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by mquander 4y ago
I don't actually use Twitter, so I don't really have specific examples of huge Twitter accounts tweeting nasty things? I am just thinking of what's clearly considered normal among my peers. For example, here is a random thing
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by mquander 4y ago
I agree with this, but I would emphasize something you glossed over, which is that the target is a "public figure." It's normative to be cruel to "public figures" in ways that would be totally unacceptable in any no
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by mquander 4y ago
It's annoying to come into a discussion where people are trying to figure out object-level stuff and appeal to authority. You're also overstating the case for doing so. The actual results in this paper are easy to understand and d
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by mquander 4y ago
What's so ridiculous to you about the article? I don't know shit about Ukraine, but when you go to zero there's nowhere to go from there but up, so it doesn't sound insane to me that right now it's going up. (I agre
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by mquander 4y ago
One factor fighting against this is that the validator inactivity fees spike to be larger if a lot of validators are offline at once. So if you think all the existing validators are in e.g. AWS us-west, you are taking more risk by putting y
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by mquander 4y ago
I also just joined a team using Firestore and I feel exactly this same way. It absolutely blew me away how bad Firestore is for any kind of conventional CRUD app use cases. I have never worked with a database less fit for purpose, and I wor
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by mquander 4y ago
That living wage is for a family of four, not an individual.
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by mquander 4y ago
Isn't that literally what they are doing? > This decision is not a reflection on the highly talented people we had extended job offers to. We will apply our generous severance philosophy to offset the financial impact of this decisi
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by mquander 4y ago
I believe your experience. I just want to contribute the anecdata that I am a stay-at-home dad to my 2.5 year old, and I have spent most days for the past year and a half talking him out on walks, to parks, downtown, etc. in the Bay Area su
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by mquander 5y ago
> But here’s an uncomfortable analogy: I’ve talked before about how when I first wrote about ultrasonic humidifiers, everyone dismissed the argument for “nonsense” reasons, like not having any citations. Eventually, I realized I could ch
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by mquander 5y ago
Wouldn't you say that Google is an organization, employing people with the authority to examine and suppress content?
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by mquander 5y ago
Google disagrees with you. It presents this definition of the verb "censor" in a one-box: https://www.google.com/search?q=censor%20definition > examine (a book, movie, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable
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by mquander 5y ago
When someone starts looking into why it's so big and they immediately discover a huge dumb mistake (the example in the post), why do you assume that the rest of the app size is because of rational tradeoffs, instead of being more dumb
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by mquander 5y ago
I think maybe you misunderstood their methods? They explicitly discuss the most obvious "novel" openings that wouldn't transpose to traditional openings, like 1. e4 d5/dxe4 2. Nc3/Nxe4, or 1. d4 c5/cxd4 2. c3&#
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by mquander 5y ago
I don't think your analysis makes sense, because seeing the first move is not relevant in most of these problems. For example, in the Lamford study: https://lichess.org/analysis/8/8/8/1k3p2/p1p1
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by mquander 6y ago
Why will those factors not be applicable to crypto? (People taking custody of their own cryptoassets may mean that the exchange can't lend them out, but as exchanges continue to pass the test of time more and more people may be willing
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by mquander 6y ago
Something weird (IMO) about ffmpeg is that it doesn't do hardware-accelerated encoding or decoding by default unless you compile it with support and pass it some extra command line flags. If you are using ffmpeg with hardware-accelerat
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by mquander 6y ago
You can see the spreadsheet model GiveWell used to come up with their "dollars per life saved" number here. See the "Bednets" tab for the AMF calculation. With regard to how the foundation spends its money, the only inpu
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by mquander 6y ago
If you're interested, you should read GiveWell's detailed analysis of why it's reasonable to believe this (i.e. the efficacy of the charity to date, whether additional money will be spent with similar efficacy, etc.) and real
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by mquander 6y ago
I agree. We clearly have a dramatic difference of opinion about when it is a good time to pepper spray someone. I suppose the police officer in the video shares your opinion, and the authors of the document share mine.
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by mquander 6y ago
I watched that video. You have clearly mastered the application of Newton's third law, by pointing out that when someone pushes you away with their hand, you are also pushing against their hand. We only disagree about whether it's
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by mquander 6y ago
It exists for Santa Clara: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/bay-area-health-o...
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by mquander 7y ago
Sorry for the small derail, but can you comment on your decision to sequence your family? I considered doing this recently but it wasn't clear to me that I would obtain much actionable information, so I declined to expend the effort. (
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by mquander 7y ago
The last time I felt this way I went to go work on VR software and learned all about 3D graphics, game development, and real-time networking in games for a few years. I recommend it.
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by mquander 7y ago
Gates was a skilled poker player, which probably helped him be a shrewd business-person. When all was said and done, you would realize he walked away with all your best cards. That doesn't happen in poker.
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by mquander 7y ago
The threat model and economics of federated systems devolve to concentrating trust in the hands of a few, while missing out on the scale advantages of purely centralized solutions. Federation results in the data of users being subject to t
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by mquander 7y ago
I'd wager there aren't many billionaires who actually are primarily invested in illiquid assets. If that's true now, it sure won't be true for long after you pass the tax!
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by mquander 7y ago
I live near downtown Mountain View and I see kids walking and biking around frequently.
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by mquander 7y ago
What specialist does the labor get offloaded to, if someone doesn't know how to keep track of their data, doesn't know how to do simple research on the Internet, or doesn't understand how to secure their computer? Instead, pe
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by mquander 7y ago
It frustrates me that the takeaway of this post, and the implicit conclusion of many software designers, is "keep it extremely simple, or two thirds of the population can’t use your design." I think a better conclusion is "if

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