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by lemmsjid 6y ago
I think it's valid in a politically charged scenario such as this one to take into account the motivation behind the research as well as the research itself. At least in a forum like this one, as opposed to similar research papers. A
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
I think there's a two way problem. The current state of public discourse on science in the U.S. is very skewed from scientific consensus. For example a YouGov poll found that 49% of Americans think that the virus originated in a Wuh
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
I didn't know either so looked it up: 'Enterprise journalism is reporting that is not generated by news or a press release, but rather generated by a reporter or news organization based on developed sources.' That makes sense
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Yeah I don't disagree, I was mainly pointing out that there isn't a black and white 'grpc = bad' argument. Especially since I believe grpc does take steps to mitigate some of the RPC issues you'd have with, say, Thr
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Yep! That's the nuanced argument I'd look for, as opposed to 'gRPC bad, they added it because they're from google!' Simplicity wise my favorite scenario is where if I'm using Python I can pip install an interfa
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
That would have been a critique of Thrift, and a valid one, but gRPC has an http gateway interface with semantics for how the RPC calls map to REST calls and JSON. As long as that is supported, then there does not need to be a regression.
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
The problem, I think, is that the article presents all of its views as almost self evidently true. If you distill it down, the complaint is that etcd added gRPC. I think it was a good move for an infrastructure piece like etcd to add gRPC.
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
True, I imagined while writing the above that people will be thinking of different use cases (or in this case pathological cases). It is very important to profile your system and rationalize all the things it is doing. I have multiple tim
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Having spent a lot of time in highly scalable distributed system land, I can perhaps give you few reasons: 1. Sometimes business needs require non-linear growth quickly. One day your perfectly optimized process now requires an n-squared al
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
You are welcome to believe that, but it doesn’t seem like an effective way of achieving anything, at least given the history of alcohol prohibition and drug criminalization.
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Exporting cultural strictures rarely ends well (many historical examples, both distant and recent), so I'd say, if you can get a large number of people in the West to not eat meat, then you've reduced the suffering of animals by a
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Tosh's joke ignores that people can struggle with recall and on-the-spot test taking stress, while performing quite well at whatever the test is assessing. When studies have been done on interviewing, nothing has shown that inducing s
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
One way of combating misinformation could be increased visibility. For example, suppose that Facebook had a policy like this: if an advertisement is deemed to have misinformation in it, or cover a particularly controversial topic, it is no
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
And it should be a two pronged effort. The baseline should be companies employing teams of people of sufficient size to review their products, then using and tuning algorithms to increase the efficiency.
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
I will add to the pile of agreements on this. Also, if you do end up sharding a relational database, it is often by identifying subgraphs of document-like structures that you can shard on. Need to ensure these subgraphs do not have foreign
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Hmm. Most recently I managed a refactoring design process across a multi hundred person org at a large tech company, also needing to include a few other multi hundred people orgs. It wasn't the first time I've done that. Most o
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
The goal of FP would be to make it straightforward to modularize both large and small details. The notion that you can modularize a low level algorithm does not preclude modularizing a high level business process. This is a good thing beca
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
For me, and this is having grown and maintained some large functional code bases, the fact that your day-to-day code does have an enhanced low-level correctness is exactly what helps you attack what you describe as the major problem: comple
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
I think the problem is that healthcare related stuff shouldn’t even be on management’s plate. Managers and executives are usually not qualified to decide what is good healthcare, but are forced to make decisions anyhow. Healthcare should b
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
You’ve been lucky in your career. I have, especially early in my career before I could afford to be choosy, encountered multiple managers, business owners and others who are basically cold and calculating about exploiting others. They see m
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Maybe it will help for me to pass on how it was explained to me, as the father. Maternity leave is for recovering from the trauma of birth, and for taking care of the baby. Paternity leave is for helping the mother through the trauma, and o
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Ah, I see what you're saying, thanks!
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Banning products that a sub-population of people are effectively addicted to has a long, multi-instance history of not working and instead contributing to crime (see various drug prohibitions). A product being banned can actually be a form
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
It's pretty rare that I read a paper that has not at least given some thought to the types of obvious correlation/causation concerns that come up after just reading the title of the paper. That said I'm always interested in
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
This rings true, and the reason you will see some charters with minorities is that it is classist as well as racist. When deciding to send our child to public school, suddenly people around us were feeding us with this really cloudy liberal
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Good question on the fish, I suppose that quite stretches the metaphor :). I suppose if I were the fish I’d still be traumatized after being yanked out of the water and provided a solid meal. On feature vs news titles I’m totally with you a
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
This is probably a pointless argument, because I will heartily agree this is all about semantics that are not locked into the language :). But I believe a quite acceptable distinction between 'clickbait' and a 'lead-in'
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
You’re missing the bait part of clickbait. Baiting a fish is tricking them into thinking they’ll get a meal, when they won’t. Clickbait is for things like “You won’t believe the shocking thing Harrison Ford did this morning!!” —and it turns
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Sorry to hear that. I posted a somewhat disagreeing response to you, but felt your response was reasonable and respectfully put. I have never downvoted anyone due to simple disagreement--that is what replies are for. Downvoting, imho, is
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
I don’t see that as a one or the other decision. I think of it as a continuum, where decision making on either side is grounded in knowledge of history. Should the government decide if Nike or Addidas make better shoes? No, let the market

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