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by dalbasal 4y ago
Can someone put AlphaFold's problem space into perspective for me? Why is protein folding important? Theoretical importance? Can we do something with protein folding knowledge? If so, what? I've been hearing about AlphaFold from t
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Railway networks have many reasons to not let children run a rail line. I realize there are reasons and arguments for the default position, but well... these are arguments for the default position. Of course WiFi admin is different from rai
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I'm not following. Are you in favour of letting children operate trains or against it?
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by dalbasal 4y ago
One liner of the day. That's the best possible way to make this point.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
IDK. If you're in one of these too-small-high-pressure teams, and then all these extra "resources" get poured in... It can go quite badly too. IMO, engineers themselves are sometimes responsible by leaning on "we need
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Most of these, I think, relate to a single kinda-meta-problem. Managing software orgs is hard, and most orgs can't do it well. Using additional management methods, more managers, and more engineers can make the software org less effi
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by dalbasal 4y ago
To an extent, all historical/geopolitical/megapolitical/etc analysis suffers from this. The process is (a) observe a bunch of facts about history, geography, economic policies, politics or whatnot (b) explain the present (or
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by dalbasal 4y ago
What he's describing a marketing model moreso than an economic one. This a theme with behavioural economics. I doubt they'll find one. The "homo economicus" model has become somewhat of a straw man for behavioural econom
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by dalbasal 4y ago
IDK.. What's the advantage over say, HN's ID system. The problems here aren't technical. These are legal issues. Issues with Glassdoor's business model.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
>>" Even though the ruling occurred in a U.S. federal court, Judge Tse said he made the ruling based on New Zealand law, as Zuru intends to sue in that jurisdiction. Therefore, the court's ruling was decided based on New Zea
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I didn't say anything about removing classical. It obviously has a place. As for prestige and tradition... we shall see, I suppose. Prestige follows the prestigious. We are now entering terrify, with Magnus at least, where the best pla
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Guggling.. gas!
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Exactly.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
That's a bit strong. The levels attained by the likes of Magnus is true art, and it's cool that the art has had such a following for so long. I agree on fast chess being more fun, but hey now :)
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Chess' centre of gravity is increasingly online centred now. Carlson himself has a lot to do with it. So do other charismatic super GMs like Nakamura. A light hearted, unplanned and unadvertised naka-carlsen bullet match can attract a
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I am he, lol. Agreed, and it's explicitly that British superiority which Orwell defends in the essay, carving out for it a special place separate from "nationalism" that communism, Trotskyism, Irish republicanism, zionism,
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by dalbasal 4y ago
>>I have heard the shortened trope "Orwell was a socialist, even fought in the Spanish civil war, then became a vocal critique and disillusioned socialist" I don't think the last part is true. ASAIK, Orwell remained a s
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I must disagree. Orwell is not the bible, or an if-by-whiskey politician. Everybody reads him differently because they're combining hearsay, random quotes and attributions. If you read Orwell's essays or articles directly, he&#x27
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Yes. There are spots where Orwell gets convoluted. His famous and impactful (on me, lol) essay "On Nationalism" includes a confusing/backtracking carve-out for (presumably) Churchillian patriotism. But I think this is the n
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by dalbasal 4y ago
IDK if I'd call that an "omission." There was a political system, and Hitler came to power within it. France still has a political norm of banding together to defeat populist far right parties, and an electoral system that
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by dalbasal 4y ago
So... I don't know how much other experience you have leading, in the sense that it requires negative feedback to team members, changing existing patterns and such. Assuming this is relatively new to you, my advice is to focus time (2-
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Only sensible. Growing mushrooms is cool, and the idea of making it an ornamental object like and aquarium is good. It's kind if expensive though, and pretty small for culinary mushrooms. Personally I kinda want one to try growing some
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by dalbasal 4y ago
It's also fun, easy and exceptionally easy to spend a precise budgetary on a branding exercise. Marketing these days is full of technical details. Digital campaign statistics. CRM. Automation. Tiny optimisations, analytics and such. Br
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by dalbasal 4y ago
That the world needs a non-profit search engine is near trivially true at this point. So good luck Daud. I think the pertinent question though, is what's the best way to demonopolize search. Maybe the answer to that is non profit, mayb
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I think these old "remember MySpace" ideas are off the mark. What actually happened was not minor changes in UX culture. The web became powerful, instead of a subculture over to the side. It became democratic and populist, with ev
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Sort of.. at least there is in the scientific tradition. Your theory predicting reality is generally weak evidence. It opens your theory to invalidation if the prediction fails, but does not rule out hypothetical alternative theories that a
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It's curious/ironic that instead or teaching us moral philosophy about ourselves, boundary testing trolley problems becomes a useful study for the purpose of social engineering. The problem with any kind of invisible hand is that
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by dalbasal 4y ago
This is what you call an awful dichotomy. Security Vs Autonomy... weaponized. I agree with you. I also agree with the other side though. Allowing these monopolies to squat all the bottlenecks in protocols of media and communication channels
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I think this is one side of an argument. It's valid, and it needs to be heeded, but still incomplete. Cloud setups are useful , as are many ways of their associated architecture/infrastructure elements. Saying no to these is prob
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Sure, they have. So, they certainly can. The question for Atlassian is how fast. 20-30% doesn't get you to a justification for Atlassian's peak value. It doesn't inspire "the next Microsoft" vibes. Maybe after 10-15

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