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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I'm pretty ignorant about poker so maybe someone can put me right. It doesn't really seem like an appealing game: you can either analyze the cards you can see, but that doesn't tell you much, or you can analyze your memory of
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I think the trouble is that even educated humans struggle to talk intelligently about medical and psychological problems. We all worry about our health and mortality, and the idea that a psychological or medical condition threatens your lif
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Right! And I've been wanting it ever since. This is big news!
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They say that some of their main conclusions change if they control for parental education level, which they did not do. So that makes it all sounds questionable. Plus I've never heard of the journal; don't be misled into thinking
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I'm sorry to be one of those people, but the low-contrast grey color used for the text is really annoying and makes me feel like I'm straining my eyes to read it! Why the fuck do designers encourage this? It is more readable as bl
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
You have to learn to say no to pointless meetings. It's true that there are many stupid people who will try to hold them and they have to be corrected. Usually saying "I won't contribute anything valuable and nor will I gain
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
What? matmul: (+/*)\:
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I would argue that someone preparing for life in Portugal by learning French is actually perpetuating the stereotype of Americans that you allude to.
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Yes. You can only compute probabilities with respect to a probability model. There exists a model M and an outcome x, such that x has zero probability under M. For example, the probability of getting 2 heads in one coin toss has zero probab
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I understand that some managers and PMs whose jobs meeting people the whole time might think that office work is superior. But I've honestly been surprised that they lack the intelligence to see that many good software engineers work b
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
From what I gather it doesn't pay as well as other engineering subgenres, so presumably the market is telling us we don't actually need that many?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
The paper relies on an extremely questionable premise: that creative ideas are generated in groups. If, on the other hand, we were to assume that creative ideas are generated mostly during solitary work, then differences between video- and
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I'm still not sure I'm understanding you. What I'm asking about is the question of compensation conditional on experience and skill being identical. So by definition, I'm taking experience/skill differences out of
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Of course, I'm talking about comparing equally skilled and experienced employees. Can you rephrase your answer without conflating employee aptitude and CoL/local Labor market?
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It says they're paying the same within countries, not between. In what sense is the cost of production of a programmer higher in the USA than in the UK?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
For companies like this that profess to care about their employees (and I believe them), what’s the justification for paying less in e.g. London than USA given London is just as expensive? Will progressive companies start adjusting pay acco
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Cool, I think I read that also! But, yeah it is on the low-end for a skilled engineer working for US companies, and also I'm thinking it's on the high-end / an outlier for github sponsors.
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Wouldn’t it be helpful to use the word “interface” in the article (and other docs) since that’s basically what they are known as in other languages (or “trait” in Rust and Scala). I’m sure we can have a really long thread on the difference
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
How would Github sponsorship help pay for the time of someone at a finance company earning who knows where between 200-500k?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
The point is that you can do things like create external processes, pipe them together, redirect output to files, with the same ultra-lightweight syntax of bash etc. Compare that to all the nonsense you have to do in Node or Python to pipe
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
This looks nice. I'm slightly surprised by the error handling though: if std.type() == "error" then It seems (a) a bit verbose and (b) a bit hacky to compare the type against the string "error". I wonder if m
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
If you think something is absurdly obvious you usually need to re-read what you've read.
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Obviously a male -> female trans person cannot menstruate. Are you pointing out that a female -> male trans person can menstruate? Yes, they can, because they are still biologically female. I didn't get your point re. menstruatio
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
You’ve never used a compiled statically typed language. I’m sorry to say it but your comment would sound naive to you if you had. The article is spot on.
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I agree with everything in this article. The fact that nothing is necessarily checking them makes a codebase full of them too misleading. They become cargo culting; and as the article says their special syntactic status makes them look “off
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Every time a baby girl is born, a human being comes into the world who has 1. the potential to become pregnant and give birth 2. a statistical expectation to have weaker body strength than the average man 3. the potential to be abused by me
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I appreciate your comment and the quote. Did you mean to write "inextricably" though? (Hopefully it's clear that that is a straightforward question and not rhetorical!)
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What I mean by "traditionally feminist" is the view that feminism concerns the challenges faced by biological women as a result of physical differences from men, the fact that they give birth, and the millenia of abuse of women by
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You don't seem to know what cancel culture refers to. It's not the celebrities you listed. It's women being deplatformed for expressing traditionally feminist positions; it's students calling for biology professors to be
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
By "good faith" I mean that I was genuinely and sincerely curious about whether cancel culture etc was more or less common in Germany than in anglophone countries such as UK, USA and Canada. What do you mean by "good faith&qu

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