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by cimmanom 8y ago
The cameras we just lost were in mostly-residential areas on mostly-side streets, and all in school zones. These aren't freeways. Every street in NYC is trafficked heavily by pedestrians, and that goes double near schools - where it&#
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Median instead of mean? Though it's not clear here which they used for the calculations.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Are all the charts loading for most people? I could only get the first one to show up.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Not just in lower Manhattan. Also on nice leafy outer-borough side streets.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Being held before trial is pretty much never interpreted as wrongful imprisonment, even if the suspect is acquitted.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The NYPD is fairly useless when it comes to traffic enforcement other than ticketing cyclists. They'll ignore trucks blocking crosswalks (and endangering pedestrians). Double parking in bus and bike lanes. Tractor-trailers (which are t
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I’m glad they finally got this technology to work. They attempted something similar in a (far larger) Brooklyn development, and all that happened was that it took 4 times as long to assemble as other buildings of similar size in the same ne
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Why does it bother you so much?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
H1Bs tend strongly toward the lower end of the salary range for a given position, fwiw.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
the issue is more that the country is self-gerrymandered such that despite the majority of total votes going to democrats, the distribution of house and senate seats across the states heavily favors rural areas that tend to vote overwhelmin
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Did I say 50-50. I’m saying we should care about having any. Maybe male engineers and product owners could pay attention to female voices and menstrual science. But they didn’t. It’s much less likely that a woman working on these products
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by cimmanom 8y ago
But that just the thing. When only or mostly men are involved, “gender neutral” ends up being masculine (like the crash test dummies that had height and weight distributions like average men, not like average humans) because that’s our soci
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by cimmanom 8y ago
So who’s to blame for more women dying in car crashes than men because there were no female crash test dummies? Don’t you think that having women on the development teams might have helped catch the fact that voice recognition software didn
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by cimmanom 8y ago
To a developer, estimates may seem useless. Which is understandable given how they’re often abused as a bludgeon. I’d argue that management that holds developers to hard deadlines based on estimates is dysfunctional. “Software should be bui
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Wouldn’t burning it defeat the carbon sequestration purpose?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
And this is also part of why gender diversity on technical teams matters.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Except in cases where most of the team is very junior, a team lead is rarely the person on the team with the most advanced technical skill, because that’s not what being a team lead is about. The lead position requires soft skills, includin
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Another possibility is that women are socialized to move more "gracefully" (i.e. less suddenly) than men; and their body language is thus less threatening to animals.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Heart attack symptoms differ in men and women. The most common ones in men (chest and left arm pain) are less common in women. Perhaps female doctors are more likely to be familiar with the symptoms of heart attack in women. Additionally,
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Ever so slightly surprised you didn’t get fired immediately.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Sometimes, sometimes not. Not all automation puts people out of work. I work for a company whose service facilitates a marketplace and allows a real life industry to grow. Without our service nobody was doing the job of connecting the peopl
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by cimmanom 8y ago
This is much scarier for a construction project than the game programming anecdotes that follow.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Could be that headlines in the first person (“I”) or with proper grammar (“a”) instead of omitting the article as is common in abbreviating headlines correlate with upvotes?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17407634
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by cimmanom 8y ago
But is that because they had an innate tendency to make decisions for others that caused them to be chosen as leaders? Or because they’d already had experience as leaders and were thus already experienced and comfortable with the idea of be
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Except for 2 factors: 1) in many places, heat peaks around 4pm rather than noon in the summer because heat from the sun accumulates throughout the day 2) days when it’s 85+F with 90% humidity and overcast (such as the last week or two here
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Ok, but by being pedantic you’re deliberately ignoring the obviously implied “on earth” of the original statement.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The usefulness isn’t in the granular steps. It’s in the intuitiveness of 100 being close to as hot as it gets and 0 being close to as cold as it gets, and being able to place any other temperature on that scale.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The easiest ballpark conversion I know is: F -> C: subtract 32, divide by 2. So 76F = 44/2 ~= 22C C -> F: multiply by 2, add 32. So 15C = 30+32 ~= 62F The factor of 2 isn’t precise (the actual ratio is closer to 5/9). But it
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Most type of research require all sorts of supporting activities, some of which can be facilitated by software or websites. For instance, modern scientific research requires a lot of data processing, and as discussed here a few weeks ago th

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