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by ken47 11y ago
If you believe an education system is directly tied to the advancement of humankind, globalizing access to advanced subject matter from some of the world's top professors could actually alter the course of human history for better. If
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by ken47 11y ago
But hash tables and binary trees are CS concepts. Even though you don't have a CS degree, it sounds like you've taken the time to learn some basic CS.
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by ken47 11y ago
That depends on your criteria. If one of them is to minimize the running cost of a program in production, then knowledge of CS will definitely help you achieve your goal. If you don't care about the running cost, then sure, lots of boz
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by ken47 11y ago
I wish I could downvote this blatant racism.
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by ken47 11y ago
But if you can't do Big-O analysis, there are problems where you will be stuck. Your code will be running slowly and you won't know why, and all the micro-optimizations in the world can't make a O(n^2) algorithm run faster t
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by ken47 11y ago
I've never found myself in a situation where I truly needed to choose between a vector/map/list/hashmap. Or had to find the O(x^n) and replace it with O(x^2) This entirely depends on the kind of product you are working
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by ken47 11y ago
Just look at their executive bios or look through linkedin. Solid statistics.
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by ken47 11y ago
NEWSFLASH: buying land and sitting on it to exploit scarcity creates no wealth. Therefore if you buy lower and sell higher that money comes from wealth created elsewhere, making you a leech. If you buy somewhere to live in, fine, but more
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by ken47 11y ago
I'm getting a strong mix of upvotes and downvotes. I understand that achieving a true global optimum is likely intractable, so I thought I'd clarify my statement, and hopefully solicit some real responses. The most influential pla
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by ken47 11y ago
If you're familiar with the notion of a greedy algorithm, that is capitalism in practice -- easy to find local optima, but in the case of humanity, very unlikely to find the global optimum.
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by ken47 11y ago
What a terribly flawed article. They choose arbitrary universities for each major. The number of "elite" universities is small enough that the top 5 of each could trivially be added to the article. For example, in the CS table, wh
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by ken47 11y ago
I would shy away from the word "fudged," but almost every country's gdp numbers are the result of subjective interpretation.
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by ken47 11y ago
This is an artifact of the maximum complexity of front end apps having risen dramatically in recent years.
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by ken47 11y ago
The ethics of this go deeper than what you describe. If Warren Buffett invests 1m in a company, is he in a riskier position than if a McDonald's clerk were to invest 10k in the same company? The absolute dollar value is not the only wa
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by ken47 11y ago
"Travis Kalanik is one of the brightest guys on the planet" That is a strong statement. Care to justify?
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by ken47 11y ago
"(namely data structures, algorithms, and some college level math)" If you're smart and perceptive, then you can learn enough of these things, for the average job, by osmosis or by day-to-day exposure over the course of a car
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by ken47 11y ago
Hypothetical question, who would you rather have as a software engineer on your team: the MIT stats grad with little to no programming background aside from a bootcamp or the average CS grad from the average Uni?
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by ken47 11y ago
That may be true, but something something shareholder value trumps all.
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by ken47 11y ago
Does anyone else feel that targeted statistical studies would advance this discussion far more than yet another anecdote? The state of understanding of this situation could be much improved. And yet, despite how strongly people feel about t
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by ken47 11y ago
Whether you sympathize or not, saying "meh" to someone's death is a slippery slope with psychopathy at the bottom.
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by ken47 11y ago
What's interesting in these comments is the egos clearly trying to defend themselves. Introspection begins with the question: do you own your ego or does it own you?
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by ken47 11y ago
Look around the responses for the notion of controlled access to the drug, and the obstacles it imposes on putting out a generic.
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by ken47 11y ago
That brokenness is entirely dependent on what you mean by self-interest. I recommend reading up on the concept of "enlightened self-interest," which was popular during Adam Smith's era, and theoretically leads to far less &qu
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by ken47 11y ago
If you do some research into this particular medicine, you will see that there are clear, non-free market roadblocks to producing a generic version.
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by ken47 11y ago
This is a monopoly, which is, by definition, not subject to the price discovery mechanism of the free market. If you mean that eventually, some sort of force will break up the monopoly and find the true free market price point at the inters
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by ken47 11y ago
I suppose the statement you are latching onto is where I said that it is never economically optimal to allow someone to die in exchange for higher profit, so allow me to clarify. In this case, it seems nearly impossible to make a concrete c
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by ken47 11y ago
It's almost never pointed out that Adam Smith, in his free market theory, was arguing for the efficacy of "enlightened" self-interest. I encourage readers to research this aspect of his theory, and how it contrasts with &quot
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by ken47 11y ago
I don't think your examples are sufficiently similar to the subject matter to make this a compelling argument.
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From an economic and policy perspective, unfortunately, Turing is doing everything right. This is an economically misguided point of view. Free market decision-making can only be argued to be optimal in a free market system, which pharma
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by ken47 11y ago
Perhaps "fantasy" would be a more apt descriptor than "innovation."

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