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by nkingsy 6y ago
Someone told me these were lost stone working techniques when I visited. This makes so much more sense! The rocks are so large and smooth and fit together so perfectly, it is arrestingly beautiful.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
The emphasis on trade offs is the most important part for me, because it formalizes the search for alternative approaches. In the majority of my design docs, I end up swapping an “alternative” into the doc itself as I find myself more convi
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I assume you’re responding to “at the expense of”. My understanding is that the US bought almost the whole global supply of remdesivir, among other things, which will make it harder for other entities searching for a vaccine/treatment
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I learned last night that the US has been buying up all the worlds supply of various promising medicines in an historic effort to fast track a cure for the US population, at the expense of everyone else. It now looks like there’s a decent c
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by nkingsy 6y ago
This is a beautifully written article with devastating implications. I have no idea if it’s correct. My summary: psychiatrists have been orchestrating a campaign of disinformation aimed to remove the stigma of mental illness from our cultur
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Earlier discussions assumed some amount of cloud processing to cover for less powerful chips. Is that not the case?
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by nkingsy 6y ago
These discussions go alongside MacBook trackbar discussions in my mind. Everyone has stories of clueless recruiters. It’s sad. I also interview about 1 utterly unqualified candidate per month at a big tech co that has this pretty well strea
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I remember reading a story on here of a former Mormon who advertised only to the email addresses of their still-Mormon family. This kind of power has some scary implications, and it is precisely what made Facebook turn into an advertising g
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by nkingsy 6y ago
It sounds hard, but might not be orders of magnitude harder than impossible.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
This has happened to me. Ended up working for a very scary company because they were the only local option that came close to matching my bay area salary. Moved back to the Bay Area less than a year later. Lesson learned, I won’t be moving
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by nkingsy 6y ago
This needs examples throughout. I agree with the sentiment but I might argue that initially studying the pencil is the best way to trace back to the problem it solves.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Not coming from a CS background, I’m always looking for resources to grow. Was quite turned off by the “two kinds of people” assertion, broken down by understanding of CS. There are still holes in my understanding, surely, and I fill them i
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I interviewed with this little company back in 2014 trying to land my first dev gig. Didn’t get the job but I would’ve taken it for less money if they’d offered. Impressed they’re still going! I’ve worked for two failed startups since.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I come from a poker background, so I would only ever increase variance in order to also increase my expected value. I call that gambling.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Gambling is taking risks with an expectation of possible gain. In this case, the risk of never needing insurance is balanced by the gain of whatever is insured if it is lost. One could argue that this is decreasing risk in exchange for less
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by nkingsy 6y ago
If there is a general societal expectation of playing hard to get (imo one half of flirting), failure to do so will generally result in “dating down”. Flirting is push/pull and it is fun for everyone because it amplifies the novelty o
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I recently got feedback that I speak at too low level and with too much emotion/passion. Still digesting it. I think it is a variant of what I’ve heard before, which is that I leap from A to C assuming everyone understands that A and C
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by nkingsy 6y ago
They also successfully pressured over 60% of their staff into exchanging salary for twice the value in options. I've worked for dysfunctional companies, but I guess I'm lucky I haven't run into management trying to steal from
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by nkingsy 6y ago
D supplements as well as fish oil were thought promising until studies showed they did not really do what they were advertised to do in supplement form. https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/clinical-trials/201.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
The disconnect between the expectations of impact and the real impact of big tech experiments on the populace is perpetually surprising.
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I've been watching Mrs. America, and it does a great job of showing an earlier, developing version of wedge politics leading up to the Reagan revolution. Where we are now feels like the inevitable conclusion to the process of eschewing
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by nkingsy 6y ago
I studied this in college in 2002, reading the book “bowling alone” for a required general credit class. I remember feeling like it wasn’t that big of a deal at the time. In hindsight it’s a huge deal. Seems like we don’t just naturally soc
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by nkingsy 6y ago
Day to day work at at $largetechco requires such an enormous amount of context that even a simple task can cause my working memory to overflow, triggering my “this must be fixed, too complex” instinct, and paralyzing my ability to work for
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by nkingsy 6y ago
“but as we seek to grow further it’s clear that a complete rewrite of our application is something which will somehow prevent us from losing two billion dollars a year on customer acquisition” Bwahahahahaha
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by nkingsy 6y ago
IMO school is mostly about socialization. Sticking the smart kids in one classroom or segregating their work means they don’t gain empathy for those who aren’t as gifted with academics. I’d argue the most important skill for a smart young p
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by nkingsy 6y ago
“I think hurt people tend to cling to their anger because they hope to use it as a shield. They hope to not be made a fool of again. They think being mad as hell will serve as protection from bad things.” This way of thinking about it reson
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by nkingsy 7y ago
Wasn’t there some discussion that graphene is somewhat like asbestos? Is this safe? Edit: https://www.materialstoday.com/carbon/articles/s136970211270... Unknown, possibly bad
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by nkingsy 7y ago
They’re down 40% from IPO so there appear to be quite a few people spotting nudity.
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by nkingsy 7y ago
20 permitted companies
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by nkingsy 7y ago
This seems to be using scale and price changes to mislead. The modern equivalent would be Lebron James funding a school system, which seems like a similar commitment. We can imagine Lebron eg paying the police force of Cleveland for a quart

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