushed Slack(platformer.news)
3 points by aparsons 6y ago|4 comments
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by aparsons 6y ago
I’ve read the papers. The ones where she is a (1,2,3)ary author are all glorified rants - well worded, but offering no actionable feedback or new methods.
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by aparsons 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23696427
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by aparsons 6y ago
Welcome to equal outcome hiring. This disease has plagued SV for the past 5 years.
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by aparsons 6y ago
She claims to be a leading researcher in the field, but has she written any significant papers or research of note? Her biggest accomplishment seems to be driving Yann LeCunn off Twitter with angry accusations. She tried to continue her pow
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by aparsons 6y ago
Azure as well
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by aparsons 6y ago
Fascinating work. I wonder if this approach works to model interactions (no reason it shouldn’t). The interactions of proteins with other proteins and well as as molecules like lipids, water and electrolytes form the basis for cellular proc
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by aparsons 6y ago
There is probably a team at DeepMind working on cracking simple crypto. Problem is, it can be difficult to cast the problem properly/“correcty”. How does a one way function get represented?
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by aparsons 6y ago
From one elder statesmen to another- it’s not us. The industry as a whole has lost a lot of the excitement and novelty it evoked in the 80s, early 90s and (after a somewhat down period in the mid 90s) the late 90s to mid 2000s. In a way, Pa
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by aparsons 6y ago
Managing 30 properties - hell, keeping 30 properties occupied - is a nightmare. Unless they’re extremely homogenous, even a property management firm will hesitate to touch that.
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by aparsons 6y ago
I retired last year (albeit with a slightly larger nest egg and a more advanced age than OP - from what I gather). I bought a property with two apartment units in North Carolina, and got a $200k mortgage (paid $500k at purchase time). My gi
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by aparsons 6y ago
> minus withdrawals Withdrawals change these numbers tremendously
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by aparsons 6y ago
Based on the given info, here is the advice I have: 0. Debt is a killer. Pay yours off. 1. Live below your means 2. Look up the 4% rule - can you live happily on 4% ($40k) per year? If not, you may need to save some more. 3. Implement a str
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by aparsons 6y ago
Can it not he argued that the recent phenomenon of cancelling / treating those accused of these acts as criminals and trying to ruin their livelihoods, means applying a criminal level of evidence is warranted?
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by aparsons 6y ago
This is the problem posed by “SJW” entities in a nutshell. Of course racism exists, and AAs have been one of the big targets for decades. But even considering another alternative explanation to something related to discrimination gets you
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by aparsons 6y ago
Here’s the catcher though: these people never personally sacrifice themselves, and a good number of them are quite biased themselves.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Since there seems to be some activity around this comment and I can no longer edit the parent comment, let me add a few more thoughts here. Diverse hiring (as in equal outcome hiring) does not materially benefit companies. I was on, or clos
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by aparsons 6y ago
I am on mobile, so can’t find an exhaustive list, but here are a few: https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/how-affirmative-a... (Relating to drop out rates) https://www.nationalaffairs.com/pu
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by aparsons 6y ago
When I replied, the thread was quite young. I thought that comment (vaguely mirroring the first paragraph of my comment iirc) was unpopular but certainly not offensive enough to be flagged. Or it is on HN?
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Big Mac Index(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aparsons 6y ago|0 comments
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by aparsons 6y ago
You will get downvoted because HN reflects SV groupthink, but you are absolutely correct. This is a well-studied phenomenon analogous to the Peter principle, and has been observed in workplaces (as you described) and schools (black students
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by aparsons 6y ago
When they change it to main, the employees will return /s
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by aparsons 6y ago
With puts your upside is limited right?

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