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by quacked 6y ago
Great explanation, thank you.
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by quacked 6y ago
Can you expand a little bit? I thought all ATC that talked to planes were in the towers.
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by quacked 6y ago
Same. I studied aerospace engineering and know that small-scale jetpack flight is possible to do, and yet I cannot help but scan for weird lighting changes or lens incongruities whenever I see a video. It's so insane to see these thing
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by quacked 6y ago
You're exactly right. I'd like to add on that everyone's retirement plans are held hostage by the same four groups that you were talking about. The 401(k) and IRA were both introduced in the 1970s, and now colossal amounts of
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by quacked 6y ago
I'm starting to wonder if I should quit my job, buff up on SQL, and go into data consulting. Everyone on HackerNews talks a big game about FAANG and their copycats trying to leverage machine learning techniques to increase profit margi
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by quacked 6y ago
The comments below me elaborate a little more clearly, but it's pretty simple. If you have two databases: DATABASE A Field List: {Temperature, Price, PART NUMBER, Delivery Time, SERIAL NUMBER} DATABASE B: Field List: {Mass, Length, Wid
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by quacked 6y ago
Yeah, that's right- I just called it the wrong thing.
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by quacked 6y ago
I work for a big organization, and the amount of "wow, you're a data wizard!" comments I get for generating combined keys inside disparate databases and then merging them in Excel is insane. It's making me think that any
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by quacked 6y ago
There's an even more powerful counterargument to the facetious notion that "we all agree that murder/rape/slavery is wrong" than "people used to think it was right". People today still think those crimes a
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by quacked 6y ago
Definitely not, but they could probably convince the public that the reason their airplanes kept crashing was one of their competitors.
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by quacked 6y ago
He lacked nothing because other people produced everything for him. If you want to live in a barrel, first you need a barrel, meaning you need a safe place to assemble it, and a way to source wood and tools, and then you need it to be prote
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by quacked 6y ago
The Blatant Shock-Journalism Wired Uses To Make You Click More
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by quacked 6y ago
Thanks!
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by quacked 6y ago
Ooh, nice.
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by quacked 6y ago
What's the elegant mathematical way to do this? I learned engineering school programming (read: programming with no standards or formal theory whatsoever) and the only thing that's coming to mind is num2str/split/multipl
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by quacked 6y ago
Do you think that all of his tricks actually worked, or was he pushing what he wanted to be right? To really know if specific brands of shoes or shirts really worked, you'd need to do some pretty advanced blind testing, that also might
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by quacked 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that this is a bit of a myth, mostly repeated by engineers who want to feel important and superior to lawyers, who are often hotter, richer, and higher-status. Trial lawyers present a narrative to the jury, and thus pre
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by quacked 6y ago
Obtaining a PhD seems like the academic equivalent of growing and harvesting a crop, or creating a profitable business. It's so insane that students can make it all the way to hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and dozens of year
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by quacked 6y ago
I agree. Once, I read a piece that alleged "you're not a true intellectual until you've contributed an original thought to the existing paradigm". No one at school had ever said anything of the sort; as we all knew, true
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by quacked 6y ago
I once read a very interesting, barely-upvoted reddit post titled "I suck at Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu". It was written by a black belt, himself a formidable combatant and instructor, who no one would accuse of "sucking at BJJ&quot
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by quacked 6y ago
Even the grouping of STEM together is a bad-taste-in-your-mouth industrial crime against human culture. The real acronym should just be M. (S, T, and E are just bastardized ways to get paid fat bucks for doing simpler versions of M.)
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by quacked 6y ago
That essay was hilarious. The bit about how painters have figured out the most efficient and lucrative way to sit around staring at naked woman all day is a perfect example of the self-deprecating braggadocio that every man who writes a blo
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by quacked 6y ago
I see your point. But I still think that if the CEO said "software is our marketing- our real product is our influence", I'd still find that depressing.
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by quacked 6y ago
> The music isn’t your product, the music is your marketing. The shows, the merch, your influence - that’s your product. Man, that's depressing.
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by quacked 6y ago
How does your self-employed career compare to a parallel salaried career in your industry across 20 years? (In terms of year-averaged income, hours worked, etc.)
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by quacked 6y ago
Forget faking news events. What about petty crime? The cops get sent a video of you defacing property. Your phone data and several eyewitnesses tie you to the area. How do you escape, without a blanket ban on video evidence? If there's
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by quacked 6y ago
"Build this beautiful dining room table for only $150! First, take your $600 table saw..."
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by quacked 6y ago
Yeah, those points are crucial. I always cringe when I see anyone say anything along the lines of "we've got the facts". How do we know? You can't trust any major media publication, because they'll play both sides o
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by quacked 6y ago
That all makes complete sense, and the misunderstanding of "tech people" made obvious from your paragraph of questions that farmers have to answer. Computers always do what you tell them to. It sounds like farms do not, even when
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by quacked 6y ago
I agree that farmers are misunderstood and under-valued by people who are only able to live in stability because of the ability of farms to deliver food to them, but isn't farm complexity able to be documented and analyzed in a similar

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