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by lesam 2y ago
When I was interviewing for more junior roles, “find the nth Fibonacci number” was a popular question. It was always fun to hit the interviewer with this, it’s exponentially faster than the memoization they were usually expecting.
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by lesam 2y ago
The author is suggesting normalizing a 20 hour work week, and an approximate doubling of hourly wages for the majority of workers. (And continuing to reduce the hours worked per week until full employment is reached). Work that is unattract
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by lesam 2y ago
Except in the moon landing I think they had more useful controls, not just a single lever to be moved up or down.
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by lesam 2y ago
Sure there’s a tension, but one difference is that I know how I vote, but I don’t know how my representative votes unless it’s in the public record. If you believe that electorates punish politicians for decisions in the public interest, an
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by lesam 2y ago
I’m in Canada. If there were enough doctors that doctor unemployment was 2%+, like a normal job, doctors here would get paid less. Also doctors might not burn themselves out working crazy hours. Instead, we have a dire shortage of doctors a
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by lesam 3y ago
Do you have any sense why this is true? I get preferring (10x or 0x) to (1.5x). I don’t get preferring a near-certainty of 0x to some recovery of their capital with a pivot to selling a smaller-but-sustainable business. Is it something like
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by lesam 3y ago
Assuming you have a tested rollback strategy, I’m all for rolling back first and asking questions later. It at least can often eliminate the rolled back change as the cause, even if it doesn’t fix the problem.
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by lesam 3y ago
I appreciate that it’s a joke made to make a point, but I would prefer that the state keep prisoners safe from being raped in prison, regardless of what crime they committed.
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by lesam 3y ago
If P!=NP, probably nothing changes. If P=NP, a very large class of optimization problems probably become practical to solve, which would be a big win for science and technology generally, to the extent that I think it would be felt in daily
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by lesam 3y ago
Medicine has more barriers to entry at least partly because we’ve decided to erect them. Doctors learn all kinds of things outside their direct specialty that they don’t really need to know, but nobody inside the system has an incentive to
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by lesam 3y ago
Except you do have hundreds of distinct smell receptors that can detect complex chemical signals, which contribute greatly to what we colloquially call ‘taste’. Which is why food tastes very different if you lose your sense of smell, and wh
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by lesam 3y ago
If you want to be a CEO, it's a lot better to network with the kids of all the CEO's than the kids of the dentists and middle managers, if you can arrange it.
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by lesam 3y ago
Newer research shows a good chunk of SIDS cases actually _are_ likely suffocation from various causes. That’s why the SIDS reduction measures are mostly ‘sleep on the back, in an empty crib, with nothing soft around’. But it’s much easier t
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by lesam 4y ago
Who in the rest of your organization is producing so much shit that your manager’s primary job is to be a shit umbrella? What productive purpose are those people serving if your manager’s job is effectively to work against them? Maybe the p
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by lesam 4y ago
I never see anyone complaining about buybacks because of tax reasons though. In particular, the author is complaining companies are not spending enough on R&D because of buybacks. It is true that buybacks are more tax efficient than div
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by lesam 4y ago
If there was an alternative in the form of a guaranteed not-terrible job at minimum wage, wouldn’t that necessarily raise wages (or maybe working conditions) for currently terrible jobs? Giving people a real choice seems easier than regulat
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by lesam 4y ago
Sundials are already ‘wrong’ according to solar time by 30 minutes or more, as an artifact of dividing the world into hour-wide time zones. Astronomy already ignores leap seconds in the same way that modern finance ignores half-crowns and s
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by lesam 4y ago
I hate that some people say rockstars and mean ‘really great developers that write beautiful working well documented code quickly and work great as part of a team’. And other people say rockstars and mean ‘assholes that churn out new featur
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by lesam 4y ago
It’s not just bitcoin. People are told to “invest for retirement” and to do their financial planning based on 4-8% per year growth after inflation, when the risk free rate has been 2% or less for 20 years. If the US stock market stagnates f
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by lesam 4y ago
I’ve worked in C++ and picked my own tools. The tooling experience in Go is much more polished for a few reasons. First, as the author states, it’s hard to get consensus on a tool if it wasn’t baked in from the beginning. I don’t think ther
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by lesam 4y ago
My model is advertising is roughly zero sum - there’s only so much disposable income for advertisers to chase. So it doesn’t seem contradictory that overall consumption stayed constant while the advertising arms race advanced significantly.
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by lesam 4y ago
The study has a sample size of 25 young adults, presumably students at Penn State in Pennsylvania. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol...
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by lesam 4y ago
‘Not what it is about’ according to whom? Most students are in school because they want jobs, not to learn to think. The professors may be interested in that goal but how can they possibly achieve it with a student body that just wants thei
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by lesam 4y ago
Shelter costs have also increased massively, not only because shelter has gotten better but because there’s more room in people’s budget for landlords to capture. Medical and educational costs have risen in the US, I would argue for the sam
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by lesam 4y ago
Humanity is much more productive per capita than 50 years ago, but we are collectively working more hours, not less. The goal should not be for everyone to do no work. The goal should not be for everyone to work full time and fear unemploym
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by lesam 4y ago
I started programming with “learn to program basic”, a series of animated programming tutorials in BASIC lightly disguised as a game.
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by lesam 4y ago
How does this article not talk about France, which had a long-running commercial breeder reactor shut down more by politics than cost? The real issue is that breeder reactors produce weapons grade plutonium, and so the US doesn’t like to se
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by lesam 4y ago
Yeah, the main benefit of docker desktop is packaging up a nice Linux VM on Mac/Windows, plus some UI features. There’s a reason ’Docker Desktop for Linux’ came so much later.
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by lesam 4y ago
Yes. When I worked in Quebec (around 2017) the company got a reminder from OIQ that employees should not call themselves Engineers on LinkedIn unless they had a P.Eng. The Engineer title is taken seriously in Canada, similar to how you can’
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by lesam 4y ago
And in most courses will just reward cheaters who succeed in not being caught.

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