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by jongraehl 12y ago
For a typical high-achieving man (in other words, a narcissist) to make it through a program where he's even slightly outside the social mode without a persecution complex, he'd have to possess extraordinary emotional poise. And
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by jongraehl 12y ago
That's not true. You can call an instance method from anywhere given an object. There's just no implicit 'this' in a static method.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Let's leave aside the current crop of folks who're still reclining in the easy insight of "there is no objective truth". If you don't want to seem like an idiot, then don't write like an idiot just because rece
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by jongraehl 12y ago
"there are cases of vegetarians endorsing mcdonalds" - more likely, that account did click 'like'. however, paid publicizing of past likes that way is slimy and users didn't give any meaningful consent to it.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Braces combined w/ something like clang-format or gofmt are clearly better. Perhaps a really advanced editor (that most people don't use) could offer a similar experience for braceless (sig. indent) languages. Short braceless code
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Poor Greece. Exports so low. Wages and local prices so high. But nobody will hire anybody. They voted for the impossible. Better inject some more capital; they're expecting it.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
That's how it is in Mexico, too. They leave some unfinished faux-second-story attached to their building and never pay full property tax on the value of property-with-one-completed-story. Re: "who starts ..." why don't y
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Is this a joke? Jobs pay what they pay. You don't fix things for other people based on your personal version of fairness, although you're free to pay employees in your own company whatever you like and they'll accept. You&#
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Although I don't read LessWrong much any more, people always seemed willing to talk about their actual beliefs in depth. It's about as male-heavy as HN, I guess. There was, a long time ago, some controversy over 'here's
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Surely you can admit that Americans are less caste-loving. We treat talented individuals of all races+genders+GLBTQBBQ pretty damn well compared to the majority of the world (the mentally ill, on the other hand ...). I give us an A-, glob
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by jongraehl 12y ago
The reason I'm so confident is that I, and everyone I know, personally welcome and would hire and help competent women and bright-but-just-starting-to-ascend-the-learning-curve ones too. I've coached a female colleague in preparat
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Extremely certain, except of course for workplaces outside my experience, which is most of them. One thing I hadn't considered when I first posted was the impact of H1B workers, which I guess would vary depending on the culture of orig
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by jongraehl 12y ago
I wonder why they don't just use GHC with some customization to make the default eval strategy less lazy. I understand why someone might prefer more predictable (strict) evals by default.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
John Carmack's "we are having a hard time hiring all the people that we want. It doesn’t matter what they look like." is pretty much all you need to say, over and over, until they give up. There are two problems w/ &#x27
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by jongraehl 12y ago
In CA this costs $800/yr minimum no matter the income.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
As long as you're doing your training offline and shipping the resulting learned models, I don't see this is a big risk. If you're planning on shipping software that can learn online, then sure, use something else for that, o
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by jongraehl 12y ago
"We made a great prediction that didn't pan out because others also acted on the same prediction" or "the future just didn't turn out like the past in that particular data-mined aspect and we don't know why&quo
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Clearly we should replace it with a more pornographic test image, since that's the most common use case.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
1. min-wage raises are so modest and so slowly phased-in (in the US) so to not produce smoking-gun employment drops, and employers prepare in advance for them, so sloppy underpowered studies don't show any large effect. marginal effect
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Author is an expert, and correct. In the linked video he mentions that the difficulty of creating a sharp analog high-pass filter is in practice completely mitigated by oversampling, which is described in the Wikipedia article on DACs. Supp
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by jongraehl 12y ago
I guess it doesn't matter to human ears with a well-mastered 16 bits, but the video linked in the OP explains that typically dithering noise is shaped (toward frequencies we're less attuned to). The models used to lossy-compress
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Anyone have a hint for using G-Maps (or making a homescreen shortcut) to navigate home address that won't send me to the wrong place, or make me wait, in case of slow internet? This seems fairly basic functionality so I may be missing
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by jongraehl 12y ago
As wrong-footed as Uber appears lately, don't take buzzfeed's word for anything. Dishonest trash-talking + a financial conflict of interest. Headline-baiting 'journalists' trying to steal attention+emotion for profit w&#
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Conclusion is not supported by what came before: > If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard to see how they could have done a better job. Real, productive workers are r
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by jongraehl 12y ago
I had the same mistaken first impression.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Poor people do prison time and hard drugs more often (both of which might shorten a telomere). I also expect that physically measurable psychological stress is worse for poor (than for type-A work-stress junkies - probably that's more
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Since she finds a strong shorter-telomere association in neither equally sweet juices NOR in diet soda, this result probably just unhealthy-lifestyle-correlation (e.g. drug addicts and undiagnosed diabetics drink more soda). Also, “The extr
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Paul, why do you say it's wrong that Float(Long.max - Int.max) is equal to Float(Long.max)? Float has less than 32 significant binary digits, and Long.max - Int.max has the same MSBs as Long.max. You would need to use Double to see the
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22815528-anki-essentials (Anki Essentials) to get started.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Spending a lot of time commenting and, especially reading comments, is usually sad-making, as you're likely avoiding a better alternative as you would with a video game. As well, there unhappiness-producing currents in many "we

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