losteric

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by losteric 9y ago
In my experience, Amazon is very good about focusing managers on facilitating talent and trusting engineers with implementation. Not in all orgs, granted, but the innovative / experimental ones are very engineering driven... even the m
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by losteric 9y ago
Is it possible TV did make society marginally worse, and each new dopamine trap captures an increasing fraction of society? This statement is laughable: > The thing that actually holds old friendships together and provides endless opport
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by losteric 9y ago
The Fermi paradox may not be a paradox, depending on the values you assign to various probabilities. It's more of a observational heuristic for guessing the probabilities... if intelligent life was common, we should see some signs of i
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by losteric 9y ago
That uncertainty is always a given... addressed in the first three words of "it looks like you'll fit in". I still don't see how that can be perceived as offensive or insulting.
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by losteric 9y ago
What's harmful about saying someone fits in? I use that as a filler statement after good interviews... if they performed well, they fit in. Does that offend people?
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by losteric 9y ago
Voyager went interstellar. The Tesla is still bound to the inner solar system.
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by losteric 9y ago
iirc, they are aiming for Mar's orbit... the general public just thinks that means orbiting Mars.
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by losteric 9y ago
The US as a whole really struggles with self-regulation... we tend towards the extremes of seems deregulation or a byzantine web regulations spawning off a new industry that lobbies for answering every problem with more regulations. Why not
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by losteric 9y ago
Herd immunity? Perhaps naive people believe those spam sites because smarter people believe the better spam sites that share the same narrative... However, distrusting digital media isn't the solution either - there are plenty of trash
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by losteric 9y ago
The government's job is to lobby itself into spending more money on public education?
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by losteric 9y ago
Anonymity and bots are an interesting problem. As users become more anonymous, by creating interest-specific accounts, changing their posting behavior, and use proxies, they converge on the behavior of bots trying to masquerade as humans. T
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by losteric 9y ago
The value is drive up by money laundering / bypassing restrictions around foreign currency exchange (eg bypassing Chinese regulations)
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by losteric 9y ago
I really like it. Their websites feel more authentic, alive and direct.
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by losteric 9y ago
(2) except the blame falls on company leadership - developers are not in charge of funding teams. Leadership funds teams that generate positive ROI. A successful bot-hunting team will likely decrease revenue... although kicking out bots mak
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by losteric 9y ago
Feel free to suggest books you wrote, but I would look down on someone using referral links to profit off their recommendations.
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by losteric 9y ago
> If you think humans flourish only in terms of physical prowess or memory retrieval, you have very poor standards. Nope, I just think you have poor reading comprehension - you are replying to a comment that said exactly the same thing.
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by losteric 9y ago
Being in your prime refers to mental and physical fitness, not happiness. It's easily measured by digging holes or studying books. The context of this thread is fitness - 50 year olds are definitely less fit than their younger selves.
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by losteric 9y ago
"no serious physical problems" is far from "in your prime"... and you might know more things, but your ability to learn has significantly declined. That's just the nature of aging.
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by losteric 9y ago
The key is building the right abstraction layers - clean separation of responsibilities into black boxes. Outside of security, no one complains about trusting the heap of abstractions that interpreted languages depend on... interpreters, co
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by losteric 9y ago
When you say GPU + RNNs address the remaining 10% of problems... what problems fall under that 10%?
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by losteric 9y ago
Other nations have no problem funding social programs, because they maintain a reasonable tax rate for high-income/high-wealth entities and avoid expensive indefinite foreign wars.
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by losteric 9y ago
Incidentally, houses are also useful for shelter and storing other assets
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by losteric 9y ago
National debt is a looming crisis, but the largest impact on the general public has been irrationally cutting government spending in the wrong areas (cutting $M from social programs to spend $B/$T on foreign wars). Of course, the gener
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by losteric 9y ago
I'd like to research this some more, can you name some of those equations / macroeconomic models?
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by losteric 9y ago
Not at all - other billionaires are opponents, not enemies... they work together to continue extracting wealth from the common person.
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by losteric 9y ago
I'm a strong believer in using minimal but sufficient regulations and taxes to shape market growth. There are some absolutely unnecessary regulations, like the loopholes Tesla has to go through to sell cars because traditional dealer
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by losteric 9y ago
To what degree does income inequality, consumer debt, and rapidly rising barriers of entry to high-income fields contribute slowing GDP growth? Is there research and evidence on the subject? I'm just an engineer with basic financial su
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by losteric 9y ago
> a case today that forces Google to share all the data that it collects on searches would help break its monopoly. I'd rather see legislation against private entities aggregating that information. Honestly, Google's search has
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by losteric 9y ago
How much is the author's time worth? How many hours would it take to get the application down to 1MB? For an application that relies on many simultaneous users, it's better to be a large cheap app then an expensive optimized app.
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by losteric 9y ago
Does that matter? Do you take pride in what you've accomplished, or is the focus on who's better? I'll never "catch up" to Musk, but I'm better than most people simply by trying my own business ideas.

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