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by dougSF70 5y ago
Come on, it wouldn't be an article then.
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Worth reading about what personal and professional challenges Ryan Caldbeck faced before leaping in to criticize. He wrote an excellent tear down of a destructive board member appointed by the VC backer.
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This is a novel solution. Why should a robot replicate a human skeleton and muscle system. If the species could develop propeller mutations through evolutionary processes then perhaps we would have. I would say a drone with useless legs is
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Yes that article, sponsored by Cambridge Analytica, does play it down :)
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I think they used the well-established and well-researched personality methodology called OCEAN. This has been well documented as being able to identify the big five traits (OPENNESS, CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, EXTRAVERSION, AGREEABLENESS, NEUROTIC
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by dougSF70 5y ago
There is also evidence to show that we retain 25% of the same personality traits that we had as 20 year olds, as we age. I think David Epstein's book, Range, references this. So we really do become a different person.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
YouTube set to win coveted heel-dragging award 2021. Yes protecting free speech on anything but science and public health.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
My office internet drops out on my computer every afternoon at about 3pm....doesnt affect any other computer, just mine. I am getting Father Merrin in next week to give the place a proper going over.
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Agreed, miniaturization took a giant leap forward moving from valve's to transistors. Even in the 1980s Bell Labs said that in the future we will receive our telephone signals through the air and our TV signals through a wire. An accur
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Surely Fortune 100 firms want a docile workforce. People who will stay with the firm even when passed over for promotion and opportunity multiple times. These people tend to be easy to manage badly. You are better off finding your next job
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In 99% of cases yes, but the millennium bridge was a special case.
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Exactly, VG is trying to go too fast to market.
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by dougSF70 5y ago
And it takes an architect to build a bridge that rarely stands...cf. the millennium bridge in london. Designed by architects, fixed by engineers.
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Basically, no one knows what is going to catch in until it has. As one poster mentioned, false positives could be plentiful. Also, for companies or brands such as Tesla, their PR machine will be working harder than HN to spread the word, so
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Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. No western country has ever invaded Afghanistan and won. The British failed, the Russians failed, it was no surprise for the US to fail.
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Car dealer makes money from financing loans....no surprises!
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It is a well known in TV the higher the approval rating, the smaller the audience. Hence the phenomenon of well-liked shows being cancelled, networks like audiences over quality.
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Seeing it in others and not yourself is the ultimate confirmation bias.
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Yes they do benefit society but in different ways. My own bias is that I approach the subject of compensation from a capitalist economy. If I were the brain surgeon in Cuba (and I have met one when I visited) I would be using my skills and
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As Richard Feynman said: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. Most cognitive biases are effective ways of fooling your self.
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Having checked out the two other cities in the USA with large flag poles, their populations are >100k . This makes Dorris the most patriotic city in America, with five residents per foot of flag pole.
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Bitcoin could be the undoing of the regime. It will allow Cubans to accumulate wealth that the regime cannot seize or convert into another worthless Cuban domestic currency. While I like the idea of free health care and education, the idea
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by dougSF70 5y ago
Dorris' 200ft flag pole flies an enormous flag. There are 2.67 inches of flag pole per resident. The equivalent flagpole in San Francisco would be 178,372 feet tall.
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Dorris: Most Patriotic Place in California(en.wikipedia.org)
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Perhaps traffic has a reciprocal relationship with monetization and until Reddits management are ready to bite the bullet there is a tendency to focus on vanity metrics such as traffic rather than $.
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I totally empathise with the thought "I know this, so how can it be difficult to know". The only thing to do is to continually learn new things, and become the BEST at that.
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I would like to be reincarnated as a crow.
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Yes it's TRUE. In SF the schools district removed Algebra from the middle school curriculum. You should read The Dictators Handbook, it details why dismantling education piece by piece is a great way to stay in power. You'd expect
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I suppose Google's argument could be: if I am going to allow remote work for this role then let's go the whole hog and move the role off-shore. There also a lot of comments in this thread confusing large organizations with individ
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Somehow American Math doesn't have the same connotations. I am witnessing public schools take math out of the curriculum at elementary, middle and high schools. It is a wasted opportunity for young people to learn the beauty of math.

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