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by ewjordan 8y ago
Unfortunately the title is misleading, and it makes sense that some would interpret it as supporting the sunk cost fallacy - the author is actually advocating for judging how much you should give up to get something by how much you'll
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by ewjordan 8y ago
The miner's identity (more or less) has to be one of the inputs to the problem, so that everyone is actually working on a different problem and you can't "steal" a block just by broadcasting another person's solut
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Ok, but...is there any particular reason to think IVF is not safe, other than a superstitious ookiness about the methodology of the thing? 40 years without any such indication is fairly strong evudence, IMO.
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Most lawyers seem to be advising the opposite, though, and say that backups are ok - do you have some knowledge here, or are you arguing the spirit of the law?
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by ewjordan 9y ago
If you need to write to the DB, you're hosed, and caching locally will only make things more of a headache. If not, you might be able to improve read uptime, but at a high cost. It's not easy to keep a local DB in sync with a re
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Avoiding this kind of "leadership" is especially crucial for product owners on interdisciplinary teams, like game teams. There you might have 20-50+ people across engineering, design, planning, art, QA, analytics, and business dev
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Significantly altering an active table without downtime is a problem that will not, and should not, ever be solved by a library. It's too fraught with peril and special case fun for any competent devops person to leave it up to externa
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Wait, I'm confused...you're saying genetic approaches fell out of favor because they're basically just stochastic gradient descent? Most of modern DL relies heavily on SGD at various points during training. My impression is t
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by ewjordan 9y ago
+1 for Wald - MTW is great, but it's really dense, and takes some odd approaches that are not really common in the field. Wald stays lean and tight, while still covering the important stuff. You'll probably find MTW a lot more app
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by ewjordan 9y ago
> We don't even know if or to what degree 'super-intelligence' is possible. For all we know, there may be fundamental trade offs between the different skills necessary for general intelligence that may provide functional l
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Facebook leans left AF, as do most places in the Bay (whether people like it or not) apart from special cases like Palantir. From the bottom to the top of the chain of command they are as upset as anyone that they were used to nudge things
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Keep in mind that this ruling doesn't say it's a crime. It merely says, it's not covered by an exemption to the at-will employment rules that let a company fire you for any reason. If my boss doesn't like the fact that I
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I have sympathy for what you're saying here; I think it would be a totally valid interpretation of the law to say that point 3), however clumsy it may have been, was made in support of point 2), and therefore under protection. But th
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Damore has basically 3 points in his memo, in increasing order of disputability: 1) Conservatives are discriminated against at Google, which is a problem for working conditions 2) Google pushes an aggressive voluntary affirmative action pol
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I remember when I was first learning Java, whacking my head repeatedly against all these sorts of problems - WTF is a JRE vs. a JDK, why is it asking to install a browser toolbar, WTF is Eclipse and why doesn't it just let me run the
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Oh, there's a ship party built into the Process, alright. It's called the sprint restrospective, and everyone sits around and argues for an hour about what went badly during the sprint. Even more fun is the sprint retrospective re
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by ewjordan 9y ago
But most of the driving-giggers that I know do not have single relationships, they're working with both Uber and Lyft, or GrubHub, Seamless, Doordash, etc, as each one rises and falls in profitability for them.
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by ewjordan 9y ago
The theory that non-capitalist societies can have thriving long-lasting economies that produce new innovations and lift their people up is pretty questionable so far. I can't think of a single example where there's not at least
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I understand the fear, though - when you're data driven, you can actually numerically measure the contribution of every feature that's tested, and in a lot of cases figure out the exact impact on revenue. In a culture where ever
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by ewjordan 9y ago
A/B testing won’t ever get you a Tesla from a horse. Right. But if you were already selling Teslas, and along came a smooth-talking product designer with a dream to "improve" it by building a horse instead, A/B testing
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by ewjordan 9y ago
You're definitely correct, this article overhypes the mysteriousness. It's a shame, though, and a missed opportunity to go deeper, because it is a surprising fact that almost all of physics is most elegantly expressed in terms o
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Being disrespectful, while supremely offensive to me and a very good reason not to watch Logan Paul (or let your kids watch him), does not meet my personal bar of "should be banned". Mainstream media routinely gives the mic to peo
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Not following you. Sounds to me like if land, not construction, is the dominant factor in cost, luxury and affordable units should cost about the same amount. Unless the affordable units were higher density.
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by ewjordan 9y ago
If you live paycheck to paycheck, then you have the same amount of money at the end of the year as you did at the beginning. Does that mean you didn't participate in the economy?
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by ewjordan 9y ago
His claim was the leak, and it was huge, and I'm not going to dig through it for you for quotes just because you're a contrarian. The NSA did a shit ton of surveillance that was not justified under known US law, and that's
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by ewjordan 9y ago
React Native is great for apps, and if it's a game, just use Unity. They're building up their internal CI infrastructure and it works better every month. Tbh, I'm not sure how many use cases don't fit either React Native
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Snowden let that cat out of the bag years ago in voluminous detail. You absolutely do not need to cite sources re: illegal NSA surveillance anymore.
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Sure, that might be true. Or, as is more common, the people working on a game have way more of a perfectionist streak than is worthwhile given the audiences. What I always say in these situations: if two weeks worth of work would be the dif
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I think a clearer way to say what a lot of people are bothered by with that example is that in order to sell those recommendations you need: a) to have a lot of marketing expertise b) to be known well enough for your marketing expertise tha
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by ewjordan 9y ago
You're right, reading occasional blog posts doesn't do anything for anyone, on pretty much any topic. I'd argue that anyone professing to be a rationalist on those grounds is lying to themselves. Also worth pointing out that

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