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When I tutored elementary kids, physical examples really helped with fractions.
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Big makes it challenging. But also we are talking about big companies. The OSX/Apple, Windows/Microsoft and linux/IBM/Goog/Amazon/long-tail are big enough that they already invest lots in security and can inves
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And even if we have some breakthroughs for things like aging in general or cancer, attrition via accidents and other forms of physical destruction will always be a factor.
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The other side of the argument though, is the "reduce existential risk" part. There probably isn't anything meaningful I could do, to reduce the risk of some future war against aliens. But with AI, the presumption is that the
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This is the real issue. The other comments here are talking about dev-productivity, but they have the causal chain backwards. The browser overhead is about running in a sandbox, on arbitrary/unknown hardware. Web development had poorer
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many tools are attempting becoming (and often failing) to become more beginner user friendly. And while that implies dumbing down the tools at times, they still have advance features which are either progressively shown in context, or hidde
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But that only works for a bug-for-bug compiler, no? If you want to build something like a linter, you couldn't use them to validate you are covering the fully syntactic range. Though I guess it would help look at coverage if your linte
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> why the countries where capitalism is most heavily regulated This really isn't the case. There is a very heavily regulation of industry in many developing countries and it impedes their growth. Often it even provides the basis for
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They back into those factors by adjusting for both time and place, at the relevant thresholds. The "Human Development Index" correlates pretty strongly with income, such that you can say: at this (adjusted) income thresholds, peop
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Porting can involve a spectrum of changes. If you are porting to a different language, often for bug-for-bug compatibility you try to maintain the same rough code and class/object structure as the source codebase. This might give you s
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Those who want to manufacture their chips locally (US or EU).
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Does this also apply to those on salary/exempt?
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While you see plenty of press decrying the shrinking middle class ... it still is the majority of the US! Even things like living in a detached single family home, still is something that 70% of Americans do, even if homeownership is down a
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If there wasn't a major adversary with similar weapons that might have happened. Low-yield tactical are probably more effective than things like the "MOP" bunker-busters. But the hard-line we've drawn on the application
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And it set us back because we overcorrected. The biggest evil of historical eugenics was the non-consensual application, not the idea that we should improve the gene pool. This thread is an interesting summary of possible "eugenics&quo
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There is a constraint the prevents (some) countries from more frequent debasement: if you debase your currency, then lenders will increasingly require that future debt be issued in an external currency. And even if you find lenders, the pur
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Outlier returns. A few picks give you a 1000x return that overweights the entire portfolio strategy.
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The article presumes that show airs after market close. So they model they one day timeframe as the market open-close the next day. This doesn't work with international stocks, but I suspect they tossed those out with the "we didn
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Honorary degrees are usually distinct from degrees earned. Some honorary degrees might have much less honor than others as in this case, but they don't debase the earned degrees. What punishment would be fitting? At best an institution
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The classic advice is for career advancement. For promotions and raises and for internal political capital to promote the projects you want, or the implementation you think best. Sure, if you just want to a be a cog in the machine, without
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A better title would be something like: "Most advice sucks: how to determine when it doesn't" The important point I got out of the article, wasn't that most advice is bad, which seems clearly true, but a theory as to why
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My wife once called it "affinity porn," in that a lot of demand is the feeling of proximity to something great gives you some kind of essence of that greatness, like it will rub off in some way. Why do people like getting signatur
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And plenty of VCs are former founders.
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I too only have anecdotes from myself and friends/colleagues, but a few experiences stand out: * The accountability culture really matters. Are teams responsible for their own commitments/deadlines? If you think you might get fire
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Depends on the tradeoffs. Having different levels of abstraction within the same language can be really useful. But you don't want to overcomplicate the language to support that, especially if it makes operating at different levels mor
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What about pressure? Would it be possible to apply either a violent pressure wave, or some sort of compaction technology to basically crush everything 30m down?
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It wouldn't remove the termites, but it would remove the surface structure ... which should make it easier to do the subterranean work. Instead they wouldn't let the homeowners modify the house.
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That is the premise of the startup that funded this work. Use their tools to build the credits at both higher quality and cheaper than the current approach. Having a standard order (that is modifiable when needed) both establishes creditabi
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Is there any evidence that they aren't imaginary? For example, does be listed early in one project, lead to improved likelihood of getting a better placement on the next project (with corresponding higher future pay)? If that is the ca

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