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by odyssey7 8y ago
That makes sense. Employers save themselves a lot of employee dissatisfaction through honesty and transparency during the hiring process. If they misrepresent themselves, they end up with employees who aren't a good match as a result o
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One I’ve heard is that at a conference someone asked him “what do you do?” to which he replied “I cast false pearls before real swine.” I don’t know if it really happened, but it’s clear that a lot of people didn’t like him.
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by odyssey7 8y ago
The Apple Watch is in a different regulatory space than the devices listed in that source, since it's cleared as a class II medical device by the FDA. HIPAA laws will apply in some use situations, so their lawyers will have thought abo
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by odyssey7 8y ago
When I tried on an Apple Watch at an Apple Store, I noticed that the heart rate it displayed was definitely different from mine. I mentioned it to the employee who was manning that table, and she told me the demo watches had some pre-progra
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by odyssey7 8y ago
For me as a vegetarian, getting into Indian food was a dietary breakthrough. Vegetarian Indian food has already been developed for thousands of years to be tasty and meet dietary requirements. I grew up on typical American cuisine and then
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by odyssey7 8y ago
SEEKING WORK, Web Developer, Remote, based in the U.S. I'm a software developer with an eye for good system design. Two of my passions are expressing powerful solutions in simple ways, and working with modern technologies that facilita
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by odyssey7 8y ago
This article calls Apple’s commitment to security and privacy a “superficial jihad” simply on the basis that regulating data collection might weaken Apple’s competitors. This is a bad line of reasoning. An organization can care about X intr
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by odyssey7 8y ago
> There are whole teams in health care and applications from suites like Epic ... just for refining billing. To anyone interested in AI in healthcare, I suspect that datasets of procedure and diagnosis billing codes could be some of the
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I like this. It sounds like their reality didn’t match the theory.
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Are there ways that an AI practitioner would be able to tell whether a neural network is doing human-style symbolic reasoning?
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by odyssey7 8y ago
This question for me is more about the ethics of trimming plants than about bonsai specifically. Was the original question implying a more general metaphor (not specific to plants) like the one you went into? I think trimming a plant with r
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by odyssey7 8y ago
> where the medical people describe the infection as a UTI Very interesting. Are you suspecting that the medical diagnosis of a UTI wasn't totally accurate?
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Oh, I forgot an important detail. I should have added another aim I would want is that as a result of paying this money, you wouldn't receive any advertisements from the service.
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There is huge room for medicine to be improved, but actually the reason for that is there is a lot of resistance to changing things in major ways despite all the things that could be done. A lot of software companies know that their key to
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by odyssey7 8y ago
Hey! We must read similar things. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17952107 Looking back I could have talked about Zika here. How many childhood viruses are we sure don't cause down-the-road issues like cancer? Mos
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by odyssey7 8y ago
I think that if it's possible to define a way of operating businesses in a way that doesn't harvest data in a way that's nonessential to the services, then there should be a law requiring this option: to pay out of your pocke
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by odyssey7 8y ago
I just looked this up and oh wow, and I don't perceive that this situation could have only happened back then. In the modern day, a lot of people with a lot of education will scoff at anything that hasn't been produced by science,
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by odyssey7 8y ago
This comment overlooks the fact that the U.S. court system is currently disagreeing with itself over whether the practice of forced individual arbitration is illegal or not. The last time SCOTUS had a case about this in I think 2016, they d
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by odyssey7 8y ago
Millennials are forced to be more careful, because they're climbing a difficult and important ladder into financial security. Most people I know who aren't looking to marry are just very aware that this is not the right time for t
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by odyssey7 8y ago
In the dialogues that I've read, the things Socrates tries to figure out are the big questions that possibly don't actually have correct answers, so a disappointing outcome is seemingly inevitable. Also, they are actual attempts t
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by odyssey7 8y ago
This highlights the tension between wanting to navigate the instrument, easily vs wanting to understand the music easily in terms of scales and tonal theory. Standard music notation is great for understanding the notes in the context of the
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by odyssey7 8y ago
Additional perspective: I consider it to be the best online course that I've taken. (I've taken a dozen or so.)
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by odyssey7 8y ago
In addition, these reviews were unambiguously lies rather than puffery; the author never used the services that were reviewed.
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The thing that led me to stop contributing was ultimately seeing the progress that was being made toward automated music transcription. I saw this technology as something that would make the process a whole lot faster once it was good enoug
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by odyssey7 8y ago
Mutopiaproject and LilyPond are great. I used Mutopiaproject a lot when I was a teenager who enjoyed playing piano. It and imslp changed how I explored music, and helped me develop my interests. I always preferred the LilyPond scores from M
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Crohn's is another inflammatory disease that has long been suspected by some researchers to be infectious. The company RedHill Biopharma just showed that a combination of generic antibiotics could be as effective as Humira, the highest
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by odyssey7 8y ago
Alternatively, companies who want to exploit workers can offer lower-than-expected wages, to make sure they end up only with employees who can be talked into going along with bad situations.
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This is an interesting take. But I'd have to disagree about this: > it's a poor philosophy to follow if your interest is in things improving Stoicism helps people accomplish more, by letting them transcend the things that are h
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by odyssey7 8y ago
I've wondered about this question, and I'm not sure it correlates that way. One company I worked for was known for being one of the lower cost vendors in its industry, and I experienced a pervasive back-stabbing culture, which I a
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by odyssey7 8y ago
If 1) there's a solid engineering case to be made that this code is bad, 2) the code does something that's important, and 3) the company doesn't want to fix it, then you can be confident that the company also isn't inter

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