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by moxious 10y ago
Agreed, people relating to them is why they do it, no question. It's just that engineers and scientists are typically trained to know that anecdata is a very poor way to reason about the world, it consistently leads you into the wrong
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Here's an article that talks about Volkswagen's self driving car project dating back to 2006: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370598,00.asp > In 2006, Volkswagen showed off a self-driving version o
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by moxious 10y ago
You miss the point. Labor is inelastic. If you double the wage, it might take the market years to respond if the skill in question is not quickly acquired. Buying high skilled workers is not like buying gumballs, where prices and high dem
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by moxious 10y ago
Yeah, the journos who are writing big articles about big trends always seem to want to anchor them with anecdata from the 2 local guys they talked to, as if that actually sheds light on the situation. Usually it just confirms whatever narr
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There's no fast way out of the situation. Training and education is ultimately the answer, but to fill today's jobs, that needed to happen 2-4 years ago. So today, I think we're up a creek in any case. Still, best get to tr
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There is a difference between "trying to deal with" and "product on sale next month". These cars are overhyped. They've been just around the corner for the last 10 years. They are the Duke Nukem Forever of Silicon
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> the more limited conclusion that our finitude enhances or upholds the meaning in the lives of some individuals in four different ways Yes, that sounds right. Meaning is individual and subjective. So does death give live meaning? Wel
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This question is not "how to learn fast" it's "how to learn python fast". Those are different issues. In my post, if you consider it then you'll know that the answer depends on you, and depends on what progra
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Learning is a skill that can be practiced, like any other skill. You get better at piano too, if you do it for years. The difference is that most people don't think about learning or try to get better at it, because it's a "
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In the article one of the main points is protecting Zuckerberg's long term control, in the event that he "spent 2 years in government". If that's not telegraphing intent, I don't know what is. So it appears pretty
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As a founder perhaps, but they have more relationships and reputation to manage than just with founders. It appears as though Andreesen was considered a trusted board member enabled to negotiate in the shareholder's interests, and as
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All forms of cash comp are things startups will want to minimize for burn rate reasons. Also, startups are risky and giving out lots of cash comp takes employee risk out of the game, which is arguably undesirable.
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That's great but only for profitable companies which doesn't describe most startups. The other reason they usually use equity is because they're relatively cash poor
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by moxious 10y ago
That isn't true for everyone. Innovation happens with non profits too. The difference though, and why you see so much coming out of private companies, is that more people are motivated by money than are motivated by altruism. But ther
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Given that we don't know what advances lie in the future, I just don't understand how one can say "no comparably huge changes remain", as this is equivalent to a prediction about the future, and those are notoriously ter
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Hasn't this already been the case for some time? What's remarkable to me is how late in the game they're making this tracking available to us as a useful feature. Relative to ad targeting I'm not sure there's anyt
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That's silly. They've had your location for years even without asking, they don't need an app for that. The TOS says you're already BFFs.
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Here here! This transpilation thing is something relatively unique about the JS world, namely that it mutates really fast with capabilities like transpilation. Yes, it's done in other languages in limited situations but JS is the on
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If it's as simple as "javascript because web" as you suggest, how does that jibe with things like Electron (js desktop apps) and back-end JS without a web facing component? None of those people had to pick JS.
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People vote with their feet, and while I'm really sympathetic to everything you're saying about static typing, it's hard to argue that reality is producing a lot of really popular dynamically typed languages. JS being exhibi
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I think of dynamic typing in a language as a big pro and a big con at the same time, but it's one of the things that makes a language like JavaScript or closure what it is. I love typing systems too, there are compelling advantages...a
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I understand what you mean, but I think it goes even further than a bicycle. At the risk of abusing the comparison, a bicycle will let you do what you already can do, move about, just a little bit faster. By contrast, what I think the
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You should have a look at books about the TRIZ system, such as this one And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving https://www.amazon.com/dp/0964074028/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ I