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by gmarx 10y ago
Not only that, with a large group of people you can't trust everyone to have the judgement to tell exceptions to the rule. So it works better to just have everyone learn a simple rule like "don't move anything"
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by gmarx 10y ago
the puppy mill thing is disgusting. I also knew a pathologist who clued me in on the fact that a lot of the breed characteristics are considered diseases in humans, e.g. the achondroplasia of dachsands and basset hounds. My thinking- you sh
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by gmarx 10y ago
wasn't aware of this but will look it up.
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by gmarx 10y ago
That explains why most every dog breed that competes on looks and becomes popular gets messed up. Also American breeders have this odd habit of taking large dogs that should be about 80 lbs and breeding them into behemoths, usually to the d
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by gmarx 10y ago
The writer has little sense of history and doesn't understand what "Hollywood" as a business, is. Hollywood is content creation. When Netflix creates their own content, they are becoming part of that business. The theater bus
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by gmarx 10y ago
You seriously underestimate how rare star power is (or how spoiled we have become).
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by gmarx 10y ago
The price of the tech goes down, but with so much choice the quality of the writing, acting and so forth, if anything, needs to be higher
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by gmarx 10y ago
I doubt that is the persons only job. She might be the costume person or in charge of continuity. It's like how the union guys who are in charge of moving everything (teamsters I think) won't let you move anything
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by gmarx 10y ago
I think it's more like they would vote the country to grow a fraction of a percent more slowly in exchange for a more secure job in low skilled or unskilled labor
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by gmarx 10y ago
". The perception by many is that immigration was causing a drag down on wages, but all the data suggests in fact immigration is net benefit to a population". That statement is the old switcheroo. In summary, the perception of man
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by gmarx 10y ago
true but some of that is a reaction to how they were treated when they were younger. My cousin once remarked to me, that when I was younger I used my sense of humor as a way to reject people before they could reject me. Sounds like a self d
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by gmarx 10y ago
It might. I haven't read much speculative (fiction?) on the singularity but if it posits the machines reach a point where they begin to evolve through selection then it is likely that an emotion capable AI would outcompete. I wonder wh
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by gmarx 10y ago
It sounds similar but does not comport with the specifics I recall. The patient did not develop short term thinking. They were quite clear that his emotions had vanished Thanks though for the effort
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by gmarx 10y ago
WRT AI vs humans I see the main difference as human minds evolved emotions. Many people like to think the human mind is logic with a little emotion sprinkled on top. It is quite the opposite. We make decisions based on emotion and logic is
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by gmarx 10y ago
Really? I was alive at the time and the hostage crisis remains indelibly linked to Carter in my mind (aside from the belief of many on the left that Reagan cut some kind of deal with Iran to hold the hostages until after he won). Do younger
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by gmarx 10y ago
perhaps but if you look at per capita growth over the past hundred plus years in the US, aside from the great depression, you see pretty uniform growth no matter which party is in office. Also, the Clinton debt thing is overblown (my opinio
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by gmarx 10y ago
It's fascinating how many things that started under Carter people misremember and attribute solely to Reagan. We really do reform our memories to conform to simple stories
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by gmarx 10y ago
Depends what you cherry pick. One of the key assumptions of Scrum is colocated teams and (implicitly) engineers who want to understand and think creatively about the domain problems. Without those you have my personal guarantee you will fai
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by gmarx 10y ago
I know it's a bad idea to engage on this topic on HackerNews but...did you see Trump's press conference in which he says that we need to negotiate drug prices and do something about drug companies going to other countries for tax
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by gmarx 10y ago
Harsh in personal interactions perhaps. People generally feel free to be blunter with close people relative to strangers. The issue here is hiring practices
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by gmarx 10y ago
I checked MIT (alma mater) and it was 173 greatly skewed towards the bottom 60%. Don't know if this is something to be proud of but there it is :)
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by gmarx 10y ago
Opposite of which?
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by gmarx 10y ago
or possibly Indians didn't get the diversity memo and are more likely to hire other Indians than the analogous instinct in white managers? It's odd that the suit alleges that white people are discriminated against relative to Indi
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by gmarx 10y ago
worked hard, sure, but if the sale was for multiples of what was invested it's hard to see any argument for screwing early employees (aside from, because we can and we like more money for ourselves instead of these people we never expe
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by gmarx 10y ago
What frequency are these apps using? I haven't looked it up but I doubt most computer speakers go above 15Khz (why would they?) A young person should be able to hear really high but audible tones and an adult would rapidly lose the abi
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by gmarx 10y ago
Another point WRT Silicon Valley episode that has lessons for the real world. Developer will do a much better job on a project they picked rather than one that was assigned to them. This might be a lot of the advantage tiny, new startups ha
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by gmarx 10y ago
I wouldn't. I also think it is a small subset of projects in which specific technology choices are critical. Also, it seems you are describing to opposing problems, one shop only wants to use the technology it knows (in my opinion this
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by gmarx 10y ago
I'd say bigger and more frequent. I've never had a problem that went unsolved because the developers didn't have a reasonable tech solution. I have had things fail because developers don't grok the spec/requirements
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by gmarx 10y ago
In my experience most of these problems are cultural and there is nothing to be done once bad software dev culture takes root. The most common manifestation is management asking for something reasonable but with constraints that make it imp
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by gmarx 10y ago
Poor article. The first example they give (trying to reduce the risk of developing diabetes in an 83 yo by switching her to brown rice) is stupid, wishful thinking. Then several paragraphs which could be shortened to "they use data to

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