mlthoughts2018

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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
No. Absolutely not. Your comment amounts to nothing but gainsaying and is completely ridiculous. It is not toxic to oppose wanton racism and fascism. If you are ashamed of opposing racism, then you are being toxic and you are enabling and s
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
This long form Twitter stuff is so miserable. This seems like an interesting story, but I couldn’t read past the second segment. And no, Threader doesn’t solve it or help (even taking for granted the extremely unlikely assumption that I was
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
The problem is that what you describe is a question of pragmatics and specific data curation, which is not sexy or marketable for political fairness and bias researchers. They need to manifest false angles of the problem, connections to cli
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Ugh, here we go with more of the sanctimonious nonsense about AI fairness research from the Times. Google was well within rights in firing both employees (Gebru sincerely quit and was not fired, given her ultimatum, but Google would have be
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
As long as there are open-plan offices instead of private offices for each knowledge worker (even in dense urban real estate markets) then please stop talking about developer productivity or efficiency. Companies utterly don’t care. The deg
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I wrote up a post about some inherent, fundamental contradictions in leveling / salary band approaches to structured career development. I think it’s under-appreciated that these systems are so inherently flawed, especially regarding m
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Thinking it is an unjustified proportion seems exceedingly racist on your part. The equivalency between proportion of attention paid to harmed groups and size of the group, especially for groups as large as ~12%, is inherently quite an extr
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
None of this makes it better. “We give candidates all the time they need” (which you suggest is something insanely short notice, like 1-2 weeks) is not an answer. What about people who cannot give you time outside of 1-2 hour blocks within
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Sorry but no way. You send me a programming task you expect me to do in my personal time, and you’ve just revealed you practice extreme ageism, discriminate against parents or people with elder care responsibilities, and many more negative
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
> “You can brag about owning such-and-such an image, but only as long as enough other people desire images from that particular set.” I think that’s the whole point. An enduring aspect of human culture is that we praise and confer social
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
? it seems like you are expecting bitcoin to achieve the same ease of use as a payment processor like Visa, but that is not and never has been the goal or point of bitcoin. “Ease of use” is a relative term. Bitcoin is deeply impractical com
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
It’s ok. The type of HN users who downvote comments like this do not offer anything. The downvote literally means nothing apart from their tribalistic “bitcoin bad” unfounded assertions. It’s very easy to not care. Meanwhile, people in Vene
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
But bitcoin is just a scam of course.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
People have been trying this for a really long time and there are just a ton of business considerations that make it impractical. 1. People buy photography, even stock photography for ads or business uses, with some intention to affiliate w
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
> “ Why would this be an area to discuss what guidelines other kinds of businesses should follow?” Because what guidelines to consider and why, in comparison with what ICANN considered, is highly relevant to the thread.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Why does ICANN being “private enterprise” relate to the question of when it’s appropriate, in general, to consider the stated items? Whatever logic you’re applying here doesn’t make sense, and the certainty with which you think others shoul
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
The former American national soccer team manager, Bruce Arena, once was famously quoted describing a scrappy player, Clint Dempsey, with the phrase, “He tried shit.” Meaning - it was sometimes weird, didn’t always work, but he went for it a
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
It’s bizarre anyone could have a reason to find that odd, since there could scarcely be any topic more directly and irrefutably related to this thread (regardless of one’s take on whether ICANN acted inappropriately). You’re essentially say
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
This article is all over the place. It takes an obviously negative stance right from the start by complaining that Coinbase has frequent outages and poor customer support (that hasn’t been my experience as a long time happy Coinbase custome
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
The question is asking when is it wise to (privately) do any of those particular actions.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Also, most social status systems developed organically from networks of trust, common experiences and mutually held values at a micro level like within a family, town, school, religious group, etc. Comparing that organic system of social a
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Why do you believe ICANN’s multi-government structure is somehow robust against any one government or small consortium of governments having too much power?
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
You’re missing the point. “Fling spaghetti code at the wall” will produce many failures and a few winners - the winners will not serve as evidence that poor spaghetti code is a perfectly viable business strategy.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Most of the companies you’re describing fold and fail miserably after just a few years. Only very, very, very, very, very few of them achieve any kind of significant funding or market success. I wonder why?
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Because they just wrote a big article about how they created a culture, developed special vocab (“slush”), and intentionally plan on a multi-year basis all around a code freeze that is not just a day, not just a weekend, but lasts for week
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
The machine learning team is responsible for all search and discovery features that users engage with when searching our inventory, some of the highest traffic, uptime demanding services I’ve seen anywhere in my 15 year career. We also run
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Yes, I work in a high traffic (Alexa rank above 400) ecommerce site specializing in stock photography, music and digital assets. We see a 10-15x spike around Black Friday, around Christmas to New Years, both in direct consumer sales, invent
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I run a machine learning team in a high traffic ecommerce company (specializing in stock photography and digital assets). We see an even bigger seasonal spike than Etsy.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
The need for code freezes around high traffic events is usually a sign of very poor engineering culture, where patching extreme tech debt is much higher priority than technical excellence or product improvements that help the customers. A c
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
The author mentions extended examples of Bitcoin operating exactly as intended as both a medium of exchange or value transfer that circumvents a failing fiat currency or geopolitical issues connected to economic instability, and as a stor

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