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by mcherm 2y ago
> If it were foundational it would be peer reviewed in a journal article, not posted on a blog. What I think you are doing here is to DEFINE "foundational work" as something that gets published in a journal. I don't mind i
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by mcherm 2y ago
Is your home address stable for times similar to the lifetime of that umbrella?
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by mcherm 3y ago
No. There also isn't one for "w", yet we get by with that as a letter.
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by mcherm 3y ago
I wouldn't mind receiving insurance coverage (and the background check required to support it) IF YOU PAID ME TO DO SO! But we (mostly) don't even pay open source developers to write the code ... who is offering to pay them for th
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by mcherm 3y ago
I'm not clear whether I understood what the article is claiming. It's clear they claim that Meta shared customer's direct messages with a business partner without notifying the individuals who sent and received the messages.
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by mcherm 3y ago
For users who are already mandated to track what they are working on in 6-minute intervals, "productivity monitoring and "productivity judging" are not NEW issues that a tool like this would introduce. That is actually one
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by mcherm 3y ago
OR, the setting is default and it hasn't been adjusted because the user doesn't have the faintest idea how to adjust font sizes. Which I suspect is the case for the majority of end users.
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by mcherm 3y ago
> all mods will be working on all of the content. No subreddit-like boundaries to reduce the overlaps Not necessarily, that's up to the moderator. Today, I subscribe to the #LawSky and AppellateSky feeds because I am interested in l
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by mcherm 3y ago
The use of lava lamps as a source of randomness is, to use your term, "just marketing" -- it is not fundamentally more secure than other sources of randomness. The use of a group of trusted randomness generators, a majority of who
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by mcherm 3y ago
They didn't USED to offer it, but now they may choose to.
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by mcherm 3y ago
So presumably today's announcement that they are now supporting self-hosted instances is welcome news to you -- it is a huge stride in the direction you are advocating for.
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by mcherm 3y ago
The POINT of calling it a "stand-up" was supposed to be that we STOOD up during the meeting in order to ensure that we wouldn't let the meeting run too long. 10 mins was a reasonable time for most team sizes when the idea w
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by mcherm 3y ago
> this kind of approach could take _seconds_ to even start running Only seconds? Today it takes 45 minutes to do the update by hand, but there's this handy 20-line Python script that does it instantly. (Hypothetical example only, bu
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by mcherm 3y ago
So who out there is running an investment fund that's looking to make a much more reasonable rate of return off successful but slowly growing companies? Because I would put money into that fund.
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by mcherm 3y ago
The post you are responding to addressed card counters at the top, claiming the casinos have closed most of the loopholes that enabled card counting to be profitable. The cheating it mentions at the bottom is not card counting (technically
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by mcherm 3y ago
Isn't there significant value in the medical information, deciding who to offer insurance to and who to refuse to cover in the event that Republicans gain control of the government and repeal the Affordable Care Act?
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by mcherm 3y ago
Really? Because I think Hacker News often features posts by hackers and amateurs trying to tackle something normally handled by professionals. The comments would be a great place to reply with references to the ACTUAL research on how often
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by mcherm 3y ago
Yeah? Well I, for one, would like to spend more time engaging with people like you. Some of the obvious steps are helpful (eg: "read Less Wrong" was an excellent step some years ago). But I would just like to point out that there
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by mcherm 3y ago
My wife calculates and submits our taxes (here in the US). It typically takes her 40 to 60 hours to complete, and that's after spending around $100 USD on tax preparation software to make it easier. To be fair, our taxes are more compl
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by mcherm 3y ago
I regret that I cannot read this article. At least not for another day or so... I only just finished #19.
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by mcherm 3y ago
These days, Mumps is mostly used in elderly systems in the insurance and banking industries. In my case it is banking. I work at Capital One and one of the financial cores we use is Profile from FIS, which is (at least in older versions) bu
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by mcherm 3y ago
So, I've occasionally played around with a language that pretty nearly does this. Mumps is a language developed in 1967, and it is still in use in a few places including the company where I work. The language is old enough that the fir
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by mcherm 3y ago
Satire at its finest, I was 2/3 of the way through the article and still trying to tell whether it was a spoof, or the public unveiling of a terrible, TERRIBLE startup.
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by mcherm 3y ago
I think this is actually one of the scenarios where deviating from the original title IS appropriate. I think the current title is reasonable for Hacker News.
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by mcherm 3y ago
It would be significantly above the average unless the company is ridiculously top-heavy or has shockingly little variation in salary. Or if the "salary" for the CEO ignores certain compensation (eg: paid a salary of $1 + stock op
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by mcherm 3y ago
It is entirely reasonable for there to be dire financial straits that require layoffs, yet when a $10 billion investment suddenly blows up and has to be saved the money can be spent to fix it. In the first case it wasn't that there was
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by mcherm 3y ago
I want to find a model for the financing of "TV" show production that does NOT depend on a centralized "studio" making the funding and cancellation decisions. That would probably look like raising funds to produce the fi
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by mcherm 3y ago
Active curation IS an excellent way to maintain information. Drive failure rates are the kind of thing that archivists can easily measure (and appropriate amounts of redundant storage can nearly eliminate data loss).
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by mcherm 3y ago
> I don’t understand your comment. It was in response to the parent comment stating this: > I'd bet more information has been lost in the past 10 years than all of human history has created before it I believe that more informati
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by mcherm 3y ago
Every single conversation before 1859 between any 2 individuals who were not literate has been lost. While I decry the unnecessary loss of this record (which Google maliciously chose not to offer to archivists, knowing full well that ar

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