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by mwigdahl 5y ago
That's a pretty harsh categorization. I am a hiring manager at my company and I echo GP's thoughts almost exactly. An extended history of 2-year engagements is not necessarily a dealbreaker, but it requires explanation. The hir
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
I'll bite. "Autism Spectrum" is a deliberately vague term that has been created and stretched to bring a variety of minor social and emotional functional differences under the general label of "autism". As far as I
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
This is exactly it. This wouldn't have a ghost of a chance in a buyer's market for labor.
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
OK, sure. But inflation has an effect on the monthly payment as well. Assuming stagnant real wages (pay raises pace inflation exactly) if inflation is at 7% but you're paying 10% interest, by the end of a 30-year loan your fixed paym
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
Sure, but the same inflation that was driving up mortgage rates was also reducing the real value of the balance of the loan. You can't just look at rates here.
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
The exact quote from the Surgeon General Jerome Adams in March 2020 was: "Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
Nor does one have to disagree 100% with an enemy.
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I don't know, Acererak playing Joust with the protagonist seemed pretty silly to me, and that was in the book.
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
Very good question! Has the other person's line been communicated or are we left to assume what they consider appropriate?
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I often speculate that this is associated with the rise of video content. So much information on YouTube is encrusted with the personality and brand of the presenter that I wonder if this verbal, story-oriented mode of presentation hasn&#x
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
You know that, and I know that. But people who already distrust authority and feel that the mechanisms of culture, finance, and government are biased against them don't agree. They see money, time, and effort being expended by groups
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
This is correct. Grandparent is conflating Calvinism and the more modern "Prosperity Gospel" phenonmenon.
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
I'd qualify that: "...we can expect them to have more informed opinions, on average, _for any random condition_, than non-doctors." The thing I think you're missing is that the resources to do good, deep research on a c
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
I'd venture that 90% of folks who are able to get a physical engineering degree and get a job doing engineering work would be able to learn programming well enough to get paid for it.
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
Your book was great; I learned a ton going through it. Congratulations on getting it to print!
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
Depends. If your schedule has a lot of flux (meetings being cancelled ad-hoc, etc.) then it can be useful to accept everything but notify the host that you probably won't be there unless something changes. That way if something does
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
Does it help the less educated to flat out ignore exclusion terms that are _explicitly_ provided?
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
But that is not the difference here. The original post said "Something [meaning the lab leak theory] all the experts are saying may actually be true". This is somewhere in between your A and B and at least to me sounds closer to
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
My experience has been that many, many untested juniors, whether they come from a 4-year CS program or a bootcamp, simply can't take a simple problem, break it down, and solve it with code on their own. I completely understand hiring m
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
No, but that's why it's an analogy (and a reasonable one) rather than an exact equivalence.
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
While I agree with virtually everything you're saying here, I'm not convinced the Founders had a high opinion of democracy itself. The Federalist Papers are full of warnings about mob rule, and the goal of the Constitutional fram
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It's not intended to address systemic problems in the justice system. That is the province of the legislature.
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Even crude metrics can be useful as a signal to focus attention on a potential problem area. At that point more complex heuristics can be applied.
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
Ah, cool, assuming the transcriptions are high quality. I was speaking more generally, not about this specific product, but it's nice that they see the value in text as well.
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
To me, most of the benefits of async communication go out the window when you require me to listen (or watch) it as if it were synchronous. Putting in some effort on the sending side to express your thoughts as text makes things a lot more
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
You should be able to pihole yourself for that if that's what you really want.
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
Don't shift the goal posts here. You claimed "no one is", the response was to show a counterexample and say that "some people are", which is true and clearly falsifies your claim. You then stripped the "some&q
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
I think that's overoptimistic. A shocking video trending on Twitter that reinforces some population's existing beliefs and biases about the subject will find a ready audience of believers. Every piece of controversial video conte
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
Just ordered one myself and looking forward to working through it!
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by mwigdahl 6y ago
What he's getting at here is the same thing Scott Alexander wrote about in _Meditations on Moloch_ ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ ). Scott's article goes into it

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