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by craigyk 13y ago
Why? High education and underutilization might be big multipliers for social unrest. I can't think of a group that might be more pissed as they realize just how large a role luck and birth can play in "success".
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by craigyk 13y ago
I forget the sci-fi author and books, but a central theme was that AI results in a de-facto centrally planned economy, even though the AIs themselves are using free-market like behaviors.
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by craigyk 13y ago
In any specific area, as a general rule? I think so (there will be exceptions). Why is that supposition so strange?
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by craigyk 13y ago
My take is that it's all a continuum. more capitalist is probably better in fast growing/developing areas (note: not just countries) with a move toward more socialist as things equilibrate. The end-state of capitalism, barring m
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by craigyk 13y ago
yes, I left out the 'effective' adjective. Or I should have put currency in sarcastic quotes.
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by craigyk 13y ago
OK, I read through the blogpost to read up on what "cores" mean. Is running a quick benchmark on each instance a possibility? Even something relatively simple and fast like geekbench. Also, if possible, test inter-instance inte
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by craigyk 13y ago
Yup, despite what it's advocates say, it sure isn't behaving like a currency. Major requirement of currency: very-low volatility.
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by craigyk 13y ago
I do part time IT and I have repeatedly wanted a more programatically friendly DNS and DHCP solution for our small network. dnsmasq doesn't have a great high-availability story, and BIND+ISCDHCP can be quite complicated to configure f
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by craigyk 13y ago
but the mechanism by which it migrates up is 'calibrated' by managers arguing with one another, isn't it? In which case the politics and opinions of a small number have a disproportinately large effect on people's score
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by craigyk 13y ago
I went and looked up some of my notes back when I was trying out Go. I hope to learn from others wether these are real issues or simply my misunderstandings. 1. So we don't get generics, but the language built-ins seem to get to be t
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by craigyk 13y ago
I want to like Go. There's definitely some parts that are great, but for a relatively new language there were missed opportunities to adopt awesome features in other PLs. There are also some internal inconsistencies that I find grati
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by craigyk 13y ago
ding ding ding!! It was not ambitious enough for breaking backward compatibility.
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by craigyk 13y ago
yeah, no system is perfect, but the modifications I suggested I think would address these issues to large extent. For example, I suggested that employees would rank their peers on three scales (good, bad, misused) instead of with "sco
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by craigyk 13y ago
convergence of three things really. When I heard the iPhone 5 was going to use a sapphire lens cover I decided to lookup more on the technology and found that GTAT had what looked like the best know-how in its manufacture. I had also previo
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by craigyk 13y ago
not much more, and more brittle than gorilla glass which isn't regular 'ole glass IMO. Way way more scratch resistant though, so again IMO, totally worth the tradeoff if price isn't a factor.
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by craigyk 13y ago
I'm so glad I bought a bunch of GTAT a year ago.
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by craigyk 13y ago
how do you apply stack ranking effectively if most of the dead weight is in the branches (middle management) but scoring heavily weights the leaves (workers) of an organization? My feeling is that generally a group knows who sucks or is dis
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by craigyk 13y ago
What if someone claims their p=0.05 but their control group wasn't quite as representative as they assumed and their p is really something more like 0.1? Or what if one of the experiments in a paper is well-designed and well-executed a
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by craigyk 13y ago
To be accurate the paper should then come to the conclusion that "a majority of published work is inconclusive and fails in the proper application of statistics used to support their claims" instead of "a majority of science
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by craigyk 13y ago
I take the view that "a majority of science publications are wrong" is a purposefully misleading and sensationalistic take, even though it may be technically true. IMO, only the leading-edge of known science should factor into su
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by craigyk 13y ago
There is also a big divide between statistical rigor in "science" research and "medical" research. In their defense, I think it's just extremely difficult for most medical research studies to get the kinds of rand
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by craigyk 13y ago
Oh no! Now the government knows the same things about you as we do! It's OK for us to exploit this information for profit, but I'm pissed as hell someone else might make use of it. I sense a little bit of butthurt from security
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by craigyk 13y ago
As a scientist I think you are addressing a very important problem with this book. I've taken two statistics classes, one graduate level, and even I am plagued with doubt as to wether the statistics I've used have all been applie
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by craigyk 13y ago
AMEN
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by craigyk 13y ago
The biggest problem with phages is they can be quite specific. Antibiotics put phage research out to pasture because a single, easy to mass produce small molecules were capable of wiping out enormous varieties of bacteria. With phages you&
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by craigyk 13y ago
I am one of the people this article talks about, and I agree heartily. Fortunately I've long since identified this personal issue and have been working to improve myself. In all those years I spent watching peers working hard and str
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by craigyk 13y ago
I knew something like this would happen and send the stock tumbling. I bought in at ~18 and got out at ~150 with the intention to buy back in if it ever fell significantly. I assumed this would happen. BTW, I am a huge fan or tesla and bo
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by craigyk 13y ago
Hans't the cost of living in Brazil been exploding in the past few years?
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by craigyk 13y ago
Yes, "only hire the best" hurts everyone. What they should have been doing is hiring more and firing more. At least you'd have a better idea of how well a person does in the context of your environment.
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by craigyk 13y ago
YES. What the 10X myth hurt most is probably hiring practices.

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