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by novok 5y ago
There are some cities and places that do reduce intrusive real life advertising by banning billboards for example, or putting up a billboard tax to reduce them and divert the visual pollution cost into the city budget. Same with regulation
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by novok 5y ago
If you want to, you can spend 2 or 3 days and $5000 to get properly assessed by a neuropsycholoist to figure out what your issues actually are. That is laborious, time consuming and doesn't fit the 15 minute doctor visit medical bill
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by novok 5y ago
Lets also get rid of web search engines while we are at it, or transparent caching CDNs /s
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by novok 5y ago
Apple is active in their OSS work although, if you go look at their OSS project forms and such. Look at webkit, swift, etc.
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by novok 5y ago
I think a key reason that corps do try to avoid admitting fault, is because in a lawsuit that can be used as evidence for a guilty verdict in a civil lawsuit in some of the most slam dunk ways. If we remove this feature of common law legal
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by novok 5y ago
The effects of the pandemic on children has definitely been variable. Higher income kids going to private schools are back in school by 6 months, while lower income kid's public schools cannot even get zoom classes organized or access
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by novok 5y ago
Ironically enough, I think the data set comes from lawsuits that determine all of those conditions. A surgeon for example with all of their future surgeon income ruined by a bad car accident + medical care can be around $30 million, while
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by novok 5y ago
It wouldn't be explicit turning away, but if your in a triage situation, most doctors and medical systems will focus on the most time serious and the people they are most able to save if they have limited capacity. And if your not vac
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by novok 5y ago
IMO casual masking (stores, airplanes, etc) and a shot every 6 months isn't the annoying part about covid, it's the economic damage of lockdowns, school closures, social gatherings missed, extreme isolation of the vulnerable, trav
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by novok 5y ago
Facebook did not just stay in it's little FB lane. In response to not performing well, they figured out mobile, they accquired IG, Occulus, WhatsApp and Messenger and made them key business items to expand their relevance to great eff
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by novok 5y ago
It is the society you are familiar with, it's just everyone treats it as normal and what are the limits of possibility so you are probably blind to it. Some relatively extreme examples: 1. There isn't a cop / security person
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by novok 5y ago
L4 is around $300k, L5 is around $500k 500/300 = 1.6. At many of these companies, if you haven't gotten to the next step in about 2 years until L5, you start becoming a target and managed out, and I know multiple former coworkers
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by novok 5y ago
I've worked at FANGMULA for many years, I'm an immigrant, I've recently become a hiring manager and hired people on my team weeks ago, I've done hundreds of interviews within my bigtech company, I barely finished my comp
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by novok 5y ago
It's a statistical inevitability that this will happen all the time at facebook's scale, even if you have an algorithm with a %0.00001 false positive rate, because they deal with billions of items per day. It's really actua
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by novok 5y ago
A pattern I've noticed with double job workers: 1. They tend to work double jobs at frankly lower tier companies with lower standards and significantly lower pay. Because the companies are lower tier, they stagnate in their career gr
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by novok 5y ago
They have bad economics and were living under a dictatorship in living memory. Those countries can do the best for a while once they free themselves from dictatorship.
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by novok 5y ago
Well the goal is to recognize a face, not to match a specific face to a specific person. So you can train an AF model to to center focus on the center of the sunglasses. Even with the 'track these specific faces' features, since
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by novok 5y ago
Plaid is webscraping banks as a service, so I think it was good of them to use node and to priortize dev speed & hiring than to make a well tuned native monolith made by more expensive developers in a stack that had a slower iteration s
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by novok 5y ago
A per-cursor form of talent is burning passion, focus and interest, which leads to better & more practice. The person who is willing to push hard into their field is probably %80 of what people call talent. And then when they encounte
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by novok 5y ago
I think the key issue with notes that you just edit in plain text files on your computer is the lack of sync, mobile access and access to a quick ui on the mobile side.
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by novok 5y ago
You choose golang because you basically want java with less memory usage and static single binary deploys for your backend server applications. Go was designed to be a language that development scales very well with it's focus on simpl
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by novok 5y ago
I also find them to be significantly slower than using the mainstream website and you get lower quality video streams often compared to the main youtube website
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by novok 5y ago
I think bulldozer is a great term, because it also captures the 'creative destruction' that occurs when the new better thing replaces the old thing, like google replacing altavista / yahoo, facebook replacing myspace and so o
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by novok 5y ago
Although I realize the article is about actually learning vs. skimming info, something I've realized about "2x" speed on videos is really just matching my natural rate of reading, and I speed up / slow down depending on
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by novok 5y ago
Swift / objc interop is very natural, so if it ain’t broke, why fix it wrt to swift rewrites.
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by novok 5y ago
Apple’s iOS libs (not swift ui) although not well documented in parts, is probably the most complete and self consistent set of ui dev libraries around to develop against. Android and web are far more chaotic. I haven’t done windows dev s
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by novok 5y ago
Wonder if there has been a biking political group that got a 'bicycle DA' elected in and what happened.
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by novok 5y ago
And hurt everyone who is legit selling their own bike too.
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by novok 5y ago
We spend a lot of our limited lives at work, we should strive to make work enjoyable for ourselves and others. Making work enjoyable can be many things, from changing careers, reducing hours, changing how it's done or changing your pe
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by novok 5y ago
As a relatively new manager, you figure out relatively quickly who are the workhorses and who are not as productive. If I were to guess, you were probably in the lower half ranking of people usually in that manager's mind. You might

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