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by phreeza 5y ago
I guess the two things are complementary, if you don't have slaves, it creates a greater incentive to search for technologies that amplify human labor. So in a sense both explanations might be true. If there hadn't been any slaves
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by phreeza 5y ago
Did these steam engines really have that much torque? I know the Romans used waterwheels with gears and shafts, I would be surprised if these proto-steam engines were more powerful than those.
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by phreeza 5y ago
From my understanding of orbital dynamics, this will only be useful to spacecraft already in a precisely matched orbit. So it's not useful to think of this as an orbital gas station that spacecraft can just pull up to in order to refue
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by phreeza 5y ago
> And if all biases were taken into consideration, everyone would (and should) score exactly the same on everything, regardless of age, sex, race, gender, ethnicity, orientation, etc etc. "Should" is the operational word here.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I seem to remember some later demo disc came with some yaroze games that were playable on normal PlayStations.
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by phreeza 5y ago
All those downsides you mention are not automatic consequences of having a union. Look at union jobs in Europe for a better example of how things can work out. All the nice perks you mention are completely at the discretion of your employer
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by phreeza 5y ago
I think you have it backwards. For a stationary process, the probability of getting a new "all-time high" actually goes down as your record-keeping time increases.
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by phreeza 5y ago
No, lots of interesting Google teams in EMEA, for example Lens https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/90450385816167110-pr...
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by phreeza 5y ago
I guess I was unclear in my comment. I meant that FAANG can spend money on WFH related perks (premium equipment, food delivery, whatever) that second tier companies are maybe not willing to pay, thus retaining the same advantage they had in
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by phreeza 5y ago
Here are some numbers: the evaporation enthalpy of water is 2,260 kJ/kg at room temperature. The specific heat of water is 4.2 kJ/(kg*K). So for a given amount of water, the evaporation is "worth" about 500 Kelvin of coo
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by phreeza 5y ago
I agree with the first part, not so sure about the conclusion though. What makes you think that WFH increases attrition? The FAANGs could easily spend some additional dollars to make "their" WFH more attractive than the competitio
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by phreeza 5y ago
As a FAANG employee myself, I think your opinion of the average FAANG developer is perhaps a bit too generous.
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by phreeza 5y ago
If that is the effect you are going for, would wearing a camelback water bladder have a similar effect? It has slightly less surface area to interface with your body, but you can carry a much larger amount of water.
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by phreeza 5y ago
The majority of the CO2 emissions from concrete come from the production chemical reaction, not from the heat generation, though.
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by phreeza 5y ago
For contrast, all human beings probably fit into a cube of 1km side length.
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by phreeza 5y ago
You still have user agent and other per-request hints to help you differentiate, right? Of course 20k behind one proxy is extreme, but this should cover a large fraction of use cases I think.
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by phreeza 5y ago
This should really be the top comment in the thread.
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by phreeza 5y ago
A music CD has very similar physical distribution costs, and those often sold for less than 20$ if memory serves.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Sure having blameless postmortems would be amazing, but I think the informal process I described is probably the closest you will get to it. The reason being that any given subfield can't make this decision in isolation, because the pe
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by phreeza 5y ago
Good to know. They certainly don't seem to be super eager to enforce this, since I have been using it from a foreign IP address and with a foreign billing address for a long time. Maybe there is a field for physical address that I shou
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by phreeza 5y ago
I think it is a social problem, not a technical one. A healthy research field should have some level of cooperation between participants. If you go ahead and publish a "this does not reproduce" paper, you can easily ruin someone&#
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by phreeza 5y ago
I tried to give reasons why publishing code may actually not be universally desirable.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Good point, I wanted to make a more general point about the state of ML literature, I am not super familiar with this particular sequence of papers.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I get your frustrations with this state of affairs, but for the reasons I mentioned above, I don't think providing the model and code is a panacea here. Maybe the last few years have also set an unrealistic expectation for the pace of
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by phreeza 5y ago
Expecting fully executable code to accompany every publication is kind of unique to the modern ML research Scene. As someone from a very different computational research field, where zero code is the norm, not the exception, this reads as a
596.
by phreeza 5y ago
I moved away from Germany and I still have a German landline number via SIP. Are you saying this is illegal?
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by phreeza 5y ago
It depends what you are measuring. It looks like the rough distribution is robust across seniority strata, hinting at the sample size probably being adequate.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I don't quite remember, but wasn't the cliqz search engine ranking function somehow built on tracking users, kind of contrary to what brave stands for?
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by phreeza 5y ago
Sure that is their main focus but I think they also have a fusion power component in their research. The point was more generally that the inception of ITER did not mean the end of all other smaller fusion research programs, as Zubrin seems
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by phreeza 5y ago
That seems like a just-so story to me. It's not like all the smaller fusion research programs stopped existing, the US for example still had the NIF running in parallel, with substantial funding. It's just that it appears that a v

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