bobdole1234

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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Or you know, we could study the problem carefully and recognize that prohibition just leaves us with damaged families and social outcasts we can never reintegrate, and a permanent criminal subculture. Then instead focus on treatment and rei
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
I think it's funny how you say "both parties" like there isn't exactly one side that is completely and utterly responsible for the lack of motion on that front.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Why? It's not like Google or Apple pay dividends. Google is currently handing out giant sacks with dollar signs on them to machine learning people far exceeding the meager means of most other companies, and the stock price is rising. B
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Back a decade or so ago, the only way to really reliably get access to current research was to work at a University or a large company with journal subscriptions. These days it's really easy to get all the information you need to teach
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Investors were left holding the bag. The rest of us just kept working and earning.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Or you know, maybe the world runs on computers these days?
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
The admin bloat is largely there to manage the absurd rulebook that changes constantly that control how they can spend their grant and donation money. Someone gives you a few million, but it always comes with a laundry list of conditions ab
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Anyone daft enough to write manifestos about something as sensitive as the standards of proof for rape is grinding an axe to cause a reaction.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
I suspect you're too young to remember what searching was like before Google.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
You mean like running a wildly popular service that has technology nobody else has come anywhere close to matching? What a bunch of monsters.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
[citation needed]
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
The software makes literally millions of correct calls every day, both positive and negative. I'd say it's pretty capable. Human raters are a fucking nightmare of inconsistency and bias. I'd guess this is more accurate at thi
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
It's because every reason you give people is something they can use to sue you or harass your employees if they don't agree with the wording. If you say nothing, there's nothing to grab on to. It's like online dating, ev
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Because that huge California block of Trump supporters really changed the landscape huh?
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Yeah, but there's a never ending stream of recruiters trying to land you as a Xoogler hire. That makes it pretty easy to take a new gig and make that nagging imposter voice in your head quiet down.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
So, two things: Google is weirdly self organizing, which can take some serious getting used to. Your manager isn't there to tell you what to do, YOU are supposed to figure out what you should be doing for the most part, aside from so
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
The only reason it spread was because people were shocked by his lack of tact.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Well, if you get fired for it, you lacked tact. Google is pretty clear about what is and isn't inside the lines for their code of conduct, and they make you take a mandatory refresher course every year on your anniversary of employment
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
So, there's this thing that happens when people who lack tact say things that are true, but they get fired for it. When you say things without tact, people hear the wrong thing, and you get the walk of shame with your cube plant out of
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
You think a VP at Google leaked the document to the internet? Really?
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
So, you're telling me there is a feminist conspiracy against science?
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
It's funny how one day Hacker News has a scathing discussion on The Crisis of Reproducibility in Psychology, and the next, it's commenters will fight to the death to defend it.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
One of the biggest problems that Google has with it's employee retention is imposter syndrome. You take a lot of really smart people and get them to work together, and most of them are going to feel like they're not as smart as th
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
I'd suggest you don't write any manifestos at work, obviously you'll be caught unaware by how people read your text.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
On a single thread. ZFS is well pipelined for multicore throughput.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
I'm not saying you should feel bad for them. I'm saying that's why it's so common: It's been a viable strategy for a long time.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
I think you're completely wrong there: You're saying that we should have left medical decisions in the hands of the local purveyors? I think most of the gains we've gotten from the advent of evidence based medicine is buildin
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Evolution works on fractions. Bacteria develop resistance because there's always a tiny fraction that survive the onslaught of whatever drug used, that tiny fraction survives and the remaining population is now completely resistant. Th
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
It's actually really easy to cut the costs on things, and all you need to do is cut all the levels of useless middlemen taking their cut. Kind of like how Canada uses this one simple trick to cut their health care expenses.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
You understand the differential of risk right? You've got a 1 in 10 million or so chance of serious adverse reaction to vaccination. You've got a 1 in 10 chance of serious adverse reaction if you're exposed to the virus. You&

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