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by jrumbut 3y ago
I also wonder if they could have spun it off as a small, profitable (after price hikes and expense cutting), but non-growing company that existed to buy advertising space on StackOverflow. That might have been too big a distraction though.
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It's kind of true? It's stated a little awkwardly but there is truth there. If you are funding a political campaign (not just any political speech, but an actual campaign) you have to be set up as a political campaign rather than
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by jrumbut 3y ago
I just run outside these days but I thought that starting conversations at gyms was frowned upon? Even if it wasn't, most people are wearing headphones. Sustained conversation would be difficult.
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> A formal blaming process means that the question of who to blame is decided objectively and people have more of an incentive actually act correctly. I am not sure the creation of a formal process (created by those who have the power to
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by jrumbut 3y ago
A Russian Course by Alexander Lipson. I doubt it is a very effective way to learn the language (though the bizarre vocabulary it teaches has stuck with me), but it is extremely entertaining. Lessons take the form of cartoon interpretation
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by jrumbut 3y ago
Fascinating that there are so many chaos theory texts in this thread. It seems like this subject lends itself to good textbooks.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
If this article is right, great. If this article is not right, the consequences for those of us without independent means could be dire. The time to create a safety net for those displaced by AI is now.
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> most dangerous innovation in this regard is advances in brain scanning What terrifies me more than the idea of brain scanning that works is the (IMO more likely) deployment of "brain scanning" that doesn't work (but is u
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> But most small businesses aren't making that kind of profit. It always feels that way in a small business, but then all of a sudden a key employee needs to take a three month medical leave and somehow the business survives. You ju
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I would also note that they may have mixed different varieties of grapes, used different materials for containers, mixed water and anything else they felt like mixing in with it, and stored their wine in different conditions than are common
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I would say, in this author's phrasing, that knowledge generation is a strong link problem and knowledge consumption is a weak link problem. You can find scientists engaged in addressing both, so I don't think the strong-link only
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by jrumbut 3y ago
Is this is a criticism of the article? Because it seems like the author takes great pains to distinguish between a person who is Jewish and a person who practices Judaism. I also don't think that ethnic group really captures it either.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I'm with you on spaceflight but people definitely have built small cargo carrying UAVs to a lower standard than passenger aircraft. Such a thing is conceivable anyway.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I will say this, for optimism, I think we've turned a corner post-covid. Now there is a population of adults who are admitting out loud that they are lonely and want to make friends and are willing put in the effort and make the compro
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It's definitely a tricky problem for a student. The reason that everyone likes it is that this is exactly the kind of problem you run into when you need to solve an integral in the real world. Once a year at least I run into a math s
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I join you in cringing at the word choice but I appreciate ways to find things that aren't similar to stuff I already like. With a lot of recommendation systems, you watch and give the thumbs up to one piece of Danish art house cinema
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by jrumbut 4y ago
According to this random website, the letter was opened in 1968 on the actual event of Gagarin's death and declassified in 2011 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his flight. https://www.space-collectibles.com/blog&#x
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It took me a second to get the hang of it but your app is cool as hell. I recommend everyone click it. One comment on the UI, on my phone it was not obvious that adding the topic tags was working, because they get added off screen. I was ju
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> Now today I learned Indian spices were influential in Roman food. They also loved Chinese silk. I'm kind of surprised you hadn't run into this yet. It seems like every Roman author is bemoaning the popular love of food drench
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There is a huge range, parts of Boston and the NYC suburbs that extend into CT might compete with San Francisco on astronomical prices (and real estate market absurdities) and parts of Maine will compete with anywhere in the US for cheapnes
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This is the sense that I meant it in, obviously they are peculiarities in the 18th century institution of the postal service that may or may not be worth copying over.
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I've always thought the US Post Office model was one worth exploring for more industries (retail banking, stuff like epipens and insulin, etc). If your lean and nimble business can outcompete the sclerotic and wasteful government, go a
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Massachusetts (and most of New England) is great. I own a large house with a mortgage that's cheaper than a shared studio in San Francisco and I never worry about locking the door. Neighbors are all friendly, well behaved kids roam the
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I do think, since electronics have become cheaper and the AM/FM dial is becoming emptier these days, that we ought to look into what you're saying as a way to revitalize radio. Although at this point I think it's on a one way
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Yeah a number of pieces of software people use after a 5 minute tutorial are like this, a ton of depth that we frequently recreate crappy versions of within our apps. The Apache webserver (and most other webservers) is another example like
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On the other hand, at this larger organization it was possible to have devs devote months to experiments that were ultimately shelved. It was kind of cool that they really explored all the avenues for making it work.
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It does feel like a landmine they've set up, perhaps another benefit for them of moving to React is that they can stop worrying about it? I've seen a lot of companies that superficially resemble Culture Amp. I've seen one tha
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Yeah, I find the same thing. I am "red green colorblind" but my experience is that there is a long tail of effects beyond the simple rules that you read about. I'm friends with a lot of visual artists and designers and a subs
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Let me echo @slimsag and say try not to rely on people differentiating things by color. Labels, titles, alt text, etc is probably useless because a lot of times the problem is I don't see that there's a control to investigate at a
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I've read about people doing it, I haven't read about people achieving anything particularly interesting with it. It's early days. There will be a GPT 5 I'm sure, maybe that one will be better at teamwork.

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