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by famil 4y ago
Artillery with spotters accomplished the same task.
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by famil 5y ago
William Catton is another visonary. I consider his book, Overshoot to be better than limits to growth. This lecture sums up his work well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8
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by famil 5y ago
A discussion between Li and Fujiyama: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r0yIMs2qqb4
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by famil 5y ago
Dominico Lorsudo's Liberalism: A Counter History https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9670246-liberalism is a a must read for the history of liberalism.
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by famil 5y ago
Eliminating suffering and preventing (re)birth? Sounds like Buddhism.
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by famil 5y ago
What is the use case of blockchain besides evasion of law enforcement and speculation?
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by famil 5y ago
I'm ready to accept that these phenomena might really be of Earth origin.
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by famil 8y ago
Arstechnica had a good piece on how patent reform was killed in Congress: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/how-the-patent-t...
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by famil 8y ago
Actually that's exactly what happened in the 1920s onward. Harvard’s admissions committee began using the euphemistic criteria of “character and fitness” to limit Jewish enrollment. From: https://www.nytimes.com/2014&#x
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Staff Letter: Engaging on Fund Innovation and Cryptocurrency-Related Holdings(sec.gov)
1 points by famil 9y ago|0 comments
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Talks at Google: Noam Chomsky [video](youtube.com)
164 points by famil 9y ago|42 comments
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by famil 9y ago
> how they're "just middlemen" As are Uber/AirBnb and internet advertising giants Google and Facebook.
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by famil 9y ago
Have you tried IQ testing instead of algorithm questions to measure intelligence?
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by famil 9y ago
I agree, it's bad for candidates but companies might like it. If everyone gives out take home assignments, it would be harder for candidates to negotiate by lining up multiple offers.
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by famil 9y ago
In my case, every company that gave me a take home assignment had on-site white board interviews as well.
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by famil 9y ago
#2 and #5 are issues with the company/hiring manager. #1, #4 and #7 are issues with traditional interview as well. #4 It's incredibly difficult to accurately assess potential during an interview. #1 and #7: This holds true for whi
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by famil 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RxkpUvxK0 In this video, a Google hiring committee were given their own anonymized hiring feedback and wouldn't even hire themselves.
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by famil 9y ago
What do you think about take home projects/homework interviews? I've noticed that they have become much more prevalent among smaller companies as a replacement for phone screens. As a candidate, interviewing is already a time con
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by famil 9y ago
Sci-Fi Short about telerobots controlled by gamers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXX0TRtg5Vk
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by famil 9y ago
Jürgen Schmidhuber had an interesting comment on the Strange Loop in his AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_a... As we interact with the world to achieve goals, we are constr