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901.
by eru 4mo ago
I agree in the abstract. But the abstract doesn't say anything concretely about what the exact powers of (traffic) cops should be. For example, your average cop in the UK, traffic or otherwise, doesn't carry a gun. Bobbies can g
902.
by eru 4mo ago
> I guess it's just sophisticated enough. Maybe, though just applying a commercial or open-source off-the-shelf solver is a lot easier than most of what they ask you to figure out in your average programming interview. Probably abo
903.
by eru 4mo ago
Sorry, I was perhaps being too indirect.
904.
by eru 4mo ago
Huh? HDB, which is an arm of the government, manages lifts, light and exterior. The condo management companies are not arms of the government. What is so hard about this? Is there something I'm not understanding?
905.
by eru 4mo ago
Just the opposite: he was very smart; but most people don't consider his overall life choices to be something you would want to copy.
906.
by eru 4mo ago
No, why? The condos in Singapore are run by private-sector management companies.
907.
by eru 4mo ago
Well, I was on the tech side which (at least at Goldman) has comparatively higher powered titles at less reports compared to the real bankers. I suspect it's because the tech side doesn't run the model where ambitious young people
908.
by eru 4mo ago
Eh, AI is getting better at creating little visualisations, too.
909.
by eru 4mo ago
The hard part is often finding a way to turn your business problem into a math problem in the first place.
910.
by eru 4mo ago
I don't think this has anything to do with _modern_ corporate culture. There was never a golden age where corporate culture was better across the board.
911.
by eru 4mo ago
I was an Executive Director / Vice President at Goldman with 0 reports.
912.
by eru 4mo ago
Companies can be efficient and inefficient at the same time. Efficient at some things, and inefficient at other things. For things with direct bottom line impact and fierce competition, many companies can suddenly become very efficient. B
913.
by eru 4mo ago
Compare and contrast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
914.
by eru 4mo ago
> I managed a guy like that. He was capable of very complex thinking, but he wasn't in love with complexity, he was in love with simplicity. His solutions tended to be of the form, "we can ignore all these things, and just focu
915.
by eru 4mo ago
It's a shame that NYC can't raise more from property taxes / land taxes? They sit on some of the most valuable real estate in the world, surely that should be able to find public infrastructure etc? Especially since the dens
916.
by eru 4mo ago
Well, especially in a democracy what's supposed to be right or wrong is heavily influenced by what the general public wants and accepts.
917.
by eru 4mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640533 for some further elaboration. These models are definitely a lot better than your run of the mill human developer at finding security flaws in existing systems. I'm agn
918.
by eru 4mo ago
Well, Berlin's history was a bit more complicated. Between the 'losing the empire' bit and the 'surplus housing' was a whole generation or two of the city being divided and one part living under siege and the other
919.
by eru 4mo ago
Wikipedia says 'usually'. And, yes, you are right that the individual HDB flats are typically owned by individual families (though the government also owns some and rents them out, but that's the exception). However, HDB sti
920.
by eru 4mo ago
Maybe. That narrower focus definitely makes your remark more defensible. On a tangent: along with most economist, I generally prefer giving poor people money that they can spend on goods and services as they please; instead of having some
921.
by eru 4mo ago
Mostly right. However there's an extra assumption I didn't explicitly state: Almost all existing real world software is full of holes and security flaws. Mythos is better than humans at uncovering many of them; especially becaus
922.
by eru 4mo ago
> Opus 4 class models are terrifying at infosec. They tie their shoelaces together on other things, but don't fuck with them on that. It's a savant thing. I think they are very good at finding flaws; but they aren't all th
923.
by eru 4mo ago
And as far as we can tell from the writing, it is. (Not in a sexual way, I guess. But he seems to like the attention.)
924.
by eru 4mo ago
I don't think that's how it works in theory, but in practice it seems to be pretty close. (I mostly agree with you otherwise. Mr Banana Car Man would tell us, if he felt himself to be a victim.)
925.
by eru 4mo ago
Sure, I agree about the ice cream cones for random people. But the banana car guy is basically opting-in to getting lots of attention. (And, yes, I realise that this is exactly the same shape of argument that turns into victim blaming when
926.
by eru 4mo ago
In some purer version of the universe where laws are absolute, you might be right. In the world as it is, with laws interpreted by humans along notions of what society generally finds acceptable: if you drive a funny car or where an especia
927.
by eru 4mo ago
English has a lot more of these crash blossoms--not just in headlines--than eg German or other more inflected languages. It's sometimes charming, sometimes annoying. (But it makes for some cheap joke material that tends to make Poms t
928.
by eru 4mo ago
TV Tropes puts the start of darker and grittier more into the 1990s. See https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier And some even in the 1980s or 1970s. https://tvtropes.org/
929.
by eru 4mo ago
I guess you wouldn't really want to go any faster in this kind of car?
930.
by eru 4mo ago
Sure, there's always a worse programme you can point at.

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