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by defen 6y ago
> Also, what about the gaming of the system. A person could ask for a higher salary saying they are in, or relocating to, the BA, then within a few months, or even days, of joining they move out. Either the person needs to be in the Ba
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by defen 6y ago
From wikipedia: > The futuristic operations room was designed by a team led by the interface designer Gui Bonsiepe. It was furnished with seven swivel chairs (considered the best for creativity) with buttons, which were designed to contr
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by defen 6y ago
Crazy suggestion: figure out a way to dogfood your hiring process. Have an engineer with a few years experience at Stripe try to get through the application process and see what kind of feedback they bring back. Kind of like secret shoppers
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by defen 6y ago
My understanding is that QWERTY was developed to solve a mechanical problem with early typewriters in the 19th century (frequent jams). According to wikipedia the inventor spent 5 years developing it. I don't see why he shouldn't
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by defen 6y ago
Yeah, I don't like it, but given my (probably poor) understanding of copyright, I don't see how Oracle is wrong here. It would be one thing if we were just talking about something like Math.max where there's really only 1 pos
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by defen 6y ago
By "don't care" I mean they don't perceive the current situation as a problem, and they view the cost of switching vendors to be too high. But either way, yes. I think one problem with the concept of "everything is
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by defen 6y ago
If I were Oracle's lawyer, I'd respond by saying that you can have the concept of "go long", but you can't literally name it "go long" because there was an act of creativity involved in mapping that name o
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by defen 6y ago
If 95% of the people at the company don't care, but you're the person who won't stop bringing up the need to change orange juice vendors, to the point that it's disruptive and annoying to the 95%, maybe they don't w
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by defen 6y ago
> this just checks that you still remember the theory you learned in college. Sure, but not everyone went to college or studied computer science / math. This seems like one of those problems that's really just testing a very sp
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by defen 6y ago
I think this hits on why these types of problems are potentially bad. You could be the world's worst software engineer , but if you'd taken a graph theory course recently, you'd pattern match this, say "sure, can I use
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by defen 6y ago
But how much went to them, vs investors, taxes, etc? It's not like they started YC with $50 million.
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by defen 6y ago
> What they did differently is they had a ton of money before they started it, and they decided to make a fun club for themselves. I don't get the impression that they had a "ton" of money when they started. Sure, they wer
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by defen 6y ago
It seems like making Facebook a government regulated public utility is the only way to square this circle. Because otherwise we either unjustly infringe on Mark Zuckerberg's use of his private property (Facebook); or Mark Zuckerberg is
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by defen 6y ago
> You distribute with Amazon Luna, I assume you get some sort of money, something like for every hour played on X game you get $0.0000005 or Even better than that, you could get $0.0000005 for every hour spent playing or watching on twi
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by defen 6y ago
Instead of arguing about whether priests are forced to marry gay couples now (they are not, and this is an easily verifiable fact), I think a more interesting question is - what principle is it that says it's ok for priests to deny mar
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by defen 6y ago
If you live in or around Princeton NJ you can live in a nice college town that's about 1.5 hours from NYC by train or 50 minutes to Philadelphia by car.
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by defen 6y ago
Well, hopefully we can at least get some cool games out of it. Canned NPC dialog is one of the biggest immersion breakers in open-world games / RPGs. On the topic of societal impact of GPT-3 (and subsequent models) - structurally, how
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by defen 6y ago
> Why does LeBron James have to address human rights in China before he, a Black American, can address human rights abuses against Black Americans in America? Because as bad as the human rights abuses against Black Americans in America a
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by defen 6y ago
Oh man I loved that game. It had so much personality...the characters and voices, the little web browser with PMC websites and gun stores, the email client, the sheer number of items, every little thing was so cool. I had no idea people wer
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by defen 6y ago
How does one get the attorney general to write a letter like this?
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by defen 6y ago
Yes, Hegel figured that part out 200+ years ago. However, I think it's fair to say that some historical explanations or narratives hew closer to actual verifiable events than others do. Perhaps it could be viewed as problematic if a hi
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by defen 6y ago
I know it's just an example, but in case anyone tries to grab the code - it's worth noting that this will panic if you try to slice into the middle of a UTF-8 sequence, and will give byte offsets and not char offsets, so it might
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by defen 6y ago
These simple models of free trade work fine when discussing commodities or raw materials, but one thing I never see addressed (I'm far from an expert, just an interested layman) is that modern manufacturing involves far more than the r
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by defen 6y ago
“There is no such thing as tit for a tat in a civilisation with rule of law.” That’s not a general principle of which I’m aware. Plenty of countries have rules like “we treat you how you treat us”. Nothing about that is inherently incompati
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by defen 6y ago
Liking Infinite Jest suggests an interest in American literary maximalism and / or comic novels. Suggestions: The Sot-Weed Factor , Gravity’s Rainbow , Mason & Dixon , Underworld , and if you’re feeling particularly masochist
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by defen 6y ago
> Before the 1990s, “for a long time we didn’t really believe in war in prehistory,” DAI’s Hansen says. The grave goods were explained as prestige objects or symbols of power rather than actual weapons. “Most people thought ancient socie
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by defen 6y ago
> In that case, the guarantees aren't as strong as Rusts, but those guarantees come at a significant cost -- to language complexity and compilation time -- that can also have a negative effect on correctness How would those guarant
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by defen 6y ago
Unless you assume all cops are "untrained, armed, and oftentimes extremely racist individuals", simply removing those who are would not "abolish the police", which is why I asked.
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by defen 6y ago
Would it be accurate, then, to say that the "police abolitionist movement" does not want to abolish the police? If that is the case, why call it the police abolitionist movement? It seems like all that does is generate ill-will fr
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by defen 6y ago
It’s one of those words that used to have a different meaning but then a bunch of people started using it “wrong”, which is annoying to some people. It used to connote a legal or other official authority to do something. Kinda like how some

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