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by jldugger 4y ago
SRI is like, the secret bit of stanford where the faculty only do research and no teaching. It's where Siri and Nuance came from, and two staffers who worked there in the 50s quit to found FairIssac. Most notably for the HN crowd, its
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by jldugger 4y ago
> These posts aren't really good for HN. Not good for HN as the audience doesn't recognize sarcasm, or not good as in feels awkward with criticism?
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by jldugger 4y ago
Google also has a 30 percent profit margin, even after accounting for boondoggles like that.
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by jldugger 4y ago
previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34123302
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by jldugger 4y ago
CGP Grey covered this already years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo . It doesn't work even optimally. But more importantly, boarding isn't the only action being taken. You can't take off witho
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by jldugger 4y ago
> While you're not investing any assets in your home like you would if you owned it, at least you're not hemorrhaging cash like you do when you're renting. Unless you have to borrow money to make the payment. And god forbi
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by jldugger 4y ago
Yes but also so much worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeonse
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by jldugger 4y ago
"I refuse to join any club that would have _me_ as a member" energy
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by jldugger 4y ago
Well, there's an idea that recruiters and LinkedIn use OpenToWork as a signal that you might actually respond. But the utility of that is somewhat questionable at times, using logic related to what you say: if a candidate is hoping to
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by jldugger 4y ago
You dont have to, you could just flag it and move on
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by jldugger 4y ago
Works okay in Safari Reader mode.
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by jldugger 4y ago
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/04/09/note/ > I read a post about someone who found that their system had something like 1.2 GB strings full of backslashes because they were using JSON for int
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by jldugger 4y ago
Student tuition is high but not a high part of the budget. 40 years ago tuition was mostly covered by the state and tuition charged to students was basically just a copay to ensure you weren't terrible. But since the end of the cold wa
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by jldugger 4y ago
Overhead is basically rent. You might think that a university rolling in with donations and names on buildings wouldn't need to charge rent but: 1. Nobody donates for upkeep. Not a huge market for the "jdiez17 memorial janitorial
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Ex-IT Auditor and I agree. I was screaming for automation in the audit process for years and nobody would listen. Honestly, this seems like a lose-lose for decision makers: - automation reduces billable hours, a net loss to the auditor
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by jldugger 4y ago
>I really wish there was a name (that I knew of) for this logical fallacy of using precise quantities of meaninglessly confused categories "every statistic you will ever encounter online or from coworkers"
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by jldugger 4y ago
> For instance; it was retroactive That doesn't matter in 2023. And it doesn't matter if the tax is applied retroactively -- its not a punishment for the crime of being rich or having income. > They then effectively didn’t p
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by jldugger 4y ago
> the interest on the unpaid amount is only 3% You might want to read that bit again.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Naw, im just dumb and imprecise. Need to rewatch and maybe reunderstand.
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by jldugger 4y ago
I guess the "inside out" is that the rotary block is also the fuel injector? Would have to read more to figure out how they get fuel into a thing moving at thousands of rpm.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Side note: was this a tweetstorm originally? Literally every paragraph is a single sentence, often long ones with no reader afforrdances like bolding key points.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> As to your actual point, it’s horrifying that people need to be told “don’t be distracting”, and that this passes for best-in-class analysis on the subject of business organizations. It's really not best-in-class analysis--that ho
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Every time I read an article from HBR, I find myself wondering (a) how the content isn’t obvious to anyone with a working nervous system (b) what value its core readership can possibly bring to a company. Pretend for a moment you are r
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by jldugger 4y ago
Well, every time you get a raise they're worth more at least.
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by jldugger 4y ago
I imagine every award Stephenson wins allows him more freedom from editors, and now if you don't enjoy his work, society insists its somehow your fault. You must not be smart enough to enjoy fictional histories of cryptography. And don
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by jldugger 4y ago
Snow Crash is way uneven. I believe the first chapter was actually storyboarded, to be a comic book. So it makes an amazing hook, but the rest of the book Needs An Editor. It reads as almost a picaresque satire, like Candide. It's full
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by jldugger 4y ago
"Rewrite the above response but include a pitch for grammarly"
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by jldugger 4y ago
just sayin': why did inflation appear when it did? why not sooner? why not later? Why is the impact of inflation non-uniform? We know the model pretty well: "money printer goes brrr" leads to higher prices for good and servic
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by jldugger 4y ago
> https://cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuter ... Help me understand: is this a stacked chart? Why does a chart that ends in 2021 show inflation in 2022 and 2023? > This inflation is due to insiders (c
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by jldugger 4y ago
Yea, I doubt they're moving prices much, but if people are using "offers recieved" as a metric...

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