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by it_does_follow 5y ago
It's a bit more subtle than that. The real issue here is that the ambiguity of this statement depends a lot of the cultural context. There are plenty of communities in the US where that statement reads as an absolutely unambiguous requ
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads. It doesn't take much to convert him either! Initially I thought his argument was "I thought using ads doesn't bring any revenue, but n
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I had a similar transition from public -> private, but much earlier in my career. My advice is to find meaning outside of work, and then go work in the private sector. One of the things I miss the most about public sector work was you ca
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Isn't the methane in permafrost produced by microbes? It's basically wet lands that ended up being frozen, and as they thaw they go back to releasing the methane being processed by the breakdown of organic matter from microbes.
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
That should be the new HN tagline, I'm honestly a bit surprised to see this article still on the front page. Usually concerning facts get flagged pretty quickly.
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
While Methane has a shorter half-life it is also a much more effective GHG. The common way to look at this is Global Warming Potential, which is measure in CO2 equivalents. You can find this on the wikipedia: https://en.wikipedi
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> It assumes that every book has an equally likely chance of being good. No it doesn't, it just has to assume that P(good|obscure) > - P(popular)/(P(popular)-1) Or, more practically, when P(good|obscure) is just a hair more
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> Do you think Nike would be happy if their vendor just said, “yeah everything drives positive lift”. It's fairly known in the industry (worked in a range of different ad-tech/marketing companies for around a decade), that more
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> literally phrased as a grand narrative Can you point me to one serious postmodern theorist that holds this view? There are many different views of the postmodern, but rejection of meta-narratives (academic speak for "grand narrat
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
One small thing regarding all this that I think you should toss around as a hypothesis: Generally, people with a background studying modernism and post-modernism (especially the later) will agree that it is the events of the world that crea
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
What all of this points out is that Facebook never really solved the "MySpace/Friendster" problem, they just had the better product at the right time and were able to get a few more years of safety by acquiring threats (which
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Except that this description of war seems to paint every US military intervention post WWII extremely well. There's also no point in positing counter-factual scenarios regarding WWII. If you want to imagine a world where the US rushed
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
People did notice. Pre-pandemic this was the major reason most people got flu vaccines: it's nice not to get the flu, but even nicer not to kill grandma when you visit the nursing home. Bad flu seasons were heavily reported, and people
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> We have vaccines. Take the damn win. Unfortunately it's still not that simple. If you look at the death rates in very high vaccination rate states/countries you see the same pattern. For example, VT has the highest vaccinatio
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Because it's not an "easy W" and treating it like it is causes more deaths. Have you even looked at the current situation we are in? Death's are continuing to climb and we're soon to be what is in the second most
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> stuff like fiat money, gold, fine art and so on. This comment is a great example of how little bitcoin enthusiasts tend to understand about investing. One of this things is very much not like the others. "Fiat currency" is
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
This really confirmed visually for me something that I started to think was just in my head: I miss working with adults. Since I've been in tech over 35 was "old", even among "senior" leadership. I had memories of w
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I once lead a team through a massive layoff during the pandemic, fought with leadership to save their jobs (and succeeded), and focused on making sure their work was balanced enough to keep them distracted from what was going on but not a s
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
This is such a kafkaesque comment. "See this horror you are gazing upon? the trouble with you is you refuse to see how this horror is indeed a good thing! It is you who suffer from a sickness, and until you see this horror for the good
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Make sure to get your causal arrows in the right direction. A favorite quote from Mark Fisher: > “Instead of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become ac
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> these tanks > those solar panels > these batteries The problem with these "self-sufficient" narratives is they're always tethered to industrial society. Having the limit of your understanding be a "solar panel
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Checking 1 week later: We've seen record hospitalization for the pandemic (which today looks like it may be peaking): https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admis... The record daily death so far i
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Even if all of this were true (which I don't think anyone seriously believes anymore), there is still no way startups can compete right now without remote offerings. The only reason I would consider working in an office full time (and
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I don't drink to live a long time, I drink to make the time I'm hear a bit more bearable.
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
To add to this list: Richard Hamming includes a section on this in his n-dimensional spaces talk from "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" lectures [0]. Stripe Press also recently re-published a beautiful copy of the print v
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> Whereas I've never seen a frequentist book dismissive of Bayes methods Nearly every Frequentist book I have mentioning Bayesian method attempts to write them off pretty quickly as "subjective" (Wasserman, comes immediate
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> I really hope you are wrong in this prediction. For the record I also hope that I am wrong on this. I very much believe that we really don't know at this point (unfortunately rising hospitalization data, and uptick in deaths has m
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
As someone who has worked remote long before the pandemic, this is a myth in my experience. I have had at least as many friendships formed with remote coworkers as I have in person office workers. Occasional get-togethers do help with this
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> Once the pandemic is over Pandemic is not really going to be "over". The hope that it would just become endemic is fizzling out. We'll certainly continue living life, but it will never go back to the way it was. My money
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Plenty of internal hires come with a pay bump and level bump as well.

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