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by david38 6y ago
Jeff was one of my favorite teachers. He made algorithms and proofs fun, even if you didn’t get an A.
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by david38 6y ago
At what point would you say women control enough money to fund enough companies for this to not be much of an issue? Say you have $1B in VC money provided by women and their male allies. How many companies can that fund? How much press ca
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by david38 6y ago
Yes, sometimes, like moving jobs to India. Other times, no, because it would mean that group is just as good as me, and I can’t have that.
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by david38 6y ago
Sorting is fundamental. Quicksort is not. It’s a single algorithm out of many. Quick, without looking it up, in 45 minutes, write an implementation of CC-Radix, cache-conscience radix sort. It is a sort, it deals with performance, theref
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by david38 6y ago
He said they made $12b profit quite clearly. He didn’t say they made $12b in illegal profits. Why would you try twisting his words like that?
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by david38 6y ago
I learned how to ski, how to scuba dive, got CPR certified, learned ocean fishing.
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by david38 6y ago
Of course it was because of the pandemic. Too bad people are more focused on social identities than poverty. If the unrest was more about poverty there would be a lot more people involved, and people would have a harder time painting it as
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by david38 6y ago
But at least she got silenced for doing something blatantly wrong. She took their picture, posted on a public forum without addressing the people or anyone else locally. This is why this type of call-out culture is bad. You attack first,
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by david38 6y ago
So when malls started displacing downtowns, the courts recognized that malls needed to create free speech areas. I can imagine a court saying that FB has enough of the population on it to force it to follow similar laws. Sure, it might hav
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by david38 6y ago
Minimum wage, applied universally, absolutely validates worth of a worker. If the minimum wage is set too high to plant grapes for example, grapes will not be grown. $15/h too high to flip burgers? Ok, I guess we don’t need fast food.
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by david38 6y ago
There is no shortage of teachers. Every year thousands of people qualified to teach leave the profession because of low pay, shit working conditions, bad principles, bad tenured teachers, bad students allowed to run rampant, and violence.
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by david38 6y ago
They don’t have to conservative. They just have to be not cutting edge. Believe there is a difference between feeling and being? “Feel assaulted” by words is now described as “being assaulted”. “Feel like a woman” is now “is a woman” thr
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by david38 6y ago
Agreed. People know the difference between hyper attention to detail for code and lax attention to detail in English. You can go pretty far down this rabbit hole and be a grammar Nazi. All it shows is that you’re a grammar Nazi.
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by david38 6y ago
In live in the Bay Area and can’t wait for this. I want to be able to have internet in all the dead spots in California, if which there are a LOT. We have lots of National Forest / BLM land and it usually has almost no reception.
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by david38 6y ago
As a guy, I find that most guys dismiss beauty as luck while chasing girls who have it. They fail to realize that a sizable percentage of attractive girls don’t roll out of bed a 10. They watch what they eat, they run, work out, pay specia
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by david38 6y ago
Girls in school avoid CS because the dudes themselves were assholes. I saw this firsthand countless times. Once critical mass is reached (enough girls where they don’t feel like outsiders) the machismo calms down. Not once have I ever hea
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by david38 6y ago
I am from Honduras. I think you are crazy to drive a US car there. Whenever anyone talks about how bad things are here, I invite them to Honduras, especially if they make claims like “nowhere is as bad as the US”.
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by david38 6y ago
The recruiter likely didn’t write the job description. The team that needs the person did. If they are so stupid as to do this, I wouldn’t want to work for them either.
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by david38 6y ago
Sure, but then federal support of state projects gets tied to whatever the federal government wants the state to do. The state isn’t bound, but it’s political suicide to turn down money. This is a powerful weapon that can be used for both
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by david38 6y ago
This is common because people in rich countries have no idea what the situation is in other countries. I remember something similar happened in India. Kids were sewing rugs or something, someone didn’t like it because it looked bad (like a
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by david38 6y ago
NYT has always been like this. Once their bias was pointed out to me, I saw it constantly.
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by david38 6y ago
Have good managers. People quit managers and bad coworkers more than jumping for money.
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by david38 6y ago
Exactly. It’s very possible the author of the article is sensitive / has an agenda / etc and interprets anything said in the memo in the least charitable way possible.
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by david38 6y ago
America is a really really big country. What parts were you talking about? The wealth diversity even within say, California or even Virginia, hell even a tiny state like New Jersey is enormous. In no places I’ve ever lived has infrastruct
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by david38 6y ago
Anything can be hurtful. By definition free speech will insult someone at some point. There is a big difference between someone who has accomplished something and someone who has not crossed anyone. Looking for talent is one thing, lack
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by david38 6y ago
What I really want is for Tesla to partner with someone to come out with a line of DC-plugin tools so I can plug my tools into the new Tesla truck without the conversion penalty. Battery operated tools are DC already. They just need a plug
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by david38 6y ago
Uhhh no. Meritocracy promotes justice. Better people become judges, not buddies. Meritocracy doesn’t mean “winners take all”. It means the best person for the job gets the job. If the best people for the job have the job, especially in g
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by david38 6y ago
Of course it will. Software is much cheaper to iterate on than say wing design.
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by david38 6y ago
A large part of the reason for the success of these movements, starting with the feminist movement is redefining and overloading things. They redefined scrutiny as attacking. They redefined gender (a word used people it wasn’t proper to sa
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by david38 6y ago
College campuses. The Midwest had several large (student body and size) campuses with strong engineering departments.

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