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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
That's likely also the case, but aside from the melanin-vitamin-d angle, there's been some work suggesting a genetic susceptibility to covid for people with significant recent SSA ancestry.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
The Lancet or Nature don't exactly have stellar reputations anymore. Source reputability should not be weighted heavily when assessing new information in our information environment — this is a very outmoded, maladaptive norm.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Techies are usually too naive about how the media works. This is a hit piece. Cui bono? Who are Coinbase's competitors? Who would stand to gain from Coinbase taking a hit?
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
A subscription to O'Reilly's digital library https://learning.oreilly.com
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Yes, it is, actually. That's literally what the employees voicing their displeasure want -- (1) for his speech as a private citizen to not contradict the public values of the company he leads (i.e. for him to not donate to, say, exclus
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
In a generation, vim and emacs will still be around with their minuscule but loyal user bases of tinkerers and VS code will have long been replaced by something newer and flashier.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
This all rings true but from my vantage point this kind of management ends up introducing excess overhead that makes my work life more fraught with emotional uncertainty rather than less. I avoid it altogether. I don't want anyone, let
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Did the author write this article too early? Charitably: yes Realistically: the narrative bias pulls pretty hard
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Protests against racism and police brutality in Portland That's certainly one way to characterize the activity downtown for the past 50+ nights.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
What was happening between 1920 and 1940? The universities were taking power. In 1900, the idea of a professor telling the government what to do was borderline absurd. By 1940, it was normal. By 1960, it was universal—all “public policy” i
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Dear new developer, > Two weeks after I graduated my coding bootcamp, I had an offer. Two weeks after that, I started my first engineering job at a small startup. > Here are some of the strategies I used. This is Randall Kenna:
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> It’s a big problem when you take people who shouldn’t be in a position and put them in it. It’s an even bigger problem when you do it in a place with a long history of pedigree. Apply this principle to elite-university admissions, big-
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Whites are way too obsessed with Weimar and the Russian Revolution / USSR (I wonder why). The more relevant analogues are Latin American ones. We're becoming Brazil, not Nazi German or Soviet Russia.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
The "resistance" LARPers are gradually memeing death squads into existence. It's not a second Trump administration that anyone should be worried about.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Yes but that elk was racist. All elk are bastards.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
They also have agency patches on — there's a lot of misinformation being spread about them being unidentified.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> simply overriding NIMBYs at the state level Yes, because we love democracy, don't we folks. > when the housing crisis becomes so acute And why is there a housing crisis, exactly? You're presumably a technical person — appl
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
If you like Chomsky check out What's Left (podcast) if you haven't yet. It's very good and will only deepen your skepticism of the corporate press.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> The internet, in all of its forms, simply increases awareness of what's going on around I think this gets overlooked too much by people in tech sociological bubble. The shape of the world is at any point in time a function of (1)
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
No, it's essential to what's being communicated. > Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/; Chinese: 白左 báizuǒ, literally White Left) is a derogatory Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies pr
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
The best advice I ever got regarding how to write a technical resume was all cribbed from Gayle McDowell's "The Google Resume". The most salient piece of advice: Use a "what-how-what-impact" format in your work hist
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Stop talking about 'technical debt'(builtin.com)
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Personally I think people with sports and military backgrounds have the soundest perspectives on leadership. The sociology of software engineering biases the perspectives on leadership therein toward this kind of contempt for subordinates.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> TDD is a rather questionable development method, DDD is a widely accepted design principle These claims are orthogonal, so the "while" construction is misleading. TDD and DDD are both arguably questionable and both undoubtedl
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> I might be a bit cynical / neckbeard, but the tech industry tends to go in circles with good engineering principles sold as the newest fads / hype. Not cynical at all — this is well observed and I wish more people saw it. I t
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
That's interesting. My observation is almost the reverse — the casual English default for "or" seems to be xor, and only people with some exposure to formal logic know it can be ambiguous. I find some reinforcement for that i
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Possibly the US too: > POMPEO LOOKING AT TIKTOK BAN IN U.S - FOX NEWS INTERVIEW https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1280329630918930432
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Companies already have to do this and they have done this for a long time. Setting aside that you've honed in on a peripheral part of the OP: You're missing something that should be obvious here. What you're attempting t
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
well described. this makes me think of GitHub c. 2015-16, or AngelList at any point in the past five years.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> untruths more Orwellian than what you accuse CSHL and the PC crowd of Question-begging. Would you mind attempting to justify this claim?

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