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by lbarrow 5y ago
My understanding is that it's pretty common for CS departments to get IRB exemption even when human participants are tangentially involved in studies.
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by lbarrow 6y ago
The content creators are also users. The announcement emphasizes that they're doing this to help improve the content creator experience.
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by lbarrow 6y ago
I'm struck by how much Ben's description of what the NYT is becoming - an opinionated, subscriber-focused institution - matches up with how I think about Substack and Patreon. I wouldn't be surprised if in the long run we bas
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by lbarrow 6y ago
Sure, but the broken window fallacy basically just serves to illustrate that there are opportunity costs when we spend resources on fixing something. The benefits we get from these investments are still real, they're just less than wha
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by lbarrow 6y ago
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is the crypto "ecosystem"?
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by lbarrow 6y ago
Here's a list of things you won't find in this article: * A description of what SEO actually is * Any mention of how SEO came to exist * Even a hint that figuring out which search result to return might be hard to do, or that the
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by lbarrow 6y ago
I had a class on human development where the professor went in the exact opposite direction on this point. Alcohol is basically a mild poison, but it doesn't trigger morning sickness in pregnant women, which you'd think it should
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by lbarrow 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I've lived in Chicago for almost 10 years and this is exactly correct.
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by lbarrow 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow the "holding the bag". The regulatory risks were really obvious when Uber IPO'd last year. If investors lose money because of those risks, it's their fault for not accounting for them.
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by lbarrow 6y ago
Tegus | Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, iOS Engineer | Full Time | Chicago, IL Tegus is a financial research platform for institutional investors: we make a one-of-a-kind searchable database of thousands of investor-led intervi
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by lbarrow 6y ago
Compared with SQL it's definitely imperative. It's definitely using higher-level abstractions than a `for` loop, but it still specifies the order of operations.
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by lbarrow 6y ago
>Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (the parent company name for Google) together are worth more than most every country in the world (except the United States, China, Germany, and Japan). Did the author just compare market
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Predicting success in pair programming interviews(lionelbarrow.com)
1 points by lbarrow 7y ago|0 comments
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by lbarrow 7y ago
I think this article was written a few days before the EU memo was leaked. He doesn't mention the EU in it.
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by lbarrow 7y ago
Tegus | Senior Software Engineer | Chicago, IL | Full-time | On-site Tegus makes research products for institutional investors - we provide a layer of qualitative expertise on top of the quantitative research products investors already have
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by lbarrow 7y ago
Holy crap, what is wrong with the scrolling on this site? It makes it super hard to read the article.
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by lbarrow 8y ago
My understanding is that something being 'required for product to function' refers to technical requirements, not revenue requirements. So, yes I agree that it's a problem for small sites (or really anyone who tries to make m
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by lbarrow 8y ago
That's how the GDPR works - unless the data being collected is required for the operation of the service, you cannot make data collection a requirement of using the service.
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by lbarrow 8y ago
I don't think that's true - they're using a harmonized rate that is effectively measured the same way. Here's the original publication that the author is responding to: http://cepr.net/documents/publ
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by lbarrow 8y ago
That quote is hilarious -- Guido von Rossum claims that it's impossible to implement `reduce` in a few lines in a functional language. Just out of curiosity, I checked out the `reduce` implementation in Elixir: def reduce(enumerabl
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by lbarrow 8y ago
Agreed, I think the author oversells his case by say that Solzhenitsyn was more important that Gorbachev. Gorbachev is one of the most under-appreciated figures in modern history in my opinion.
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by lbarrow 8y ago
I honestly think you didn't understand the article. Let me summarize what I got out of it - we can agree to disagree about the quality of the prose. In the late 60s, as the early political struggles of the the baby boomers were coming
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by lbarrow 8y ago
Yea, it really seems like the author originally just flipped out at the word "algorithm" and is now backpeddling after realizing he was pretty uniformed.
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by lbarrow 8y ago
Newly elected Democrats in the NY state legislature might block the NYC Amazon subsidies and put the funds into student debt relief instead: https://capitalandmain.com/will-new-york-fund-amazon-subsidi...
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Venmo Looks to New Leader to Overcome 'Growing Pains'(wsj.com)
1 points by lbarrow 8y ago|0 comments
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by lbarrow 8y ago
She was on the late stage side. From the second paragraph: >Meeker is leading an exodus of late-stage investors from Kleiner Perkins in its most dramatic shake-up since legendary investor John Doerr stepped back from his role more than t
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Amazon Joins the DC Chamber of Commerce(bizjournals.com)
2 points by lbarrow 8y ago|0 comments
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by lbarrow 8y ago
20 years later, the DMCA in the US actually seems pretty decent. It's not perfect but it strikes a pretty good balance between the interests of copyright holders and allowing for innovation.
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by lbarrow 8y ago
I interviewed there in 2016 and you only needed to have the app on while driving for a week or two before you got a quote. After you got the quote you didn't need to have the app on. It's possible this has changed since then; but
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by lbarrow 8y ago
I don't think this is accurate - GDPR, for example, mostly cements the continued dominance of the tech giants.

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