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by irq11 7y ago
”Seeing that in over 20 years and very successful track record of getting jobs quickly that I’ve never done leetCode or had an algorithm interview - how did you get that out of anything that I said?” Well, first...you were replying direct
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” I know everyone has to start somewhere but from the company’s perspective, hiring a junior developer doesn’t make sense.” When did “not able to solve leetcode-nuclear puzzles while singing and tapdancing backwards” , become “junior de
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by irq11 7y ago
So? That simply means that voters like inconsistent things. Or that your labels aren’t sufficient to capture their preferences.
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Or maybe people like Bloomberg because of his policies and positions, and concluding that it’s simply because of money is a logical fallacy.
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by irq11 7y ago
You cannot compare point estimates of “death rates”, as you’re trying to do. Taken together , the totality of evidence outside of Hubei suggests that this is a very mild illness, on par with the common cold, for non-vulnerable population
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by irq11 7y ago
You’re citing a cherry-picked study that supports your preconceptions.
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What is more important to realize is that the parameters you’re citing haven’t been borne out outside of Hubei, and that everywhere else it has emerged, it’s been...about as bad as the flu. You’re also citing numbers that every credible ex
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by irq11 7y ago
Well, I think that pretty much anything is more effective than calling people names. But rhetorically, it’s probably a lot more effective to just be honest about what you want: shared sacrifice for lower rents. It’s cynical to call it YIM
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by irq11 7y ago
Yes In Your Backyard is literally everybody . That’s the point. It isn’t ideological. Most folks love the idea of building when it doesn’t affect their own lives! Even most “YIMBY” supporters are actually “Yes In Your Backyard”, because
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New construction in New York can have hundreds of units. I don’t know why you would automatically assume that 7,000 is a “frightening” number.
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I’m not a “NIMBY”, but I believe the YIMBY moniker is counter-productive to your cause. It automatically frames the question in a sophomoric way, where the “other side” is an evil force to be mocked and dismissed. In reality, there is no su
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by irq11 7y ago
You’re not understanding the difference: in most of the world, businesses are carried on because there’s some financial value derived from it, not for the thing itself. Family businesses do exist, and do get passed down, but if the owners o
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by irq11 7y ago
No, you misunderstood the parent, as well as the facts: experts are saying that the widely parroted “2%” number is an overestimate , and that the real infection rate is lower. Deaths are easy to count. Minor cases of the virus are likely t
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by irq11 7y ago
Like I said, ideologues tend to be the ones who will complain no mater what you do.
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Thing that I know happens, from personal experience: you can put a giant modal alert, and write in blinking, all caps, 60pt bright-red font that you will do something unless the user presses a button, then draw a bright red arrow to the but
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by irq11 7y ago
The distributions are asymmetrical in exactly the way that argues against your fear-mongering across this thread: only the most serious cases are self-selecting for treatment and testing. The infection rate is, in all likelihood, much hig
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by irq11 7y ago
The flu kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. So far, this virus has killed maybe 200, out of 7,000ish infections. We’re a long way away from knowing how dangerous this virus is, but the media hype is waaaaay ahead of reality.
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by irq11 7y ago
Ha...I wasn’t repeating it to make some kind of assertion of dominance, just to explain that I’m aware of the point you’re making, and that it’s related to, but different from my own.
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Yes, again, I work in the field. There are many areas where ML is being used to advance drug discovery and other kinds of practical, difficult biophysics problems. Casual readers would do well not to get too fixated on this particular area.
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by irq11 7y ago
I work in the field. There are indeed many different applications of ML to drug discovery, but AlphaFold is a niche technique, and protein structure prediction is not practically useful, in general.
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by irq11 7y ago
Protein structure prediction, at the current levels of precision (and I include AlphaFold here), is not useful for drug discovery. It’s the sort of thing researchers say to get grants, but as a distant goal, not a practical reality. For str
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by irq11 7y ago
Yeah, that’s not a very useful comment. I realize it’s popular to blame NIMBYs for everything bad in SF these days (“NIMBY” is tech for “I’m not getting 100% of what I want, immediately!”), but your comment does nothing to address the subst
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by irq11 7y ago
Judging by the pace of the SF chinatown muni tunnel, the digging happens relatively quickly...the slow parts are the parts before and after the digging. In SF, they spent years surveying, moving utilities, excavating stations, etc., dug t
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by irq11 7y ago
Umbrellas are less like physical items and more like Higgs fields in Japan. They exist as a probabilistic continuum, and materialize when you need them. Said another way: let go of the notion of “your” umbrella, and just accept that when yo
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by irq11 7y ago
I lived in SF for a decade. You’re simply not paying attention if you think they’re the same market. Ask a 30-something FAANG employee living in SF if they’d take a nice Menlo Park apartment over their place in the Mission. Or Palo Alto. Or
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by irq11 7y ago
Maybe he edited it. When I replied, the comment was about SF.
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by irq11 7y ago
How is it “backwards”? Nothing you’ve said is inconsistent with what I wrote. I am certainly not trying to suggest that Manhattan is only expensive because skyscrapers. Yes, Manhattan is more desirable than Brooklyn. It’s desirable for ma
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by irq11 7y ago
Yes, that’s true. It’s also true that vertical construction is significantly more expensive than sprawling outward. It’s why it’s cheaper to live in Brooklyn than Manhattan, even though Brooklyn is mostly low-rise construction.
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And this has what to do with San Francisco?
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“debunked”, in the sense that nobody here wants to believe facts when they get in the way of a nice theory. As soon as people view “San Francsico” and “the valley” as the same place, you might have an argument. Right now, the only people wh

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