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Yeah that is a good point. Short-term thinking and short tenures are incentivized. The short average tenure in tech is just crazy to me, considering that onboarding takes forever compared to most industries, and how expensive the hiring pro
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Higher-performing employees generally have more options than lower-performing ones, so they aren't desperate enough to go through a disruptive and expensive move in order to keep their job. For similar reasons, I'd expect senior-l
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Not sure that it's such a great business decision to lose almost half your staff, and probably moreso the higher-performing ones with other options. I'm guessing that this was intended to reduce the headcount without paying severa
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This was probably 1999 and before, and in the US. It was maddening, especially when one's parents might pick up the phone and kill the connection.
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Also the namesake of the fantastic Boards of Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards_of_Canada
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Kind of an aside, but one mind-boggling decision I never understood was that if the dial-up connection was disrupted, the entire AOL app closed with a "goodbye." If you were reading something, filling out a form, whatever, you&#x2
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Kernelization can be done in primal or dual. Due to the representation theorem, it only ever needs as many parameters as data points. In the primal with a kernel K, you're just doing a feature expansion where each data point x correspo
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The weight per datapoint thing is actually kind of orthogonal to the concept of an SVM, but is conflated by most introductions to SVMs. SVMs are linear models using hinge loss. In the "primal" optimization perspective (rather than
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Why would SAG workers want to "grow away from unions" when management doing their best to screw them over and impoverish them? You do realize that their interests are not the same as managements, right?
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There is the modern counterexample of ceramic houses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_house
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The "new ice age" thing was never anywhere close to a mainstream thing in climate science. The idea that CO2 caused warming was already well-established, and the decade-scale cooling was correctly seen as just a temporary reversio
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Nonetheless, that's quite a bit. Why would I want to pay that when I can plow my car into a gore point for free?
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"Inflation" really means "wage inflation" for planners and the media. Wage inflation is the bad kind of inflation, as opposed to the good kinds of inflation (e.g. food price gouging).
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This is really quite simple: farmers use the vast majority of the water. Residential use is small in comparison. We're talking about water. Land use is only indirectly related. It's illogical on its face to say that the main probl
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"If the climate is warming then why is it snowing right now?" You've got to come up with better material than that. That's a vintage 2000's denialist gotcha.
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That's simply not true. The retirement communities simply aren't why the water shortage is happening. It's agriculture, not residential use. The water usage numbers are well known. You're just assuming that population gr
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The water is being subsidized. Other people are paying for it. Alfalfa is a low-value crop. It's a stupid and economically inefficient crop to grow in a desert. You can't waive away actual physical constraints as being due to &quo
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There's massive population in the desert now, but that's not where the water is going. The vast majority of water is used by agriculture, which has also expanded massively in the same time frame. It's a red herring that nativ
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Typescript's unsoundness isn't a good thing, but it is way down the list of type-unsafe things inherent in the Boschian nightmare that is frontend development. Compile-to-JS languages add a big impedance mismatch when you inevitab
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As someone else said, it's the inequality that matters. People don't die by suicide from being poor, they do it because of the low self-esteem poverty causes when you're around many people doing better than you. Many very poo
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Yeah, it's not great. Unfortunately, a car is basically required to hold any kind of job in most of the US, aside from the (expensive) cores of few select cities. That's doubly true for low-income folks. It's effectively impo
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GNU/Hurd is legendary, but not for good reasons.
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Hey, if you ride enough, the fitness would render an e-bike mostly superfluous. I'm a big fan of either though, or really any non-car transit. The experience of the Netherlands show how possible, practical, and economical a combination
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That's not a thing in most of the US.
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Those don't double as transport.
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Better to charge for the vehicle. You don't want to incentivize running on bald tires.
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The health benefits of cycling outweigh the danger by many times. It's nonsense to only look at the costs of crashes. Besides, it's the cars that are dangerous, not the bikes (in addition to causing pollution, needing more infrast
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Like half of the tech industry is made up of "rational" libertarian types who Dunning-Kruger themselves into everything they can.
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For those who think the Argentine Peso is just too stable.
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It doesn't mean you're stupid! You're probably familiar with the concept of two lines (or vectors) being orthogonal (perpendicular) to each other. e.g., two 2-d vectors (0, 1) and (1, 0) are perpendicular. This is equivalent

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