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by creato 5y ago
I think you have the cause and effect reversed. If there were more competent software engineers out there available to be hired, you wouldn't have a choice but to accept that Google recruiter's offer. There are so many people that
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by creato 5y ago
I think it's a terrible interview question, unless maybe you're hiring an electrical engineer. It's not something you can expect someone to reason through from the basics, and it's not something I'd expect someone
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by creato 5y ago
I think you are confusing monetary policy with retail banking. Having the post office offer banking services (for example) has nothing to do with "the Fed"'s ability to enact monetary policy.
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by creato 5y ago
Why doesn't (or does?) this apply to youtube, spotify, or other similar services?
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by creato 5y ago
That's probably true. It's probably also true that there are nutritional pros and cons to both. If we could engineer the "ideal" meat for nutrition, it probably wouldn't be exactly the same as real beef.
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by creato 5y ago
It was out of self interest of course, but, Google did just finish a decade long, costing probably hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees, battle with Oracle to fight for reasonable copyright interpretation for software developers. T
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by creato 5y ago
I think locks are about as weak as software security, relatively speaking. The difference is that if an organized gang of criminals physically broke down the doors to a corporation and stole truckloads of computers, the law enforcement resp
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by creato 5y ago
Satoshi (or one of his friends) owns 5% of all bitcoins that will ever exist. I wouldn't call it a get rich quick scheme for its founder(s) because I doubt they could have known it would take off the way it did. But, at this point, I d
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by creato 5y ago
> Even clang’s automatic vectorizer (which I have a high opinion of) is not doing that kind of stuff with multiple independent accumulators. I think it does? I see Clang unroll reductions into multiple accumulators quite often.
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by creato 5y ago
I think ride "sharers" with a single rider are strictly worse. That driver is going to drive a non-zero amount of miles to pick up his next passenger. Those miles are traffic that wouldn't exist if the two passengers drove th
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by creato 5y ago
First, that means ~99.9% of police officers in the US don't shoot someone, so that isn't rare, as the post I responded to suggested. Second, I didn't say the police only kill tens of people over a decade, I said tens of inc
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by creato 5y ago
I'm not sure about entire departments, but for individual officers, it's not rare. Many if not most police officers never fire their weapon on duty for their entire careers. For some perspective, there are around a million police
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by creato 5y ago
In my opinion: as long as NK blocks its average citizens from using the internet, we should block the "privileged" in NK from using the internet.
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by creato 6y ago
That is my assumption and it would be shocking if that were not the case. This is the case for ad revenue. Youtube premium replaces ad revenue with a fee. The interesting question I'd like to know the answer to is if creators get more
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by creato 6y ago
> The reason it doesn't exist in the private sector The same problem absolutely does exist in the private sector. Many of the same big government contractors are running almost the same scam on big companies. I think this problem is
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by creato 6y ago
It depends on what you are doing. For some kinds of programs, C/C++ are going to be much faster than most "modern" languages.
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by creato 6y ago
> "why wouldn't schools have critical thinking as part of their curriculum"? "Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills
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by creato 6y ago
Did that actually happen?
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by creato 6y ago
That example was pretty idealized, starting and ending very close to the canal. Most voyages are probably not affected quite as starkly by the canal, and I doubt the canal can or does charge ships based on their overall itinerary.
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by creato 6y ago
I can't put my finger on it but I doubt the valuation of bitcoin/other crypto assets when converted to USD. Look at NFTs: there's no way those prices would hold if someone were actually paying USD. Those prices are only possi
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by creato 6y ago
Someone else in one of these canal threads said that Egypt charges slightly less than it would cost to sail around Africa. If that's true, that Egypt is probably capturing around as much value as is possible from the canal.
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by creato 6y ago
I don't see why we should even be trying to make base level protocols like this "secure". Focus on reliability and simplicity, leave security to another level of the stack. VOIP and web browsing services should be encrypted,
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by creato 6y ago
Maybe this is working for the masses but I HATE searching for things to buy on Amazon. Last time I tried, the results pages are overwhelmed with sometimes literally hundreds of the exact same product sold by gibberish seller names. Ratings
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by creato 6y ago
Elements with very long half-lives aren't very radioactive. Something with a half life of millions of years is essentially not radioactive at all. Nuclear fuel itself isn't radioactively dangerous, it's dangerous because it&#
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by creato 6y ago
Yeah, the Google flights issue is difficult. On one hand, the business practice is problematic. On the other hand, Google flights is so much better than its competitors it's ridiculous. If there was a way to split Google flights into
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by creato 6y ago
Just counting the containers in the picture, it looks like there are 24 x 20 x 9 = 4320 containers. I guess below deck there could be another ~4000, but that still leaves another 4000? Can they stack them that much higher?
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by creato 6y ago
This title is more than editorialized, the word "election" doesn't appear in the article at all.
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by creato 6y ago
While watching the video, my thoughts as a software engineer: wow, this is impressive. My thoughts as a driver of a car: wow, this is trash and should not be on the road.
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by creato 6y ago
The funny thing is, I don't think very many people thought of "bad stuff" before this idiotic culture war planted it in everyone's mind, even if in a negative light. I would bet that most people didn't have any idea
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by creato 6y ago
For me, it's a minor hassle and I move on. I think for many people, it's an easy thing to rebel against, and generates conflict where there is no need for it. Instead of people correcting mistaken assumptions about themselves and

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