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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Yeah for sure, but Google wasn't doing it.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
That's a TV show
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Sure I believe that, but I think because of the way these companies operate internally and because of the extraordinary amount of transparency and voice given to employees employees (particularly at Google and Facebook where I have worked),
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Yeah maybe, but this is absolutely nothing like what I was responding to. Maybe Google will build tools for authoritarian regimes, maybe they'll sell them to US gov, who knows. None of that is anything like what I was responding to, a
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Yeah that's not a social credit system. It's a censored search engine. I'm fine with that, as a Google employee.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
> Even if a couple in the camp is allowed to marry and has children, the children will live their entire lives in the gulag unless they escape. Not sure what your professional experience or knowledge of politics or technology is, but as
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
No, that's not right and doesn't make sense. I can bike on the road in front, and I can even park a bike here. If the road were a block away, the driver would have to get out and walk a block to go home. And actually a lot of peop
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
That's not what I said. I said that right now not everyone can avoid car ownership and the goal should be to change that. I'm saying the goal should be to make it possible for nobody to need a car. I'm objecting to the 10% nu
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I agree with you and the slow streets, that would be a better design. As for goals, what we currently have is good for me, where I live. There are many areas in the city where it would be impractical not to have a car. I believe the goal sh
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It became a thing in different places at different times. I'm curious to learn more about the history actually, because all the sources I can find are specifically oriented around political action and do not present any factual history
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
For sure, and I want people to have that choice! But I also want the amount paid by people living in the suburbs to more accurately reflect the cost, and I want people who prefer living in denser urban environments to be able to improve the
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
In Hong Kong, you can go to all of those places in 20 minutes from most populated areas, and you don't need a car to do it. The trains are shielded from rain and are usually well air-conditioned. You don't have to deal with parkin
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
People are less likely to bike if there aren't protected bike lanes. People are less likely to walk if there are no sidewalks, etc
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
At the intersection I'm looking at, it's around 2/3 for cars, 1/3 for peds, 0 dedicated for biking. However, SF is actually pretty good about this. There are two "slow streets" within 1 block of me that are mos
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
For sure, and some economies were "lucky" enough to wait until the late 20th century to develop. The public transit systems in Singapore, Hong Kong, the entire Pearl River Delta, etc are all IMO far better ways to get around than
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Right, I would strongly prefer a city designed for less/no car usage. My complaint is that this article misrepresents history and misrepresents the current situation. Public transit 100 years ago was worse for everyone than car ownersh
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I don't have a car and absolutely hate the car-centric culture of American cities (I live in SF). That being said, this article is completely wrong and draws the wrong conclusions. People were anti-car early on because most people didn
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I use a Linux desktop and a MacBook for various things, and one of the things I appreciate most about my desktop is how fast it boots. I'm not sure if I configured anything special, I use xubuntu with i3, but it takes around 5s to boot
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It's not mind reading, I explained how it works. You are friends with your parents on Facebook. Your parents buy the pillow. The pillow seller tells facebook that your parents bought the pillow. Now Facebook knows that somebody who is
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
He didn't write the paper I'm criticizing
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The examples they give in section two are directly relevant to optimizing conversion pipelines. They pretty clearly intend to be describing something relevant the e-commerce user experience.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Fractional Cascading. A simple and very cool way to speed up searching for the same key in multiple lists. Instead of K binary searches taking time Klog(N), you can do it in log(N) time without using asymptomatically more space. https:&#x2
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Incredible. I wonder what you're doing differently. My rate is around 30% and I live in San Francisco and pay ~9% to the state. Like most of my 150,000 coworkers, I pay ~0% out of pocket for healthcare. Maybe that's the main diffe
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The key insight missed by this paper (and people from the marketing field in general) is that cases like that are extremely rare compared to easy to predict cases. They don't matter right now at all for most products, from the perspect
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The actual conclusion of the study is so absurd that it's not worth engaging with seriously. That is, to maximally understand, and therefore predict, consumer preferences is likely to require information outside of data on choice
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Always interesting to see outsiders writing papers about this, using anecdote and unrelated data (mostly political and real world purchase data in this case) to argue that ML doesn't make useful predictions. Meanwhile I look at randomi
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I don't think that leaving it out of the job posting would ever prevent me from pursuing a role. If I'm interested in a job, I ask for the compensation range. If they don't tell me, then I will not pursue the role. Personally
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
But keep in mind that this is at least partially contributing to the status quo, where there are very few large European tech companies and even fewer young ones.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I buy multiple things online every week, probably 200 per year on average. I also buy a lot of cheap electronics.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I assumed the discontinuity the commenter was referring to here is the >=1 year cutoff for long term capital gains. After one year, all of the gains from the previous year are instantly converted to a lower tax bracket. You're not r

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