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by ericmcer 2y ago
Playing Pool is a great example of this because you can math out the angles of a shot relatively easily, but the best pool players do it all intuitively. Some of the greatest don't bother with "advanced" pool tactics. They ha
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It always seemed common sense to me that once a piece of software became stable and profitable you would need a much smaller engineering staff than when it was being built. The opposite seems to happens and orgs 10X their engineer headcount
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Seriously, that severance is awesome. Of all the tech workers struggling, the ones from companies big enough to throw 4+ mo severance packages are not the ones I am worried about. Any smaller company your severance is a pat on the back.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
If you play piano much you definitely develop a "style" to your improvisations pretty quickly. It is probably some combination of your nature, what you played early on and what you listen to. Anytime I fiddle around on the piano I
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Pretty low chance of that happening haha. The one similarity I see between both parties is they both have a ton of money in the stock market and so do the corporations that lobby them. So my political stance is to keep following their inves
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Clothing industry has somehow gotten by unscathed during all the environmental awareness that has spread in the past 20 years. I am pretty sure clothes are the #1 cause of the microplastics that have inundated the ocean and our water supply
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Also it doesn't cause the cancer, but iron expedites growth of colorectal cancer cells? Seems clickbaity if I am reading it right.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
cows = 5%, wasps = 15%, kangaroos = 2% I am not an animal expert but just based on intuition this seems off...
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I like Slack because you are not responsible for any single message unless you are specifically called out in it. Emails were each little todos that sat in your inbox until you addressed them. If you are feeling good you can engage in a spi
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by ericmcer 2y ago
They aren't prohibiting it, they are putting an age limit on it in the same way we do all the other things you listed. Kids are not developed enough to self-regulate, I have watched my kid eat tons of sugar then feel terrible a few hou
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Article focuses a bit too much on specific task visualizations (recursive loop, performance optimizing, etc.) I don't usually spend much time doing that though. Real work to me involves more holding a ton of less complex visualizations
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I took a fair number of trips when I was 16 and I think it literally brought my consciousness online. There was a pretty stark contrast between the me before who who just wanted to play video games and hang out with friends, and the me afte
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This seems to happen a lot though: some chemical/substance/whatever with benefits is discovered. Substance has negative effects on people. They test it until they find that those negative effects are no longer detectable at a cer
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I don't know but it doesn't pass my smell test. The rest of the world does not fluoridate their water (they would not have a financial incentive to), but we do and there are major financial incentives for us. If its only purpose i
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by ericmcer 2y ago
You are viewing it like an engineer. From a business perspective if you can keep a product stable while growing your user base until you become an attractive acquisition target then this is a great strategy. Sometimes as an engineer I like
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by ericmcer 2y ago
My dentist said something like "it exposes you to less radiation than eating a banana", but she also left the room when the machine was firing.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Probably never, I have really long arms and they usually take it just barely above the elbow also. I have always been on the higher end even when in my 20s and training/dieting for athletic events. Used to flummox me until I bought my
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This has been a really interesting part of having a 15 year old. Kids at that age are starting to really want independence and make lofty claims about what they will do, but they have no context for the difficulties involved with their des
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by ericmcer 2y ago
That does seem like the best way to go about it, but I have family who are doctors and they frequently talk about how tired they are of tech guys who read "The Mom Test" who now skulk around asking probing questions about pain poi
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I kind of agree, but we have way too many bombs just floating around. How many nukes does a country need to have readied in order for mutually assured destruction to be relevant? I feel like 100 would be enough to deter any aggression, and
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeah I was almost gonna say it makes this proposal feel redundant. I can enforce object shape pretty well using TS, not sure why we need another OOP like thing that tries to do the same.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yes I am serious, what you are claiming is: US has 333m so: China 1.4b = 4.5X more innovations Africa 1.3b = 4X more innovations India 1.4b = 4.5X more innovations I don't think this holds true at all. Also the innovations you mentione
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Bob Dylan?
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I mean just google major inventions that have come out of each of those countries versus the united states. I am not trying to be elitist, just making an argument that more people != more innovation and smaller groups with more resources wi
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Nature vs Nurture I guess. If more people = more progress we would see way more innovation coming from China/India/Africa. Each of those places has double the population of Europe and 5X that of the USA, but aren't really dri
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I don't think the 'they' you refer to exist anymore. It isn't that tech workers got corrupted by power. There was a brief (20 year?) period where workers had more leverage than owners. Asset owners were forced to bend to
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Examples like that are really dispiriting because it points to us not being able to create talented people through nurture. American society is pretty focused on success, and many of us blame our mediocrity on a lack of effort, bad parentin
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I don't have any science behind this, but it makes sense that training more complex motions would trigger greater brain improvements. Dance vs basketball or some other high coordination/skill activity might have less disparity tha
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by ericmcer 2y ago
could they regulate it in some manner? I like betting on sports but to the tune of $50/month or so, it just makes any event way more interesting when you have $20 on the line. Maybe just put a limit on how much you can transfer to the
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by ericmcer 2y ago
2 years in the prison she will end up at or the one SBF is at? For multiple millions, yeah 100% immediately. 2 years in a supermax or in one of the super violent federal prisons... probably not.

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