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by gohrt 10y ago
> That was a mistake, but not unethical. No one cares. If you fail to demonstrate professional ethics, it doesn't matter whether it's because you are unprofessional or unethical.
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by gohrt 10y ago
As long as people post articles about "myths", the myths won't die, because people will remember the myth, and forget the debunk! PLEASE: If you wanr people to remember your takeways, write TRUE statements, not False statemen
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by gohrt 10y ago
Not everyone at FB is an engineer.
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by gohrt 10y ago
"Outside the light cone" is more on point -- it's far enough away or moving fast enough that we'll never be able catch up.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Any rule structured game with fixed finite bounds is solvable.
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by gohrt 10y ago
The committee is how you "pass" the interview. Only awful interview performances are rejected on interview scores alone, before committee. Committee reduces the set of interview scores into a single decision.
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by gohrt 10y ago
There was a miscommunication. The recruiter intended to communicate that "VP-level committee is usually a safety check and pretty much a rubber stamp". That's the review layer above the main Hiring Committee. If you got rejec
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by gohrt 10y ago
Why? Uber drives aren't using the medallion.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Interesting use of CVV, since vendors aren't permitted to store it. But Chrome does, for you... is that synced across browsers? That would require Google to store the CVV on its servers...
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by gohrt 10y ago
Browsers don't auto-fill credit cards and passwords, today, because they are private. Chrome (and I assume others) has a secure credit card and password auto-fill, separate from regular form auto-fill.
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by gohrt 10y ago
That article says that Taiwan didn't have democratic elections in 1990. How is that responsive to a claim that Nationalist China was undemocratic?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Not sure what you think "progressive" means.
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by gohrt 10y ago
That's not true, bar soap gets stuck in hair and doesn't rinse well. Look at the ingredients in soap vs shampoo.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Pensions are funded. There is a national pension insurance fund. They are completely sustainable, as long as they are funded. A pension is an annuity. The pension money comes from money that is withheld from wages. Now, if some company enga
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by gohrt 10y ago
Yes: http://www.hightechemployeelawsuit.com/
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by gohrt 10y ago
the tens of thousands is for all the other similar value propositions they'd want in a car.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Isn't this how every organization in the world operates? How can anything resembling non-hobby work get done without a "directly responsible individual"?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Isomorphic means "have the same shape". It means that there is some structural property that the two objects have in common. The more interesting/complex the property is (and the more superficially different the two objects l
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by gohrt 10y ago
Labor Productivity measurement depends on GDP, so it suffers from classic GDP mismeasurement error. GDP only measures $, not value, so it fails to measure technological improvements in a competitive industry -- so it utterly fails to measur
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by gohrt 10y ago
a human vacuum misses spots and isn't very strong
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by gohrt 10y ago
A robot pharmacist is a trivial application -- it's just a secure vending machine, essentially a fancy coffee machine.
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by gohrt 10y ago
> how can a guy with an AK47 and a canteen compete with that. suicide attacks (bombs, airplanes, nuclear radiation) ...which is exactly what we see today.
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by gohrt 10y ago
It should be, though. Car #1 stopped shorted and car #2 hit it. Car #2 was at fault for hitting Car #1. Car #3 (Tesla), if it didn't stop, would be at fault for not maintaining stopping distance, hitting Car #2.
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by gohrt 10y ago
LOC is a worse measure than "% of the product", where the product has a global impact?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Don't forget Mario Kart, another long series of genre-defining games featuring the same characters.
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by gohrt 10y ago
That show was fun, and for any of its faults, the SMB movie erased them in a transdimensional crater of awful
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by gohrt 10y ago
Sure, but hardware reboot can be a button in the paperclip slot, not the main power button.
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by gohrt 10y ago
MayaTime would be a responsible name for this project. Brand Name + Hint about is functionality. Like "JodaTime" and "Golang"
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by gohrt 10y ago
I simple wage test -- does the worker net more than some low wage per hour, after a reasonable estimate of expenses -- would go far. The point of the employee/contractor distinction is give the right person responsibility for the compl
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by gohrt 10y ago
How is subsidization of labor worse than subsidization of non-labor?

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