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by dwoozle 7y ago
Walkability is a proxy for whether a city has a knowledge economy (closely packed buildings) or an industrial economy (large warehouses and factories, less walkable). The knowledge economy cities have far outperformed the industrial cities
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by dwoozle 7y ago
It’s basically a piece of art. If you want to sell it to a private equity banker you put it in a gilt frame. If you want to sell it to a Facebook machine learning engineer you put it in a space bar form factor.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Are you willfully blind to the fact that people have consumer preference for Apple products? I spent extra money for a case that covers up the Apple logo but would gladly pay 2x the cost of this phone to avoid going back to Android hell.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The keyboard community isn’t weird at all. People love getting deep into a hobby because people like to feel like they have expertise and depth. When they get deep into a hobby, their level of commitment seems insane to a person on the outs
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by dwoozle 7y ago
What is CAF? My relationship with Google is basically like my relationship with Mount Everest. It exists and I spent about $10,000 with it but never got a response from it on anything.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Enterprise CIOs get an entirely different experience from Google than you or I do. It’s like the difference between flying Concorde and flying as a stowaway in the nose wheel landing gear.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
What I noticed when I lived in Manhattan is that I CONSTANTLY ran into people I knew, everywhere. Despite living in San Francisco much longer, and the city being much smaller, I ran into acquaintances far less often.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
A vendor doesn’t have to offer the socially optimal package. Other vendors can fill in other gaps.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Huh? It is much cheaper to buy a company before it IPOs. That’s why you see things like Cisco acquiring AppDynamics five days before its scheduled IPO.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I mean, it all depends on what the contract says. If it says that they’ll only do 5 kids out of state it’s a huge breach to do 17 in-state. Contract terms offered from businesses to individuals should be enforced very strongly given the inh
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by dwoozle 7y ago
What would handling it “well” mean?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Iraq is a basket case country whose government is hanging on by a thread. China is a superpower with clear aspirations to unipolar hegemony. They are not comparable and cannot be held to the same standard.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Do you genuinely think the Dropbox CTO resigned because of some complaints about an app dialog.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
> I don't think there's a strong reason to believe that the admitted students are in any way "better" than the qualified-but-not-admitted students On what basis do you think that? What data or reasoning suggests that
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by dwoozle 7y ago
A grades and SAT admission model creates a class that is ~70% Asian. America’s future leadership class is categorically not 70% Asian.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Of course there are — they are the “Michael Jordans” of the world... not only Michael Jordan himself, but all of the top accomplished people in the world... presidents, Nobel Prize winners, CEOs, famous authors... Harvard is prestigious bec
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Why set a minimum bar at “qualified”? If you try out for an NBA team they won’t say “you are really fucking good at basketball, you’re not as good as these guys but you’re diverse so you’re hired.” You get scarce positions by outcompeting p
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Harvard and UC are trying to do different things. Harvard is trying to admit the future leaders of the world, so it can point to them and say “They are Harvard men.” UC is trying to give an academically rigorous education to the most academ
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Statistical machine learning is one of the fields where diversity really does matter. A CPU from Silicon Valley works just as well in Africa. But models trained in the West and with hyperparameters tweaked by western people will contain all
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by dwoozle 7y ago
They have not increased enrollment but they have massively increased financial aid.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Oh, the horror, this side project from Google harsly ten years old is only worth $100 billion...
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by dwoozle 7y ago
And a guy who was 5’7”, not 5’1” or something.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I mean of course it doesn’t depend on the setting on the cycle knob, but delicate cycles usually means more water at lower agitation speed, for longer time. So the title seems fine to me.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Well, Tesla is doing a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong both as a company and as a product. It’s natural that it would be polarizing compared to a company going straight down the middle like Honda.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
This is the justification but is true in only the vanishingly rare case of the company whose activities are constrained by the bandwidth of the CEO, like Tesla. In other cases the CEO should be paying for the jet from his post tax income.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Then why didn’t he request a bench trial by a judge?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Nobody who has read anything serious about ISIS would think that. They were a nascent nation state, installing their own civil servants to run schools, infrastructure, etc. Their propaganda videos were nearly Hollywood level in production q