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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Same as they always have: "No one can really knows what any of that stuff really means. It's just a bunch of ones and zeros. And here's an expert on Fox News who disagrees with the conclusions they're drawing. Besides
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
This is at best a cartoon-like oversimplification of the actual state of affairs. For one thing, one of the main facts of live which characterized the 1920s was that of a massive credit (and speculation) bubble, particularly in housing sta
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
In this case, you're redefining "multi-family arrangements" to include the case of children involuntarily separated from their own parents. Which would count as misery and hardship, in any part of the world.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
What's the point? You mention SV and you get clickbait? The vast widening of differences in income levels in the past 20 years might have might have something to do with it. That, and the fact that it's the cradle of an indust
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The problem with the high cost of housing isn't X. It's Y." Actually, it can be both X and Y. In this case, both zoning restrictions and the influx of FaceBooglers.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
So clearly I was homeless all the years I lived with roommates. The point is that, as children , they're supposed to be able to live with their own families . In one of the richest urban areas on the planet, after all.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
These vignettes aren't about the "underside" of SV. Rather, they go to the very core of what the industry is about.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
You can speculate about what went on after his arrival in Moscow, all you want. The point is that the Committee's report (in its current version) provides precisely zero information about what happened.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
No, "Congress" doesn't claim that. The Select Committee on Intelligence claims (or rather vaguely asserts) that. But they offer no evidence for their assertions, other than the unreliable (and misquoted) speculation of a Ru
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
There's no bombshell here. The section on "foreign influence" is still heavily redacted -- leaving literally just one and half sentences to read, in a sea of black. And both of the assertions it makes in those 1.5 sentences
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Intel Committee Releases Declassified Snowden Report(intelligence.house.gov)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Had a similar-ish experience once -- meeting the hiring manager for coffee, knowing this would be a prelude to a standard onsite interview (which I was fine with). And it was a very productive discussion. We talked about a lot of some pret
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Major cause of Dyslexia may have been discovered by neuroscientists(independent.co.uk)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The real problem is that people can say things I don't agree with on the Internet. I'm sure you know this already, but Google's search rankings !== "the internet". Not only that, but they've been downranking
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
It won't be enough, of course. And short of an arrest warrant for Kalanick himself when his bold, "disruptive" experiment inevitably results in actual, real, human carnage (and irreparable heartbreak for the next of kind of t
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Actually, it was Trump and his people who chose, overwhelmingly, to "invest in divisiveness". To such an extent that the only ethical course of action is not to seek "influence" with such an administration, but -- as thi
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
You have to show value first. In lieu of "value", it can also help to just show a good pile of cold, hard cash first. That's the part where a lot of founders come up short.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
If you know your shit, it shouldn't matter what framework you're using. And yet, what is the incessant drumbeat of most job ads, these days - even in data science? That's right: "N years in framework X"
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
You shouldn't have been downvoted for that comment. According to the Wired article that broke the story (which RT apparently cut-and-pasted from without proper attribution): https://www.wired.com/2012/10/drink
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Peter Thiel said to play key role in filling health, science posts under Trump(statnews.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
We know Thiel has a lot of business smarts; and apparently he won a math competition in junior high, or something. But does actually know any basic science? Like you know -- hypothesis testing? Thermodynamics? Atomic decay? The carbon cy
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
We argue about whether or not Trump won in a “landslide.” Actually it was Trump himself who started the "argument" by making the (patently unsupportable) claim that he won in a landslide. Thus exemplifying the very "word-t
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The only factors which determines whether it's "fair" or not is whether it's worth the compensation -- and whether such requirements are stated in your contract, or not.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Get accused of stealing a backpack -- spend a thousand days on Rikers with no trial. 'Attempt to manipulate a global benchmark for interest rate products known on Wall Street as “ISDAFIX"' -- well, we all know the drill by
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Google sued over policies 'barring employees from writing novels'(theguardian.com)
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YouTube star kicked off Delta Air Lines flight 'for speaking Arabic'(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
That's not what I claim, at all. And basically it's a slippery slope argument that you seem to be making ("Who's to know if they majority is ever right? And what about all the times they've been wrong? Therefore
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
My common sense and decency is pretty much at odds with yours. Yeah, life sometimes gets that way. The thing is, my common sense suggest that, with about 99.99% probability, you've very significantly benefitted (or will likely benef
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Partisan Thesaurus (NYU ITP Winter Show 2016)(artdelicorp.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Articles like these, while generally quite helpful, should probably be titled: "How to clone and tweak an app for X in under 10 minutes." Because that's what they teach you to actually do. OTOH, figuring out how to "cre

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