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by jlebar 9y ago
The important thing about public goods is, you can't exclude them if you tried. By saying we should pretend that healthcare is a public good, you are saying we have a choice in the matter. This on face makes it a non public good. T
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I am trying to understand what you mean by "public good". It's not the formal economics meaning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good ), because healthcare clearly is excludable and rivalrous. The n
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by jlebar 9y ago
> When you run your own services and they break you have total control and do have the power to fix it. If I had total control of a service, I would make it have 100% uptime. Wouldn't you? The fact that there exists no service w
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by jlebar 9y ago
CSB time: A while ago, I had lunch with a group of friends from university and a (male) professor we'd all had. I thought it was pleasant, but soon after we were done with lunch, I got a text from a female friend of mine who was also
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> I have a theory that women are less likely to be, I guess the word would be "assertive", than men. If this has been your experience, I'd encourage you to consider why that might be the case. Here's one possibility:
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by jlebar 9y ago
Is/ought fallacy? It might be true that it's likely that directors of USPTO are "pro-patent", but OP's point was that the USPTO ought to be less "pro-patent". Put another way, some government offices a
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by jlebar 9y ago
> Making your organisation too dependent on a remote service can indeed be a scary prospect At every company I've worked for, internal services have been less reliable than github. Certainly way less reliable than gmail. I get that
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The best projects and rates are through your network. Family friends, businesses your family uses like you mention. Indeed. Consider taking out an ad in your school newspaper; I had good luck with that back in the day.
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You should try to separate out how you understand someone else's interpretation and what the article actually says. They are not the same thing.
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They are providing additional facts, which may or may not change your point of view. If the additional facts are not interesting to you, that's cool. But consider, maybe the information they provide is interesting to other people? F
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Unlike the rest of the article, this section doesn't make an explicit summary claim about the truth or untruth of the President's claims. There is no "true but..." header. If you think some of the facts that they provid
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> Maybe OpenMP and CUDA do more optimizations than I thought they did. Do they perform [...] range analysis to choose smaller data types? CUDA compiler developer here. We definitely perform range analysis on values stored in registers.
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> What scares me is the absolutes with which they are spoken about, in that the accusation of having committed a microaggression or act of bias always means the accused is guilty. Can you handle a little guilt, though? It sounds like yo
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by jlebar 9y ago
If people were being named and shamed without being given an opportunity to defend themselves, I would be concerned about that. To my knowledge, as I have said a dozen times in this thread, that is not happening. Nobody here can point to a
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by jlebar 9y ago
I'm truly sorry you feel this way. I'm another white man who works at Google. I don't feel this way. You see me here commenting using a username that's easily traceable to my real identity. So we are reacting to a sim
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by jlebar 9y ago
I think it's great that you are so worried about the well-being of people accused of harassment. I only wish you'd express and weigh equally a concern for the well-being of women and minorities in tech, who are disproportionately
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> implementing a system that facilitates false accusations does significant harm and does not remedy the real actual problem of under-reporting to legal authorities. This system does not facilitate accusations of any kind, because it is
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My point is: > This trope of jumping immediately to the problem of false accusations is sadly common in discussions e.g. of rape reporting. Yes, some reports of rape (and harassment) are untrue. The vast majority aren't. Jumping so
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> Your comment contains a lot of appeals to emotion and very few facts, if any at all (for example, the claim that the "vast majority" of rape accusations is true definitely needs a source). https://www.google.com&#x
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> false accusations have been weaponized in other contexts. I really think you are missing my point, sadly.
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>> Why would so many of the HN comments jump to worrying about the false accusations, without paying any heed for the victims? > What makes you think they don't care about victims? I never said that anyone does or doesn't
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> I am unconvinced that scaling these experiences in this environment is a healing force. You might be right. But I think that's a limited point. Mistreatment of women and minorities is as old as time. All that's changed here
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Taken (very) broadly, I agree. A list like this shifts a burden onto those of us who have privilege, as we're now aware of the bad shit that goes down around us that before we might never have seen. Hopefully it makes us uncomfortable
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> let's also step back and consider why someone would value things like evidence-based judgments and due process. I agree wholeheartedly that there is nothing wrong with valuing evidence-based judgements and due process. But that i
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I'm sad to see so many comments here worrying about such a list becoming "weaponized". TFA says that the list is anonymous, and that "usually, the people in the complaints are not named" (the cited exception being n
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by jlebar 9y ago
> The abstract on the Nature article focuses on the 15 new SNPs found that affect intelligence, in addition to the 336 already known It's a little ambiguous, but that's not how I read the abstract. The relevant sentence: >
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> Density is a very important factor in datacenter design. That's true if you're putting the chips in your own data center, because density affects TCO. But assuming that Google does not sell TPU hardware, this isn't an im
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by jlebar 9y ago
I replied to this comment elsewhere in the thread [1], but to reply here as well: A GPU is also comprised of multiple chips (RAM, etc). I don't think "performance per discrete piece of silicon" is an interesting metric. [1]
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A GPU is also comprised of multiple chips (RAM, etc). I don't think "performance per discrete piece of silicon" is an interesting metric.
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by jlebar 9y ago
OCB has an explicit "no military use" license. It caused huge headaches for e.g. openssl; they had to get a special exemption. http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm See also the JSON licens

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