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by emmab 9y ago
> Nobody who spends significant amounts of time with valley programmers believes that the 10-hour-day 6-day-a-week people are, in general, spending all that time productively. I've probably worked that much before during hypomanic e
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by emmab 9y ago
> Like gambling, nicotine, alcohol or heroin, Facebook and Google — most importantly through its YouTube subsidiary — produce short-term happiness with serious negative consequences in the long term How could the system incentivize compa
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by emmab 9y ago
> This is a double sword thing. With the program you might hire more qualified women, but also more less qualified women and you might prevent of hiring more qualified women. Because you have to hire women as the diversity program says.
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by emmab 9y ago
I'm happy to have a standard formatter because it saves me time. I write my code ignoring indentation and whitespace, then autoformat it moments later. There's some stuff I have to do myself still, like ordering methods, adding em
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by emmab 9y ago
But anti-weed will make you better at studying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimonabant (nootropic but can cause suicide, CB1 inverse agonist)
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by emmab 9y ago
If we need to keep minimum wage, then UBI needs to be increased until we don't need minimum wage.
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by emmab 9y ago
How would you verify a seller's public key if the UI misreports it the first time you visit?
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by emmab 9y ago
> It's unclear that it's even possible to emulate general intelligence by computable functions, let alone that it's possible to improve it to superhuman capacity. Rejecting the physical Church-Turing thesis is not really p
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by emmab 9y ago
> You still have to transfer the same amount of information to the computer. Different target languages to transfer the information to may result in somewhat uncorrelated defects, allowing finding defects through mutual comparison. You c
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by emmab 9y ago
You could further constrain the time period e.g. "this evening". If its creepy to ask in some situation it must be even more creepy to do in that situation.
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by emmab 9y ago
As a woman who is submissive sometimes, I totally want certain people to do things to me without asking, but there are other people I don't want to do these things. Explicit communication is not a barrier for me experiencing submissive
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by emmab 9y ago
> Sorry but this is just absurd. Courtship doesn't (and will never) work that way. Im a woman and it works well for me. Do you have a specific technical reason for thinking it wont work? > Proposing that standard for human contac
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by emmab 9y ago
Asking permission before touching people, and not arguing when they say no goes a long way. Want to be able to touch someone without asking every time? Ask them permission for that! "Hey is it ok if I touch your arms and back without a
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by emmab 9y ago
> I'm not sure just copying someone's technology and emulating it without paying a license fee is all that great either. And yet vendor-lockin is not good for competition. Is the increased incentive for research investment due
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by emmab 9y ago
> The US continues, today, to be the only first-strike nuclear nation threatening to (as an explicit policy) destroy civilian population centers in a host of competitor countries as a coercive tactic and if and when it serves US national
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by emmab 9y ago
> sit inside in air conditioning What's wrong with air conditioning?
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by emmab 9y ago
That's exactly what the top-level OP is asking, how to predict this kind of thing.
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by emmab 9y ago
You don't know if you're going to be passed over for advancement or raises due to bias.
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by emmab 9y ago
> As for culture, I'd say just ask. Ask what the team does for fun. That will more or less tell you if you will fit in or not. How will that tell you if they are accepting of e.g. non-binary people?
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by emmab 9y ago
Is this distinction equivalent to satisfiability of the contract wrt any case vs satisfiability of the contract wrt this case? How do you constrain "any case" to something reasonable, or does it need no constraining?
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by emmab 9y ago
> Instead, what really happens is that someone makes an incremental advance that allows 9 doctors plus a machine (plus, probably, some tiny increment of people servicing the machines) to do the work of 10. All it takes is to find the mos
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by emmab 9y ago
Will this mean that companies will actively avoid establishing offices in states with any courts that favor prosecutors in patent cases? That in turn creates a motivation for states to make their courts neutral, or favor defendants in pat
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by emmab 9y ago
Cargo culting?
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by emmab 9y ago
- Subsidize parenting
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by emmab 9y ago
> In Egypt, unemployment of college graduates is higher than for non-college graduates. If pay is also higher then college could still be +EV.
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by emmab 9y ago
> As for faster, that's not always true either, since simple forward/backward scans will require two indirections, one to get the dynamic array's address and another to get the pointer to the node itself. Can this be store
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by emmab 9y ago
The page might not use rules like that though? And the browser could optimize the case where it doesn't.
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by emmab 10y ago
> Just because an exploit is discovered doesn't really mean it's being exploited in the wild. This becomes less and less true every year.
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by emmab 10y ago
Blacklists are a losing game. Always use a whitelist.
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by emmab 10y ago
If you use android, take a look at https://www.google.com/maps/timeline

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