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by dh5 6y ago
AFAIK a "data engineer" at FB specifically is not quite equivalent to "software engineer specializing in distributed systems" which this article refers to--i.e. there is a totally separate job track for SWEs in general.
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by dh5 6y ago
Looks like they will at least take a stake in Aurora. > As part of the agreement between the two companies, Uber is taking a 26 percent stake in the start-up and Mr. Khosrowshahi will take a seat on the Aurora board of directors. > “U
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by dh5 6y ago
I strongly disagree with the assertion that chess is a "close to solved game" in human OTB play in particular. Top GMs currently will probably score 0/12 against Leela/Stockfish. We see innovations frequently in recent y
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by dh5 6y ago
The point of the "backspace navigates back" extension is that alt+left is not how people were used to going back on websites.
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by dh5 6y ago
I'd be 100% against it if this were any app besides one created in China. With all the spyware and protectionist policies there I don't mind so much the ban of Tiktok.
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by dh5 6y ago
Safari hunters currently achieve the 'spiral horned grand slam' by killing just nine types of antelope. Recent developments in taxonomy could see them wanting to kill 25, and targeting smaller populations to do so.
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by dh5 6y ago
Twenty years is young, but is there a particular age at which someone should be "allowed" to lose money playing with stocks / options? If the minimum age for opening an account if 18, should we put further restrictions on say
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by dh5 6y ago
Agreed, some degree of personal responsibility is needed in the case of addictive behavior. Robinhood in that aspect (gamification) falls into the same category as gambling, and the only difference is that is that it comes from the Bay Area
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by dh5 6y ago
Absolutely incredible. I clicked on the link expecting nowhere near that level of detail. One of the pictures even shows individual wires on the landing gear. I'm thoroughly impressed by the dedication here.
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by dh5 6y ago
Relocation is a big barrier to those already married, and even more if they have kids. That's a large portion of senior guys.
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by dh5 6y ago
As an aside, I'm of the opinion that selective censorship marginalizes groups that don't readily have representation at companies like Google. I'm talking about with terms like "redneck" or even "dumb American&
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by dh5 6y ago
Not sure what the scam is. Sounds like normal supply and demand.
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by dh5 7y ago
Is it right to let the transgressions of the founder color the quality of the product the employees worked to make, or worse, the employees themselves? Let's not rush to judgement. Sexual harassment is wrong, yes, but that doesn't
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by dh5 7y ago
Unfortunately, most pet shelters get more pets than their facilities are able to handle. Unless they're a no-kill shelter (in order to be considered one they need to kill <10%), they will need to euthanize in order to make room for
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by dh5 7y ago
How is that value determined though? It's just by what people think the stock is worth. If you have more money coming in to the market the listed companies' stocks will naturally be at a higher price point.
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by dh5 7y ago
Simple doesn't mean boring. There are many, many nuances that are only realized after playing at higher levels, and many more we haven't discovered yet as evidenced by the engines.
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by dh5 7y ago
I think it's a vocal minority that promotes those ideas and the rest follow because it's career suicide to go against it. I'm quite patriotic but not quite brave enough to go against the grain at this time.
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by dh5 7y ago
Hong Kong is also 1.5 times the size of NYC with about the same population. It's not quite comparable to other countries with a much lower population to area ratio.
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by dh5 7y ago
Yasso 800s are a good predictor but don't substitute for an actual time trial.
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by dh5 7y ago
1. No, it's just something that has happened. 2. Any level of active management would make an index fund not an index fund. You'd be going to trying to pick the best-performing stocks, which is not what an index fund tries to do (
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by dh5 7y ago
That sounds very similar to the throroughly debunked "critical positivity ratio" by Losada. The paper by Brown, Sokal, Friedman criticizing it is a great and very accessible read btw: www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/BrownSokal
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by dh5 8y ago
Are you saying programming competitions are representative of "real world skills"? There's certainly a correlation in the same way the exam is but you'd be hard-pressed to say more than that.
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by dh5 8y ago
It's fascinating how advances in siege technology resemble fast Darwinian evolution until of course the bigger fish in planes and tanks come in and eat everything else up.
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by dh5 8y ago
Those are harsh words. Great feats don't necessarily involve discovery or profit.
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by dh5 8y ago
It was clear from the beginning it was about beating the Soviets. The fear of the USSR achieving space superiority was very real at the time, especially after Sputnik. JFK even said in his moon speech the US needed to establish "a posi
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by dh5 8y ago
Average tenure in the NFL is something like 3 years. Not saying that 1.5mm minimum isn't a lot, of course.
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by dh5 8y ago
You are highly mistaken if you believe Chinese undergraduate courses are anywhere near the difficulty of American ones. Chinese classes involve having students going to have participation counted and maybe a trivial exam at the end. There i
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by dh5 8y ago
Yes. The Constitution primarily limits the powers of state/federal government (in a few narrow cases it can apply to private entities as well). A hotel would be able to set whatever restrictions it wants on guns and not be hindered by
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by dh5 9y ago
The male zebra finch, like many other songbirds, purposely attempts to sing the same song over and over without any variation, including in pitch and volume. This is because singing is primarily a courtship ritual, and females are attracted