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by hilux 3y ago
It's "holacracy" all over again! How soon they forget.
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by hilux 3y ago
Oh, that brings back memories! "For every epsilon, there is a delta ..."
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by hilux 3y ago
That's thought-provoking - thank you. Essentially, unless it's an old exam where the universe of bad answers is already known, you need two passes - a discovery pass followed by the grading pass.
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by hilux 3y ago
The result seems pretty intuitive to me. The test is easy to re-run, unless the data have been "lost," which is not mentioned. Most importantly, none of the researchers is a psychologist or behavioral economist or any kind of &quo
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by hilux 3y ago
In the real world, universities are never going to fix the problem of overworked and underpaid grad students getting tired.
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by hilux 3y ago
> Wang noted that for a small group of graders (about 5%) that grade from Z to A, the grade gap flips as expected This is critical. Otherwise we could not discount some group (e.g. some ethnicity) disproportionately occupying one end of
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by hilux 3y ago
In addition to the concerns raised in the article, doubly reconsider using Lumina if you have East Asian genes: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jGu4nLgQYwfsoxddu/reconsider...
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Ketamine bladder: Special clinics as youth addiction 'explodes'(bbc.com)
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by hilux 3y ago
It would be cool to DNA test some of these book bindings, match them against a genetic database, and invite living descendants to a party!
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by hilux 3y ago
They are in fact the preferred truck of ISIS. This is worth a read: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Wild-Blue-Yonder/Article-Di...
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by hilux 3y ago
FYI, it links to the Apr 18th episode of the Odd Lots podcast.
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by hilux 3y ago
Google: Banting Diet
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by hilux 3y ago
They seem to be protesting for the right to filter their employer's deals according to their personal morality. It doesn't work like that, not even at non-profits. However, whether a non-profit or a trillion-dollar tech giant, the
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by hilux 3y ago
Googlers were upset when benefits were cut back, they were upset at layoffs, and now they're upset when their very well-paying employer actually does deals that bring in $$$$!?
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by hilux 3y ago
I remember first using Expensify after years of wrangling various ERP monstrosities. Serious joy.
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by hilux 3y ago
> A well made leather item can last longer than a human life and can be passed on. That may be technically true, but for this to matter, we'd need to have have a well-functioning and active market for used leather clothing.
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by hilux 3y ago
Yes, I agree that the liberal aka mainstream media have lost their way, in the sense of favoring political positions rather than what's objectively true. This became obvious in the coverage of Trump and then Russia's war on Ukrain
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by hilux 3y ago
I don't think Bill Gates' behavior is okay - and that was true long before the Epstein revelations. Where have anti-homophobes said that "Bill Gates' behavior is okay because he's 'on our side'"? Do y
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by hilux 3y ago
Re: your last sentence, this tells me that "the HN community" skews toward programmers who are happy to collect big paychecks while turning a blind eye to where the money comes from, e.g. what their founders and CEOs did to succes
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by hilux 3y ago
I'm with you in that I don't hate all brutalist architecture, but Wurster is generally acknowledged to be ugly in real life.
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by hilux 3y ago
(1) Instructor credibility - could be "fame," but could also be youtube videos where s/he appears to be a very good teacher. (2) Opportunity for good in-person networking with industry professionals. This is what sets an in-p
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by hilux 3y ago
Unsurprisingly, this is Wurster Hall, home of the Architecture School (aka "College of Environmental Design") at UC Berkeley: https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/15892267
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by hilux 3y ago
You are "resulting," i.e. you're judging the correctness of a strategy by how it turned out THIS time. Read Annie Duke's book.
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by hilux 3y ago
First Glassdoor, then OpenTable. Who will dox us next - Reddit? Hacker News?
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by hilux 3y ago
There are no consequences any more. If Trump wins, expect this guy to be Secretary of Transportation, or some other maximum-influence post.
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by hilux 3y ago
That guy will be a great entrepreneur. Serious creativity and guts. They should just have let him fly.
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by hilux 3y ago
The article has more detail. Among other things, she signed a letter calling the October 7th attack "an act of legitimate resistance."
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by hilux 3y ago
I didn't get much from that post, but a good book on this general topic is Thinking in Bets , by Annie Duke.
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by hilux 3y ago
This is unexpected. I hope it's the start of a trend.
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by hilux 3y ago
Of course he's a Tory. I'm only surprised he didn't go to Eton and Oxford.

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