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by leto_ii 6y ago
> If it was accurate, everybody would be working for minimum wage. A lot of people actually are working for (close to) minimum wage. > BTW, if you're unemployed because of the pandemic, the best use of your time is to level up yo
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> Don't become emotionally attached to companies before you've been hired. The problem here is that as an applicant you're usually expected to show commitment, enthusiasm, passion for the work etc. It's very hard to w
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Isn't this a bit the opposite of what the article is recommending? It seems the author would like full oop, stateful objects etc. Or maybe I got it wrong...
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Thinking about it now, I'm not even sure you can have such a thing as an 'objective' overview of philosophy. Clearly nobody will be equally knowledgeable about let's say, the pre-socratics, the Cambridge Platonists and c
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by leto_ii 6y ago
* For an (opinionated) overview of philosophy up until the first part of the 20th century you can try Russell's History of Western Philosophy [1]. * A very detailed and useful resource for a lot of topics is also the Stanford Encycl
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> it seems to me there has always been two things in tension: forces which push for unification, and forces which push for diversification. Agreed. I'm also not a linguist, but it does seem to me that the forces pushing for unificat
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> You should first learn how to supercharge your pieces by controlling the centre, putting rooks on open files, co-ordinating your bishop pair, keeping a strong pawn structure, etc. I tend to agree. Based on my (limited) experience, I wo
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> You really can't get away from standards when it comes to communication. I disagree, at least in principle. It's important to separate the natural phenomenon of language, which has been going on for perhaps 100000 years or so
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The way I understand it, linguistic standardization is a modern and artificial process. Even such seemingly scientific and well determined concepts such as language or dialect are in fact arbitrary distinctions imposed on a continuous pheno
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I was quoting part of the main Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/133274617257067725...
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> But it's literally nothing new to anyone with any political knowledge It's therefore even more surprising and alarming that generally available information still gets shadow banned.
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> Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don't understand nuance at all. I don't have kids myself, but I do remember how it is to be a child, having been one myself a while ago :D I can assure you kids understand nuance
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:)) no. Why do you ask?
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The YouTube shadow ban is bad enough, but to me the even scarier part comes further down the thread: > A few months ago I uploaded a video about police brutality. It showed explicit acts of violence by the police, and it was understandab
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by leto_ii 6y ago
It seems to me that throughout the essay Paul Graham keeps undermining his own claims. Early on he states: > Independent-mindedness seems to be more a matter of nature than nurture. Subsequently he starts giving advice about how to make
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> the fact that a machine learning model trained in an unsupervised fashion can succeed that much at anything non-trivial is mind-boggling to me, and makes me hopeful that other tasks will also be within reach relatively soon. To me, on
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> It sounds nice but it's just one non sequitur after another. A very sleek looking plane that is incapable of flight. I like this analogy, especially because it alludes to the Dijkstra quote [1]. In this light it's probably un
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> In the textbooks, astonishing facts were presented without astonishment. Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was. The key thought of the arti
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by leto_ii 6y ago
To me this short story doesn't seem that mind-bending or provocative. Doesn't everything hinge on the premise that you can send information back in time? Essentially this seems to be a simplified presentation of Newcomb's par
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Your comment reminded me that there is a lot of art and artifacts simply kept in warehouses, and treated mostly as investment assets: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/design/one-of-the-wo...
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Books are a classic thing that should just be digitized and the originals sold off. > The value is in the content, not the paper and ink. Why wouldn't this logic apply to e.g. paintings as well? Or even sculpture and various hi
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by leto_ii 6y ago
To be honest, this article reads more like one of Randall Munroe's "what if?" posts than anything that should be taken seriously. Is there any point in investigating the maximalist claim that a nuclear war would kill literall
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Still on the topic of sand, but more related to its dynamics than its softness, I would like to recommend the work of Per Bak [1]. Among other things he investigated and modeled the frequency and magnitude of avalanches in piles of sand, wo
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> I think heirarchy is a natural human inclination. It's observed in every part of the animal kingdom. I have two main objections to this line of thinking: 1. Even if a tendency or behavior can occur in "nature", that does
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> Choosing to neglect (or underfund) the maintenance activities doesn't cost the business anything for some period of time (the delay). And performing them does not (within the period of that delay) bring in any revenue. It is only
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> So, if the person who is concerned about technical debt is senior enough they will have some ability to see the business tradeoff and thus can completely avoid the phrase. They'd say instead something like "I was thinking tha
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> someone who worked at a low-status job for four years out of college, then worked at a hot startup for one year. Or someone with no college degree who spent time working in "low-status" tech roles but has one popular GitHub
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> It leads to being awake during dark hours, and humans do not have night vision. Humans most definitely can see at night. Not as well as other animals, but we can do it. People also tend to actually stay awake in the dark, otherwise our
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Somewhere in a parallel universe: " Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘early bird’ sleep disorder A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz shows how a genetic mutation throws off the timing of the biological cloc
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> But all that and a lot more is discussed in Stephen J. Gould's The Mismeasurement of Man, a text to read before reading random posts with graphs on the internets. I was actually looking into some of Gould's work just a few da

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