ralusek

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   by ralusek 8y ago

   Or, as the case with the US, we import skilled immigrants. Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Sergei Brin, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jensen Huang, Andrew Viterbi, Stephen Wolfram, among others, seem like pretty good gets for the US.
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   by ralusek 8y ago

   Clearly China has been communicating with Korea.
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   by ralusek 8y ago

   MFW not while (true)
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   by ralusek 8y ago

   Still pretty interesting without the need for conspiratorial bent.
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   by ralusek 8y ago

   People aren't arguing that women and men should be paid differently on the basis of their sex. The argument is simply that it doesn't make any sense to look at two disparate figures and assume they differ primarily due to discrimi
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   by ralusek 8y ago

   > This unexplained part is often assumed to be (largely) due to discrimination This is literally the part that is controversial, and you're asserting it as a given. Controlling for almost any confounding variable so far has reduced
7. 1327.▲
   by ralusek 8y ago

   Should be possible just fine with NodeJS, so long as it's clustered to run an instance per core. The order of magnitude(s) differentiator for server performance really comes down to whether or not the architecture is blocking or non-bl
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   by ralusek 8y ago

   So long as Reddit has very specific rules regarding what is forbidden, i.e. posting personally identifiable information, then I think the subreddit system is already as close to a perfect solution as I'd want. Subreddits are opt-in and
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   by ralusek 8y ago

   Also, number of years worked does not dictate how good of an engineer you are.
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    Another post on HN as we speak, titled "Facebook claimed phone number was only for 2FA. Now it's searchable."
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    You probably shouldn't rely on the API layer as your single source of truth describing the shape of your data... There's a reason DB schemas are considered a feature, rather than a burden, by most.
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    Given this architecture, do we know why Aurora caps at 64TB max size?
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    I think the point is that now that we're in the era of distributed/cloud/partitioned databases, the query logic cannot necessarily be colocated with the storage, so might as well get the advantages of decoupling. The performa
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    https://youtu.be/3bImBBTaPDY
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    I'm gonna assume graduating with at least BS, probably Computer Science.
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    This would have opened them up to all sorts of litigation nightmares generally classified under Bird Law, a sector in which Google is notoriously weak. Why didn't they just call it Photo, or Image, or Detail?
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    SpaceX was a moonshot. Who in their right mind would think of a relatively minor private enterprise being able to stand toe to toe with NASA. Google Maps/Earth, and GPS in general, blow my mind to this day. Think of the applications th
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    AI already demonstrates creativity, they just don't want to call it that because it's blatantly deterministic and the AI's motivating feedback loop/incentive structure is too inhuman for this philosopher to empathize wit
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    thickness * 2^folds
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    What is the longterm path for things like Redis Labs, Mongo, and Elastic, etc? They all seem to have an open source database which they in turn monetize by offering as a DBaaS. But can they really bet against AWS in the long run? Elastic&#x
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    Blue collar jobs tend to pay well.
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    Most people don't have a problem acknowledging individual privileges they have been afforded. People object to broad assumptions made on their behalf by using their race or gender as a proxy.
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    > So why do millennials act like [financial help from parents] doesn't exist? I would argue the exact opposite. I would argue that with the rise of socialist tendencies among millennials, and the hyper fixation on gender, racial, an
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    I knew it! The CIA really has been fiddling with my guts when I sleep! Just wait until the aliens in my teeth hear about this.
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    "In 1973, at the moment that her picture was being brought into the lab, there were hundreds if not thousands of women being pushed out,” said Marie Hicks, a historian of technology and author of Programmed Inequality.1 “All this happe
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    Why?
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    If the bank does not take race or gender into its decision-making process, it is not subject to race/gender discrimination. Period. If the outcome produced is that people of a certain race or gender receive more or less loans, that doe
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    All populations are inherently valuable, to whom? Every business values every population intrinsically? How do you decide how valuable they are? Do you need to hire as many Maori from New Zealand and as many Inuit from Alaska as their world
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    If we're doing anecdotal, I have been in many hiring processes and have been told to favor diversity. If you want the most recent one from memory: https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positio... h
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    by ralusek 8y ago

    Yes, but again, the assumption is racial discrimination. That is the de facto assumption for every possible case. What about language, or culture, confidence, etc? If you are a foreigner to a country, of which many Asians are either first o