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901.
by gaius 8y ago
poor workers in China who would see their living standards rise more slowly So we destroy the planet so the CCP can cling to power for a few more years? Because that’s what that is. And no one in the West will really suffer if their consu
902.
by gaius 8y ago
I think the people that first encountered computers when they were relatively simple and constrained have a huge advantage over the rest of us It is not a blessing but a curse. If you understand the computation you will spend so much time
903.
by gaius 8y ago
As someone who was there and did that I want to refute that assumption :) I have typed in many programs and there's not a lot to learn because most of them consisted of many pages of DATA lines and a small loop that loaded those machi
904.
by gaius 8y ago
you are not paying for the full end-to-end cost of the item Dirty little secret: this is deliberate. Why do you think the West closed all its heavily regulated factories and shifted manufacturing to China where environmental protection an
905.
by gaius 8y ago
I bet there's going to be a lot more uses within 5 years. 99.99% of people will get a backup bank card before they get into bitcoin.
906.
by gaius 8y ago
Absolutely. More and more now I am coming to the conclusion that it’s better to push into new problem domains with Python or R building on that ecosystem than it is to learn a new niche language for each thing. But Julia is so fast! They sa
907.
by gaius 8y ago
That is the dirty little secret of “silicon roundabout” or even worse “silicon beach” in the UK. There’s no actual tech there, just various tech-enabled ad and marketing firms.
908.
by gaius 8y ago
Serious A/B testing is usually done with a bandit algo these days, you can converge with far fewer trials than a statistically meaningful A/B. News or other articles recommendations are often bandits too - MSN being a prime exampl
909.
by gaius 8y ago
On Facebook events maybe means no and yes means “unless I get a better offer”. The RSVP there is completely useless.
910.
by gaius 8y ago
They can actually go on and on and on, sometimes numbering fifty or sixty necessary traits. I never saw as many as that myself but a dozen or more wouldn’t be unusual. A few might be reasonable such as “must love dogs” but nearly all wou
911.
by gaius 8y ago
Is there not at least two orders or magnitude difference between union dues and meaningful savings? Maybe even three or four!
912.
by gaius 8y ago
I am happily married now of course but when I tried online dating years ago, I remember that many women were hyperspecific about what they wanted in terms of minimum height and minimum income and even make of car in a potential partner. Thi
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by gaius 8y ago
In the UK I quit the IMechE when I realised it existed to serve large employers, not its individual members.
914.
by gaius 8y ago
I doubt I ever will so long as I am fortunate enough Think of it as insurance. When misfortune strikes - it will be too late.
915.
by gaius 8y ago
there's something more to this story. Maybe I’m just hopelessly jejune but I find it hard to believe in 2018 moustache-twiddling top-hat wearing Capitalist fatcats were like bwahahaha let’s sack all the women. Of course they absolute
916.
by gaius 8y ago
The same way the professional engineers do e.g. chartered status I guess. The exact details we’d work out later.
917.
by gaius 8y ago
one of the top-10 largest multinationals take the next step and pay in scrip instead of money You could argue that that’s what stock in a non-public company is already
918.
by gaius 8y ago
GMT is the time from which all other times are derived. It’s not going anywhere.
919.
by gaius 8y ago
The perception that Google is an American company serving American national interests as opposed to a fluffy post-nation collective can only harm them over the long term.
920.
by gaius 8y ago
Give that job to the military and it can remain secret for a long time. A signals regiment could have done that job with no leaks, even more so if they were SF.
921.
by gaius 8y ago
consumers when given the option to pick any two of ‘cheap’, ‘high quality’, ‘ethically produced’, have made the obvious choice. My observation is the consumers pick only one of those.
922.
by gaius 8y ago
A traditional union with collectively-bargained pay grades and seniority probably wouldn’t work in hi-tech but an even more traditional mediaeval style guild could work very well indeed.
923.
by gaius 8y ago
Since 2008 working for US/UK companies I have only seen RHEL and CentOS (prior to that, mostly SunOS/Solaris). I prefer Debian personally but for the last few years I have used CentOS for my own projects too - too much effort to m
924.
by gaius 8y ago
The big hedge funds pay big dollars for direct lines of data from the credit card companies They are looking for advance warning of something happening to the merchant, if they are a public company - not on you as an individual.
925.
by gaius 8y ago
In those days you could mount \\ftp.microsoft.com as m: and browse it as a file share, unencrypted SMB over the public internet !
926.
by gaius 8y ago
Because generally the new tech isn’t better. It’s just newer.
927.
by gaius 8y ago
but the tech was fine. Yep, AOLserver was one of the first “app servers” and it was well regarded. The other PG built his company around it.
928.
by gaius 8y ago
The team of consultants asked to NOT be given any performance data I call shenanigans, because people are not made redundant, positions are. Who gets laid off is related to their job not existing anymore, nothing to do with them as an ind
929.
by gaius 8y ago
not studying previous state of the art, not recording experiments properly, heuristics instead of rigorous analysis and so on ??? They taught all of us that in undergrad. a person without PhD would often neglect to mention scale in the g
930.
by gaius 8y ago
Ironically this is even true in investment banking. If you don’t love making deals above all else, you will never even make it to the point of being able to make the big money deals, you will wash out in the first few years.

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