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by jbob2000 7y ago
I don't want to get into the mud on social conservatism. These people want to undo abortion and marriage rights, among a lot of other social progress we have made. Do I really need to explain the difference between someone who likes to
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I’m curious why you’re being censored. Are you a fiscal conservative, or a social conservative? Because I have a bunch of fiscal conservatives on my Facebook and the only thing they post about is monetary policy. Nothing about abortions, ma
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Admittedly, I’m having a hard time finding the source for my claim. I read it a few years ago and can’t find the source. But I did go looking for it! And what I found was that there are many people trying to muddy the definition of public h
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I think you’re missing the forest for the trees in my comment. I’m not really criticizing Data Science, the job function, but the field in general and the obsession over it. Your last point kind of weighs in on a point I didn’t quite get to
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Can confirm, hated homework. I understood things too quickly so I never had push myself to learn, thus homework felt like a chore or a petty punishment. This burned me later in life because “remembering what the teacher said yesterday” and
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I disagree that metrics helped Apple scale, but we’d have to wade in to a semantic debate to settle this. When you have a killer idea, scaling is obvious ; just do more. More people, more machines, more materials, etc. You don’t need a num
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by jbob2000 7y ago
There is no wisdom to impart. There are 2 countries in the world who do not have public healthcare: the US and Liberia. The US does not have public healthcare because of a lack of wisdom, it’s because of greed. Literally anything other than
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by jbob2000 7y ago
There is a mechanical engineering intern somewhere designing a machine to wipe a butt 10,000 times a day to test this.
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This is a recipe for mediocrity. Great things are created by people following their gut, not their metrics. Jobs didn’t have a data scientist telling him to make the iPhone. A data scientist would have told Notch to make a Call of Duty clon
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Even if they're not a bot, do we really want a power user dynamic like Reddit and Digg? Why do we want users to spam articles without any interest in the discourse that follows?
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I guess my next question then is... what are you doing in javascript that you need this level of precision? If you need this level of precision, there are so many other things that are going to mess with you, other than timing problems.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
We're going to look back on this company and say to ourselves "why did we fund a company to sign rental agreements". I jest, but WeWork is one of those strange entities that's greater than the sum of its parts. If the ma
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Lacking an incentive to stay away from the hen house, foxes will naturally move to "guard" them. Same thing with managers. Lacking an incentive to follow regulations, they will naturally focus on instinctual outcomes; working hard
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by jbob2000 7y ago
You can cross off any company over 1000 people from your list, if you had that as a requirement. My company is over 80,000 people, if our CEO met with each potential employee, he would never sleep. And also, I have to say, it's a bit a
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This only works if you're interviewing with decision makers. At a larger organization, I don't think the person you're interviewing with would have any capacity to answer these (which could be a red flag for you, but also a v
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This is what happens when incentives are not aligned with regulations. The companies say "we'll follow these regulations" but then turn around and tell the managers "meet this deadline". If you want people to follow
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I worked for a B corporation, it’s a meaningless label that was used to beef up our pitches to clients and investors. There’s no oversight by the B organization to actually make sure that it’s companies are adhering to the label’s mandates.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It looks hastily made, I like the theory that it’s a prayer or hymn. A congregation would needs hundreds of these made whenever you had a new hymn or prayer. You have to rotate it to read it, so presumably, as you are reciting the prayer or
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by jbob2000 7y ago
That just means it needs to be advertised as a cooler, not a refrigerator. This thing is perfect for the dock at the cottage to keep the beers cool.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The human race watches itself. It creates ideas of supreme beings so that its subjects will mirror and copy behaviours deemed to be "supreme".
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This isn't an interview, it's an ad by the insurance companies - Don't do this or we will find you .
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by jbob2000 7y ago
On that note, many banks offer these types of budget tools now. RBC and TD in Canada both have solutions (NOMI for RBC, TD MySpend for TD) that made Mint and other budgeting tools completely moot for me. The only problem is that these don’t
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Great insights, thanks for replying!
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by jbob2000 7y ago
You could also read this as "don't run 4,000 of anything". 4,000 node processes? Wow. Just wow. Surely there is a better solution for this. Maybe this is one of those weird edge cases where you would craft a bespoke infrastru
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This assumes that educational under-performance can be fixed by more education. By my own experiences, the people who I have seen do well academically tended to have stable support systems (whether that is direct family or a mentor, or a
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Don't try to roll it out all in one shot. Just work on solving problems. Database is timing out? Add some logging there. Requests getting dropped between proxy and app servers? Add some logging there. If you try to add logging across t
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Warren knows that his statements are enough to move markets, so even if he wanted to say something, I think he'd be cautious of how it was said. There's something called the "Warren Buffet" effect where, when he announce
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by jbob2000 7y ago
We should link to the original article, which is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/asia/china-linkedin...
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by jbob2000 7y ago
If I eat an apple, am I eating vegan food? If you call anything that isn't carnivore food as "vegan" food, then you're labelling like 90% of our food as "vegan". That's obviously ridiculous, so I think it&
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by jbob2000 7y ago
What if you genetically modified a species of tardigrade to hold data in their DNA? They would reproduce forever and are extremely hard to kill. That would be a form of storage that couldn’t (practically) be destroyed.

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