immawizard

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by immawizard 14d ago
Only for the children you want to keep after car crash.
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by immawizard 2mo ago
It's on page 46 https://www.bmwgroup.com/content/dam/grpw/websites/bmwgroup_...
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by immawizard 3y ago
Per source: “ The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation.”
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by immawizard 3y ago
In my experience “Go to person” in a mature product has 2 stages: (1) person who performs somewhat repetitive jobs (2) person who is trusted to own projects in a given area Being able to get rid of (1), either through automation or delegati
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by immawizard 4y ago
I think we’re in agreement. The key here is what are you taking responsibilities and decisions for. Senior engineers take decisions which consequences will be apparent in a year or two. If productivity increases to the point where features
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by immawizard 4y ago
Mid level engineers will come from building something like GitHub, Netflix or Gmail over the weekend using powerful AI. The skills of current senior engineers will be much easier to gain since the feedback loop for software architecture and
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by immawizard 6y ago
People don’t buy stuff in bitcoin because of the high transaction costs, and low adoption in points of sale. If you believe that bitcoin price will go up in the future, you would buy bitcoin instead of pizza using dollars.
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by immawizard 6y ago
Isn’t it illegal to use DNA data for purposes of health insurance? How would insurance company be able to use it? Companies like kaiser run both hospitals and insurance, yet they can’t use your full medical history when determining your ins
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by immawizard 7y ago
I disagree on the housing point. With basic income, people who can’t afford housing in expensive areas would move to towns with cheap housing/land but less lucrative/efficient work. There’s no housing shortage in rural areas.
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by immawizard 7y ago
I think social mobility from poverty to middle class is more relevant to most people than mobility from millionaire to billionaire class. According to The Global Social Mobility Report 2020 [1] South Korea has higher level of social mobilit
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by immawizard 7y ago
> The global interconnected nature of private enterprise is the reason we don't have as much warfare anymore, and why the world is safer than it's ever been in all of history. That’s a reach. Global interconnected private enter
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by immawizard 7y ago
When valve picked up dota, league of legends was the most played multiplayer pc game in the world. I think it’s more likely that valve was afraid of exodus of pc gamers from their platform.
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by immawizard 7y ago
There’s an arbitrary line between handshake and battery, yet most people and the law system can see the difference. Claiming there’s no qualitative difference between someone giving $100 dollar to their child as a birthday gift, and inherit
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by immawizard 7y ago
I checked Storz & Binkel app, and it’s missing from App Store. S&B makes vapes for dry herb, which are completely outside of the controversy. Fortunately, most of their models are perfectly usable without the app so no real harm for
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by immawizard 7y ago
Ship building is a specialized trade, with tradesman located in a town near the dockyard. I doubt that shipbuilders are motivated by the love of the sea. The quote does not work in high-specialization industrial society where the product is
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by immawizard 7y ago
Why do you think that grit or predisposition to hard work is less determined by genetics and environment than iq or physical ability? It seems to me that judging anyone’s value by iq, hard work, physical ability, nationality, height, or ski
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by immawizard 7y ago
They put it out for free because they make money on ads. Publishers don't mind Google reading the the content on their page, but don't like Google republishing their content on search results page and keeping the ad revenue. This
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by immawizard 7y ago
I believe this data structure is called Tiered vectors, and is described in: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~goodrich/pubs/wads99.pdf
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by immawizard 7y ago
Assuming the fine is one-off and market doesn’t devalue facebook because of the fine itself, couldn’t Facebook issue new stock to offset the fine, effectively losing 3% of stock value in the end?