mkolodny

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by mkolodny 4y ago
When a remote, international company gets very large, it can be just about impossible to find a time where everyone can meet. Even in time-sensitive situations, I prefer asynchronous communication methods like email and voice memos. That wa
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by mkolodny 4y ago
Good question. I'd say if you're drinking during work, it's a problem. If you're not, hopefully they have some way of proving you're abusing it rather than making unfounded accusations. It seems like people will bel
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by mkolodny 4y ago
I'm the founder of a 1 person company. If the company ever grows to 2+ people, I hope to give my teammates the freedom I wish I had as an employee.
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by mkolodny 4y ago
Does "drug use" include coffee? Alcohol?
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by mkolodny 4y ago
I moved back to SF in 2021 after living outside Yosemite (in Mariposa) for a year. There've been ups and downs.
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by mkolodny 4y ago
That one friend was Paul Gauguin - a famous painter who Van Gogh looked up to. The two artists lived and painted together in Arles for two months. They had “excessively electric” debates about art that they emerged from exhausted. When Van
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by mkolodny 4y ago
From what I’ve been told by Indian friends, someone’s last name is usually a strong indicator of what caste they’re in.
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by mkolodny 4y ago
Condescension aside, fair point - I misread. Do you think people should be free to knowingly spread false information on media platforms?
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by mkolodny 4y ago
Disinformation (spreading false information that you know is false) is illegal in the US [0]. The question isn’t whether people should be free to knowingly spread false information. The question is who should decide what is false informatio
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by mkolodny 5y ago
> If he’s taking the company private the future of the company should be irrelevant to you right? The only thing that matters is whether or not you think the price is fair. The future of the company is relevant to you if you care about T
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by mkolodny 5y ago
From your linked article: > The fallacious sense of "slippery slope" is often used synonymously with continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to ca
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by mkolodny 5y ago
Slippery slope arguments are inherently fallacies. They don't prove that something will happen. Just because you can justify the next climb on the same basis, that doesn't mean you will. You could decide that you've already t
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by mkolodny 5y ago
Slippery slope is a fallacy, not a principle. Just because you took N steps, that doesn't necessarily mean you will take N+1 steps. It's a convincing fallacy because sometimes you do take N+1 steps. But just like in the article, h
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by mkolodny 5y ago
Facebook Marketplace is pretty awesome. I see it as a potential Amazon competitor.
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by mkolodny 5y ago
During the pandemic, the CDC has been also been counting deaths with the flu [0]. So we do have an apples to apples comparison. And covid has been around 3 orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu. [0] https://www.cdc.gov&#x2
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by mkolodny 5y ago
Since June 2020, flu deaths have been in the single digits or teens most months, while covid deaths have been in the thousands or tens of thousands each month [0]. So covid is around 3 orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu. [0] http
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by mkolodny 5y ago
According to the CDC, the flu caused 12,000-52,000 deaths a year in the US between 2010-2020 [0]. While covid caused more than 800,000 deaths in the US over the past two years, and more than 36,000 US deaths over the past month alone [1]. A
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by mkolodny 5y ago
This is an awesome blog post by Andrej Karpathy (the Director of AI at Tesla) about his recipe for training neural networks: https://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/
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by mkolodny 5y ago
There's some great research on using evolutionary computation to explore plant growing recipes (light strength, how long to leave the lights on, etc). In one experiment, researchers discovered that basil doesn't need to sleep - it
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by mkolodny 5y ago
"At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves. National veal and
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by mkolodny 5y ago
> Doesn't this mean that those who don't have the funds to be able to safely stake their coins see their balance depreciate as the incoming coins go to people who have the ability to stake their wealth, implying that the most e
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by mkolodny 5y ago
Proof-of-stake is a strategy being used to make some cryptocurrencies more environmentally friendly. Instead of using lots of compute to compete create new bitcoins, cryptocurrencies using proof-of-stake, like Ethereum 2.0, dole out new coi
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by mkolodny 5y ago
If you work at YouTube/Google, and you have the opportunity to do something about this, I hope that you get those videos back up on YouTube. The Uighur people need our help. That's one way you can help them.
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U.S. clinical trial results show Novavax vaccine is safe and prevents Covid-19(nih.gov)
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by mkolodny 5y ago
The "Platform Competition and Opportunity Act" looks like it would ban big tech companies from buying almost any other companies: "It shall be unlawful for a covered platform operator to acquire directly or indirectly... the
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by mkolodny 5y ago
Unpaid internships are only legal in California if: > 1. The intern’s duties will be similar to training provided by an educational institution. > 2. The position exists for the intern’s benefit. > 3. The intern’s work does not dis
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Switzerland's government isn't authoritarian. The Swiss government is the whole adult population. Every Swiss citizen over 18 can propose and vote on laws. No subset of Swiss people can force other Swiss people to do anything with
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by mkolodny 6y ago
In case anyone's not aware of what's happening in Xinjiang, this is a great Last Week Tonight episode about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17oCQakzIl8
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by mkolodny 6y ago
To be clear, I would guess that if SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab in Wuhan, it was created with good intentions, and escaped from the lab by mistake. And rather than figuring out where to point fingers, we can work together to prevent futu
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Even if these researchers have good intentions, they're human, and humans make mistakes. If someone doing gain-of-function research lets a new deadly virus or bacteria out into the wild by mistake, their mistake can can cause a pandemi

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