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by beisner 6y ago
I think this entire post can be distilled into the following: The time you spend composing a message should be proportional to the number of people in your intended audience.
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by beisner 6y ago
Baby Yoda.
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by beisner 6y ago
Yawn. Facebook is not the public square, nor should it be. Imo it’s also the wrong platform for political engagement (because it structurally amplifies the wrong kinds of engagement), and I couldn’t care less what editorial power they exert
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by beisner 6y ago
Great way to sequester it right into a whale's stomach.
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by beisner 6y ago
I think there’s a reasonable middle ground, which is: employers can discriminate based on record only if that crime has a direct relationship to the nature of the employment and the position provides a clear opportunity for abuse in the sam
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by beisner 6y ago
I agree with this generally. One thing to consider is how, specifically in the case of homeless with addiction issues, how the distribution of larger amounts of money affects violent and non-violent crime within the homeless population. Esp
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by beisner 6y ago
FWIW when driving, tolls along that route are roughly $10 each way... and that's low for the midwest.
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by beisner 6y ago
The United States is structurally incapable of large-scale public works projects. There are a lot of reasons for this and they aren’t particularly partisan, rather reflect how decisions are made. My guess is places like China and Singapore
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by beisner 6y ago
I use similar language in all my salary negotiations. Never had pushback, and every time I’ve gotten massive comp bumps as a result (up to ~50% increase, which happened twice).
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by beisner 6y ago
Eh, from a noise level there’s no difference with having an in-person meeting at a cafe, which happens all the time and is not bothersome (depending on the cafe).
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by beisner 6y ago
Well that doesn’t mean much, the White House could have signaled to ByteDance on the DL that they’d torpedo any non-Oracle deal... who knows, banning a single company from operating domestically without any immediate proven national securit
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by beisner 6y ago
When it becomes Julia.
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by beisner 6y ago
This is true enough in the US, but is prohibitively expensive in a ton of markets worldwide (maybe half the world population). Then again, the requirement to have a Mac to develop iOS apps is even more financially onerous...
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by beisner 6y ago
“All of Statistics” by Larry Wasserman is a very good - if concise - introduction to statistics. Doesn’t require too much background, although the problems can get pretty hairy. Unfortunately, many of the proofs in the field are based on “t
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by beisner 6y ago
Tech alone CAN be a solution to large social problems, but typically not directly. Instead, it has to make some socially-“good” effect the inevitable consequence of making something else cheaper/more efficient. Renewable tech (ie solar
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by beisner 6y ago
Er, maybe "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting slightly less poor" is more accurate.
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by beisner 6y ago
While I agree that designing and training a model the size of a human brain from scratch may well be an undertaking too great for any one human or even group of humans, that’s not how humans are created! I’d say the fact that we start life
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by beisner 6y ago
There are 100 million Instagram users in Illinois’ jurisdiction?
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by beisner 6y ago
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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by beisner 6y ago
Any evidence that grit isn’t also a heritable trait?
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by beisner 6y ago
There’s a famous saying in the sciences: “All models are wrong, some are useful.” Many of our physics models have been “wrong” historically, but yet they describe the world well-enough to be useful in making very good predictions. Newtonian
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by beisner 6y ago
Unfortunately, when it comes to public policy (at the national level at least), the way our system is structured doesn’t leave room for anything except for two distinct positions.
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by beisner 6y ago
We know how to make fast robots, we know how to make safe robots, and we know how to make useful robots. But we do not know how to make fast, safe, useful robots. A faster robot would need to be heavier to do the same work. Any robot that c
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by beisner 6y ago
Very cool. Good touch sensors are one of the biggest bottlenecks in manipulation today - nearly everything commercially available is terrible and extremely expensive. I’ve only watched the video here, but I wonder how separable cable manipu
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by beisner 6y ago
Git is a version control system, whereas Gitlab/Github are source-code hosting applications. You use git to interact with Gitlab/Github. Without going too in-depth, they allow teams to set up accounts on a central website, where t
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by beisner 6y ago
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#0-0-0-1024-512-0-64-0-2560-2304...
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by beisner 6y ago
Excellent for deploying small auxiliary apps that are not necessarily your company’s core competency, or a side project.
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by beisner 6y ago
Most FAANG companies. Definitely Google and Facebook.
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by beisner 6y ago
I’m not sure that’s true. The people who have agency to move don’t need to; Highly-skilled knowledge workers are already being showered in benefits and compensation in the USA. This is definitely true in tech, and increasingly true in conve
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by beisner 6y ago
This rings true in my experience. When I worked at a FAANG company that needed non-trivial collaboration between offices that were 3 time zones away, I would fly to the other office once every 2-3 months and just spend a week with the other

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