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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> "this takes time to detect" -- It's almost like these vaccines were experimental from the jump despite all the protestation and insistence to the contrary. No more than the flu vaccine for any given year (which also wane
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
No, they've been putting precise numbers on it for a while: - https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/health/cdc-vaccine-advisers-b... - https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/health&#
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
This has been the commonly reported number for quite some time. This paper is literally just repeating a number that's been widely reported for months. The way its been reported for some time is that vaccines provide moderate reduction
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Among other things, it wouldn't surprise me if the international transportation costs of a mostly built tractor are prohibitively expensive.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Heya, question: Have you considered including h1b or Colorado job data to help benchmark stuff in addition to self reported data? Its obviously imperfect (referencing my own post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887536
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
[Disclosure: I work at Google] I've asked decision makers about this (or similar enough) before, and the answer was that they considered compensation to be a bit of a competitive advantage. I can see two reasons for this, first it bein
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
This is only true if you assume that differentiating between a url and a search query. In a sense, a url (or uri) is just a specific type of query. We could equivalently ask why ftp and http and https and such don't have different type
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
You have an automatic transmission, so you don't have to know how to use the clutch (a thing people used to complain about the kids not learning)
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
The point they're making is that someone who is "staff" at a random company might not get hired as "staff" at Google. Anecdotally, I know people who have been "principal" or similar at other places and com
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I would agree with this for the most part, but I'd also note that I think the case the author describes is uniquely bad and that probably necessitates some investigation. IDK, maybe their org doesn't follow the rules, or maybe the
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> google employed the folks who wrote the git clients and it was always technically possible to have implemented the monorepo with a git client I think we're talking past each other a bit here. Piper's implementation could have
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
This sort of mixes up a number of issues: The whole git/mercurial thing is, as I understand it, related to the extensibility of the systems. Mercurial is hackable and extensible in ways that matter, git isn't (or at least wasn&#x2
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Or its the Turkish terror affiliated group: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0395
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Without exception, every band I looked at either had obvious nazi or white supremacist references in the name, or a cursory search found it to be related to Nazi or Christian Identity groups. A bunch of them are German so there's less
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Right, if your goal is to understand the broad field of artificial intelligence, AIMA is great. If your goal is to understand ML in particular, then there are a bunch of other more applicable books (Deep Learning, Learning From Data, probab
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Also one of the two authors of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, which is probably the most commonly used intro AI textbook.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
You're arguing for something that in all likelihood requires a constitutional amendment. Anti discrimination clauses only overrule the first amendments freedom of association due to the equal protection clause, and there's no read
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> There is no law that makes people call other people by their given names too. Actually this would likely fall under some form of workplace harassment issue, and the company would have a duty to stop the harassment. ("Offensive con
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> There is a perfect correlation. Erm, no. If there were some sort of correlation, looking at that graph you should be able to tell me where on the graph Biden either won the election or took office (Nov 4th or Jan 21st). You can't.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
This is a fantastically creative misrepresentation. No one demanded anyone apologize for contributing to a genocidal culture for anything. And yes I know you're referring to the pyramid. It also misses out on plenty of other content to
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
The slogan is only divisive if you make it so. It certainly isn't "intentionally" divisive. > Since Biden was elected for example Looking at Google trends, there's basically no correlation between Bidens election and
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> I am little sad that Google never made chubby a service on GCP. That is underlying locking system that many systems that Google use. I think one of the issues with this is that its far easier to use chubby incorrectly than to use it co
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> If you got stock for free because you work for coinbase, does it matter much it went down? I mean it's still around $250 each, that quickly adds up. That's where the "isn't better than other offers" part comes
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I mean yes and no. Yes there are infinite problems and there will always be worse of people who I could do things for. Guilt tripping someone into addressing all of them is unprodictive. On the other hand, the fact that I can choose which s
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> Look at the company’s trajectory over the decade it has existed. The decade where it wasn't "mission focused"?
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
COIN has lost 25% since IPO (in that time, GOOG, FB, MSFT, AAPL, HOOD are up, PP is even, and SQ is down marginally), and their offers aren't particularly better than <anywhere else>, so it doesn't seem like this is true. Li
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Ah, this is doing something dumb/misleading: it's not conditioning the chance of hospitalization on catching covid. That is, the normal way someone interprets the question "what is the chance you're hospitalized due to c
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Inaccuracy, mistake, and blunder are in a sense technical terms related to the gravity of the screw up.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
The full headline is 1200-1800 on lichess, which has a mean of 1500. So they started below average, trained up to something like 65 percentile on lichess. Its good improvement yes, but as someone at that rating, I'd be a mediocre club
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
IIRC, you can grok this with linear transforms: given X = [[1,0],[0,0]] and Y = [[0,0],[0,1]], aXY = 0 for all a (because XY == [[0,0],[0,0]]). But, given V = [[1,1],[1,1]] (or, in fact, a lot of other matrices/linear transforms), XVT

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