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by kansface 5y ago
> In the short run, a lot of leverage makes sense, it helps you get a leg up, but if there's a Black Swan, then you're out. Its probable to me that no steady state exists - that in between each black swan event, given sufficien
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by kansface 5y ago
> Those who don't see the challenges that these teens go through is clearly delusional. No one is debating the challenges of coming of age in the age of the Internet. I'd disagree that its entirely FB's fault as if the re
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by kansface 5y ago
I don't think this is the correct model nor should we try to generalize it. Deliberate practice works by systematically forcing us to continually engage in the part of the activity that we suck the most at. That is the place where we
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by kansface 5y ago
> every "rule" can also be broken to spice things up. As long as it sounds good. This was certainly not the case for western music since the reintroduction of polyphony. Music can't really only sound good or bad to you? B
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by kansface 5y ago
> Other than that, in terms of energy usage, heating/cooling, etc., I would imagine the cost savings of having people work remotely are considerable. You'd have much higher costs around compliance and taxation, which represent
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by kansface 5y ago
I don't feel its a matter of complexity per se, more like bad UX. We could imagine exposing why this doesn't work to end users instead oh hiding behind a leaky abstraction.
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by kansface 5y ago
> Do you have a logical explanation for that? We are talking about one vector over the last few months. The state of NY over a year ago is a non sequitur. Illegal immigration has probably increased close to 3x since then. Besides which
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by kansface 5y ago
The industrial revolution started in Britain.
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by kansface 5y ago
Maybe if their rate of infection were significantly lower than the local population, you could argue that we would be decreasing the percentage of the infected population which doesn't feel particularly compelling to me... but we'
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by kansface 5y ago
A quick search shows ~20% of immigrants being deported testing positive (up to 25%). There are something like 200K immigrants currently encountered by border patrol per month. Naively that's 50K people coming to the US each month wit
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by kansface 5y ago
I believe that number is in the 80s for the mRNA vaccines and lower for the others (minus the one from Russia).
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by kansface 5y ago
Personally, it tends to be convent in practice for forms but is an unholy abomination elsewhere. I'd eschew it altogether and deal with the extra verbosity when it crops up.
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by kansface 5y ago
If the solution is to force everyone to do everything the same way... that's a political solution, not technical. That solution could just as easily have been everyone is forced to do everything the same way on their local machine. M
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by kansface 5y ago
It seems no one read the article: > The intrigue: There are some questions about the validity of the temperature reading, however. Randy Cerveny, the World Meteorological Organization's rapporteur for weather records, told the Assoc
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by kansface 5y ago
Alternatively, they could have spent this money on fixing the dev stack. Maybe this was more politically viable.
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by kansface 5y ago
> This shit simply doesn't fly in Germany, it's so insane that no one would ever think about pricing life saving drugs that high A sizeable portion of my friends and coworkers managed to work the system to gain access to vaccin
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by kansface 5y ago
> Breaking out of the capitalist cycle seems quite difficult to do while still maintaining a decent quality of life. I would suggest that's because its capitalism that provides that quality of life.
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by kansface 5y ago
Police officers go to the bathroom. They take lunch breaks. They go to doctors appointments. They notify next of kin after a death. > The courts can decide when it's appropriate for the footage to be viewed where privacy concerns
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by kansface 5y ago
> What do your negotiating skills contribute to an engineering team that they should be affecting your compensation to the same extent as your skill level? Negotiating comes in a few flavors. One is in the form of a competing offer, whi
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by kansface 5y ago
Wildfires in CA are a political issue that will only be solved via a political solution, but at present, there is absolutely no appetite to do so among the residents or politicians. Its like asking why Elon hasn’t fixed healthcare or highe
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by kansface 5y ago
> N=42 This is noise.
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by kansface 5y ago
This isn't self driving for programming, its more like GPS and lane assist.
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by kansface 5y ago
No, emphatically, no, our doctors and our health care institutions did not act to minimize deaths! See for example the distribution of vaccines which did not go to demographics in proportion to their risk. It is totally unimaginable to me
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by kansface 5y ago
> Serious question though. Is this merely a neologism used to describe a phenomenon that was old before Cicero lost his head? While there may be nothing new under the sun, there is still plenty of room for the relative prevalence of slam
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by kansface 5y ago
It has in tech - in fact I’d wager approximately 100% of productivity gains since the 80s have been in the tech sector which in turn has probably captured nearly all of those gains for itself.
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by kansface 5y ago
Intelligence, conscientiousness, affluence/social capital- pick any two and you get success on average. That’s about all there is to it. Success could look like making a bunch of money, starting a business, doing research, making int
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by kansface 5y ago
I don’t buy this argument for a couple of reasons. The first is that you have to look at the percentage of candidates for the job from each tribe. Just like really blue cities are inevitably at odds with their really red tribe police offi
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by kansface 5y ago
This is a fundamental supply and demand problem for history PhD degrees which is out of balance by at least a factor of 4 or 5. There is nothing anyone can do to fix that, nor do I think we should (further subsidize tulips). Encouraging e
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That would require an amendment, no?
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by kansface 5y ago
I live in the US, but the plumber is just doing business in one jurisdiction and expects that business will continue to exist for years. Jumping through a bunch of hoops may not be worth what starts out at a couple hundred dollars a month.

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