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by madhadron 3y ago
> Nobody wants to drive what feels like a Prius I'm quite happy with my Prius. I think it's a skill issue. Roof racks and a tow hitch on a normal sized car handle the vast majority of cases where people imagine they need a truc
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by madhadron 3y ago
Yes. The merger with McDonnell-Douglas, which resulted in McDonnell-Douglas's leadership getting control of Boeing despite the fact that they had already run McDonnell-Douglas into the ground.
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by madhadron 3y ago
> Good software teams are led by competent, technical management. ...or perhaps with no managers at all. I'm less and less convinced of the importance of management in engineering except to give investors an illusion of control.
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by madhadron 3y ago
> Penrose claims that human intelligence relies on quantum effects and demonstrates certain structures in neurons that makes it at least a plausible argument. Except that Penrose's argument is biologically nonsense, which probably m
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by madhadron 3y ago
That's because they're very closely related languages. English is a mix of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French, after the Norman invasion of England in the 11th century. Norman French is how the Norse diaspora in Normandy mixed their Ge
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by madhadron 3y ago
Markets are at best a tiny piece of the question on housing. It has more to do with zoning, infrastructure planning, incentives among the various roles involved in building, the foibles of real estate sales, the voice of incumbent residents
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by madhadron 3y ago
The fact that we call the curve fitting/optimization/compression that we do to fit machine learning models to input data "learning" is really unfortunate and leads to this kind of conflation. If we trace the path of how
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by madhadron 3y ago
> If you want to learn about Sparta, it's pretty easy to find Oh god. Why Sparta? Why this particular historiographical can of worms, where the history of the history is far more convoluted than the history of Lacedaemon itself? No.
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by madhadron 3y ago
I spent some time working on replacing the formulation of descent as a tree of species with a chain-complete partial order of organisms. Then you start trying to define things like "species" or "strain" or "genus&qu
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by madhadron 4y ago
The other side of this is: what constitutes an explanation? What formal structure that you express observations in seems like knowing what's going on to you? Formal structures in fields tend to be matched to what the experimental abili
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by madhadron 4y ago
> [MMT] says you can spend without consequences. Really? I thought it said that money exists because a government prints it, so a government cannot default on a debt denominated in its currency unless it chooses to, and that inflation is
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by madhadron 4y ago
I really wish that I had something comprehensive to suggest. There are some things that I think everyone who deals with statistics should read, such as Freedman's 'Statistical Models and Shoe Leather'[^1] and Tukey's &#x
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by madhadron 4y ago
We need a #badstatistics tag or something. The turnover problems saying that relative wage advantage declines? Their chart on a log scale shows that the wages are still really high compared to non-CS jobs. A more likely interpretation is
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by madhadron 4y ago
There's an easy solution to this kind of cheating: stop grading. Switch to evaluations and self evaluations. Evergreen State College and a few others already do this. If there's no GPA, there's nothing to game. It means you c
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by madhadron 4y ago
I mean, saying "We are concerned about a hostile takeover attempt by a person who isn't allowed to be an officer of a public company anymore because he has show himself either unwilling or unable to be a fiduciary for stockholders
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by madhadron 5y ago
My tl;dr of the article: 1. JavaScript's numbers behave better than C's! (All the behavior the author is praising is because the numbers are IEEE floating point numbers and for most of JavaScript's history there weren't
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by madhadron 5y ago
This is an interesting point. In Seattle we're lucky enough to have The Stranger. They are crass and funded by escort and pot ads, but they are very much in your face about their editorial bias and they cover only the city of Seattle
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by madhadron 5y ago
The Wall Street Journal needs an option to subscribe without the opinion pages.
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by madhadron 5y ago
I've been running the same todo list system for almost twenty years now. It's basically David Allen's Getting Things Done, with the usual tweaks and adjustments that accumulate over time as you actually use it. Since I stoppe
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by madhadron 5y ago
We've actually started doing this, though it's working around the fact that I couldn't figure out how an author can send a PR back to a reviewer for another round of review so that it shows up in a queue nicely. It's rea
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by madhadron 5y ago
That argument about gas was a major argument against gasoline cars back in the day. It took major infrastructure investment to build out the gas network.
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by madhadron 5y ago
Wave function collapse is a convenience for calculation. There is, as far as I know, no reason to think it is real.
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by madhadron 5y ago
How does it work in a lab? A lot of what I did at the bench was actually at the bench and I needed to be physically present to pipette stuff or move cultures around. We tended to work weird, utterly flexible hours, though, since the pace wa
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by madhadron 5y ago
> It's just that the actual manufacturing does not exist (or rather is done by compiler) In good conditions, yes, the drudgery is all done by the compiler. There's still a terrifying number of cases where something hasn't
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by madhadron 5y ago
I feel like this misses the point. The reason all the other stuff besides the database is so straightforward is because you can localize all the state in the database so you can deal with the hard parts in one place and with maximum support
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by madhadron 5y ago
Not quite. The biggest lobbyists against it are Intuit and other tax prep companies. The American myth of cushy bureaucrat jobs, and that the creation of such jobs is a major force in policy, is propaganda.
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by madhadron 5y ago
Your read of the situation is truly bizarre. Yes, the system is broken. That's not the IRS's fault. They have no power to fix it. And complaining about the system being broken because you make a mistake and it had consequences, an
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by madhadron 5y ago
The information relevant for the vast majority of taxpayers, including the vast majority of people on HN, is already reported. What this is talking about is all the avenues that aren't open to most taxpayers which are used for tax evas
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by madhadron 5y ago
Banks require a planned version of this: you have to take so many contiguous days off at least once a year. But it's an anti-fraud measure, as most of the frauds you can run internally require you to be there to juggle things, and you

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