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by coolgeek 10y ago
The consultants from whom it was wrested are consulting companies. These are described in the article as "loathsome blue-suit operations whose core competencies are winning public-sector bids then cashing in by charging for
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Some snippets from his wikipedia and About pages: - He's a member of Alcor. - He is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity University - He is a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intellige
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> If he were more realistic, he'd spend more time looking at the alternatives What alternatives? Accepting death as inevitable? Embracing it? Celebrating it? The survival instinct is hard-wired. Given that, seeking immortality i
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> Testing query plans that don't use order by have fun diff $(sort output) $(sort expected)
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> Food technology is improving I wonder what the Venn diagram is relating being pro lab-grown meat and pro GMO. I'd bet there's not a lot of overlap
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> someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago She didn't just write a paper. Her place in history is at least as well earned - I personally think moreso - as Babbage's. "When Ada wrote about Babbage’s machine, she want
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> The "next generation" of developers equals SQL engines with "old and bad" I think that what you mean is: - they don't understand the relational model - they don't understand the tradeoffs of ACID vs
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> There is nothing "so-called" about the administration There is likewise nothing "so-called" about a Presidentially appointed and Senate confirmed Federal Judge. Yet this President has no qualms about expressing his
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> So long as there are only 350 othodontists allowed to graduate per year I'm (moreso, but not completely) sympathetic to this argument when we're talking about (significantly) lesser skilled providers such as barbers or taxi d
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> The worst offenders however, are the ones that require a payment to use, and still completely overwhelm you with the ads (Public transport in my case) I'm with you on the concept, but public transit is just about the most wrong ex
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> * Trump kicked a mother and baby out of rally > * Trump mocked a reporter's disability Do you deny that these things happened? Has any other candidate - of any party - ever done anything like this? Is the media supposed to pret
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> California liberals literally let their guy get away with murder What are you talking about? What guy, and what murder?
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> "Premature optimization" is a dangerous concept. It tends to imply you can defer all consideration of performance At a deeper level, the problem here is cargo culting of rules or heuristics. Another example is the proscripti
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>>That tops eating out of a dumpster (literally, like eating unwrapped, half-eaten discards)? Or defecating in a stairwell? > Neither of those things are wishing lifetimes of drudgery as a condition of survival onto your fellow hum
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> The most viscerally disturbing thing I've ever seen a human do, is wish that others be forced to expend useless, unnecessary effort to "earn" Seriously? That tops eating out of a dumpster (literally, like eating unwrapp
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> I want to offer them (at least) a modest raise to come here. I want them to be happy and excited. I also want to not waste a ton of time negotiating salary if they want 50K more then I have available in my budget If this were the case,
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Contracting and consulting is a legal/economic framework for shifting the risk/reward ratio from the entity purchasing services to the entity providing the services. It does nothing to change the market of service purchasers in an
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> Gut feeling and intuition are also alternatives people frequently rely on, and aren't necessarily nonsense: the brain is very good at synthesising conclusions at the level of the subconscious that surface consciously as hunches or
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Also, experts - as a class - are vastly more likely to change their minds based on new evidence than are ideologues. "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?" https://en.wikiquote.org&#
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> The town is not named after the crime and the crime is not named after the town And yet, the crime is named for the brother of the man that the town is named for. Pardon the metaphor, but you're hanging on a pretty thin thread. A
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> Assuming Clinton had those dirty secrets and Trump had nothing equivalent Those are two rather incredulous assumptions considering that: - Clinton released all of her tax returns, whereas Trump didn't release any - The Clinton Fou
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> Popular > 1. The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book > 2. Have a Creepy Little Christmas with These Unsettling Victorian Cards > 3. Artist Targeted by #Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory Speaks > 4. The
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This is the author of the blog post we're all discussing
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> just like in the old days when all you had to do was turn on the radio Weather and traffic reports are still a staple of radio broadcasts
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> just like Uber for X companies never become Uber I get your point, but isn't Uber Airbnb for cars?
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> He is good at presenting well known problems Raising awareness is important - and urgent - work. These problems are not "well known" outside of the HN/tech bubble. > in amusing ways Also important, as it is much more
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Maybe not... https://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/13by00/if_priced_in...
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I think that your comment undervalues the "thinking ahead" aspect, while overvaluing the "extremity and specificity" of what chess can teach. I'm not a chess player, but I recognize that it can be a very valuable to
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As well as Nixon's "God, guns and gays"
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> Not a bunch of nobodies and doom and gloom blogs either, big money movers have been saying this Could you provide some names of these big money movers?

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