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by jmalicki 6y ago
I did not mention harassment, or an emotional outburst. The most controversial part of cancel culture is the blurred lines - is something in your private life grounds for you losing your job, is a tweet outside of the context of your job gr
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by jmalicki 6y ago
In James Damore's case, at least, he engaged in the "problematic behavior" at the workplace - it wasn't like he was participating in a group outside of the workplace which then led to him being fired. Regardless of w
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Picking stocks is work. It's just another part-time job you can do, so you have to consider what it pays (usually negative), and how much you like the job. If you like picking stocks and are demonstrably good at it, why are you messin
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Isn't that basically what Pizzagate was about?
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by jmalicki 6y ago
The BLS is the bureau within the labor department that computes these numbers. The BLS is the department of labor. There are different numbers based on unemployment claims vs. a survey of people who say they're looking for work.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
It fell in the mid 80s, then again in the 2000s. https://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/article/ctw... There has been a gender bias, but it has been getting progressively worse over time.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
"make lemons out of lemonade." - presumably the author meant "make lemons into lemonade" - I can't comment on the article to correct so am doing so here.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Especially when there is statute that on the surface contradicts it! 42 U.S.C. §1983
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by jmalicki 6y ago
So unlike a modern tech company, they sit farther apart and at least have barriers between their desks?
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by jmalicki 6y ago
"Think about how, if the cost of our projects is 2-3x what it "should be", we are doing without 2/3-1/2 of the improvements to our physical world that we could otherwise achieve." This is far, far underestimati
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by jmalicki 6y ago
1 in 6 is only the 17th percentile, so many of them may be well under that score.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
A large part of the slowness is due to CPU throttling so the battery won't catch fire. E.g. https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/12/what-is-iphone-throttling-why...
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Also most webscale use of nosql databases I've seen basically boils down to "eventually consistent materialized views"
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by jmalicki 6y ago
I'm totally with you that those three are reasonable limits (hell, I named two in my rebuttal)... Just that scale in itself is not the issue, it has highly specific issues. And for things like high update time series databases, those
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by jmalicki 6y ago
The lithium ion batteries already die beyond repair on average not long after, so why invest in chips that last longer?
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by jmalicki 6y ago
I highly recommend SQL for Smarties. https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celkos-SQL-Smarties-Programming/d...
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by jmalicki 6y ago
postgres works great for `n` in ranges in excess of (10k, 10B, 1k) at least, which not many would consider small. The only real justification I've heard is postgres' story on replication still lags mysql, and the write amplificati
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Also see section 5.4. They use the word liquidity rather than saving - it's not being obtuse, just highly technical vocabulary. " What happens if firms are liquidity constrained? If firms have some finite amount of liquidity at t
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Savings is implied through extensive discussion of marginal propensities to consume (MPC) - the fraction of additional income that a person will NOT save.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
AWS has systems with up to 24TiB of RAM (u-24tb1.metal) [0], but the pricing is "call us". For almost 4TiB of RAM (x1e.32xlarge), it's about $28/hr [1] [0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new
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by jmalicki 7y ago
Can't you run Kubernetes? (which is the open-source project from Google inspired by Borg)
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by jmalicki 7y ago
The problem is more when you're a software engineer, and you're asked something like "how many manholes are in Los Angeles" - it is so completely tangential (at best) to any of the estimation skills you'd use on the
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by jmalicki 7y ago
William Petri is a wonderfully appropriate name for a professor of infectious diseases.
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by jmalicki 7y ago
I guess you missed the 20th and 21st century bubonic plague outbreaks? It's still around, and is still found in places like the southwest US! https://www.cdc.gov/plague/resources/235098_plaguefactsheet_...
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by jmalicki 7y ago
This is quite common, it's often called data augmentation. For example, most CNNs aren't invariant to skew, distortions, rotations, or even zoom level. So to train a neural net to recognize both 8x8 pixel birds and 10x10 pixel bi
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by jmalicki 7y ago
If you film the Hollywood sign in a movie, then yes you do have to license that image. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trademark-...
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by jmalicki 7y ago
The chance of dying before discharged from a hospital if you have a heart attack out of a hospital is about 90%... If you need CPR, your chances of going home again are small. https://ahainstructornetwork.americanheart.org/A
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by jmalicki 7y ago
Why would making revenue be preferable in this case? If I have to buy gas for $1 a gallon from my supplier and can only sell it for $0.90, why not close up shop for awhile, then I don't have to deal with maintenance, don't have t
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by jmalicki 7y ago
According to this take it is well-settled law from previous epidemics that this is constitutional. "In 1824, the Supreme Court in Gibbons v. Ogden alluded to a state’s authority to quarantine under the police powers. In 1902, the Court
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by jmalicki 7y ago
"People will be crushed with medical debt (up to 20k) if they get coronavirus and have no insurance." - will people without insurance be allowed COVID-19 treatment? From what I understand it's emergency only and if you don&#

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