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by maxander 9y ago
Thinking like an engineer: to hire good engineers, you need A) good engineers to apply for the position, and B) to tell which of your applicants are the good engineers. Those two conditions are necessary and sufficient. As other commenters
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That’s just more speculation. Could education operate entirely online? Some quirk of human psychology might make widespread remote education absolutely disastrous. All sorts of things could make udeground cities unworkable. Complex sy
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As mentioned in the article, the relationship between most of the social goods and resource use is complicated . Education requires a certain percentage of the workforce to be teachers, the management of a sufficiently large organization,
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Oh, yes[1]. I was arguing why there isn't a knowledge barrier to entry into programming, not why there shouldn't be one. :) [1] Well, not me in particular! I know the important things and only use SE for looking up trivial
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> Programmers have to remember a vast amount of domain knowledge. Consider the basic task of choosing where you are going to store some data, well first you need to know which options exist and there's dozens of them (do you want Po
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I think he meant “us” as HNers, who include a relatively high proportion of highly paid engineers and the like.
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I would guess that, however one goes about converting a million dollars of physical cash into bitcoin, it has just as many downsides as his other options.
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Light is an EM vibration , but the fields here are essentially stationary potentials (similar to a bar magnet, or static electricity.) So it is not light, and not composed of phitons (that last part might be a simplification.)
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It seems to mostly be about knowing "hey, there's a problem of some sort right around here," under the theory that once you know that, finding the solution is relatively easy. It works that way in debugging software, at any r
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In 2018, a reasonable person might suspect that this is what professional PR looks like, too, since a forward-thinking advertising firm wouldn't necessarily balk at hiring people to post nice things about it. :)
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A2F is unlikely to incentivize staying on fossil fuels- people burn gas because it’s cheap, and A2F won’t make it much cheaper in either case. I would also note that for electric vehicles to be worth the bother at all, you also have to
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One advantage would be if they can make fuel compatible with presently existing vehicles. Even twenty years from now, gas-powered cars are going to be common, just because gas-powered cars can last for twenty years and upgrading to elect
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by maxander 9y ago
For those who come directly to the comments for the paper link: http://www.neurobiologyofaging.org/article/S0197-4580(17)303... Its worth noting that, from a brief look, the "cognitive training" program looks
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by maxander 9y ago
Sure, but company ethic is a different axis from innovative-ness. It sounds like you chose to work at an ethical-but-conventional position over an unethical-but-innovative one, and good on you for it. But you can have both (or neither) at
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At the risk of stating the obvious- it doesn't matter how innovative a company is as a whole, it matters how innovative what you're doing is. SpaceX does some really cool stuff, say, but you're not a rocket scientist- mana
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> “Policymakers and regulators are getting worried. Pretty much every G20 policymaker is talking about a crackdown,” Roubini told Bloomberg Television. “We can’t allow it to become the next Swiss bank account for use by criminals and peo
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by maxander 9y ago
If tether pops suddenly , such as by the revelation that the supposed dollar account backing it was a sham, there may not be any cash to out. Simply no one will buy it, or only for pennies on the dollar. Alternately, it might drag down ot
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It's worth noting that those clinical applications were developed when technology didn't allow long reads, so "clinical applications don't need long reads" is at present a truism. There may be potential applicati
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I think the answer is necessarily "no," because the rhythm is a sign we observe of some functional system in the brain, not the functional system itself. Similar to how your heart rate is just a sign of the beating of your heart,
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He could proceed to have a bunch of bots throw coins around randomly, also, so trading volume gives you nil reliable info, either.
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by maxander 9y ago
Hmm, so everyone's going to think "hmm, everyone's going to think, 'hmm, Ethereum went up when cryptokitties came out, perhaps this means I should buy some Ethereum now,' so perhaps I should buy some Ethereum now,&q
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by maxander 9y ago
What other kinds of crime are there due to which we're willing to give up our right to privacy? Several, perhaps, but remember that this conversation is happening while we're discussing a way in which too much law enforcement has
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There's nothing particularly "radical" about it; if you weight everyone's utility equally when you design, e.g. a city, then the result is one that is definitionally egalitarian . And that is precisely what it means fo
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I suspect that for better or worse, the answer is more prosaic than any of those- the finest minds realize the problem, but no one has any better ideas what to do, so they're continuing on in hopes of getting better results eventually.
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There is no realistic apportioning of resources, or set of plausible new technologies, that will give safe and effective cars the >7 billion people on this planet in the next century. At least not without drastic downsides. Cars work g
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Look up the definition of a "monopoly." Google is giant, sure, but it's not the only search provider, or email provider, or anything else that it does (aside from some random niche things.) And everyone has perfect freedom
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Judging by the chart, the writer probably had this ready to go for awhile and set an alarm for the precise moment that a random price fluctuation finally put it below the 50% mark. That, and of course the price is going down in general, b
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A great deal of research was done (and is still being done) in discrete-reasoning AI; aside from a few successful applications (e.g., military logistics,) very little ever came of it, at least in the direction of "general intelligence.
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A traffic light would only need to solve a much simpler problem than an autonomous car- after image-recognition, given the number of cars waiting/approaching at each direction, decide which lane(s) to give a green light to. Finding a
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So a system that requires all vehicles on the road to have flawless sensor and communications systems can achieve some improvement over current-day technology (from the paper, approximately a "doubling of capacity" for intersect

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