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by nubbins 8y ago
I found that Blue Apron did pretty much all I could have expected on their end- better recipes and ingredients that I usually got in my neighborhood and new techniques I hadn’t tried. I quit because of the fundamental problem that a subscri
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by nubbins 8y ago
To me it seems like an indication of the differences in software vs other engineering that the conservatism that led to Japans world class mechanical and civil engineering acheivements has held back software engineering. For great cars, tra
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by nubbins 8y ago
Its just not possible in general to know a priori the legality of 100% of your actions. Companies have entire compliance departments to attempt this and still cant always get it right. There are tons of grey areas and edge cases so what act
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by nubbins 8y ago
As a junior I’d much prefer a whiteboard where I just need strong CS fundamentals and reasoning to a work sample where there are 10+ different dimensions I could be judged on like style, maintainability, whether I used the latest language f
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by nubbins 8y ago
The real variable isn’t roast its the brew concentration and to a lesser degree acidity, and most coffee I see served “American” style is pretty diluted so that you can see the cup through it.
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by nubbins 8y ago
Aren’t all laws ultimately backed by threat of force whether to take your property or imprison you (not sure I’d call this violence)? You can be held in contempt if you ignore a court order but I doubt they would like smash your thumb down
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by nubbins 8y ago
Working through SICP my main issue was the almost unbounded time commitment- like it will take you between a month to two years. I remember there was a trivial problem that took 5 minutes then apropos nothing the next problem bascially requ
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by nubbins 8y ago
That ranking of vegetables matches about what I’d expect if they had rough dollar/nutrition parity. I love water cress but its massively more expensive than kale by weight. In this sense ranking “healthiest” as if it were a choice betw
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by nubbins 8y ago
What they probably don’t realize is the record of saying “lets take it off line” ie requesting change in communication media is suspicious in itself and much easier for humans or algorithms to find in discovery than whatever complicated sch
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by nubbins 8y ago
Where do people get the idea one resource is supposed to teach you a language? As someone who has learned and uses multiple foreign languages Rosetta stone, pimsleur, duo linguo are all fantastic tools for their indended use cases but langu
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by nubbins 8y ago
I would think most peoples ideal is to live in healthy natural commmunities with a diverse age range to get wisdom and tradition from the old and energy and new ideas from the young.
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by nubbins 8y ago
I think the city being “full” is a much better way to explain it than saying for example you need to make $300,000 to afford a house in San Francisco, as if there were an arbitrary amount of housing that available just waiting for people wh
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by nubbins 8y ago
Pullups are more of a gymnastic activity that just requires your nervous system is trained to recruit the right muscles very intensely at the right time. I can do maybe 12-15 and am borderline overweight, just because I do them habitually.
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by nubbins 8y ago
Sure but Tokyo is also a real place that was aesthetically pretty unique and way more futuristic looking than anywhere else at the time (other than maybe HK). Id be interested in African scifi/cyberpunk but at least for film it doesn’t
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by nubbins 8y ago
Not sure who your friends are but where I am half the young people are creatives or otherwise not traditionally full time employed and my experience has been people are far more likely to avoid you for being a boring banker/lawyer&#x2F
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by nubbins 8y ago
I think I know what you mean about symbols but thats because I used to try to read math at normal speed. Actually theres a only small set of common symbols you could pick up in an afternoon and everything else is domain specific and therefo
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by nubbins 8y ago
I think thats right, using the slang baby as a direct object is rare but possible. “I shot my baby” e.g., but using it with “another baby” really throws it off because a lover is not something you usually have multiple of at the same time s
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by nubbins 8y ago
I was trying to figure out why countries had more women smoking than men which I’ve never observed anywhere, with regards to smoking or really any dangerous habit.
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by nubbins 8y ago
This may explain why so many otherwise highly developed non western courtries don’t reach swimming to everyone. England and France were big naval powers of the time and had much more reason than just watersports to mandate swimming skills f
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by nubbins 8y ago
No, and I’m pretty sure the article fails to make its point. Even if westerners did fear robots more this is the kind of vague “because its their culture” argument you are taught not to make in Anthro 101. There are almost always more proxi
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by nubbins 8y ago
You’re right, I think its that we all want to see a tight cause effect loop in our success, but reality is more like the reason I’m successful in my career is a single blog post I randomly found ten years ago which sent me off in an experim
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by nubbins 9y ago
I’d like this to be true as someone who is tempermentally a bit of a polymath but professionally I’ve seen the returns to specialization go up as the entry bar gets higher. Nothing in the article convinces me that what applies to a few rare
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by nubbins 9y ago
I’m confused about this hypothetical- when ot starts raining or in any other adverse condition thousands of truck loads are just parked and delayed until it improves? I don’t see how this would put anyone out of work.
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by nubbins 9y ago
Essentially (for example) the trader has a position that makes money if LIBOR goes down, so he calls the LIBOR submitter at his bank or someone he knows through contacts at another bank and says "hey it would be nice if your 3 month LI
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by nubbins 9y ago
I read The Spider Network (fantastic look into how bank prop trading worked) and came to mostly the same conclusions. The idea of just prosecuting "rouge traders" is a complete injustice, as trying to adjust the rate submissions w
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by nubbins 9y ago
I think you’re projecting too much onto someome just because they accept slightly below market compensation. Yes you may filter out the superstars but many jobs do not require or really benefit from very above average performance. And Risk
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by nubbins 9y ago
Some brilliant person once pointed out that apart from temperature a sheet is like white noise for your skin, which after all is a big sensory organ. Without a blanket all the tiny hairs on your skin pick up tiny air currents or whatever en
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by nubbins 9y ago
As a lawyer I'm extremely skeptical about this contract reading software displacing any lawyers any time soon, like in the next 10 years. This isn't because I question the abilities of the tech (though I do), rather its for the si
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by nubbins 9y ago
If you're talking about knowing the direction of prices, which is what everyone really cares about, then both laymen and Wall Street start out on almost equally bad footing - they can each have only small predictive edge at best at bes
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by nubbins 9y ago
And if I remember r is always greater than g, except for around WWI and WWII. The rich will always get richer, short of anything like destroying and rebuilding the entire country.

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