cipheredStones

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by cipheredStones 4y ago
I think it's the British slang meaning "lie to get a reaction". This is a fascinating story. How weird to look back and see someone saying "I don't see how a lot of money could be made from this" to something t
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
"Everyone gets a fair chance with me, regardless of background" is an _extremely_ different statement than "anyone with an ounce of technical hiring ability avoids those bootcampers like wildfire". If you mean "in m
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Daniel Kahneman, the famous psychologist who authored the paper you're probably thinking of (the one popularized as "no increase in happiness above $75k/yr") actually just released a new paper a few days ago, finding tha
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Regardless of whether you're coming from educational elitism, you're still making sweeping claims about big groups of people based on extremely limited evidence. I'm a bootcamp grad, and would not have gotten into the field i
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
The org chart comic from its original source, instead of a random reupload captioned in Spanish and heavy on the image artifacts: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
> The problem is psychological and the solution is for people to grow up. To quote a popular Tumblr post, "If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going t
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
It's also funny how they try to wrap it so that it almost sounds like they're doing it for the benefit of the employee: > "ensure employees who don't meet performance expectations receive more honest feedback, differe
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
> Some of these terms were even popularized by the same movement with similar motivations and reasoning in the past few years. How many of the "Consider using" suggestions will be considered "harmful language to be eradica
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
> Do you just object to the existence of the list? I object to the existence of this particular list because I think it's extremely poorly done - to the point of being actively harmful to efforts to reduce offensive language - and w
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Well, first, their explanation for why "user" might be problematic has nothing to do with that pejorative use. It's > While often associated with one who uses (software, systems, services), it can also negatively be associ
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
I don't actually see how this is an argument against my point at all. They say "we are not attempting to assign levels of harm to the terms on this site", and then proceed to list a huge number of terms, some of which are alm
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
One would hope it isn't intended to imply that, but if not, it's doing an extremely poor job at it. Here's two almost-adjacent entries: > hip-hip hurray, hip hip hooray > This term was used by German citizens during
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
It's pretty remarkable that this conflates: - Well-known slurs like "Jewed" - Outdated, now-offensive terms like "hermaphrodite" - Touchy metaphorical language like "slave replica" - Gendered terms that if
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
> What is often unappreciated is that bad metaphysics leads to bad ideas, in this case that life is meaningless. And why is materialism at fault? Because it denies telos. Without telos, life is, indeed and quite literally, meaningless. B
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
NHTSA safety ratings ( https://www.nhtsa.gov/ratings ) only count people in the car. It looks like they proposed a change to that this spring ( https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/five-star-safety-rating.
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
> To put it into perspective: we printed $6-Trillion USD on COVID stimulus compared to FDR's New Deal at $1-Trillion USD (today dollars). Worth noting that inflation-adjusted GDP was $1T in 1930 and $19T in 2019.
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
> The modern Level 2 car is already today at below 1 fatality per billion vehicle miles travelled (VMT) Does this statistic count fatalities to people outside the car? I ask because (in the US, at least) car safety ratings don't tak
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Having a million dollars puts you in the top 12% of household net worth in the US - while "middle class" is a notoriously loose term in the US, that's upper middle class at least. Median household net worth is around $120k.
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
HN has really impressed upon me the value of site loading speed - one big reason I often check the comments first is that _they're there instantly_, whereas clicking on the actual link is a bit of a crapshoot! It's surprising how
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
In what way is watching a movie more "active" than reading a book?
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
I've always found it funny that oxygen, commonly pictured as the benevolent stuff of life, is actually such so dangerous biologically. It's really a change in perspective when you realize that the reason we can't survive for
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Everything in this comment except "pretty interesting" is lifted word-for-word from the article - why is it framed as if it were your own comment?
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Not the GP, but it's https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Are you sure that they're mistaking marginal tax rates for effective tax rates, rather than you mistaking gripes about taxes in general for gripes about federal income tax in particular? In my state, a single filer making $180k pays 34
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Yes, it features prominently in the MBTI, but my point is that "Whatever people think of Myers-Briggs [my experience is that extroversion is important]" doesn't make a lot of sense because introversion/extroversion is a
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Introversion/extroversion isn't a distinctive feature of Myers-Briggs - it shows up in more scientifically-respectable personality measures, like the five-factor (OCEAN) model.
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Read the RFC! It's Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, and 418 is an _error_ because you shouldn't be brewing coffee in a teapot.
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Maybe I've just read too many stories like this, but when you said "We both immediately knew who was the architect" I assumed that you meant the t-shirt guy!
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by cipheredStones 5y ago
You're looking at the wrong level of the problem. Engineers in Big Tech can make $250k because they're making even more money than that for their bosses - if they were paid less, it would just mean that the bosses and stockholders
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by cipheredStones 5y ago
Setting aside the question of whether this is ethically good/okay, how does this count as doxxing? You're not de-identifying a pseudonymous person, or publishing private info like a home address, you're just saying something

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