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by freyir 8y ago
I’m in the US and know it exists, but I don’t know anyone who uses it. It seems like it’s used predominantly by women to collect and share photos taken by other people (e.g. photos of clothing, makeup, fashion models, crafts, weddings, food
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by freyir 8y ago
‘U.S. companies must realize that in doing business with China, "they are automatically required to have a cell of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in that company and that it's going to lead to that intellectual property from th
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by freyir 8y ago
I didn’t mention vindictiveness. I mentioned that dealers are allowed to break the law in the open without consequence. Vindictiveness is how you’ve chosen to interpret that.
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by freyir 8y ago
Not to mention our Stanford-educated biomedical entrepreneurs. Or our USC athletes.
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by freyir 8y ago
Nordic countries have low crime rates to begin with, which allow them to build relatively spacious prisons and allocate more treatment resources per prisoner. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem we’ve got. We could just not prosecute ma
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by freyir 8y ago
I see. So instead of the SATs, we could administer a psychological test to detect antisocial tendencies. We’ll send the worst of the bunch straight to the Ivey Leagues. That will teach them.
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by freyir 8y ago
Marijuana arrests account for 0.7% of the prison population. It would be interesting to see the figures for other types of arrest.
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by freyir 8y ago
I think I see what you’re saying. We should send all criminals to Harvard. We’ll save money, and they’ll become productive members of society.
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by freyir 8y ago
Because the drug policy is one of San Francisco’s overarching social failures? The city hands hundreds of millions of dollars to outreach organizations that operate with little oversight and offer no results. We hand out 400,000 needles a
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by freyir 8y ago
Of course. After 9-10 years they probably make tremendous salaries. I guess they could take a pay cut and go somewhere else, or even retire, but that’s not for everyone. Facebook forgot that “change the world” isn’t the end goal. It’s to ch
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by freyir 8y ago
While working in defense R&D, I did my most interesting work and met some of my best colleagues. Eventually I moved to SV and its greener grass: a better salary and a clearer conscience. The truth is, I miss the interesting work, the co
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by freyir 8y ago
Money. They pay many people salaries that they’d have trouble getting elsewhere. If these people stick around for the dream even after the money dries up, then I’ll be impressed. The sentiment I’ve heard so far is “let’s wait this out, and
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by freyir 8y ago
I deleted Facebook, and it’s still finding ways to annoy me.
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by freyir 8y ago
For the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBFXzyp3sks
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by freyir 8y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. There has been a brain-drain from industry and academia because FAANG and the Bay Area have been providing software engineers with much better compensation, even with the cost-of-living factored in.
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by freyir 8y ago
It's a dumb way of phrasing it. The author likely tried to reduce ambiguity, but ended up increasing it. My guess would be that "currently ever use the service" means "currently use the service, even if just sporadically
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by freyir 8y ago
Of course the Bay Area is actually diverse. But I’m skeptical that tech companies actually care about these communities. They care about close proximity to a large population of engineers.
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by freyir 8y ago
"Diversity" in this context is a politically-correct way of saying there is a large community of well-educated Indian immigrants on H1-B Visas living in Silicon Valley and working in the tech industry. Not San Francisco as much, b
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by freyir 8y ago
Local markets aren’t different products, to start.
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by freyir 8y ago
The person can rationalize playing 10,000 hours of CoD in their parent’s basement all they want. But I guess we can disagree, too, and suggest they don’t give up on life yet. Maybe our perspective is that of someone who was in a similar pla
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by freyir 8y ago
> it is written in a very haphazard fashion I felt the same way. Knowledgeable authors, loads of information, but quite poorly written. That said, I don’t know of another book that’s as up to date or comprehensive, so I guess we’re stuck
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by freyir 8y ago
Most of the world's population can not afford access to this information. All while they charge authors, charge readers, soliciting volunteers to do the work for free, and publish academic research paid for by taxpayers. It's sham
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by freyir 8y ago
It seems like they keep (every decade or so) coming across single specimens. So I’d guess there are more, but they’re elusive.
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by freyir 8y ago
I know the point you're making, but I don't think it's very convincing. First off, OP is talking about a trend in the community to favor shorter and shorter names. He didn't say you need to code that way, but there is
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by freyir 8y ago
If you’ve seen any amount of Go and Java code (starting with, say, the standard libraries), you’d know these communities take very different approaches to variable names.
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by freyir 8y ago
Who knows, maybe we’d go back to valuing face-to-face communication.
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by freyir 8y ago
I interviewed onsite a few weeks back and got bad vibes from five of the six interviewers. A few seemed to hate being there, and the others seemed like nightmares to work with. One guy was cool, though.
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by freyir 8y ago
That’s true. Even as a citizen, I’m hesitant to provide negative feedback about a manager because I’ve seen it backfire way too many times.
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by freyir 8y ago
Easier said than done you’re on an H1B visa and HR hangs you out to dry.
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by freyir 8y ago
Just to be clear, MIMO is not a new feature in 5G. LTE has MIMO. Old Wi-Fi routers from 10 years ago had MIMO. 5G is upping the number of antennas per base station. Theoretically, this allows a linear increase in capacity, but linear scalin

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