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by jrd259 6y ago
It's not obvious why you have to call out the nationality of the investor.
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by jrd259 6y ago
Then you might like Andrew H. Knoll's book Life On A Young Planet. Knoll is at Harvard. His book has a long treatment of the global change in oxygen level (which by the way makes no mention of the theory here, that woody plants did i
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by jrd259 6y ago
It would be very instructive to compare this with the SpaceX development process. I think the AMA for them has still not been completed, and know of no other source of insight into their process. (To be clear, I also agree with the other c
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by jrd259 7y ago
I only wish it was only about benefits, because then it would be rational agent. What (economic) benefit does the Republican party of the US gain by suppressing gay rights or abortion? I can understand wanting to quash unions, prevent min
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by jrd259 7y ago
Amazonian here. I have seen many candidates re-apply for position. It's certainly allowed. Try to figure out where you fell short the first time, and study up or practice to improve it. Best of luck.
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by jrd259 7y ago
Why should property go to the most (fiscally) productive use? Is this simply an axiom? I assert that it has bad consequences. In my city (Toronto) the tax rate is set on the assumption that land is put the "most productive use&quo
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by jrd259 7y ago
Amazon engineer here. Many of us (engineers, data analysts, fulfillment center associates) are working more hours to cope with extremely high demand coupled with border closures and extra delays in the road system. This is, I think, good
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by jrd259 7y ago
If you get the virus, you will likely survive, and I hope you do. The point of the cancelling is to slow the spread, to reduce the risk that your parents will get it, or that if they do, the health care system will have enough capacity to
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by jrd259 7y ago
Explained in https://www.flattenthecurve.com/ We cancel large meetings now to reduce the peak and delay it, so the health care system isn't totally overloaded. Eventually, a vaccine.
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by jrd259 7y ago
I get that flattening is good, but the animation is actually harder to read than the original static graph (Pearce). I can't stop it to read it. I can't read which outcomes are fatalities, and which are not. I can't read t
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by jrd259 7y ago
Amazon's internal principles explicitly demand expressing disagreement until a decision is made. While I'm seven levels below Jeff, in five years at Amazon, I have never seen any hint of people being reluctant to express disagr
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by jrd259 7y ago
The article has no citations to back it the claims. It states "researchers also believe that this malware is being used by an organized crime ring either to prepare for an enormous future attack on targeted users, or to sell collected
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by jrd259 7y ago
That "modest bungalow" might be 50 kilometers away. These "old folks" lose their entire local social network, and perhaps have to buy a car.
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by jrd259 7y ago
Why call Cliff a "mad" scientist? He's a polymath possessing diverse skills, some of them esoteric (glassblowing), but there's no evidence that he's even eccentric, much less "mad". Sure he built a robot
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by jrd259 7y ago
Note the politics of funding such surveillance as a justification for not needing to restrict access to weapons.
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by jrd259 7y ago
Two more categories of documentation: FAQ and trouble-shooting guide. Maybe you could call online chat-bots "documentation" (for trouble shooting or how-to?) but I've never seen one that actually did any good.
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by jrd259 7y ago
Downvoters: blueboo's post violates no rules. If you disagree with him, refute him, don't simply downvote.
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by jrd259 7y ago
In jazz notation it's common to use minus sign to mean minor or flat. That particular chord (the half-diminished) is written as -7b5
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by jrd259 7y ago
True this happens, but you're still better off that if you had tight coupling. In the absolute worst case you can make a shim implementation to support the obsolete use case. You can not do this when callers are directly reading your
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by jrd259 7y ago
In my five-year experience at Amazon that has never been true.
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by jrd259 7y ago
I still (attempt to) follow his guidelines for writing. Patrick Henry Winston, z"l
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by jrd259 7y ago
Glaeser is also a big Jacobs fan, and also thinks she got the part about five story walk-ups wrong. Don't get me wrong, they are great, but given rising population, our cities need either vertical growth or horizontal growth.
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by jrd259 7y ago
For more on peasants getting screwed since forever, see Against The Grain by James Scott. (also author of Seeing Like a State, mentioned elsewhere in this comment thread)
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by jrd259 7y ago
Glaeser speaks approvingly of at least one planned city, namely Baron Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris in the late 19th C.
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by jrd259 7y ago
Anyone who had read Jane Jacob's Death and Life of Great American Cities would predict what happens when you build isolated high rises, no matter how smart, with no actual connection to the urban life. The article also speaks of these
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by jrd259 8y ago
See instead Tufte, Edward: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (and the followup books) Few, Stephen: Information Dashboard Design
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by jrd259 8y ago
As a recent reader of Reich's book "Who We Are and How We Got Here" I concur that he explicitly and forcefully refutes the notion of racial or ethnic categories as having any meaning over the lifetime of our species. Simply
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by jrd259 8y ago
I noticed in the article: "Mayotte is on the move. Since mid-July, GPS stations on the island have tracked it sliding more than 2.4 inches to the east and 1.2 inches to the south." If this isn't a mistake, it's also very
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by jrd259 8y ago
I think finding life on any other world would be very exciting even if uni-cellular . While we know which organic compounds are common in the nearby universe, we have no idea what other "architectures" are feasible, even granted
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by jrd259 8y ago
Former Multician here. Andre was super-smart, but it is perhaps also relevant that even the most junior developers (as I was then) had quiet private space to work with large desks. All design was done offline. Multics terminals were like

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