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by nzmsv 5y ago
An organization that treats their students with a "your feeble minds won't understand, so let me put some spin on this for you" deserves all the eventual backlash they get.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
This is a little ironic... - We really don't appreciate bullshit, all it does is erode trust - No, no, let me explain how bullshit is actually good for you...
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I actually think he has a point with the great man theory. What we call a great man is a carefully engineered product and is the result of work of many people. A Steve Jobs or a Napoleon is a head node of a massive computing cluster. Is
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by nzmsv 5y ago
You probably mean War and Peace. You are right, it is an excellent book.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Nobody speaks out against this stuff. People just quit and go to a truly remote friendly place instead. Next time you are in a conversation about remote work, see if you notice this: the only people who speak up are the ones who say "
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Understanding nature is something a lot of people talk about, but it's not obvious to me that it is possible. As in, not possible at all, at exactly the same level as what you are referring to. Put simply: there are a lot more possibl
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Someone from Britain would be appalled at how unsafe German plugs are. So it's all relative.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Isn't this what we already do? We don't really understand how brains work, how what we call knowledge is stored, processed, and pruned. Psychology is a lot more immature than ML. Basically we hope that brains work well enough t
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The Upside of Pessimism(theatlantic.com)
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I suggest learning more about these western values, where they came from, why, and how long they have been around. I think you will be surprised and find a very enjoyable rabbit hole. One spoiler: most things people consider an inseparabl
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Shouldn't a company that has a process where a recently hired contractor can lock any phone in the world get some share of the blame?
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by nzmsv 5y ago
This is exactly what I am talking about though. Most H1Bs work at sweatshops like Tata and this skews the statistics. For any place one would actually want to work at H1Bs are paid the same as any other engineer.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
This is only true for sweatshop-type companies. For places you'd actually want to work there is no difference in comp based on the type of visa someone is on. It's more about, we want to hire this engineer, what legal checkboxes
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Another use for these defensive patents is renting them out to smaller companies in licensing agreements should a smaller company find itself party to a patent lawsuit. It's basically impossible to write any software without infringing
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Naively: the price of Bitcoin on April 3 2017 when this blog post was published was around $1100, so the author could have bought 3.68 BTC with his $4050. Even if he sold BTC at the all-time peak of $64863 he'd only make a third of wh
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Cars are heavy things and can kill you even if they move at 5mph: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/22/anton-yelchin-d...
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by nzmsv 5y ago
By the same token though, everyone on this discussion is jumping to "we must reduce speeds in cities" without doing any analysis of whether the collision would be survivable at the lower speed they are proposing. They just assume
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by nzmsv 5y ago
She is Russian too so she must be evil :D
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by nzmsv 5y ago
The thing is, the argument against stacking rocks or playing music is intellectually dishonest. Other species have no qualms about modifying their environment. A crow on a tree won't shut up. A squirrel will not decide to carry a nu
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Sure, and I like my nature walks as much as the next person. I just find it weird that after pushing animals into what amounts to a reservation and doing as we please to the environment outside of these carefully drafted borders we worry s
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by nzmsv 5y ago
This concept is a bit weird if you think about it though. This is about Homo sapiens enjoying a model (according to Homo sapiens) of a world where Homo sapiens does not exist. This model world is confined to precise borders defined by Hom
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by nzmsv 5y ago
So only non-human animals are allowed to interact with the environment? Humans are not part of nature?
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by nzmsv 5y ago
But sitting in a cubicle can be bad for you even if it helps your productivity metrics in the short term.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
All you need to know about requiring work from an office is this: the people selling the supposed benefits of increased collaboration, creativity, and productivity do not themselves work this way. There is no CEO or VC who spends their ent
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by nzmsv 5y ago
You clearly invented the second paragraph: I can point out that gig worker and WFH employees coexist presently, and they are on different levels in the "model". I'm imagining that it has to be viewed through a sliding window
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I guess we have met different subsets of engineers :) I wish people were more open to learning more languages. A good DSL can be amazingly expressive. But you are correct in pointing out that gluing languages together is a pain, and it&#x
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I guess it's all the standard trouble with DSLs: poor tooling integration, having to work at different layers. An IDE that understood SQL would probably mitigate almost all opposition and yet nobody came up with one after all these yea
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by nzmsv 5y ago
A number of specialists in the field of databases got together and designed a DSL specifically for working with databases. It's actually a pretty good fit for its domain and is reasonably well designed. It's also pretty simple (
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Interestingly, this very question follows the same mold: it presupposes that Quora has failed :)
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by nzmsv 5y ago
People interested in economics and earning more than 150k are increasingly not on Facebook much, if at all. The Economist actually has a much more targeted audience. FB caters to the lowest common denominator.

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