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by nubbins 9y ago
I'm sure at one time he was of at least above average IQ, after all the average person accomplishes very little, wealthy parents or not. But I wouldn't call him (now at least) smart either as to me that implies some kind of skill
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by nubbins 9y ago
Also the fact that we now are aware of the opioid problem and are starting to really crack down on over-prescription of pills causing addicts to turn to heroin or fentanyl has to be a big factor. What percent actually OD on pills?
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by nubbins 9y ago
I can't talk about football with serious fans because they are obsessed with minutia, personalities, who did what, what games they have to win etc. In a way its revealing of who cares enough because you have to invest (waste) hours to
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by nubbins 9y ago
This seems like an error in the law if there is no minimum quantity or any other kind of test for who is a "dealer". I sold some speakers once but that doesn't make me a Hi-fi dealer.
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by nubbins 9y ago
Every so often one of these articles comes out about someone's dream restaurant or coffee shop that failed and I'm starting to think that maybe there are lots of just soft, naive people out there who just got by in life checking o
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by nubbins 9y ago
I think there are two very different definitions of fresh causing confusion. I've seen US supermarkets keep fish on display for like a week, at which point it develops a very off "fishy" odor. I don't even think it occur
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by nubbins 9y ago
There can be some ethical issues orthogonal to profit and loss considerations though. Now would shareholders be able to sue Cook for losing money by fighting the Chinese government, I have no idea, but its not quite as simple as that, that&
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by nubbins 9y ago
Wouldn't the low level people given enough time and perhaps mentorship eventually become the second type? It sounds like it could be the same person at different times in their career, or are you saying they'll never get there?
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by nubbins 9y ago
I find looking up Java or similar answers to be almost universally unsatisfying, usually its just "use this library in this way and don't worry about behind the scenes", but then looking up answers to C questions I have to un
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by nubbins 9y ago
I've tried stuff like this before and am certainly interested for language learning but there are drawbacks to becoming too efficient at entering flashcards. A huge amount of the benefit comes from seeking out and manually encoding the
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by nubbins 10y ago
Those are essentially solved problems for which you don't need to reinvent the wheel and can copy what any successful small or medium business does.
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by nubbins 10y ago
Thats fascinating how you can see the rules based formalism of version 1 translate go wrong in very different ways from the ML pattern matching version 2. ML creates a grammatical but nonsensical sentence from which little or no original me
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by nubbins 10y ago
NYC has huge finance/business/old rich contingents along with 1st generation immigrants from conservative cultures. I find it hard to call the city as a whole liberal.
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by nubbins 10y ago
Thats interesting because 4 hours is exactly the limit I've seen cited by researchers as the max for highly focused work but even that much is a kind of skill that has to be developed, so a beginner might have much less concentration.
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by nubbins 10y ago
People ask me why are you learning programming when you already have another career, and I feel like I'm Noah building an ark
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by nubbins 10y ago
Agreed but it was easier when games naturally had "space" for imagination because of technical limitations. It is really hard to self-consciously go back and work inside a self imposed frame when everything else is moving ahead.
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by nubbins 10y ago
Where does it say that? The way I read it everything will be taken down as of 3/15/2017