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by morei 6y ago
Unions definitely have their upsides, but also some rather strong downsides (c.f. most police unions). Basic income has many of the same upsides, but the downsides are mostly about the dollar cost. It's not unreasonable that some peopl
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by morei 6y ago
There may be a hiring bonus on top that isn't repeated, but the rest is ongoing.
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by morei 6y ago
Ok, it's mildly funny that that was enough for you to errantly declare 'factually wrong'. 1. 'salary' != 'total comp'. The bonus + stock components are substantial. 2. 'The majority' does not mea
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by morei 6y ago
Do you have a reason you believe it to be factually wrong?
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by morei 6y ago
Pumped Energy Storage (or rarely: Potential Energy Storage). Aka pumped hydro.
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by morei 6y ago
Prepare to be shocked. The majority of SWEs employed at Google in the EU (Zurich, Dublin, London) have comp packages over 150k. Note: 'comp packages'. Their salary won't always be over 150k, but when including stock and bonus
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by morei 6y ago
There's a lot of things changed since the era of 'engineering judgement'. In the 50s and 60s when 'engineering judgement' was common, it was a signal to a skilled machinist that "You have more experience with t
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by morei 6y ago
Why is it a waste? If Google has enough demand to fill the cable, then how is it waste? (And I assume that Google has enough demand: If it didn't, why would they build such a large cable?)
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by morei 6y ago
Those 'precision EUV mirrors' achieve a reflectance of about 70% i.e. they aborb ~30% of the EUV light that reaches them. :) More seriously, those mirrors are special because they use bragg reflectors to handle 13.5nm light. They&
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by morei 6y ago
E3 is ~34Mbps, so it probably wasn't. It's true that the E1/E2/E3 hierarchy is used outside the US, but links to the US can be either depending on carrier preference. The T1/T2/T3 and E1/E2/E3 hierarc
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by morei 6y ago
The code is not a bill of attainder. Note that there are existing codes for other industries that operate along the same lines as the proposed code . e.g. The Telecom Industry Ombudsman operates via a code. The (non-government!) TIO has th
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by morei 6y ago
That's not a terribly strong argument. Should we ban making chocolate as well? Sports? Art? After all, these people could surely be creating something more valuable. If you want to make an argument based on opportunity cost, it general
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by morei 6y ago
Helps separate real traffic from DDoS traffic. e.g. traffic from someone that also visited the site prior to the start of the DDoS is vastly more likely to be real traffic.
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by morei 6y ago
... are you serious? You use an infinitely thin rope of course! Slightly more seriously, you take the limit of a alpha-sized goat tied with an alpha-sized rope as alpha goes to zero from above.
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by morei 6y ago
Yes, the more accurate title would be "Why is it faster to read data from a file via mmap() than via the read() system call?"
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by morei 6y ago
Some of it is due to bigger data, but the majority is definitely ML. For constant data, the error rate dropped dramatically due to much improved algorithms. 15 years ago, voice recognition was all hidden markov model based. The data sets we
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by morei 6y ago
I think the convergence here is toward 'automatically discoverable types'. For python et al this means type annotation (because it's extremely difficult for discover types otherwise). For C++ et al this is things like the &#x
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by morei 6y ago
I think voice recognition would be a better example. It went from 'toy' to 'everyday use' because the word error rate dropped an order of magnitude.
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by morei 6y ago
No, background radiation makes nuclear radiation a noisy and ambiguous signal. The unambiguous result is the presence of fusion by-products, but unfortunately they're not seen here. In particular, there should be detectable amounts of
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by morei 6y ago
This runs into the problem that the power efficiency of analogue circuitry is dramatically worse. A FET dissipates the least heat when it's fully on or fully off. Operating in the resistive regime will result in orders of magnitude mor
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by morei 6y ago
No, they complement each other. What do you do with the 'excess' vote after creating a 51/49 district? You combine the excess from N 51/49 districts into a single district that is 20/80. That way you have N district
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by morei 6y ago
The cooling nature of water comes from the high specific heat _and_ the fluid mixing (convection currents, pumped flow, etc). Barnacles and other accretive life forms means that the thermal gradient drops sharply, and hence the heat flow ra
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by morei 6y ago
Or get a job with one of the FAANG companies in the UK? (e.g. both Google and Facebook have engineering offices there)
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by morei 6y ago
I think they are well able to image that, but it's paid as part of income taxes so the hit when they're not earning isn't as catastrophic. Also, consider that EU tax collection is comparable (and often lower) than US tax coll
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by morei 6y ago
That's kinda just moving the problem: What is this quality scoring algorithm and how do we built it? If we had such a quality score, then the problem becomes differentiable and far easier to manage. But it's hard because we don&#x
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by morei 6y ago
ISTR that SPDY et al was originally built on UDP, not TCP, so there was a need for a send window. But yes, it's now fighting with the TCP window. Ideally, the HTTP2 send window should be derived from the TCP window.
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by morei 6y ago
The volume expands as it heats, so it's not a given that the diameter (gauge) goes down. But the length is longer and that does increase the total resistance.
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by morei 6y ago
No it doesn't seem fair. Why should my information be given to the news publishers!? I trust Google with my browsing history _way_ more than that random commercial news org.
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by morei 6y ago
I'm not sure that's true? Gatekeeping is definitely about keeping out/removing, but that doesn't mean that it has zero or negative value? For example, there's absolutely positive value for users in filtering spam. T
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by morei 6y ago
Isn't the point here that it's not being replaced with blood? just saline + albumin?

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