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   by lisasays 3y ago

   Hmm -- it definitely strikes me as not just poorly phrased, but quite weird that they brought up racial groupings at all. Otherwise they could have just said: If they don’t speak a tonal language at all, they fare no better on AP tests th
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   by lisasays 3y ago

   The more fluent Asian students are in a tonal language, the more likely they are to have AP. And if they don’t speak a tonal language at all, they fare no better on AP tests than Caucasian students. So the complement of Asian is ... Cauca
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   by lisasays 3y ago

   Just keep reading. It gets better: My older boy is also taking a few online music classes in his two non-dominant languages. (My kids are trilingual and I always look for ways to increase their non-dominant language exposure.)
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   by lisasays 3y ago

   Of course I mean "compatible". There's no way I would say tech company culture is preferable to anything.
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   by lisasays 3y ago

   It doesn't always matter. But sometimes it does. A great deal in fact. Language, culture, verifiability (even on the level of being able to do a standard background check), payroll, legalities. And all the other reasons they aren&#
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   ‘Monstrous murder’: 41 women killed in Honduras prison riot(theguardian.com)

   4 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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   by lisasays 3y ago

   Of course that weren't no "accounting error". The fudges were intentional. It was a way of getting them stuff off the books (or at least in a way that wouldn't be discovered until later). Source: reasonable speculation
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   Extra $6B in US arms for Ukraine after ‘accounting error’(theguardian.com)

   2 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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   by lisasays 3y ago

   Suriya Gunasekar, Yi Zhang, Jyoti Aneja, Caio César Teodoro Mendes, Allie Del Giorno, Sivakanth Gopi, Mojan Javaheripi, Piero Kauffmann, Gustavo de Rosa, Olli Saarikivi, Adil Salim, Shital Shah, Harkirat Singh Behl, Xin Wang, Sébastien Bub
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    Just make sure I can install a fully AI-free version, please.
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    Some guy who went around claiming to be responsible for all kinds of stuff, when in fact he just didn't do all that much.
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    An unbelievably, criminally stupid product idea. Meta must be truly desperate by this point.
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    This assumes that the business owners are aiming for quality. Their entire track record (and business model) suggests the exact opposite.
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    Ukraine lacks capacity to process sums in aid, official admits(theguardian.com)

    4 points by lisasays 3y ago|2 comments
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    I would go with just plain sloth and cluelessness. But yeah, not surprisingly of a kind that also fits with their plutocratic ethos.
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    Who’s unhoused in California? Largest study in decades upends myths(theguardian.com)

    42 points by lisasays 3y ago|19 comments
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    In the share of dollar-store visits this year among those making more than $100,000, compared with the second half of 2022. No, $100k does not make you a one-percenter. Not by a long shot. Yet another piss-poor WSJ article.
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    I'm not sure it's a "movement" either, but from what I understand it's not at all about "wallowing in mediocrity". Rather it is simply a rejection of the pervasive cult of meritocratic / hustle-cultur
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    Assuming, quite reasonably, that there has to some kind of rationale for this -- I would guess it's because there's some significant structural complexity (and hence risk) involved in having it be open-able both ways.
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    Common sense, and a reasonable Bayesian prior for these things. And the fact that (whatever his intrinsnic talents) what the first guy was saying just smells like BS, and he seems backpedal a lot.
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    The second commenter (at least claims to) be currently working not just at MS but on that very project. They could be trolling, but I doubt it.
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    My own threshold for "I created X" would be "I was solo dev, until it got legs of its own and started needing serious outside help." I don't know the story behind Oculus, but objectively Linux and a host of other f
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    How so? If anything it seems the opposite is true. (Prototyping, almost by definition, is almost zero risk. While bringing stuff to market requires real resources, and invokes actual brand and reputation risk. Might be different in some
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    Except -- for the people you work for (and their investors) they absolutely are a slot machine. That just so happens to be rigged in their favor.
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    Can't evaluate on the details, but in general I love reading takes like this. Basically a variant of the "When all you have is a hammer" mindset and its inevitable consequences, as we see replicated over and over again in th
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    I work on Copilot now, and I can say this guy is totally full of himself. Thanks for the reality check, and Occam's Razor suggests this is (unfortunately) the most likely explanation for what we're reading. Sure, employees get t
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    Dutch by default: Netherlands seeks curbs on English-language university courses(theguardian.com)

    11 points by lisasays 3y ago|0 comments
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    [flagged] blogspam, aside from being blatant cheating advice
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    Three men including ex-NYPD officer convicted of harassing Chinese exile(theguardian.com)

    6 points by lisasays 3y ago|0 comments
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    by lisasays 3y ago

    https://archive.is/GZ8pW