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by prohobo 5y ago
I meant that the Western powers should negotiate with Putin.
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by prohobo 5y ago
I'm not concerned with hypocrisy, we're all hypocrites. My concern is that they didn't even consider dealing with accusations of hypocrisy . They don't care, because the level of politics is so low that I'd start c
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by prohobo 5y ago
The West has become an incompetent, incomprehensibly stupid bully with a gigantic hammer it calls "market theory". It doesn't so much identify and nullify threats so much as it generates market opinion to blindly hate and bla
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by prohobo 5y ago
I don't understand, did he or didn't he make money then? Articles about this make it sound like he made nothing and is in debt, but he's also a billionaire?
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by prohobo 5y ago
I would consider it one of your specialties as a SWE. There are plenty of startups that would love an engineer who understands data, considering how devastating a bad SQL query can become over time, and how difficult it is to verify data. F
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by prohobo 5y ago
I'm proficient with React hooks and functional components, but I will never bullshit anyone by pretending that they make any kind of intuitive sense. Classes may have been more "code" but were clear to understand. I don'
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by prohobo 5y ago
That's kind of my point, this is a project management problem. Maybe they should be re-considering what needs to get done in the first place. Or how long it will take. The only projects I can think of needing "a lot of work"
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by prohobo 5y ago
So don't hire so many people? I don't understand the problem. Why would they be hiring "extras" anyway? As backup?
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by prohobo 5y ago
Yeah, that seems fair to me.
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by prohobo 5y ago
You lost me with "extra". What I'm talking about are core product team members, not freelancers. Maybe I'm hitting on the wrong issue here, but if I was a team member coding 4 hours a day I'd be just as productive a
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by prohobo 5y ago
I agree this is a real problem for freelancers, but for part-time employees? It might be that someone needs to make a better system for remote work that gives some options for enforcement.
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by prohobo 5y ago
I bill for every hour I spend actively engaging with the work. Usually I max out at about 4 hours, but sometimes go to 8 hours when there are other roles involved (graphics design, devops, meetings, etc.) Tracking depends on the client and
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by prohobo 5y ago
What the hell is investigating a design? Also, no company I've worked for ever bothered with proper documentation, and I've never seen anyone lower than tech lead ever do any of those kinds of things more than once or twice a mont
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by prohobo 5y ago
I don't really feel the difference between planning/coding. It's all the same to me in terms of problem solving. Also, I already do this as a consultant, and clients are usually mostly focused on speed and quality. So I give
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Why not hire part-time developers?(aklos.substack.com)
349 points by prohobo 5y ago|289 comments
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by prohobo 5y ago
Ah, the notorious Penguin Collective.
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by prohobo 5y ago
Hey sorry I didn't see this reply until now! We take the transcripts and run natural language processing models on them to find keywords, n-grams, and pronouns. We then categorize the pronouns according to type (person, organization, m
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The crypto community is a mess(aklos.substack.com)
8 points by prohobo 5y ago|0 comments
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by prohobo 5y ago
I suppose that the anti-parasitic effect could explain why doctors in South America and Africa are so adamant about it "working". But the main idea behind ivermectin being used for covid is actually that it's a protease inhib
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by prohobo 5y ago
Okay, I'm going to clear up a bit because "they're not using it" is basically a conspiracy theory itself. I think your response doesn't address the question, contradicts itself, and is poorly communicated because of
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by prohobo 5y ago
I don't understand why Japan, India, most of latin america and Brazil are using ivermectin to treat covid then. Are they just hoping for the best?
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by prohobo 5y ago
There is some signal that it can affect reproduction, though not properly confirmed and definitely not to that degree. Anyway I agree, many people could take it to mean it sterilizes you. Maybe: "inoculating vaccine". To be honest
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by prohobo 5y ago
"Sterilizing vaccine" is as good a term as any, IMO. Not that anyone will start making that differentiation, considering the politics of this. My takeaway is that the government and media (thesis and antithesis) has it's to
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by prohobo 5y ago
The medical definition of "immunity" is a scale rather than a switch. You can have immunity and still have some form of the disease. I think they genuinely edited that to not confuse people. These vaccines are not sterilizing thou
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by prohobo 5y ago
After reading all the definitions and articles about the meaning of vaccine and immunity, I think it's legit to call them vaccines. The problem has been that the Covid vaccines are definitely not what they were advertised as in terms o
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by prohobo 5y ago
So, what happened was that in 2018 they changed the definition of vaccine from "innoculated bacterium/viral agent" to "any substance" (probably to make space for mRNA vaccines), and then changed the result from &quo
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by prohobo 5y ago
I've been reading the definitions of vaccine, and now I'm confused because it seems to technically have the same meaning as prophylactic - if not, then what's the difference between the two?
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by prohobo 5y ago
Sorry, I think you're right. A vaccine, legally, only has to prevent disease. That doesn't mean it has to cause your body to sterilize/kill the virus. That, and immunity is not an on/off thing but a scale in how much of
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by prohobo 5y ago
This shouldn't be downvoted, it's true. There's nothing wrong with creating good drugs and therapies, and this looks cool, but if it doesn't stop transmission it's literally not a vaccine. EDIT: I'm wrong. I wo
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by prohobo 5y ago
The main bottleneck is the machine learning to extract metadata, the transcriptions are actually handled very fast at an early stage. Someone mentioned that it might be a good idea to create a federated network where people just link their

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