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by apersona 8y ago
I personally don't mind abstract art and believe that it's fine as an art form. The only issues I have are the proponents of abstract art doing 2 things: (1) Presenting abstract art as a worthier pursuit than illustration, as if s
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by apersona 8y ago
What if they were trying to draw what they're seeing but struggling with it?
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by apersona 8y ago
How would you solve the counterfeit goods and preventing people from gaming the review system problems? It seems like a hard problem - eBay suffered from this too for their goods,Yelp with reviews. I doubt it's just a "I don'
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by apersona 8y ago
> "Disinformation"; that's laughable. Tesla and Musk are being sued and investigated for stock manipulation, but you're crying about Reuters being off on their prediction. Who is showing bias? Where is the outrage? I
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by apersona 8y ago
You do know that most group supervisors have graduate degrees right? (At least at JPL, not sure about other NASA centers). Seniority tends to be based on your highest level of education (obviously there are exceptions - but exceptions are e
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by apersona 8y ago
And moving further away from it is the solution?
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by apersona 8y ago
That's an interesting idea. It might even encourage developers to work on higher quality apps, or to not devalue their own software.
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by apersona 8y ago
What? They're complaining about Valve too. Bethesda, for example, recently announced that they're launching Fallout 76 on their own personal launcher ( https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/fallout-7
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by apersona 8y ago
What happened to their UX designers?
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by apersona 8y ago
What other work have you done though? From my experience, it seems like a lot of web dev people struggle with OS/Compilers/Embedded/Robotics work, but people who don't struggle with OS/Compilers/Embedded/R
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by apersona 8y ago
I think if there's a difference in power, the person on the lower end should have a way to say no to his/her boss's advances. I think the culture today where you can talk to the media about it is a valid option and the boss
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by apersona 8y ago
I don't think putting constraints on when and where sexual propositioning is the right way. The root of the problem is the fear of losing one's job. I think what should happen is that anyone can say "no" to an advance wi
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by apersona 8y ago
How is dying from anaphylaxis the exact right response?
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by apersona 8y ago
Lol. The comments section in the article is pretty heated.
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by apersona 9y ago
What did I just read? This feels like a "that happened" post: > He looked at me as if I’d just shot Santa Claus in the face. > “No, man! You’re wrong!” He was sweating now, and the dozen or so musicians who’d gathered around
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by apersona 9y ago
This isn't just lack of experience with financial planning. This is lack of common sense. You can't teach common sense.
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by apersona 9y ago
Have you actually been in a PhD program?
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by apersona 9y ago
You can't deny that lots of innovations came from defense research. APARNET came from the DoD. I personally wouldn't want to work in defense, but I wouldn't disrepect people working in there either.
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by apersona 9y ago
What's wrong with unnecessary innovations? There were lots of inventions/discoveries that didn't solve any existing problem during their time of discovery.
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by apersona 9y ago
very much this. I think the how people view companies as a whole as "evil" is alarming. Technology is neutral, and companies make the world better and worse.
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by apersona 9y ago
Yeah except Google is one of the backers. If one of the companies actively working on R&D is backing it, isn't that saying something?
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by apersona 9y ago
Yes, all violence. Just because I don't support left-wing violence doesn't mean that I support whatever the left-wing is fighting against. That's what I hate about politics nowadays - it's either you're agree with u
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by apersona 9y ago
I don't see why it's surprising to see a game programming library binding for Rust. I was drawn to it because it was advertised as a "systems programming" language. From a graphics perspective, this means that it's
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by apersona 9y ago
May I ask what the $70 Chinese keyboard is?
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by apersona 9y ago
How did you know that the donor didn't do the same?
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by apersona 9y ago
> But one of the claims for this argument that a huge donation suddenly doesn't turn a bad school into a good one is a strawman argument. Things don't have to be so extreme. There are plenty of middle tier schools specially sta
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by apersona 9y ago
But...it's not the degree, it's the knowledge that's important. MIT, Stanford, and a decent amount of other institutions have made their lectures available for free online. Almost anyone can go online now and watch the lectur
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by apersona 9y ago
Leprino not giving his chief engineer/scientist any equity at all is definitely not a small fault. I can see why ShabbosGoy might say Leprino is worthy of scorn. "I would tell people,'Lester is the man that made me rich,&#x27
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by apersona 9y ago
What's "real" work?
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by apersona 9y ago
I don't think it's about suffering yesterday's problems to understand today's. Learning to program in C made me a better programmer because I had to watch out for memory, etc. I think a better analogy would be how even w

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