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by drc500free 1y ago
Israel / Palestine is a collision between two internally valid and mutually exclusive worldviews. It's kind of a given that there will be two camps who consider the other non-reputable. FWIW, the /r/AskHistorians booklis
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by drc500free 1y ago
I don’t think agreeing with a neo-nazi about the foundational tenets of nazism is a good use of that idiom. It’s supposed to be for things like “pickles on pizza are actually pretty good” not “we are all slaves to the Jews who control socie
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by drc500free 1y ago
That’s not “unknown”, that’s an antisemitic quote from neo-nazi Kevin Alfred Strom.
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by drc500free 1y ago
The wrong statement is saying P(no real effect) < 5% The correct statement is saying P(saw these results | no real effect) < 5% Consider two extremes, for the same 5% threshold: 1) All of their ideas for experiments are idiotic. Every
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by drc500free 1y ago
I had him as a lecturer in undergrad, and I still remember the weightlessness of his intellect. It was one thing to realize that we were the same age, but his ability to flit around different concepts was remarkable. There were a lot of peo
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by drc500free 1y ago
Is there a difference between a clone and an identical twin (other than sharing a womb)?
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by drc500free 1y ago
Is this because we can essentially treat each dimension like a binary digit, so we get 2^n directions we can encode? Or am I barking up totally the wrong tree?
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The Learned Helplessness of Scrum Tech Leads(coldwaters.substack.com)
1 points by drc500free 1y ago|1 comments
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by drc500free 1y ago
Agile was supposed to empower teams, but in many orgs it's done the opposite. Execs take over product, so PMs make system design calls. Engineers are left coordinating tickets they no longer own. This piece explores how “senior” roles
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by drc500free 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I've cleaned up the ending a lot to hopefully not read like buzzword bingo.
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by drc500free 2y ago
The history is right, my predictions are probably garbage. Kind of similar to Marx himself, I guess.
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Post-Collapse Paradigms Are Quite the Career Opportunity(coldwaters.substack.com)
2 points by drc500free 2y ago|3 comments
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Systems and Supermen: How Musk and AI Are Reshaping Organizational Design(coldwaters.substack.com)
1 points by drc500free 2y ago|0 comments
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by drc500free 2y ago
I'm trying to understand this comment. Are you saying that Dahl's antisemitism is ameliorated by the fact that Israel attacked the PLO in Lebanon? And are you claiming that journalists have written more about Roald Dahl's ant
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by drc500free 2y ago
Absolutely, and in practice it's not a well analyzed spreadsheet problem with a smooth transition. The change in interest rates moved necessary payoffs from the "later" bucket to the "soon" bucket. A whole segment o
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Roadmaps and Other Lies About Time(coldwaters.substack.com)
2 points by drc500free 2y ago|0 comments
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by drc500free 2y ago
I'm not sure how one would get "AI-Enhanced Professional Writing" without feeding it into an LLM. This isn't underhanded, it's literally the product being offered.
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by drc500free 2y ago
Unfortunately, I've found a negative correlation between CV creativity and candidate quality. I've got various theories as to why, but in my experience most people with non-standard resumes have turned out to be weaker candidates
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by drc500free 2y ago
TBH, it doesn't look like it's spurring much discussion about the engineering ethics angle.
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by drc500free 2y ago
I'm certainly disappointed that none of the discussion is touching on the culpability of technical teams in building these systems. I'm still struggling with my desire to surprise people with the conclusion instead of including it
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by drc500free 2y ago
Hey folks. I know this one is a touchy subject. It is in no way intended to pile on those who are gleefully mocking a murder, and I should have probably included the subtitle ("Towards Ethical Data Science"). Rather, it's an
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Assassination is a leaky abstraction(coldwaters.substack.com)
90 points by drc500free 2y ago|73 comments
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by drc500free 2y ago
I've recently been working with a lot of service center productivity data. Staff productivity (customers/hour) is pretty close to a gaussian, with some skew towards many slight underperformers and few overperformers. However, any
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The 5-Hour Energy Playbook: How a 2-ounce shot bent spacetime into $1B a year(coldwaters.substack.com)
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by drc500free 2y ago
Internal Marketing is the primary role of the Product Manager at a lot of big companies.
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Fourteenth Century LLMs(coldwaters.substack.com)
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Why Entitlement Wins(coldwaters.substack.com)
1 points by drc500free 2y ago|1 comments
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by drc500free 2y ago
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians didn't get up one day and move fifteen miles down the road because they all felt like going on a picnic at the same time. Interestingly, the term "ethnic cleansing" wasn't coined unt
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by drc500free 2y ago
Sadly, it's becoming apparent that the only reason people believe in The Holocaust is the massive effort that went into documenting and preserving the direct evidence. The exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries doesn't have
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Scale Ruins Everything(coldwaters.substack.com)
175 points by drc500free 2y ago|240 comments

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