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   by drpossum 2y ago

   You're writing this like they're subversively different languages. If you think React <> Vue transitions are transferable but then somehow think it's a bigger leap between Javascript and Typescript, you might want to r
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   by drpossum 2y ago

   That happened before the election, though? Like, Greenwald quit in October 2020. How could you say it was the administration when he wasn't in office? It's deeply misleading for you to write that because it implies he was abusin
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   by drpossum 2y ago

   If they're off doing things that are disconnected form business reality, how can they be performing at all?
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   by drpossum 2y ago

   I am saying that Sabine is saying that many physicists are making arguments in bad faith. Those are what my examples intended to show.
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   by drpossum 2y ago

   Regardless if that number is accurate or not, this GDPR cookie notification requirement is such a perfect example of trying to do some good and making everything worse. Anyone who is obsessive about pushing back on tracking does so through
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   by drpossum 2y ago

   Sabine's argument has been frequently bad faith after the fact and currently. Just skimming some of her written work: "Before the Large Hadron Collider turned on, particle physicists claimed that it would either confirm or rule o
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   by drpossum 2y ago

   Are your remote employees writing kernel code which will go out to millions of machines with a high cost of failure coupled with a demonstrated history of poor quality? If not, your definition of code quality may be different than what is b
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   by drpossum 2y ago

   I'm not hot on what fundamental physics looks like now or in the future, but there's an attitude that Sabine promotes that I see echoed in a lot of comments here which feeds into problems with research. I don't think the wo
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   by drpossum 2y ago

   How is this meaningfully different from the service all domain registrars offer except with upselling for newsletter subscribes?
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41807750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41805144
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    Those universities pay for those email services and are under different terms. If you are paying for those services and didn't get what you paid for that is extremely different than getting locked out of a random free gmail accoun
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but the responsible answer to your titular question is "get a lawyer and listen to them". If you are asking for reliable legal advice from strangers on the internet, you have made a
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786101
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    I guess it was only a matter of time before "openly bribing prospective employers" was the norm
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    Was this you asking a question on stackoverflow, having the question being closed because you didn't provide enough detail, and then just literally linking the question here for more visibility?
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    > this is the biggest hit of dopamin you can ever imagine, no? No. I would imagine the biggest hit of dopamine would be literally injecting dopamine into my system.
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    I think this article misses the point of the controversy. The controversy isn't that the work isn't "award winning". It's that it was awarded for physics. Number of times that article mentions physics: once in th
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    If this changes in the source repo and you try to reconcile from your unmodified base you'll be in for some bad surprises (things like "no common history" errors in the worst of cases). This is the reasons why you have to be
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    A quick google for yourself will take you a long way. You may want to consider researching your claims first going forward.
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    You can find examples of game engines going back into the 80s. It's not a particularly new concept.
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    Didn't say it wasn't.
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    Nobel prize committee really sending some messages this year on what constitutes benefiting humanity the most.
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    None of these arguments support giving a prize for this in this field for this reason. Feynman was also critical of the idea of the prize in general
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    > Laypeople needs a simple way to know who's who in advanced research fields What need of a layperson does knowing "who's who" in advanced research fields fill? Here's another good question related to that: Who
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    All of physics is modeling but not all modeling is physics.
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    Let me put it this way: If I responded to you with "Why should I bother listening to you because you constantly make bad faith arguments" you wouldn't treat the question seriously because (I assume) you do not constantly mak
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    Yes. That's the joke.
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    Fun historical fact: Claude Shannon did win the Noble prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize#Recipients
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    Yup. This prize is indistinguishable from "we saw AI in all the headlines, let's see what's the most plausible reasons we could hand it out for that"
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    by drpossum 2y ago

    There no Nobel category for computer science or mathematics. Related reading https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/24/why-isnt-there-a-...