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by ridaj 6y ago
US is great for Masters levels and above, where there is indeed such a thing as a world-class specialists helping shape the next generation of experts. If you're thinking about college though, that doesn't churn out experts. The m
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YouTube is just monetizing a different part of your funnel. They both work together — you might not get many viewers interested in sending you money via Patreon either if your videos weren't getting an audience on YouTube via said algo
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> "an environment where accumulating and regurgitating questionable tribal knowledge is crucial" Nice. It's a feature of crappy teams that I hadn't been able to put my finger on.
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As a very basic but very common example, I've seen many non-experts jump to encryption or symmetric crypto signatures whenever they want to prevent tampering with data, when what they needed was a simple integrity check. Or, they want
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Here's a random example. HMAC is frequently used in security protocols to generate more keys from a master key (for example, to generate temporary keys from a session key). The input to HMAC is (internally) padded with null bytes (<
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Yes. And how does the state exert such coordination in the most efficient way possible? Changing clock time is how.
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"Let's get up earlier anyway" won't work, because society operates as a whole. You can already see the problems just with families. As a parent, I can't change my operating schedule until the school that my kids go
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Most of the world already uses a standard time that is generally late relative to the solar time. See this map being colored mostly red, which means that the sun sets later than it "should" if we were just using solar time. http:
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I'm definitely not blaming him. I'm observing that he's calling it quits instead of helping his team weather the storm, and that as an employee, I would look disfavorably upon a manager who has previously left their team in t
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It's not clear that the president's action is legal, but there are laws such as those empowering CFIUS to review acquisitions of US companies by foreign buyers (in this case, musical.ly) for any national security implications. The
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The guy cannot have NOT known that this was going to be part of the job. There have been grumblings about TikTok for over a year now, and while this has escalated of late, it was clearly already a big piece of the gig when he joined.
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I think he's toast. Who would want to work for a guy who has a track record of jumping ship in the face of trouble?
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? It seems very unlikely to me that the buyer would want to create instability at the top... aren't execs typically incentivized to stick around for a while, to help transition post-acquisition? It seems more like he felt this wasn&#x2
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I don't know if it's necessary for a better language to do both OLAP and OLTP; it seems that they are used by different classes of users with relatively low overlap in language features. But I definitely agree that such a test as
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This is a good analysis of a very common issue in organizations that do not actively fight this. I wonder if there are tools to counter this effectively though, such as evaluating managers based on how they are perceived by well-calibrated
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Very likely! Compensation at that level, in a company with this much power concentration, is not driven by much else than the owner's perception of what is beneficial to the business, however skewed it might be from the recognition of
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> the US move against TikTok is setting a dangerous precedent that may eventually kill the internet as a truly global network Well no. For many years now, the internet is no longer a truly global network, considering at least how China h
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Let me clarify then that I'm not making a case that this kind of reward is justified. Likely a lot of it is luck, and the dude might have been a crook from the start for all I know. Just saying this is the kind of circumstance and outc
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There's a profile of the dude in Wired that goes over what made him so valuable in Larry Page's eyes. https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando... Basically, he was one of the key founders
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If I had to guess, I'd say it's actually clearly correlated. The same underlying ego could've driven both the ambition and rewards he got at Google (after lots of rule-bending) and the brazen theft.
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Freaking Twitter needs a serious auth infra upgrade. Unless phishers hijacked employee devices, they accessed the tools remotely, meaning there's no form of client authentication?? Something like U2F which by now is pretty old seems li
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> [With] all his billions, Jeff is rounding error in the big picture. He’s not the problem; the legal/regulatory power structures that enable him and his peers is. > Amazon is a perfectly OK company, to the extent that planetary-
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The mod in this situation isn't an employee, it looks like. Just a user doing their best to help other users, so directing to the feedback tool sounds reasonable to me... Maybe an employee could chime in. The problem I've seen wit
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I'm not sure what leads you to believe that the forum feedback isn't taken in consideration. My guess is that it is, but that there are about two dozen other things of similar importance and the team can only knock so many of them
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LinkedIn
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These two guys are super smart. But, how are they planning to make money?!
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Nit: Hanlon's razor?
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Looks like Utah...
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> A better test would be taking groups of English and non-English non-programmers, and teaching both of them entirely from scratch. In a way, we already have this test today. Most of the world's programmers are non-native speakers a
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Who says it has to be all-or-nothing? I'm not saying people shouldn't be able to pay with bills, just that more people would use electronic means of payment of it were free, and that the government might come out ahead. I'm n

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