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by jsbg 1y ago
this is a major misperception of what private research output is actually like
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by jsbg 1y ago
How do you know those scientists and engineers would have contributed less to society had they been employed based on supply and demand instead of central planning?
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by jsbg 1y ago
> Why does research have to be profitable? Because it's the only way to get a job in industry. I find it repugnant that theoretical scientists feel entitled to some of my income.
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by jsbg 1y ago
what are your thoughts on the replication crisis?
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by jsbg 1y ago
> realize that you will most likely end up in industry. > Things are quite bleak right now... you think it's bleak that one's research now has to be profitable rather than being subsidized by people paying taxes?
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by jsbg 1y ago
Did it triple because the assets he owns tripled in value?
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by jsbg 1y ago
all IDEs have vim plugins
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by jsbg 1y ago
> Vs. America, which is all just "hooray individualism: you're all on your own." Switzerland is about half the size of Maine. Not everything is about your perceived failings of American culture.
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by jsbg 1y ago
I read the interesting linked article about bunkers in Switzerland and it totally went over my head that it was all about US foreign policy in Ukraine.
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by jsbg 1y ago
Some books I would put on this list: Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell, Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal, Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, 1984 by George Orwell.
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by jsbg 1y ago
If you look at the full thing, the market analysis it does basically says this isn't the best idea.
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by jsbg 1y ago
> We should, as a society, want to stop liars from lying. Does that include the lie that the story was "Russian propaganda"?
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by jsbg 1y ago
> Does the author of this piece take a principled stand against censorship and bias? Or is he just upset that the censorship and bias isn't going in his preferred direction? Right. Did everyone forget about the twitter files already
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by jsbg 1y ago
> This statement primarily applies to existing stringly-typed scripting languages IMO it applies to all languages. Fancy language features usually make for poor maintainability, e.g. metaprogramming.
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by jsbg 1y ago
Anyone whose research is profitable is free to work for a private entity. The government is a "monopsony" in "buying" unprofitable research the same way it's a "monopsony" subsidizing any industry that wou
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by jsbg 1y ago
> Except that I don't recall cars produced in Mexico ever getting more affordable. According to this site[0], new car prices were about 6% higher at the end of NAFTA in 2020 compared with at the start of NAFTA in 1994. Considering i
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by jsbg 2y ago
In the sense that they contribute to umami taste, yes. But most commonly the nucleotides inosinate (from meat and fish) and guanylate (from dried mushrooms) are the other molecules that provide umami flavors.
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by jsbg 2y ago
> Coder, programmer, software engineer call yourself whatever you want, the point is to make a computer do what you want it to do. That is definitely not what software engineering is. It requires translating requirements and ensuring tha
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by jsbg 2y ago
> If ChatGPT is giving my website a ratio of 100 bot accesses (or more) compared to 1 actual user sent to my site are you trying to collect ad revenue from the actual users? otherwise a chatbot reading your page because it found it by se
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by jsbg 2y ago
what makes the new memory consumption significant? from the paper they break the initial array into log(n) arrays of size 1, 2, 4, 8...
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by jsbg 2y ago
DRY is about ensuring that the same code doesn't have to change in two places because the engineer changing it in one place might not know that. But so many applications of DRY mindlessly violate the single responsibility principle and
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by jsbg 2y ago
I've barely touched OCaml but having worked professionally in Haskell for a few years I thought that OCaml was terrible. However, Jane Street has invested heavily in it and maybe their codebase is better than the glimpse I got of the l
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by jsbg 2y ago
> Who else has had to deal with idiots who froth at the mouth when you exceed an 80 line character margin? Not once in my 11 year career. But almost every codebase I've worked on has had debilitating maintainability issues because t
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by jsbg 2y ago
I once met Knuth and asked him why he thinks that P = NP. He answered something about the fact that approximation solutions bridge the gap. Never meet your heroes!
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by jsbg 2y ago
> the goal of fascist political propaganda is to convince you that you can't do anything about the state of the world What are you doing about it?
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by jsbg 2y ago
Why is it an axiom that we need to "stay informed"? The vast majority of news is things that don't affect you, and of the things that do affect you, the vast majority of that is things you can't do anything about. And if
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by jsbg 2y ago
Tangentially-related is the use of oysters to clean waterways: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/eutrophication-oyste...
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by jsbg 2y ago
Inland Empire is my favorite film of his, followed by the Twin Peaks movie, but I'm not sure the movie stands on its own without the TV show.
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by jsbg 2y ago
why do you only care to work in these languages?
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by jsbg 2y ago
> Life + 25 years is probably enough for almost all cases. How do you define "enough" and what would be a case where it wouldn't be enough?

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