crowdpleaser

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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
I've always wondered if FB could get into the cloud game, it seems like they might have some data center expertise. However, your comment has me thinking that FB doesn't have a way to lock people to their cloud - they'd be fo
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
You're aware of the history of singapore, right? Joke alert - it used to be a piracy hub.
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
Off topic but curious - How do you find events?
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
>That cookie addict will be paying for your medicare and social security for 30 years, while you pay for their medicare and social security for 5. Why can't we just pay for our own if we have the means and give those without means b
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
Pooling risk disincentivizes people from making the changes they need to be healthier. And people not bearing the full cost of their decisions makes it easier for them to displace the negative consequences of their choices on others. I bust
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
A motorcycle isn't much more cost-effective to run than an economy car but a motorcycle has huge performance advantages and radically better / cheaper parking options. The emissions are worse, but not worse than older cars that ar
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
As a recent transplant to the bay area, I'm surprised so few people ride motorcycles - I know that it's not tenable for parents and people with medical conditions, but there are so many people here who could. I cut my commute time
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
Historically the anti-monopoly laws in America could be deployed to against monopsony or the accumulation of power to act as a monopsony. However, American Businesses successfully lobbied to change the ways the anti-monopoly laws are used -
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
Save the planet from what? A few degrees celsius warmer weather and extreme weather events? It's not as if we're going to wind up with an inhabitable planet if we keep burning fossil fuels.
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
I don't disagree that people use words in ways that don't match up with their use in science. However, when people are criticizing science, it'd be helpful if rendered their argument in language that obfuscates important dist
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
But our 'fitness functions' for social problems are normally pretty good or above reproach of the model. These tend to be easy to measure like 'did the person skip bail?' If a model of 'likelihood to show up to cour
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
I really wish people would at least skim the wikipedia page to figure out the vocabulary of the field they're about to opine on. The left-progressive use of the word 'bias' is completely different than the way statisticians u
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
Agree with the caveat that it's a recruiting problem not an interviewing problem. I'm a data scientist and every firm I've ever interviewed with has told me about how important analytics is to them, how they take it seriously
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
>A lot of people in engineering went down that path because they were inspired by someone when they were younger. If there were more women and minorities in engineering, then other (young) women and minorities would be able to see them a
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
This headline is extremely non-specific. Wasn't James Damore also harassed over views on diversity?
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
Alright, but the structural problems are upstream of recruiting and promotions. It's simply bad engineering to try to solve the problem downstream rather than at the root.
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
Historically the American Cars and SUVs were different enough that it would be untenable to make them side by side. It's gotten better since the SUVs became more car-like, but they haven't invested in modularity like the Japanese
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by crowdpleaser 8y ago
It's not affecting foreign automakers nearly as much for two reasons: The Japanese automakers have really worked hard to make their manufacturing lines (and vehicle designs) modular (a line that makes Camrys on Monday can make RAV4s on