mactrey

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by mactrey 8y ago
Gatekeeping this intuitively universal spoon metaphor isn't going to make disabled people's lives better. A world where only disabled people get to use the spoon metaphor isn't going to have any more people feeling compassion
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by mactrey 8y ago
It may even be that: * Normal-Person will increase profits by 5% and will dutifully inform the media of those gains * Super-Exec will increase profits by 5% and will give a charismatic interview leading the market to believe that profits ma
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by mactrey 8y ago
If companies are willing to hire after five months of training and let people continue to learn on the job then that is the very best option for these "new coders." The quality of learning that you do on the job is so much higher
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by mactrey 8y ago
That is true but also people come to care about what they do. They may not be "passionate" about work but it is what they spend the most time doing, it is their main source of daily challenge and problem solving, it represents soc
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by mactrey 8y ago
Yeah, the voice is the key. The gender ratio is skewed so much at higher ranks that an obviously feminine name will simply be assumed to be ironic. I would imagine the toxicity/sexual comments would increase by an order of magnitude if
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by mactrey 8y ago
I get 1.5% cash back on purchases with my credit card. I'm essentially recouping the interchange fees.
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by mactrey 8y ago
> How is it possible to pull this much money out of the American economy without crashing it? The money isn't pulled out, though. It is redistributed to people, many of whom will immediately spend it, and others will invest it in va
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by mactrey 8y ago
That you can help more people if you have more money is simply a fact, it's not an argument based on the statistically average behavior of wealthy Americans. And as to the sources of wealth, the economy is not a zero sum game. Lebron g
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by mactrey 8y ago
>at the end of that time there are two metrics, the number of people you helped and the amount of wealth you amassed and held on to, which number is a better representative of 'success'? But of course those are highly correlate
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by mactrey 8y ago
I can't say this is going to make a big difference in how I use pandas but I've ran into the bizarre "can't have nans in an int Series" annoyance in almost every pandas project I've worked on, so good on them f
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by mactrey 8y ago
There should be a "parental controls" toggle.
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by mactrey 8y ago
1. Is is better to, say, spend $2mm to remove nonfunctioning buttons, or instead to reduce wait times at the DMV? I think you could make the argument either way; personally, I don't experience much mental anguish about the existence of
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by mactrey 8y ago
It's not really lying if the buttons used to work, now they don't, but they're expensive to remove so the government just leaves them there. It's at worst a lie of omission. The moral question is more like, is it the gov
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by mactrey 8y ago
A huge part of a human's APM is meaningless spam, for example right-clicking the same unit multiple times to attack it, or setting the same waypoint thousands of times in the early game when there's nothing to do. The computer mig
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by mactrey 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand how that hurt actually takes place. These companies are essentially acting as charities, donating a portion of their profits to reduce the cost of a tech education. Some people who might not have been able to
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by mactrey 8y ago
The point is that there is little to no evidence that screen time is bad (or good), just a lot of speculation. The argument against screen time is essentially the same as the one used against GMO foods: "it's new, so it's pro
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by mactrey 8y ago
Did the people in this thread even read the article? It suggests that the effect of eating potatoes or wearing glasses on childhood well-being is greater than the effect of screen time.
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by mactrey 8y ago
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that marginal return is materially positive for all feasible n
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by mactrey 8y ago
Presumably that 2% growth is annualized.
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by mactrey 8y ago
I analyze every game, win or lose, so I often ignore the immediate rematch request. I accept more rematch requests on chess.com because... analysis is not free! Essentially the ease of use and free availability of high quality analysis tool
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by mactrey 8y ago
Not drinking can have a negative sociological and emotional effect regardless of how society views alcohol. I've had numerous interesting/strange life experiences that probably wouldn't have been possible without alcohol. I&#
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by mactrey 8y ago
Well the population of the U.S. is still increasing at about 2% per year, and the global population faster than that, so a company staying the same size is actually shrinking as a proportion of its market.
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by mactrey 8y ago
I think I agree with this take. Do we really think Waymo cars would be so cautious with merging if a Waymo crash were received with the same level of fanfare and financial repercussions as an ordinary commuter crash? I.e. a $1,000 financial
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by mactrey 8y ago
My impression is that the vast majority of podcast listeners skip through ads, because that's what I do. It's easy to hit the 15s forward button four times and get right back to the funny interesting stuff. It's a lot harder
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by mactrey 8y ago
I can't either. I've always thought it was due to allergens but I really don't have evidence to support that. I've never seen a doctor for it.
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by mactrey 8y ago
Indeed, and I can see my parents paying for it
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by mactrey 8y ago
It's because non-monetary benefits are a good way to attract talent in a tight labor market, which is more or less how the software developer market has been for the past twenty years. Developers like going to conferences, so they like
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by mactrey 8y ago
Small quibble: the "... See More" link on course information pages is hard to click on - seems that the clickable part of the link only has height of 1px. Using Firefox 63.0.1 (64-bit)
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by mactrey 8y ago
> However, I have trouble believing that the "knowledge workers" who will join Amazon would otherwise have been unemployed and underpaid. No, but they might otherwise have been employed somewhere else, like SF. It's a zero
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by mactrey 8y ago
It's not really hyperoptimization if the cost of voting is prima facie higher than the value. I think it's on the "get out the vote" side to prove that voting is worth it - and I don't think the average American wou

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