code_sardaukar

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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
From this and other accounts, it is clear that a lot of the low cost in China is due to that fact that transaction costs (the cost of writing contracts, lawyers, specifications) are reduced by replacing formal contracts by interpersonal rel
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
"months" sounds reasonable actually. "decades" and I would definitely agree with you. The problem with this sort of discussion is that everyone thinks they are worth more than the market will pay, and that the market is
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
People will tell you that believing that it's possible that interest in tech is correlated with gender. However I would point out "Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers"[0] which gives evidence that a diffe
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
I wonder why it is that your legalese is only applied to people who say that illegal immigration is a bad thing. Lots of people openly say that we should tolerate illegal immigration either for economic or humanitarian reasons, and I'v
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
In the non-Bayesian updating of progressives, if 100% of Nobel laureates are immigrants, this is evidence that diversity is good, but if 100% of Nobel laureates are born in the US, this is evidence of discrimination.
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Just fyi, while I'm sure you didn't intend it, I find comments that start with "Uh..." to be rude. Regarding asceticism in Christianity, I also find its extremes to be disturbing. All I can say is that Christian culture
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
The genetic explanation doesn't even require a correlation between the traits of people who pair up. Suppose your grandparents genetic "quality" is statistically independent, so you have four quantities g1, g2, g3, g4. Your
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Fair enough, atheist is probably technically the wrong term but it's a convenient shorthand for not believing the tenets of any particular religion.
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Awesome, but please put the original energy somewhere. It's not clear whether the final configuration actually has a lower or higher energy that the original image, which would be interesting to know.
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
As someone who grew up in a Christian culture that cherishes life, I find this sort of thing deeply disturbing. But I don't want to dismiss Buddhism. Even though I'm an atheist, I admire Buddhism's focus on compassion, and
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
First up, it's very hard to judge someone's experience from their resume. E.g. they might have participated in a project that seemed very difficult, but maybe their own personal contribution to the project was a net negative. I k