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by beisner 9y ago
There are a large contingent of people who have more faith in Google to be more ethical than most government organizations, the NHS included. As someone who has been party to the internals at Google, and to some lesser extent with governmen
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I think I instinctively agree with your argument, although the particulars of this topic have made me wonder a bit about absolute privacy in the human health space. Specifically, we generally consider privacy not to be an absolute right, bu
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Although, if we're realistically considering the present situation, the number of people who already speak English as either a native or non-native language are roughly even with the number that speak Mandarin, and far exceed that numb
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But is that true for most people who use Uber, or even taxis? I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of Uber/taxi users were in fact people traveling to a different city.
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Why presume that?
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It's a turn of phrase borrowed from judged sports with a jumping/dismount component, especially gymnastics. If a gymnast dismounts from a balance beam and lands without stumbling or bending the knees too much, one would say he has
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by beisner 9y ago
I see it more as breaking down barriers to distributed working. Anything that reduces the collaboration gap between collocates and distributed teams is a win in my book., since it could help enable a cultural change at companiesz
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I agree that numerical analysis would be helpful, and I'm pretty sure they already released one. As someone who has worked at Google and at other companies, I think some people might just be distressed that Google of all places is bein
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by beisner 9y ago
The other commenter is generally right, I think. I think what the campus was really drawn to was the idea of a place where you could express unfiltered observations about the campus community. The anonymity of YikYak provided sufficient cov
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by beisner 9y ago
I attend a university where YikYak was extremely popular from 2014-2016 (new posts every minute, top posts got >400 upvotes). Getting rid of anonymity was unpopular, but what really killed the app was, right before summer 2016 they elimi
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by beisner 10y ago
An employee at a company is likely responsible for a small piece of a product that will affect the lives of some number of people by a very small amount. A doctor will affect the lives of some number of people by an enormous amount. The res
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by beisner 10y ago
*Pop science
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by beisner 10y ago
I think it can depend on the size of the operation, and your mindset. If I'm employee #100 at a well-funded startup, I'd tend to agree with you and value equity as a risk adjusting factor. But if I'm employee #5, I probably w
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by beisner 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that contributing to a 401k doesn't make you ineligible to contribute to an IRA, but making over a certain amount of money annually does.
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Our justice system, by and large, rests not on proving the truth or not, but on a (idealistically) rational group of peers deciding both on the probability that a crime occurred and the justification/reasoning of both the crime itself
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by beisner 10y ago
Then the gas company owns your IP.
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This book is a really accessible primer on the basics. Much more readable than a lot of other textbooks, which kind of go all-out in terms of rigor rather than present things intuitively. This was one of the textbooks we used in Princeton&#
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by beisner 10y ago
Marshal generally means something along the lines of "to wield". So in this case the author is saying that even though as a white American male he possesses many societal privileges (and may attempt to take advantage of them), the
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by beisner 10y ago
Of course, tribalism is the primary motivator here, but I think there are a couple other economic and moral arguments to be made against unbridled globalism. From an economic perspective, much of international economic growth is based on co
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For Google and Facebook at least, those salaries hold throughout the US (I know for sure in SF, Seattle, Boston, Boulder, and NYC), and potentially all of North America.
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It's cheaper for many workloads, the products work together a lot more seamlessly, instance start times are faster, and the orchestration UI is way, way, way more intuitive and user-friendly (to this user, at least). There are definite
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by beisner 10y ago
I think he is saying that in order to pay the salaries for those new jobs, taxing robots as if they were employees might be fruitful. As in, there's not enough economic demand for those roles at the moment, and in a future where there
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by beisner 10y ago
This seems like the key to me. Yes, if I'm a SaaS company with low bandwidth requirements but have a ton of users domestically, maybe I'll build my own data center (think IBM, or maybe Salesforce). But if I am raising money in the
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by beisner 10y ago
I don't think you're giving them enough credit here. I'd wager that a lot of these recently-announced initiatives have strong grass-roots origins, meaning that employee sentiment was the primary motivator (rather than PR band
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by beisner 10y ago
They definitely still do. It's just not necessarily a formal system - there are a ton of projects out there that people work on while at work that aren't directly related to their main responsibilities, and managers generally are
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by beisner 10y ago
Sounds like 2 years of experience to me...
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If an apartment in Manhattan doesn't already have a washer/dryer hookup, it is not getting a washer/dryer hookup, no matter the economics of buying a washer and dryer vs using a laundry service.
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It's not anticompetitive if the actual product is easy/cheap to implement (especially on Microsoft's existing infrastructure). If they can do something much cheaper than Slack can, and they can turn a profit at a much lower p
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by beisner 10y ago
OP's dubious math aside, the US tax dollar doesn't really feel like it goes as far as it does in many European countries. Public transportation prices are extremely high nationwide, infrastructure is lacking, healthcare and educat
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This is why autonomous cars are making their way into the market, despite the fact that many worried that they'd get tied up in regulatory, moral, or technical issues.

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