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by charmides 8y ago
You would think that non-profits could be more competitive than corporations. Imagine a non-profit Facebook clone that shared its advertising profits with the users. How could Facebook compete with that?
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by charmides 8y ago
Seems like "billion-vehicle-miles traveled" is not a good metric; people travel faster in aircraft and in cars than they do on bicycles and on foot. Time spent travelling should be a better metric.
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by charmides 8y ago
You talk about those things you listed as an irrevocable part of maturity, but back in the day, wealthy people did not have to do them. They had servants who cooked for them, did their laundry, cleaned their homes, bought their groceries, e
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by charmides 8y ago
Without giving away more details than you feel comfortable with, could you share more about what the developer was fired for and how it made that executive safe face?
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by charmides 8y ago
Time for some 21st century trustbusting.
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by charmides 8y ago
Those results are surprisingly close.
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by charmides 8y ago
To add to that comment, importance sampling is also an attempt to reduce the number of rejections and could be interesting here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_sampling
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by charmides 8y ago
It is definitely an interesting problem how to sample uniformly from the set of n-dimensional vectors with an L2-norm smaller or equal to 1. I am sure that it has practical applications, too. Also, nobody said that n has to be huge.
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by charmides 8y ago
The graphics are nice, but this article really could have used some complexity analysis and some probability theory. The author neither discusses the asymptomatic complexity of the algorithms, nor the run-time of his implementation (which i
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by charmides 8y ago
Do you all live in Norway?
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by charmides 8y ago
I have three kids. I’ve left them home alone since the age of 7 to drop off dry cleaning, grab a coffee or pick up milk at the local store. My only requests were no cooking, fighting or using the iron. Read, play or clean your room. Never
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by charmides 8y ago
I wonder how valuable something like that will be now that there already exists so much online data and documentation about our lives. Maybe traditional memoirs will still provide some insight, considering that they do at least give an orga
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by charmides 8y ago
Please post a link. I have a couple of questions: i) Have you been able to apply the skills you gained for something else? Did it help you career-wise in any way, or do you just feel like it made you a better, more well-rounded person? ii)
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by charmides 8y ago
Again you are factually wrong. As long as it is not threatening, it is not illegal in the USA to express racism. That's why companies take a stricter stance against racism than the law does. >It was my attempt to show that other thi
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by charmides 8y ago
Did you know that 1.3 MILLION people die in car accidents on a yearly basis? There are extremely good reasons to believe that a mature, self-driving car industry will lower that figure by orders of magnitude. It is a shame that there have b
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by charmides 8y ago
I don't think you are looking at the big picture either. New technology is constantly creating new jobs at the cost of old ones. Just like self-driving cars may displace truck drivers, so did new machines displace 19th century factory
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by charmides 8y ago
This attitude is nothing new. But I don't think people are seeing the big picture. Self-driving cars may cause a temporary spike in unemployment, but the economy and human workers benefits in the long term from the elimination of tedio
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by charmides 8y ago
"I care about companies not making moral judgements on behalf of their employees." This is absurd. Of course companies need to enforce some form of morality among its employees, for instance by having an anti-murder policy or by f
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by charmides 8y ago
You can quit your job if hurting animals and harming the environment is so important to you.
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by charmides 8y ago
I agree with this. This article is like a hit piece and I feel sorry for the scientists who were attacked (even if the scientific merit of their paper is questionable). The author could have made his point in a more diplomatic way.
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by charmides 8y ago
Was that in Flogsta?
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by charmides 8y ago
Yes, people do. What OP described is called fraud and people get terminated for fraud all the time.
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by charmides 8y ago
Is that a typo?
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by charmides 8y ago
This isn't about where HN is headed. There has been a social shift happening in many countries in the last few years where veganism has stopped being a fringe movement and is entering the Overton window. You should expect to see more a
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by charmides 8y ago
Gotcha. By "subterfuge", I assume you meant "risk my employment by committing reimbursement fraud".
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by charmides 8y ago
It's the do-gooder derogation effect: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550611415695 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-love-and-war/2017... "Bu
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by charmides 8y ago
"A couple hours on a plane can match a few months of meat-free lunches." I think you are mistaken there. Maybe if you only care about CO2 emissions, but meat production is also incredibly wasteful on resources like water, and is a
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by charmides 8y ago
Scott: Your student is brilliant. Kudos to you for not insisting on sharing authorship on the paper, like some academic advisors in your position would do.
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by charmides 8y ago
I suppose that's an entirely valid way to think about it, especially if you have a family.
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by charmides 8y ago
I heard that usually the lowest-paid employees are fired first.

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