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by ljw1001 7y ago
does anyone think the constant stream of tesla "news" is more than tesla-orchestrated promotion? This is company with a seemingly endless series of difficulties and a seemingly endless series of puff-pieces. Sorry. I meant indepen
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by ljw1001 8y ago
>The problem is that the people who pay for the creation of software (i.e. corporate directors) are usually ignorant about all things except for money and the vague desires of their customers. Oversimplification. Solving a problem just w
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by ljw1001 8y ago
> "OOP" was/is sold as a solution for everything computing, including the 95% of the time it is not a good fit. I call that track record "abysmal", your mileage may vary. In terms of real programs in the real wo
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by ljw1001 8y ago
> Java people posting their design pattern nonsense as if it was something good. Design patterns were developed by C++ and Smalltalk people.
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Facebook’s Private Groups Offer Refuge to Fringe Figures(nytimes.com)
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In companies like Facebook, employees weigh principles against a paycheck(vanityfair.com)
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by ljw1001 8y ago
If you're arguing that Facebook and Twitter aren't being used to push extremism you're wrong. If you're saying it doesn't matter because the US (and others) are flawed, you're wrong.
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How to say no to a Facebook recruiter (and have it mean something)
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by ljw1001 8y ago
> Yes, you can (usually) opt out, but the screen is telling you in no uncertain terms that tipping is probably a social norm here—if you choose to opt out, you are making the extra effort to break the norm. Yes, and that's ok when
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by ljw1001 8y ago
100 GB per day is pretty small, but your point holds
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by ljw1001 8y ago
How do you plan to compete with my mom?
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by ljw1001 8y ago
they are, but they're usually considered "IT" It's a secondary role compared to science. The computational action is for math, stats, and informatics specialists (like computational genomics). This often translates into
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by ljw1001 8y ago
We have Harvard, MIT, plus, the Broad institute (and others), the network of Harvard teaching hospitals (Brigham & Women's, Boston Children's, Mass General, Dana Farbar), with their surrounding cluster of commercial and non-co
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by ljw1001 8y ago
definitely not a ban. They're limited to salaried workers and to a year in duration. Not the three years that used to be standard.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Stay out of the sun would be the next one.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Yup. Everyone who doesn’t heap praise on Elon Musk is shorting the market. Or maybe a pedoguy.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
It has little to do with tech and much to do with market power, political influence, and scale economies.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
This book isn't a text book, and doesn't want to be, but for Fourier Analysis, "Who is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure" provides an introduction to the subject that, IMO, few books can match: https://www.ama
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by ljw1001 8y ago
What percent of YC's revenue comes from affiliate links?
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Maybe that whole lets conquer Russia thing that ended in the deaths of 400,000 of his countrymen (IIRC)? Have you seen the Minard plot? https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/229-vital-statistics-of-a-...
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Perhaps I'm the only person who finds this list disappointing. So much SciFi. So many works a hop and a skip from get-rich-quick stuff. Of course, when I was younger, I-ate-that-shit-up. Truly. And a second helping, please. IDK, the wo
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by ljw1001 8y ago
If you're in an enlightened state like CA, you may think things are not so bad. In MA, a low-level programmer working on, say, banking software, can be prevented for up to three years from working at another banking software company. K
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I think it's a mistake to combine progress in human rights and economic rights. While people worked towards greater civil rights, corporations worked to enhance their own power at everyone else's expense. They just happened at the
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by ljw1001 8y ago
When your rights are dependent on being in a strong bargaining position, you're already screwed. No one is always in a strong bargaining position.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I've done similar things when I was in a position to, and held my nose and signed when I wasn't. It sucks that bargaining position has become a substitute for legal rights. I have to regularly remind myself that there was plenty o
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Better than what he was sentenced to, but a year in prison is a long, long time.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
> What gives one company, or a set of arbitrary companies, the right to hold wages down? The lack of someone to stop them. Unions have been demonized so long that they're assumed to be universally bad, but a corporation is a collect
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Is Facebook in danger of not making money? I think the decision is a bit easier: should we make as much money as we possibly can, or should we forgo some profit to mitigate the assault on privacy and democracy that is the by-product of our
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I was on ambien for several years. Over time I developed sleep walking, cooking etc. I once needed stitches after walking into a book case. Another time I mistakingly took my ambien I the morning instead of a different medicine. Passed out
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Actually there is a lot of evidence that it is extremely slow growing. Something like 15 years from onset to metastasis. There’s some hope that a genomic cancer screen like Grail is pursuing will help.

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