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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Oh, I see. You're not actually Japanese.
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
If you never heard about the weight maintenance company wide competitions (let's fitness!), the labor doctor telling you that it might be difficult for you to handle stressful management work with high blood pressure, the kids saying t
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
This, plus yearly mandated healthchecks with huge pressure and shame on excessive weight.
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Do you have any references?
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
This argument keeps popping up as if every engineer was exactly the same, which is simply not true. High quality talent is expensive, hard to recruit, hard to keep. High salary is one of many perks a company offers to capture high quality t
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
> and leadership asks why you weren't logging everything in full fidelity? I haven't been asked this question ever. In a way, I wish I was. I wish leadership was engaged in the details of the capabilities of the systems they le
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
That's an unfortunate and charged statement that misrepresents what I said. A fundamental aspect of science is rigor. And a fundamental aspect of democracy is opposition.
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
It is impossible to establish causality in complex economic systems to be able to have evidence based decisions. The current economic direction is not a consensus. The Western democracies are increasingly politically polarized and economica
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
It's also not clear that allowing factories that underpay exploited workers to ship stuff over is a net win
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Thankfully nothing along the lines of this suggested wild speculation to try to get a rage bait headline. Dishonest trolling is not a challenge or pushback. Nothing constructive comes out of this.
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
If the failure was not a failure, but instead an amazing success, then it would have been more successful than this exceptional success.
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Evil is a moral concept, which is less tied to religion these days. Drugs are an anti-social drain on society, that sickens its buyers, turning them into zombies or criminals, and turns the sellers into greedy, violent people who corrupt la
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Dunning Kruger is a cognitive bias in overconfident individuals, not a general characteristic found in every person.
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
> If you move you still need to notify them, although perhaps in Japan big brother already knows you've moved. When we move, we need to register our address change at the city hall. In terms of Big Brother, that's a given. The
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Different from your comment, that comes from your insight from your lived experiences in this community, the quote is a whole bunch of nothing. Maybe the nothingness is because LLM can't reason. Maybe it's because it was trained a
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
And how hard would you expect the Americans to drive the negotiation when they know they are the only possible customer for Alberta? Trade deals are not made with generosity towards oil producers in mind.
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
> Basic econ 101: inelastic demand means supply can be as expensive as the limited number who are lucky enough to get it are able to afford. In the same basic econ 101, you learn that real estate demand is localized. UBI allows folks to
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Which is an excellent point for conversations, but in the context of the release notes in the website of the project, I understand that this xkcd principle does not apply. If one goes to the release notes for Lazarus, they either sought tho
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Not every form of discrimination is the holocaust. It is very important to not be extreme when dealing with human ignorance. For mild cases of discrimination, especially those coming from fear and ignorance, engaging in full confrontation i
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
The adverse effect is higher latency, as the execution gets delayed due to throttling. Parent probably didn't care about latency.
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
Singapore has been independent since 1959, while the USA got its own in 1776, and Britain has been around for more than a thousand years. I don't think we can, yet, call Singapore a lastingly successful system, considering most of the
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by evidencetamper 1y ago
What do you mean by that? I don't understand the comparison, but would like to. Is it about monopoly?
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by evidencetamper 2y ago
As long as the library is available. Neither static nor dynamic linking is looking to solve the 20 year old binaries issue, so both will have different issues. But I think it's easier for me to find a 20 year old ISO of a Red Hat/
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by evidencetamper 2y ago
> Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. REDIS tradeoffs have been so widely discussed because many, many engineers disagree with them. REDIS is so lowly regarded that some companies ban it completely, making their enginee
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by evidencetamper 2y ago
> unfair competition for work That's a very good indicator of a bloated institution. People have to compete for work instead of pushing it away or avoiding it because they already have their hands full. But I don't believe ther
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by evidencetamper 2y ago
I find it surprising that someone who worked inside a banking corporation, and has seen first hand that nothing ever goes according to plan, is able to believe that somehow the machinery is perfectly orchestrating a privilege loop.
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by evidencetamper 2y ago
He has found something of an audience in the social media oriented audiences, who are educated enough to grasp the general idea, but not specialized enough to verify his claims. I've only heard of him because of this sort of Hacker New
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by evidencetamper 2y ago
> Finding the right balance is key to creating something truly impactful This doesn't mean anything at all. These platitudes are pure vapor, and seem just solid enough that they make sense at first glance, but once you try to grasp
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by evidencetamper 2y ago
Excellent comment. What you raised are two important aspects of the analysis that the article didn't bother thinking about: - how to best leverage the team you currently have - what is the most likely shape your team will have in the f
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by evidencetamper 2y ago
That's also an aphorism that may or may not correspond to reality. Not only there are companies with highly capable teams that are able to move fast using a complex mix of technologies, but also there are customers who have very little

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