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by jkingsbery 3y ago
Jim Geraghty of National Review has written a lot about this, as he pretty early advocated for the possibility of the lab leak. Because he writes for a right-leaning publication though, there are lots of ad hominem attacks thrown his way th
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
Is this really how other people operate? I really on my old notes all the time. People mention "oh, I was going to look into X," and I do a quick search through my notes to send them some links to the investigation I did earlier o
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
In the public school I went to up through 7th grade (in the late 90s), the top 10% to 20% took algebra in 8th grade. In the private high school I went to, most of the 9th grade class had algebra the previous year (whether they went to publi
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by jkingsbery 3y ago
The facetious answer, of course, is that because the people designing these policies learned math in the California public school system. Less facetiously: A/B tests are great at lots of things. But these results really shouldn't
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
Having worked at a couple startups where my stock options didn't end up meaning much: the percentage of the company is kind of a funny thing. What I would ask them about more specifically is their plans for the employee stock pool. Sto
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
This article is extremely poorly written. The author makes many claims without justifying any of them. To the extent it had a point, the So What of the point gets lost.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
This was a while ago now, but my undergrad requirements consisted of: (1) data structures and algorithms, (2) computer architecture, (3) advanced algorithms, (4) computational theory, (5) programming languages, and (6) a few electives (disc
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
When I started to learn programming in the mid-90s, it was still common to not have home Internet (or, if you did, it was too expensive to spend the whole day online). I learned a lot of programming from the VB helpfiles, a random book on V
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
Good speculative fiction at least tries to give some reason why something might come to be the case. This article just says "pretend computers are old; old things are like X today; therefore, computers are going to be just like X,&quot
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
But it's not about people signing a thing saying they won't be racist. Since I know you read the article, I'm sure you saw the bit about someone penalizing a candidate for saying that "he respects his students and treat
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
> Have you personally overcome imposter syndrome through this advice? Yes, this is personally what I do. > I think this could easily be read as meaning that aspiration is a precondition of self love. I suppose I could have been more c
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
Some of this seems like bad advice. Imposter syndrome is a real thing, and it's certainly possible to be overly self-critical. But plenty of people aren't "in the right place," and aren't "doing the right thing
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
No, I get that. He even explains that in the post-script at the bottom. Maybe he's making a good point in an alternate universe.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
> Need to prepare a deck for a business review? Open an issue. Want to refresh our career ladders? Open an issue. Planning an offsite? You guessed it, open an issue. As an engineer (not a manager!) who does a lot of non-engineering tasks
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
I guess. But we're not in that universe, we're in this one, and the dictionaries don't say that. Bad analogies can't lead to good logic by making them longer.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
They are quite poor compared to NYC standards, but the idea that 60% of those people are not earning enough to maintain the lifestyle that Americans typically expect is just not credible.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
> The living wage model does not allow for what many consider the basic necessities enjoyed by many Americans. Call it whatever you want... New York being one of the richest states in the United States, saying that the median person in N
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
> The world is boring enough as is. Let's add more whimsy and cuteness through our service and project names. This is a recipe for creating a wholly impenetrable language about your services. Which is easier for an outsider to under
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
I've worked as a manager of engineers for three different companies, and in 2 of those 3 times it followed the pattern of my manager being stretched too thin and asking me to take on management capabilities. I figure at some time in th
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
> He even says as much in the postscript. Yep, I read the post-script. From the post-script: > to develop an extended analogy with something known as shocking and reprehensible I guess maybe to say a different way - given that's
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
I don't really know what to make of this satire... I find this confusing: > In most contexts, it is self-evident when "white" is being used in an inclusive sense, in which case it subsumes members of the darker race just a
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
If the hypothesis includes the stipulation "from the capital," it would have been useful to see some commentary on what the author thought about the Roman Empire moving its capital (or having multiple emperors each with a capital)
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
(I'm assuming by football you mean American football) It's not really a fair comparison. The NFL is a monopoly, so there is no way for athletes to vote with their feet. At various times in the past, in order to negotiate the NFLPA
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
But that's what the word in Latin doctus means: being learned or skilled in something: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doctus . And in any case, when a word is incorporated from another language, it's meaning i
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
> for various ideological reasons They are opposed to colonies wherever they might be, even lunar colonies.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
But "person" has the word "son" in it, and that's gendered. Better go with huperchild.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
I was referring of course, to the quote > Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. I'm n
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
I think they are entirely over used whatever one chooses to call them, but these don't mean the same thing at all . Content note could mean anything. For people with PTSD though, for whom psychological triggering is a real thing (not
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
The problem becomes when this vocal minority is put in a position of influencing what others do and how they communicate. At best, they are making people less clear at communicating, but at worst they are trying to co-opt the use of languag
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
That might be the intent, but in a lot of ways it expresses the opposite. For at least half of the terms flagged by this page, one would have to construe the meaning uncharitably for it to be a problem. If I call someone a paraplegic, I onl

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