lordCarbonFiber

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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
I feel like more people would have better search experiences if they knew about/used custom search. For example for wikipedia I've got my browsers set up so I can type "wiki <search term> and have that powered by wikipe
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Off topic, give that the tread is about an idea for protecting minority groups largely unserved by the algorithm. I fail to see how a "but both sides" proclamation leads to any progress (other than maintaining the status quo which
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
The problem with crowd sourcing, especially in the LGBT space, is it's really vulnerable to brigading. Give particularly bored and hatful people a bat to shut down channels they don't like and things go south fast.
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
That's such a weird metric. Like "build a home", where? Raise a family, how large, how educated, how well provided for? Ditto for leisure goods like vacations. I think a better base line is targeting an individual. Healthcar
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Im going to be biased by my experience, but, I've only encountered one problem i'd consider explicitly trick trivia (and it wasn't on the white board, it was one of these "solve this problem on hacker rank to get an int
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
There's a selection bias there. Few people will write, and even fewer would read, a blog post about showing up and doing well on an interview (and most companies generally don't want you posting direct answers to the process). It
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Anyone applying for a junior position should expect to have skills matching or exceeding the other people applying for the same position. Saying candidates should get a free pass because of age sounds far more discriminatory than an even pl
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
What gets me is the entitlement around OP's post. They're older so clearly they don't have time to brush up on DS and algos. That rubs me the wrong way, as some one who transisitioned in to CS from another field and worked
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Blaming the victims of mass shootings for antagonizing the shooter is never a good look. The reason you get "blasted" online is because the sentiment takes a broad brush and paints men awfully (ironic considering the "pointin
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
N=1 I 100% quit the first of March such that I was covered for that month. Pretty much my only option to keep my perscriptions and scheduled blood tests affordable. And Im a tech worker with piles of disposable income, imagine if the poten
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
There's magazines like this one ( https://www.agweb.com/farmjournal); however it sounds like we'd have different ideas of small though. Outside of direct to consumer farmers market type opperations, "small&quo
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
I'd venture farmers make half or more more of their money on futures markets. Argi-business is a global market and optimal prices for your commodities don't necessarily conform to your local conditions/crops/etc. I can&
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
The cost to the commons is pretty substantial though. One person sleeping on a bench vs 5 people sitting, a subway car with 50 people vs a subway car with one and the smell of death. These kind of features address practical concerns, concer
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
I think that's a great analysis; but then the discussion should be around that issue "why is the public paying for this service" rather than whether it's ethical to make it harder to jump the turnstile.
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Discussion around hostile design always seems to miss the forest for the trees to me. To point out a concrete example, is it better to address homeless populations with some combination of state housing and UBI programs or, accept homelessn
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
You cannot have freedom of speech without freedom of association. When it comes to deplatforming it does matter who's doing it, because there is a fundamental difference between a private entity (corporate or living person) and a go
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
The reaction here is more over the idea of "unknown unknowns". This poster doesn't demonstrate the self awareness to even suspect the average person might have something to teach them which, rather than super intelligence, b
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Apply for bank outside of a tech hub, or any job outside of the major US cities. There's plenty of positions full of people riding the "expert beginner" status, blissfully unaware of how far behind they are because top perfo
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
No, in the you're wrong unequivocally, but the ideas that we can "know the will of the founders" and "the will of the founders somehow matters" is really interesting in 2019.
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
The particularly red/blue states are where this matters the most. Imagining a state with 10 districts and a split of 80-20 along party lines (and this is relatively as extreme red/blue you can get; americans aren't that homog
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Im not a fan of this line of thinking. This ignores the systemic reasons people might not be able to vote. Can you get time off of work, are the poll lines unreasonably long, are the polls close enough to you (you don't necessarily ha
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
That's wrong, and wrong in really interesting ways.First off if we want to argue from the founders districts were never supposed to be more than 10k people and the number of districts would naturally grow with population. We threw that
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
The cognitive dissonance required to wax poetically about how voters should just get their representatives (elected and permanently in power because of these broken districts) to pass laws to redraw the broken districts is astounding to me.
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
You're getting "ripped to shreds" because it doesn't sound like you really know much about the topic. Muscle and bone density changes on hormone replacement therapy start happening pretty darn fast and the effort require
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
The problem with things that "everyone knows" is they are often hyper simplified abstractions that form useful models but are not appropriate to discussions of anything specific or for shaping policy. Everyone "knows" P
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
I was pretty die hard against VLC (i've moved everything I do to mpv wrappers once MPC-HC became abandonware) but I'd give vlc another chance if you haven't looked at it in a while. It's come a long way if your opinions
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Left with a long list of cities maybe, but not many (any?) population centers. Im sure for small N you can find people that want to live an hour deep from the Baltimore suburbs, but the size of the cities you insist on excluding compared
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
>Pick a city where there aren't many jobs, there isn't much to do, and young people aren't interested in moving their and my antiquated ideas about what the housing market should look like hold. FTFY I suspect people, espe
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
If you define "woman" as "able to bear children" you're also cutting out a lot of cis-women as well. Defining gender based on reproductive ability is just a shitty thing in general, anti-human if you will.
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
The number of people that will say, without irony, that they expect upper level classes to follow a normal distirbution in grades boggles my mind. College by definition involves a great deal of gatekeeping and self selection. As for the lar

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