cuddlypsycho

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by cuddlypsycho 5y ago
Majority of average American citizens support their government's actions against Iraq/Syria/Libya/Vietnam/... . So in my book, they are also responsible.
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
> The Euro isn't a better vehicle than the USD today, but it could easily become one. Get back to me when Saudi Arabia starts selling oil exclusively in Euros, or better yet, once European union surpasses the US in the number of air
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
> Euro could easily become the new reserve currency. Surely you cannot be serious here. Europe is one (insert name)-exit away from total implosion. The Euro project was doomed from the very beginning: you cannot have a joint monetary pol
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
> war it's bad for business (in most cases, anyway). Most wars are great for business actually, even world wars! Let's not forget that WW2 was mostly responsible for dragging the US out of the great depression.
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Profit.
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
"...while avoiding the kind of silly errors made by the LSTM based recurrent neural architectures." Only in arXiv you could get away with that kind of language :). Good paper though! Kudos. "Another direction to go from here
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
This problem starts from early childhood and is reflective of the utter failure of public schools in lower income districts. For too long we have used the band-aid of lowering standards and affirmative action at every stage after, in colleg
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Elizabeth Holmes did not happen in a vacuum of course. She is a by-product of a culture that idolizes youth, raw enthusiasm, and passion over experience and pragmatism. Socially shaming and silencing her critics by branding them as old-fash
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Microsoft ruined Hotmail, JellyFish, Skype, LinkedIn, Yammer ... and now they want to ruin GitHub? :/ Noooooo
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
I'm not talking about email, IP address or any other convenient mode of identification. Think voting patterns, date/times active, submission categories, comments, writing style, punctuation ... Facebook had a project to cross-refe
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Reddit has the illusion of anonymity which gives its users a false sense of privacy so they can act the way they truly are (parallels to Westworld if you watch the show). It would be incredibly easy for Reddit to de-anonymize its user base,
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
> Reddit works because it’s anonymous Are you sure there? Anonymity doesn't really exist anymore on the internet for the average person. Reddit has the illusion of anonymity which gives its users a false sense of privacy so they can
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
What is the problem with making games that appeal to a niche? I'd often find games that try to appeal to everybody end up pissing everyone off in the end.
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
> if I make some breakthrough making billions for my employer That is a completely hypothetical situation and always never happens in the real world. Billion dollar ideas take many years to develop and many more failed attempts to succes
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
> A great inventor can be turned into an absolute-minimum employee when given insufficient reward Absolutely true. > Even the article has a quote about it being not about the money. I don't think that is the case. "Unhappy
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
That is what we have stock options for .. to align the best (longterm) interests of the company and the employees. It is much better vehicle to build value for both parties than a bonus culture.
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
"no motivation among your employees to perform more than the absolute minimum work required to keep their job" There is a great body of research suggesting quite the opposite actually. Beyond a certain level of compensation, offer
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
I am not suggesting that Toshiba (or other tech fossils) has the right culture when it comes to dealing with its engineering talent .. BUT .. If a company is de-risking the process of inventing/commercializing a new solution for its en
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Are you an Oscar winning actor?
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Well I'm not running for a popularity contest. A players like to work with other A players. My jobs is to make sure we maintain that environment. If that means being very selective and exclusive and hire based on merit only then so be
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
I'm not the hiring manager. We are a startup, we don't have any bureaucracy.
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Yes and No. A great GH and SO reputation is something you build over a period of time. It shows passion and consistency. That's what separates people who love to code from the ones who just want the paycheck. Also, what is "offi
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Thanks for your feedback.
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Guys who are downvoting, please explain what is it about the post that you find objectionable. I am genuinely curious.
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
It is different. An applicant is free to put whatever they want on a resume and I will have no way of verifying it without devoting a ton of time to the process. On LinkedIn they are less likely to make stuff up. The public nature of the pr
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
"EQ and self awareness" What a crock of sh*t!! This is what happens when you pack HR departments with humanities and gender studies majors. Personally I do not read any resumes, all the hiring I've done was either by referral
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Kenji Kawakami
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by cuddlypsycho 8y ago
Reminds me of that eccentric Japanese inventor with the silliest inventions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjuCwnoNWQw