neoburkian

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by neoburkian 5y ago
The work Tyler cites demonstrates that inequality in the US is almost entirely a function of real estate. Let that sink in. This implies that the vast majority of inequality comes from owning land. Big Tech companies are not a real estate b
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by neoburkian 5y ago
Your analogy implies that inequality creates poverty or that there is some casual relationship. This is what many people intuitively believe. It is not true. As a rule, when people try to remove inequality everybody gets poorer, not richer.
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by neoburkian 5y ago
Except for Linux actively running on 99% of all servers on the planet. Vulnerabilities in Linux can literally kill people, open holes for hackers, spies, etc. Submitting a fake paper to a journal read by a few dozen academics is a threat
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by neoburkian 5y ago
Just because someone meets the "X years doing Y at Z" criteria doesn't mean that they are great hires. I've met PhDs in computer science that could barely write python. Resumes or similar self-marketing says a lot less t
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by neoburkian 5y ago
Skeptical. Remote work increases the supply of available technologists across the board. That means more competition at every level - 10x or otherwise. If your whole team is remote, what exactly is the difference between someone in Californ
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by neoburkian 5y ago
I'd like some more specificity on how exactly this is supposed to work. Ok, you are going to build a webserver, now what? I draw a bunch of flowcharts describing the code that doesn't exist yet? If the situation is not novel, then
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by neoburkian 6y ago
While plausible, there are a lot of 'if's that underpin this scenario. In particular, you need people to not notice that the conviction rate is 50% for both odd and even numbered households.
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by neoburkian 6y ago
> think of the innocent immigrant A model that does not incorporate all the relevant information will have more false positives. The practical consequence of doing what you suggest is, cetaris-paribus, that you will incorrectly penaliz
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by neoburkian 7y ago
Stuff like this is everywhere. I used to work for a company that had millions of credit profiles. We had the chief of IT spending enormous amounts of time to make things "secure," but in the meantime junior PMs (and pretty much ev
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by neoburkian 7y ago
A society where everyone is poor is worse than a society where some are rich but most are poor. It is worse that everyone be in crushing poverty forever, than to have unequal distribution of wealth. “Growth is only good if widely shared” is
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by neoburkian 7y ago
Because thats fundamentally not the problem. At every company I've worked at, the senior engineers could tell you exactly how they were skimping on security, why its bad, and how to fix it. The problem isn't lack of knowledge or s
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by neoburkian 7y ago
To quote the user wbl: Aside from the transistor, negative feedback, Unix, troff, radio astronomy, the charge coupled device, cryptography, information theory, what did Bell Labs ever do for us? [1] By the standard you set forward, we would
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by neoburkian 8y ago
If intelligence, conscientiousness, grit, drive, determination, etc were as visible as height, it would be immediately obvious why some people succeed and others fail. These traits are not evenly distributed. Some have them in spades, other
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Ask HN: How to work with bad contractors?
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by neoburkian 8y ago
Straight male here. My favorite ASMR video is of a dude wearing a fish person mask, eating fudge, and talking to a pineapple [1]. Can you explain to me how exactly this is "soft core phone sex"? Am I unconsciously gay for fish-men
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by neoburkian 8y ago
"This is an opinion show, and not part of our news program" is an excuse used to justify FoxNews conservative propaganda for years. I expect the NYT to be better than that. Nobody should be in a position where they have to say &qu
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by neoburkian 8y ago
Today in the NYT Daily podcast, the NYT argued that: """ [Facebook] thinks about free speech the way the US govt. thinks about free speech. There is no rule that that has to be the case... A way of avoiding the choice [about
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by neoburkian 8y ago
The steelman of the Success Sequence (i.e. ignoring the shoe-horning that Bruenig pointed out) is that there are cultural/normative/behavioral tendencies that come prior to systemic oppression or poverty. These tendencies have a &
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by neoburkian 8y ago
So the conclusion here is that failing to graduate high school and becoming a teen parent has little impact on life outcomes? I'm sure Bruenig is right when when he says that the ability to stay out of poverty is mostly determined by t
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by neoburkian 8y ago
Female dominated professions, on average, have more time off, more flexible hours, significant social components, less physically dangerous, etc. Maybe these things matter, on average, more to women than men. Why should we expect women to h
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by neoburkian 8y ago
> They could have tried any number of solutions tried by other universities. > it’s lazy and disingenuous for a university with a 4+ billion dollar endowment to make up reasons not to make these materials available It strikes me as s
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by neoburkian 8y ago
Alright, given this argument, I am now convinced that it was in fact reasonable for the bootcamp to hire an interpreter, and the fact that they didn't do that justifiably opens them up for some kind of legal action. I would like to edi
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by neoburkian 8y ago
Assume that the median bootcamp price is something like $15K. Can you get an ASL interpreter for 3 months and 5hr days at that rate? If it turns out that this can be done, I'll concede that the bootcamp was in the wrong and my argument
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by neoburkian 8y ago
1) This is the best argument I've heard so far and has come the closest to getting me to change my mind. Conditional on ASL interpreters being reasonably priced and getting them to show up requires a minimal amount of bureaucratic rigm
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by neoburkian 8y ago
Is UC Berkeley lazy and disingenuous? Maybe. Annual budgets are finite endowments notwithstanding. What programs would you cut to pay the translators? Did Berkeley make the wrong decision here? Possibly, I'm not a lawyer, and I don&#x2
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by neoburkian 8y ago
I'm accepting that the bootcamp is legally required to provide an interpreter. I'm questioning whether or not that requirement is a 'reasonable' accommodation. The bootcamp probably graduates around 60 people per year, t
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by neoburkian 8y ago
Sounds like you had an unpleasant experience, but there are a few things here that make it seem like the bad experience is clouding your judgement. 1) It isn't the bootcamp's fault that speech to text software sucks. 2) What is t