newsgourmet

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by newsgourmet 6y ago
"Authoritative collectivist monocultures are doing great with this pandemic" They are great at controlling the flow of information.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Is "The Dip" a worthwhile read? I wonder what YCombinator thinks about career aptitude tests. Could the YC interview be replaced by such a test? I suspect the answer is no.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Have you been working on any side projects? If you can finish and launch a software project, then you are OK. The consensus seems to be that interviews are bad at identifying capable people. I think JK Rowling's Harry Potter books were
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Unless it becomes illegal to post "false information", and the fact checkers get to decide what is false and what is not.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
The other day I was looking around in my living room and every family member was staring at a screen. You just need a VR headset for everybody...
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
I think you have it backwards. The risk of the individual surgeries is not increased. Only the risk that a surgeon will be confronted with an above average critical surgery is increased. It is not even clear that there actually is a problem
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
What if they made the same rules about news outlets, would people also cheer them on?
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
In Germany Facebook has already given power to "trusted fact checkers" who happen to be extremely left leaning. None of this is a good thing.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Facebook is an example of the type of big company you were talking about.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Presumably by installing Linux?
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
I stopped playing Ultima Online (same led designer as Knights of the old Repbulic iirc) when I did the math and realized to become Master Alchemist, I would have to mix 3000 potions, always with the same repetitive clicks.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
"since covid19 causes some deaths that would not have happened historically" That would not be a given assumption (under your scenario of zero excess deaths). Old people who would otherwise have died from another reason could die
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
So what is your knowledge of Epidemiology? Are you an working in the field? Or do you just believe that science happens to agree with your view? There is actually no clear cut scientific story about Sars-Cov-2 yet. That is part of the scare
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
So 10% is the magic number? Men falling behind in academia doesn't count yet? Once there are more than 10% women in IT and startups, we can officially stop the diversity movement?
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Sun and now Oracle's business was to lend out consultants, so they benefit from a complex enterprise architecture.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Aren't we also eating lots of other things that are non-digestible (for example, tiny spores from algae in the water)? Maybe our bodies can handle the plastic, after all. Another simple example of indigestible things that could be in o
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Wasn't the story of the Nobel with Meitner, that they took her off the list to protect her from Nazis? In any case, she was given the highest possible honor by having an element named after herself, Meitnerium. It's absurd that sh
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
For those reasons, I think it is likely they have better odds with VC investors, too. It just depends on what data you pick to make a story.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
What if non-sexist gender differences make it harder for them to succeed, like the higher likelihood to drop out to have children, and overall less pressure to succeed?
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
I don't immediately trust such studies, which are created with ideological bias. Afaik even the famous "blind orchestra auditions" study has been debunked by now. Most VC capital comparisons like that neglect that women tend
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
I'd scrutinize the study more before jumping to conclusions. for starters, there may be few actual women affected by it, as few female founders tackle "male dominated industries". Another thing that stuck out to me immediatel
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
At the very least, an official degree. You can legally call yourself MSc or whatever degree you went for.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Afaik reports found families with clear division of labor to be more happy. Of course that doesn't mean people should be forced to do it that way. It's just a data point. For various reasons, many families don't even have the
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
Unfortunately that translates to "poor people shouldn't have children", which is not a politically correct demand to make.
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
They haven't gotten the short end of the stick. They have higher life expectancy, and get to spend more time with their children. The reason for that is that they have the better bargaining position when it comes to the division of lab
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by newsgourmet 6y ago
"where the women do all this crappy work." Cooking is not "crappy work". Risking your life in coal mines, fixing broken pipes of shit, garbage disposal, being shot to death in useless wars, those things are crappy work (