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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I can't see IRC coming back as there's just slightly too much friction for the common person to get up and running. I could see websites coming back (I mean like the way people used to actually browse websites instead of social me
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Now that's an idea.
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Geographical names are political, there's nothing objective about them. Calling them the British Isles implies some kind of ownership, but Ireland is not a British possession. There's lots of other groups where you could apply the
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Actually, I think this one is better if it isn't perfectly secure. I make spreadsheets with passwords just so people won't go in there and accidentally delete something or make other silly mistakes. I'm not trying to hide any
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Fuel diversification is important too. That's something Germany seems to have forgotten when they went all in on natural gas.
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If he really was an engineer working on this, you'd hope he'd be pretty expert, but you'd at least expect him to understand what was going on in the model. His outburst showed that he really did not.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I'm not so sure about this. I'm not an expert at all, but I can see in the world around me that biases are real. Sure, heuristics are important in the trade off between accuracy and speed, so I see that they are necessary. However
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I drifted into data science, based on what I used to do to estimate projects as it happens. These comments are pretty funny to me. There's clearly a lot of people here who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about! They s
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Well, having worked many years in construction as an engineer, I'd say the author has it about right. If you're doing something visible like installing a pipeline in a road, you might have a couple of engineers inspecting the work
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Every one that I see is a pretty weak summary of a decades old idea, but presented like its new research.
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There's only 2 options, either you train on the full mediocrity of Github, or you over-train on highly rated projects, effectively just copy/pasting those projects and riding roughshod over any licensing the authors think they hav
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I never read the new yorker before so I don't know if it was better before, but the few articles I've read seem almost like satire. It's like they're not real people, or at least they've never had the problems real
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The structure of the experiment seems to have been just a correlation between collaborative hours and some measure of happiness. I wonder if the causation doesn't run the other way to what they propose though. When I'm happy in wo