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by emtel 8y ago
I think a lot of people who are emphatic that AGI is a long way off are saying so out of an allergic reaction to the hype, rather than due to sound reasoning. (And let me be clear that none of this is an argument that AGI is near . I'
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by emtel 8y ago
The most recent report about this is https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless... - this is maybe only one step above rumor, but most of what I've heard through the grapevine matches this. Basically
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by emtel 8y ago
This argument doesn't make any sense. If there are profits to be made from building new housing and renting it out, some one is going to do that. The higher those profits are, the higher the incentive to do so. People aren't going
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by emtel 8y ago
The whole debate about rent control drives me nuts. It's framed as callous libertarians vs compassionate progressives. But the debate conflates means and ends in an obvious way that no one ever seems to notice. If you are concerned abo
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by emtel 8y ago
Formal performance reviews are the worst method for evaluating your workforce that has ever been tried, except for all the others. For me, performance reviews are the single most demoralizing aspect of working at a large company. They are d
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by emtel 8y ago
I would like to know what percentage of VCs/angels are responsible for the reported incidents. If most founders are pitching to 10 VCs (which does not seem like an unrealistic number), it would be possible for even a single bad actor t
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by emtel 8y ago
What you're saying is horrific. If you think population control is important, birth control, sex education, economic opportunities, and women's rights are the answers. Letting other people die in misery (that you'll convenien
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by emtel 8y ago
Hysteria. Do you know any teenagers? I have a teenage daughter. She's not on instagram, but most of her friends are. They have rich, full lives, are engaged at school, spend tons of time together in person, play sports, decorate each o
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by emtel 8y ago
Well, okay, but "make the entire world stop making plastic" is not something that an individual can actually do , while "build a big ocean plastic harvester" evidently is.
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by emtel 8y ago
I agree, the pictures you've seen on the internet definitely trump my personal experience. Thanks for setting me straight.
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by emtel 8y ago
I'm a former fb employee, and to say that they "turn your work life into a micromanagement panopticon" is way off. Overall it's a great place to work as a software engineer, although it depends a lot on your team. Many e
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by emtel 8y ago
I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as "an egg", and I'm skeptical that the health effects of consuming eggs can be generalized over all eggs. Try comparing an egg from the cheapest dozen you can buy at the cheapest s
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by emtel 8y ago
I've never had RSI severe enough to have to stop working because of it, but the minor issues I once had were completely cured by taking up indoor rock climbing. Of course I don't know exactly why it worked, but my guess is that a)
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by emtel 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Scalia didn't join the majority in this decision.
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by emtel 9y ago
Ah, ok, 6 months then.
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by emtel 9y ago
A former co-worker of mine was Jeff Dean's "mentor" at (I think) mysimon.com, where Jeff worked before google. He said that when Jeff started, he showed him how to check out code, and then basically just listened to Jeff typi
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by emtel 9y ago
These are all good points, but I'd say two things: 1. Whatever C++'s weaknesses in this area are, it's superior to Go, so C++ programmers aren't going to switch to Go because of this. 2. Not everything is about raw throu
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by emtel 9y ago
I know Pike _said_ that, but I think the differing level of success of the language in these different niches speaks louder. In particular, I think the idea that anyone serious is going to build a large desktop application like a web browse
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by emtel 9y ago
Rob Pike's confusion about why C++ programmers didn't want to move to go is partially explained by his focus on a particular problem domain at the time Go was being developed. Google in those days was primarily concerned with writ
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by emtel 9y ago
I don't think so. Yes, journalists make errors in every field, sometimes big ones. What's weird here is the professed ignorance. You won't find a middle east correspondent saying "I'm sorry, could you give me 1-2 se
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by emtel 9y ago
Here is a direct quote from one of Vivek's comments: "Please give me 1-2 sentences that your children could understand that explains the possibilities of quantum computing and I will use these in future articles. I acknowledge tha
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by emtel 9y ago
And presumably the migrants are now earning even less. Which is bad, right?
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by emtel 9y ago
That is exactly backwards - ale yeasts are so-called "top-fermenting", prefer higher temperatures, and typically finish faster. Also, there is typically no oxygen available during fermentation beyond what is dissolved in the wort
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by emtel 9y ago
I had years of classroom German in high school and basically cannot hold a conversation. Yes, Benny sounds like shit, and has to work pretty hard to express himself, but he is able to hold conversations with people (there are videos). To me
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by emtel 9y ago
It's an exceptionally tone-deaf and stupid paragraph, and I can't believe an NYT columnist would not realize the way people will interpret this. And I do feel there is something fundamentally icky about it. So by all means, let&#x
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by emtel 9y ago
Taleb holds that essentially all journalists are fools, and the articles they publish are "noise". He says "to cure yourself of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers". There's wisdom i
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by emtel 9y ago
> But since the usual way to reintegrate the sexes is to have them marry one another and raise kids, what Silicon Valley probably needs right now more than either workplace anti-microaggression training or an alt-right underground is a b
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by emtel 9y ago
It's kind of sad that PG couldn't get anything more than that out of the short stories he read in high school english. Sure, a lot of them are forgettable, but if I think think of the stories I read that stuck with me, they all ha
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by emtel 9y ago
It would not have been possible for google to put their headquarters in SF. Obtaining that much office space was difficult enough in the middle of nowhere. It would have been completely impossible to do it in SF. The transit impact would ha
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by emtel 9y ago
It's not just the branching factor. It's also the fact that the quality of moves in games like chess can be evaluated relatively quickly, say, within 10-20 turns. In Go, on the other hand, a stone placed at the beginning of the ga

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