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by nilkn 6y ago
To be clear, the order of events was such that I did not have loss of smell/taste at the time of the rapid tests. There was no indication at that time of anything that wasn't completely consistent with and expected from a cold, an
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by nilkn 6y ago
I definitely think there's a communication deficiency or breakdown happening, because none of the medical professionals indicated to me that the rapid tests were that unreliable when it comes to producing false negatives. I also feel
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by nilkn 6y ago
I have an interesting anecdote related to this. As it happens, I currently have COVID. When I first noticed I was getting sick, I was scheduled to fly in the near future, so I got a rapid COVID test that delivers results in 15 minutes. It w
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by nilkn 6y ago
I definitely hope that your analysis here is the prevailing one.
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I think there's a difference between physically showing up at the Capitol during that event and being present for the whole thing (even if not entering the Capitol) versus just having an account on a site where some planning for the ev
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Because they're not going to investigate all 4+ million Parler accounts to distinguish between those involved and those not. Many folks here are just assuming everyone on Parler was a terrorist or complicit in what happened. The poster
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by nilkn 6y ago
And now there are folks right here in this thread who will assume the absolute worst about you and try to ruin your life. I wish you the best of luck in surviving this. This is why it's not reasonable to paint every account there as th
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by nilkn 6y ago
I think it’s pretty unlikely social media companies will continue to have total control over public discourse. There’s already some legal precedent that the Supreme Court views Twitter and Facebook as public squares. See Packingham v. North
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Censorship has a very simple definition, and it can be conducted by private companies. From Wikipedia: “Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objec
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by nilkn 6y ago
Censorship can be performed by private companies. From Wikipedia: “Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or &quo
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by nilkn 6y ago
You can simplify the coding preparation by just getting a basic LeetCode subscription, filtering down to problems asked at Facebook in the last six months, and then sorting by frequency (how many times each question has been asked recently,
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by nilkn 6y ago
I definitely agree with you. I don’t like the Bay Area’s weather and much prefer that of the Midwest and Northeast where you fully experience all four seasons. I like hot summers and winters full of snow. Even within CA I’d prefer the weath
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by nilkn 6y ago
Speaking as someone who is a senior manager/director, my experience is dismissals of high-profile employees usually have a ton of complexity under the hood, and whatever information is publicly available is often the tip of the iceberg
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> And abandoned quite quickly, like most projects. Amended your statement slightly. If anything, there's a fairly high incidence of successful projects coming out of the Rust world.
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The Rust part I think is meaningful. It means we can (with reasonable probability) expect the software to be fast and lightweight in terms of memory usage, and it means it’s probably a lot easier for new contributors to jump in than an equi
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[Thank you for all your advice -- it's greatly appreciated. I've edited this post since it included a few personal details that I don't want permanently attached to my account on here. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenie
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by nilkn 6y ago
Based on my experience, system design questions (in the spirit of [0]) are getting more popular/important for senior candidates. For instance, my M1/M2 interview at Facebook had only one coding round, but three system design round
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by nilkn 6y ago
Completely fair point.
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I have to wonder to what extent this is just punishment from the establishment for Coinbase’s recent rejection of political activism in the workplace. Of course we will need to see the article from the NYT first before drawing any conclusio
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by nilkn 6y ago
Slightly unusual use case for Dark Reader: This year I switched to an LG CX 48 as my only display. This is a large OLED screen ("large" is an understatement -- it's the equivalent of a 4x4 grid of 24" 1080p monitors). Be
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by nilkn 6y ago
I agree with this. These comments are toxic and sometimes rude, but they also expose a world that many folks don't realize exists (including myself 2-3 years ago).
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The article touches on this, but their turnover is probably low because there aren’t many other places for engineers to go in Canada. I’ve worked at a place that had a similar sort of “artificial retention” due to a lack of local competitio
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by nilkn 6y ago
This is my preferred way of thinking about it too. I wouldn't say debt in general is universally bad, and so I wouldn't say the same thing about technical debt either. Technical debt can save a company by pushing something forward
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by nilkn 6y ago
Your point is not at all clear to me, sorry. I think the differences you're pointing out are small at best, and while they may not have had a vast aristocratic billionaire or centimillionaire class in the past, they definitely do today
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by nilkn 6y ago
It's just not clear to me what point you're trying to make. Maybe the US has more wealth concentration at the top than China, but it's clear that both countries experience this problem/symptom to an extraordinary degree.
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China's parliament has ~100 billionaires, and the concentration of wealth is even more extreme than that when you count those with a net worth exceeding, say, $100 million instead. The difference between those at the top in China and t
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by nilkn 6y ago
I meant to imply a third option: that folks wouldn’t trust the story anyway, at least not enough for it to influence their vote. This isn’t like, say, the Clinton email issue, which was being pushed heavily even by the NYT. This would’ve ju
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by nilkn 6y ago
I didn’t say Biden himself ordered the censorship, and I don’t think anybody at all is making that claim that I’ve seen. Wikipedia directly and immediately contradicts you: “Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or
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by nilkn 6y ago
This Biden story was unlikely to cost him the election. But censoring it is going to be prime fuel for the right leading into the election and is a much bigger story than what was censored. This was a stupendously naive move.
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Apologies, the employee who attacked their coworker on Twitter is the one who was fired.

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