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by gmadsen 5y ago
I get quite a bit of emails that are not completely spam, but by no means urgent to see. The filtering has been great to let me focus on things I need to see immediately, without having to scroll through 50 different promotional things
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by gmadsen 5y ago
What I've come to realize is this asks far too much of the average person. Ideas do not win on their logical merits. Rationality is not the driving force of opinion for the majority of people. The alternative is probably worse, as some
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by gmadsen 5y ago
That isn't necessarily a negative
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by gmadsen 5y ago
thats different than the cake though. If the bakery would sell a non designed cake to a gay couple, or if they refused a straight couple to make a gay cake, that is different than your example. To be clear, I'm not sticking up for the
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by gmadsen 5y ago
im not following the analogy. What is a black mortgage?
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by gmadsen 5y ago
there is evidence that runs contrary to your last sentence
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I don't live in the ad tech world, so I only vague know what is interconnected. Do the tech giants just sell info back and forth to each other? For example, When I watch youtube on my Roku, if im not signed in, does roku still aggregat
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I'm not sure about other industries, but for me personally, my competency is in large part based on my ability to quickly pick up domain knowledge and apply it successfully. I'm not really sure how you test for a base level of tha
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I'm fairly sure that US parents do have the ability to give their children tobacco and porn. They just can't purchase it themselves
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I assume a government mandate would be controlled at the ISP level. Most parents aren't tech savy enough for that. As a child, I was easily able to hide playing games.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
Part of it, is it seems that once you are in web dev, its hard to leave. So you try to make it interesting as best as you can, with "latest frameworks". I personally find all of of web dev to be monotonous
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by gmadsen 5y ago
one difference though is that varying levels of skill can be staggeringly different for SWE compared to a plumber. There are people that have been coding in basic since 12 and hacking their entire childhoods, and you have some people that c
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by gmadsen 5y ago
which I think I'm fine with. I can learn skills on my own time. But I expect compensation to be commensurate with that
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by gmadsen 5y ago
That seems like a court case at least. You would need to prove there is any difference in language skill from someone with 15 years versus 35 years, otherwise it is just an age requirement superficially disguised as a needed skill requireme
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by gmadsen 5y ago
The beer on tap exists up until the point that an HR person is hired. I've worked at a few companies that had kegs. Some seemed to make it a habit to drink and code late into the night, which I rarely did, but to me it at least signals
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by gmadsen 5y ago
You can't outlaw stupid. Society shouldn't be relegated to the lower common denominator
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by gmadsen 5y ago
Why would I defend an enemy combatant? The issue is whether it is a war crime, it is not. That in no way diminishes the horrible hellscape that is war.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I really don't think I am making that claim. As far as I've read SAT scores before the age of 10 are a good marker of intelligence. Of course you can prep a large extent to get into a good school as a high school student. I attend
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by gmadsen 5y ago
you obviously have a pretty strong bias. I didn't say its a requirement, I said they would have a higher percentage of gifted students. Also the requirements are not "above average", a math SAT of 750 is in the 95% percentil
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by gmadsen 5y ago
algebra, analysis, topology. That is about what the average mathematics curriculum consists of. Maybe we have different definitions of average, which seems to be a hacker news bias, schools in the top 40 are not average by definition , but
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by gmadsen 5y ago
while I agree, that very smart children can be victims of their childhoods, not everyone can prep their way into MIT. that is why Harvard and Yale are more prestigious, its more associated with the powerful, not purely the most academically
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by gmadsen 5y ago
obviously we are talking about statistics, so of course specific examples exist that run counter to the trend. But without a doubt, I am 100% certain that on average the incoming CS class to MIT is smarter than students in the cs program at
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by gmadsen 5y ago
even hard sci-fi is going to make concessions for the sake of the story. I really don't understand how something that has no obligation to be factual can be more educational..
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by gmadsen 5y ago
they don't. I think you are just misunderstanding the comment. The poster was saying people might assume its related to battery level since it is correlated to time of day, which does have an effect on prices. He was making a comment a
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by gmadsen 5y ago
Quantum electrodynamics is the most precise and accurate theory ever created. So not sure what you mean exactly by understand.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
is that synonymous with dark matter as described in galaxy structure models?
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by gmadsen 5y ago
you have to plan for the world we live in not the world you want. Gullible people are a fact of life. Blaming them does nothing productive
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by gmadsen 5y ago
to the non expert ear, Get Free sounds much much more similar to Creep, than Creep does to "The Air that I Breathe"
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by gmadsen 5y ago
the textbook already exists, and has for a couple thousand years. Just study, master and apply Aristotle
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by gmadsen 5y ago
hopefully society can wait that long

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