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by disambiguation 6y ago
I know a lot of Trump supporters, here's my take: 1. The candidate pool is biased - in terms of demographics, under-30, college-educated, coastal-city individuals are dramatically skewed to the left. I think as IT workers get older, ha
812.
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i'll entertain this fan-fiction you're describing a "deal with the devil". who do you propose is the "mafia" like entity they're dealing with that will "break their legs" if they back out of thei
813.
by disambiguation 6y ago
> Many rich people are incredibly miserable and basically stuck in a position they cannot escape from. citation?
814.
by disambiguation 6y ago
a few things: 1. i get where you're coming from 2. yes, language is bottlenecked by human perception, as are all things 3. even the notion of myth and fiction is encoded in language. language is self-descriptive and self-aware and you
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by disambiguation 6y ago
I don't know if i'd go as far as to agree that "there is no knowledge, only language" .. but I 100% agree one of the key insights from GPT-3 -- why training on language is so effective in the first place -- is that langu
816.
by disambiguation 6y ago
obviously just a "socially acceptable" way to punish small businesses even more if they don't fall in line
817.
by disambiguation 6y ago
i really like the content and simplicity of the site, looking forward to exploring more of the features :) one bug that's stood out with videos .. if i pause/stop/finish a video and scroll until new content loads, it reloads
818.
by disambiguation 6y ago
in much the same way the documentary was designed to do!
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by disambiguation 6y ago
yes, i find it's a useful antidote to the existential fear of death
820.
by disambiguation 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by disambiguation 6y ago
anecdotal, but my roommate is a first year lawyer. A lot of his job is taking old legal docs and updating them for new deals. This is a lot of tedious search and replace and formatting in hard-to-edit PDFs. A sample scenario is one of his s
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by disambiguation 6y ago
i live in brooklyn, the nearby parks have plenty of fireflies around dusk
823.
by disambiguation 6y ago
> Wow, Gavin Belson must be furious. life imitating art
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by disambiguation 6y ago
> The hard part is solving the problem appropriately. Implementing that solution in code once you have it is comparatively easy. I don't think this is true, otherwise we would see a lot more business models where development is larg
825.
by disambiguation 6y ago
> I feel in the tech industry, networking and knowing people only gets you so far I think it depends how influential your connection is. At my previous FAANG job, my director was tapping his network to back-fill some positions and i hear
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by disambiguation 6y ago
wouldn't a phrase like "silence is consent" or "silence enables racism" be more appropriate? the problem is, we have multiple parties that are at odds with one another, and there are only two ways to come to an agre
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by disambiguation 6y ago
look into energy stored on energy invested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment#ES... according to the wiki, pumped hydroelectric storage has a ratio of 704 where as compressed air energy storage h
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by disambiguation 6y ago
i think you have the causality reversed people who take the risks seriously will try harder, thus become higher performers
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by disambiguation 6y ago
true for now, but western governments are getting envious of china (ex. earn it act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s3398 )
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3) writing the in-house or market competitive service alternative ;)
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by disambiguation 6y ago
not if we can get a head start on the market for artisanal code developers.
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by disambiguation 6y ago
i wonder if this thread inspired today's post https://rbt.asia/g/thread/75860673/
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by disambiguation 6y ago
of course training and only training to be good at a game won't lead to wisdom/insights, but anything can be generalized to other tasks if you take the time to reflect on it. I think Chess is ripe with lessons that apply to common
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by disambiguation 6y ago
I had the same question and came across a book called "Sophie's World" which tells the story of philosophy in human history, starting with Socrates and coming all the way to modern times. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by disambiguation 7y ago
I'm curious what Amazon warehouse worker is going to take this deal when there's free state and federal government checks being dished out.