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by bananaface 6y ago
Without a feudal lord, peasants wouldn't have land to farm. News organisations aren't peasants but the issue is that the Lord is able to control & skim the majority of value from the resource (in this case, attention).
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by bananaface 6y ago
Right now there seems to be a cap of 99 tokens per person for each auction, which will clamp the effect rich players have on the weightings (to the point of it being much closer to an average). They may remove that in the future of course.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Wait what? That ruins the ability of anyone successful to weight their predictions based on confidence (they'll just fully weight everything). Will be interesting to see how this one plays out. I wonder what effect that will have on th
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by bananaface 6y ago
There is no StackOverflow for trading, or betting. Nobody gives away their edge for free, although they may give away their trades. >I don't really see how that cashes out in an inaccurate overall system Imagine a strategy that has
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by bananaface 6y ago
I'm not convinced. If there's no direct profit, I can't imagine talented people are going to waste that much time on it. Reputation is also not that great of a proxy, since you can game it. E.g. by using strategies that pus
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by bananaface 6y ago
Reasons hypothesised . Not "revealed".
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by bananaface 6y ago
Ehh, I'm not convinced. It would probably happen to some degree but the important exams are graded independently.
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by bananaface 6y ago
I don't think that's typical. Most bad teachers are just bad, across the board, and everyone knows it.
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by bananaface 6y ago
If your proposed system ended up leading to large amounts of suffering, worse than the current system, would that convince you it was less moral?
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by bananaface 6y ago
It's extremely easy to detect bad teachers if you're a child or a parent (or another teacher). It's hard to detect bad teachers if you're a beurocrat looking at grade tables.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Parental review sounds like the perfect way to judge teachers. Parents are the most invested and least affected by nepotism within the institution. They're also way more likely to be concerned about the outcome for the kids. In general
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by bananaface 6y ago
I think if teachers were paid more they would feel a stronger sense of public duty. I don't think being paid less makes people feel more duty to their work.
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by bananaface 6y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. The issue will burn itself out. Courting a culture of loud, demanding people with an axe to grind is a much better short-term strategy than long.
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by bananaface 6y ago
How would a lawyer negotiate this up? They aren't firing people, they're just offering people to option to leave. Do employees here have any legal leverage?
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by bananaface 6y ago
These are interesting points. >There's a possibility the programmer who did the masters was simply unable to get a job after his BSc. Yeah, that would skew the data completely. Especially if you don't stratify by institution. &
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by bananaface 6y ago
Are you just drawing from devs you've worked with/hired? (Not meaning to be rude, just that they're already going to be way above average.)
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by bananaface 6y ago
The knowledge created by a PhD by definition has to be evaluated academically. If it can't be evaluated by peers, it can't be published. I don't mean this in a superficial sense, I mean: there's no way for a PhD to be ce
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by bananaface 6y ago
How much of this is just that most people coming out of these institutions are not prepared for the jobs they're applying for? A programmer with two years experience in industry is probably better than the same programmer coming out of
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by bananaface 6y ago
Hiring someone who's spent ten years in academia to design the architecture of real-world systems sounds like a very reliable way of getting terrible architectures. What are they smoking, are people with actual experience just way too
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by bananaface 6y ago
In that case something dramatic is eclipsing it, it should be noticeable. It may be the GC threshold. There's about 5 settings recommended for perf issues. https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/performance
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by bananaface 6y ago
This is a great anecdote, I don't know why you're being downvoted
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by bananaface 6y ago
Also it's low resolution, but note the issues ratio. Eglot: 70 open, 277 closed lsp-mode: 94 open, 977 closed (lsp-mode is much more than 3x the size of eglot and has 15x the number of downloads on MELPA)
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by bananaface 6y ago
Sure, here are some samples from the source. This is Eglot's code. Try and figure out what's happening in each of these passages: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/blob/master/eglot.el#L41...
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by bananaface 6y ago
I feel like the sentiment that electron flaming is uncool because it's old (???) is indicative of a broader problem.
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by bananaface 6y ago
It would be bad if it did, IMO. Eglot is a pretty dodgy piece of software and the code is much worse than lsp-mode.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Are you on Emacs 27 yet? Below that Emacs encodes JSON in Elisp, which is extremely slow and makes LSP unusable.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Emacs has lasted 40 years with a stable (but small) market share. It's outlived every other editor with the exception of Vim. It will probably outlive Atom, and it looks like it's going to outlive Netbeans. I'd argue stubborn
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by bananaface 6y ago
Ignore that, it's just bad marketing. Doom is a packaged distribution and it's waaaaay better than Spacemacs (and much easier to modify). Spacemacs is a very poorly written piece of software in comparison. Doom is moving much
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by bananaface 6y ago
The Emacs docs are absolutely horrendous, they read like they're written for the core dev team. Useless as an introduction, everyone ends up on Xah Lee's site. They could be completely fixed by just providing examples of all t
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by bananaface 6y ago
I think it would be a lot more fun if CEOs had to show an actual offer from a competitor in order to invoke the "I need to be payed this much to stay" argument.

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