joshuamorton

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by joshuamorton 8y ago
There's no such thing as a "patent monopoly", and there are multiple competitors in this space (4? mentioned in the article). The idea that there's a meaningful monopoly here is strange, to say the least. Unless you&#x27
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
So you're saying that my clearly plausible interpretation of her words is a nasty attempt to manipulate language? What about "remember that there are structural issues that affect women" isn't fighting for equal treatmen
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
No, I'm saying that the h1b numbers are minimums for the person. The ranges show that they're often higher than the minimum for the role.
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
Google doesn't pay h1b workers less. The salaries on h1bdata[1] are minimums for the position, and aren't any lower than other employee salaries. [1]: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=GOOGLE+INC&job=SOFTWARE+E
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
But k8s does live inside third party. And then there's stuff like tensorflow, where the source of truth is in the monorepo, but PRs via github are accepted and merged in.
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
It's mostly historical reasons, and that they gain relatively little from merging them, but it costs a lot. No one in Google3 depends on Chrome or Android source, and nothing in the Chrome or AOSP projects depends on Google3. Android a
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
>So lets say I have a new country. The laws are 100% equal and there's absolutely no discrimination against women. But an election occurs and there's not a perfect representation of the people. Only 25% of the elected MPs are w
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
The next line is very important: >That is not the same as addressing “equity,” she said, which would involve examining the structural hurdles that women face as engineers. Consider the following situation: Men get promoted faster than wo
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
De jure and de facto equality are different things. Do you honestly believe that African Americans faced no discrimination after July, 3 1964? Because at that point they lived in a democratic society with no barriers. They could run for pol
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
Giving states the ability to tax more without an additional burden on their population shifts the onus of supporting that population from the federal to the state government. The state can have a higher tax rate without an overwhelmingly hi
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
This applies equally to anything though. You're arguing against taxation as a form of incentive towards rational actors, which is to say that you're arguing against taxation. > which they don't. I provided at least one:
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
> Income taxes are cheaper for states to levy than all other forms of tax because of this backdoor. What makes this bad? You say its bad. Why? Like...what's wrong with the government encouraging states to levy income tax?
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
>It creates incentive problems that distort policy decisions at the state level. What are the negative outcomes of such policies? I'd argue that the outcomes are more self-sufficient state governments with less reliance on federal g
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
>While this is definitely true, as someone who also lives in a high tax state and is impacted by this change, it is the policy-wise correct way to do taxation. Given the amount of federal spending that is just grant money to states for t
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
Because at it's core, it's a hardware design flaw, not a software bug. Also it affected multiple vendors, not one, so coordination across a minimum of 10 major organizations (google, apple, MS, Amazon, Intel, amd, Linux, etc.) bre
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
To expand on the other commenter: If adding test code makes your code under test more bug-prone, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong.
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
>Google could very easily prevent China from using Android phones to oppress people. China is forcing people to install well known .apk files on their phones. Google has a very well developed infrastructure for blacklisting malware from
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
My understanding is that the reality of the situation is that Saudi Arabia is extremely patriarchal by law. Women need men's permission to do anything. By reducing the friction for men to approve women's activities, you make men m
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
When I can write import pandas as pd data = pd.read_csv(filename) print(data.sum()) and have the same result, I'm going to do the one that is faster to write, fewer characters, and lets me understand what's going
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
Unfortunately it's particularly difficult to hear the voices of an oppressed group, especially one where the majority of the commentary is going to be in another language. So no. You're probably stuck trusting time on this one.
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
What is "culture" in this context? (I mean this sincerely)
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
How is loosening the restriction on freedom of movement for women evil? That's what this app does. I'm also confused by the china comparison. I'm not aware of any google tech China is using to oppress, but even if that is tru
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
I'd encourage you to read this tweet[0] and this article[1]. They provide perspectives from Saudi women. To do my best to summarize: Indeed, the app is bad. That it exists or needs to exist is a bad thing. But given the Saudi governmen
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
There's stages. I get a lot of work done at a white hard with 1-3 coworkers. We reach a consensus there, and then you formalize and write up the design and break out lucidchart or whatever. It's not worth spending time making a de
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
Honestly, I'd much prefer if you tell me if you're familiar with the problem. I previously interviewed at a company and of the three interviews, I knew, and informed them that I knew, 2 of the problems they asked. I solved all 3 a
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
Hold on. I'm all for ending forced arbitration, but b here is wrong. Costs of arbitration after borne almost entirely by the company. This makes it cheaper to bring a complaint. But it creates a conflict of interest where the company n
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
350-500k annualized, not 500k for the year. That exactly what the follow up tweet which was vetted clarifies.
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
No, the intent is that he doesn't take the secs censure seriously. It helps to address the question of if this was an honest mistake or not, and the judgement will likely take that into account.
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
Just FYI this specific wisdom you're suggesting is exactly backwards, or at least could be depending how how you read it. timeit.timeit(setup='x = range(10000); l = lambda n: n + 1', stmt='map(l, x)', number=1
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by joshuamorton 8y ago
Gonna toot my own horn here for a second, but here[0] is a presentation I did on multi-armed bandits (and specifically Thompson sampling, the tragically underutilized optimal bandit method) to an undergrad ML group. Amusingly, the diagram I

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