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by crpatino 11y ago
I suppose if I go with the spirit of your statement, it is possible to argue that both computers and medicine were done in some form or another for the last 5 thousand years (think abacus, folk herbalism, etc). It is just that we have figur
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by crpatino 11y ago
That's right, this is not about making a witch hunt (you would not expect economists to do that, I think). But if you think about, let's say, competing aspects or strategies for money management... I think a point can be made that
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by crpatino 11y ago
> [the Economist] can't outright say that the rich are hurting the economy by hurting the poor,... I don't think that's what the Economist wanted to say in the first place. Rather, it's more a conflict between the cap
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by crpatino 11y ago
You can do this with enough marketing. Some ideas on how to engage the "1% minus 0.01%": 1. Avoid associating your new lottery to the low-status images of "making it big" and "lifting out of property". Instead
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by crpatino 11y ago
> Does US law for some reason override Irish law? It's pretty simple. Whoever has more guns backing up their laws wins.
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by crpatino 11y ago
How could you possibly write a program that "approximates nearly any integral" without having learned calculus in the first place. I by that I don't mean to "spend half a year memorizing" any tricks. (If that's
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by crpatino 11y ago
I am not sure that 1% per month is small enough to claim that "probably won't have an effect on US economy". If it were a one off event, sure. But at the end of day the question is: for how long can these advances can be sust
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by crpatino 11y ago
ok, thanks a lot. I was aware it was French, but cannot speak/write the language myself.
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, that's what the title says, but it is click bait. What the actual article says is that in social groups with well defined hierarchies, higher ranking members tend to contribute more than average to the common good (though this migh
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by crpatino 11y ago
Agreed on the part of not taking responsibility for your own unhealthy habits. Also, there is no doubt that biology realities are immune to political correctness. However, I find the tone of the first comment (and your too, to a lesser degr
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by crpatino 11y ago
I found the master switch of why your software is ridden with bugs. It's called lack of attention (since you didn't type it flawless and perfectly complete the first time around). I also found the master switch of why your project
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by crpatino 11y ago
Or rather, demanding that in order to be allowed to run the marathon they have to do 3 mile in 3 minutes sprint... one right after the other with no rest in between.
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, those are separate issues. There might be philosophical value on acknowledging the impossibility to prove the correctness of the algorithm, but it has little or no practical value when you want to prove if your implementation of the alg
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by crpatino 11y ago
That's what the article said, no how I think things should be. With my own children, I've never make a fuss about bad grades (which thankfully have been few and far between). I do care about them giving their best effort, and let
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by crpatino 11y ago
Ok, I see. Stand corrected.
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by crpatino 11y ago
Its not a matter of difficulty, but of reproducibility. Mechanical locks imply that each individual thief needs to learn how pick locks. With computerized locks, you only need one hacker to crack the security for each model of car, and then
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by crpatino 11y ago
Because the solution precludes the emergence of the multimillion dollar market called "The Internet of Things".
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, that's exactly the opposite. What the quote means is that bails allows courts to process much more arrests than reasonably possible, and that also that guilty pleas mask the fact that the grounds for most of those fast forward arre
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by crpatino 11y ago
Not if the preferred way to become a "perfect student" is to go only after the easier/safer challenges. And to quit whenever the chance of getting any less than an "A-" grade seems uncertain. The whole article build
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by crpatino 11y ago
I am not saying the employer was in the wrong for firing him after the fact. Or that he should be entitled to a job after the fact. Still, the guy would have been better of if he had kept his mouth shut and figured out a way to solve his pr
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by crpatino 11y ago
And the moral of the story is: Never talk about any personal/health/financial/existential problem at work, or with people that are anyhow connected with your co-workers/manager... ever . <sarcasm> But please
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by crpatino 11y ago
Doctors are probably better, or at least no worse, than the general population on that account. The problem is that "statistical reasoning" is so alien to normal de facto human reasoning that you need years of training before it s
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by crpatino 11y ago
Agreed on most accounts. I am obese myself (closer to 'Fat Tony' than to 'Comic Book Guy'), so I know first hand that telling people to "get thin" is less than useless. What I get pissed off at, is the insisten
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by crpatino 11y ago
What facts? This is not a peer reviewed journal, you know. Here are two distinct facts: 1. I do have eyes and I can see a trend. * I do not recall seeing less fat people as a child, but I do recall seeing more thin people now. * I also noti
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by crpatino 11y ago
If you think you can replace managers with Trello, you clearly have had some very awful bosses in your career. I don't need anyone to tell me to keep working on my TODO list. On the other hand, someone who grasp the big picture is usef
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by crpatino 11y ago
> Good managers/management are under appreciated by most engineers. It is hard to measure quality in management and it is one of those jobs that when you're doing it best it appears like you're not doing much... Oh, the ir
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by crpatino 11y ago
What about "GDP is detached from the production of hard physical goods and services that satisfy human needs."??? I won't go as far as to claim that Economy is a pseudo science, but like many other disciplines it uses words t
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by crpatino 11y ago
monitoring of manufacturing processes.
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by crpatino 11y ago
This is not about simulation tests, but more likely about industrial processes. If you are already paying $60K per year to your QA technicians, it does not matter if the rule fires once per hour or once per week. You want those guys to inve
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by crpatino 11y ago
That's only because people in general know very little about themselves. Socrates knew the answer all that time ago. Who would have thought!

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