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by hawkice 11y ago
It seems a bit odd to couple "there will be dramatically more demand for candidates than society can support" with "do all this extra work to prove you are qualified". Shouldn't one trend obviate the _need_ for the
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by hawkice 11y ago
Juries are composed of 12 people. Saying there are discrepancies between the jury pool and the US of less than 8 percentage points is somewhat silly -- making even the smallest change would not reduce the size of those errors.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Well, if you really want to drill down on this example: the barber doesn't have substantial interests in which type of haircut you get. Tesla has substantial interest in which kind of carbon tax you get -- high carbon tax would be a bo
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by hawkice 11y ago
It's hard to imagine any process that doesn't have some interaction with carbon-based fuel. So while he is willing to pay the cost along with everyone else, the conflict of interest is still there -- his company will benefit _at t
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by hawkice 11y ago
If he was actually hitting a cycle in the numbers generated, check/retry won't help -- eventually your entire network will bottleneck on DB reads without making any writes.
576.
by hawkice 11y ago
Belgian control of the Congo was rife with pretty extreme abuse -- the obvious, often horrifying consequences of conquest. But the influx of ambitious businesspeople and capital which they claim started the wider outbreak of HIV, is a curio
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by hawkice 11y ago
There are a lot of things to say about this (for instance, I'm not sure policies should be constructed based on the worst thing that could happen instead of the thing that probably will happen), but this leaps out at me: Why would a te
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by hawkice 11y ago
I already don't use Facebook, but if your comment is to suggest we ask ourselves to do unpleasant things (that still aren't social interaction) in the name of handling the complexities of social interaction -- why would be specifi
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by hawkice 11y ago
So, those numbers together indicate an increase in productivity -- but there are non-working age people in the economy that still need a slice of the pie. Productivity growth is good, but I'd focus on the larger population changes.
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by hawkice 11y ago
As long as we are nitpicking: That phrase structure exists to contextualize a timeframe, not introduce a topic. In the same way you could say, "back in my days as a sommelier-in-training, we used to make jokes about people who would ke
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by hawkice 11y ago
It's a single data point on the curve, so probably close to average, but yeah, that's the notion.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Not an unreasonable conclusion, but let's say there is a true (hidden/unknowable) rate of deaths X. You'd expect, not knowing the statistical distribution, maybe half the time the measurement (adding deaths from events) it&#x
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by hawkice 11y ago
You mean upper bound -- being a more likely killer than heart attacks is a statistical impossibility. Same for car accidents. Same for iron deficiency, Trypanosomiasis, and a bunch of other things.
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by hawkice 11y ago
"Proud of your neighbor's success" generally doesn't present as "forbidding trade of strategic goods with them".
585.
by hawkice 11y ago
I am extremely skeptical of the accuracy of the adtech-over-time chart. I looked for companies I knew revenue numbers for, and I saw revenue flat and them suddenly appearing in the last box despite existing for years before his timeline eve
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by hawkice 11y ago
So, thunks should avoid multiple evaluation, too, and handle exceptions in a way that is relatively coherent. I like: function thunk(f) { var evaluated = false; var value = undefined; var excepting = undefined; return {
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by hawkice 11y ago
This is perhaps the most unnecessarily rude comment to be at the top of a hacker news thread in some time. Let's all remember that disagreeing with someone doesn't mean being glib or mean.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Full disclosure: The best way to compete with them is to know something very specific about not-technology. Laypeople do not understanding the difference between basic and advanced technical skills, even if they did it wouldn't be part
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by hawkice 11y ago
I noticed I started sending a lot of personal, narrative, long-form emails a couple months after deleting my facebook. It turns out some people are bothered by this, or have no idea how to communicate this way. YMMV
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by hawkice 11y ago
I assume "recognized" means that when a recruiter for those company sees that, their reaction is: "Nanodegree in... what the what? Oh, wait a second. Yeah, this is that PR from the Khan Academy or whatever. Sure, I recognize
591.
by hawkice 11y ago
Depends a lot on programming language. Stuff like that tends to end up in Exceptions, if you have decently useful exceptions available.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Yes, NULL means the lack of something. Very simple. But not having something when you think you do is by far the most common class of errors. So if you are always clear about the fact you either WILL have something or MAY have something (in
593.
by hawkice 11y ago
Indeed, that's a lot of money to spend for no benefit. If you let people pay to adjust search order it's always a conflict of interest, though. It's just that in this case, they preferred the little customer (who pays for the
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by hawkice 11y ago
To be perhaps even more fair, Haskell's String type is actually a singly linked list of unicode 32 characters, so you'd want C to use unicode and Haskell to use ByteString (or Text).
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by hawkice 11y ago
The more I consider this the less it seems like there even IS a rate of propagation, because if it was _only_ sec/sec delays then things would change instantly, not fade in and out.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Indeed, their argument is belied by the old intro to Chemistry technique I learned -- start with what you know, and keep multiplying by 1, or things that are true expressed in fractions, like 3.28m/ft, stuff like that. That example fac
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by hawkice 11y ago
A good possibility, but Back To The Future's time travel doesn't require 'immediate' consistency. Could be that changes are propagating at 2†, so Marty can meet his future self and watch him fade into a future self that
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by hawkice 11y ago
This assumes (quite wrongly) that the same goods have the same utility across the population. It's similar to saying, in a perfectly efficient economy, there would be no trades. There are, because there is a benefit to that trade -- an
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by hawkice 11y ago
Honestly, I have spoken to and worked with some of these engineers, and if they've been ten years deep on software that has no capacity for errors at all, they can be a bit difficult. Not just "I can't use that tool, it has a
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by hawkice 11y ago
There are quite a few things in the fourth category, and I'd like to say, for instance: Beeminder. Specialized, but there is a lot going on. Honestly, I like it. I could just keep a text file if I didn't want those features, and I

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