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by rjtavares 2y ago
Evaluation of the genetic viability of metapopulation scenarios for the Iberian lynx (2023): https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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by rjtavares 2y ago
Russia Today was banned in Ukraine in 2014 and in some (most?) EU countries in 2022.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
The interesting question really is "why did Europe conquered the Americans instead of China conquering the Americas"? And I'm pretty sure that's just the way it turned out.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
I'm 40 and think the new one is much much better.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
I like Matt Levine's take on Going Infinite: > Many of the reviews that I have read of the book complain that Lewis does not sufficiently explain that Bankman-Fried is Guilty and Bad, Actually, but that is not the book that he wante
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by rjtavares 3y ago
That's not what my comment is about. That's a contractual distinction. In the context of HR, a "Job" is a collection of similar positions, an Job Analysis is "a family of procedures to identify the content of a job
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by rjtavares 3y ago
A lot of discussion in this thread seems to be ignoring the subjectivity in defining what a job is. Job analysis and design is a fascinating topic and should become more important with "AI" changing the way we work. Unfortunatel
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by rjtavares 3y ago
And those who can do are often terrible teachers.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
The whole concept of patents already is a solution to one of the limits of capitalism (they're basically government enforced monopolies). There are interesting ideas on how to improve the system, hopefully we won't throw the baby
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by rjtavares 3y ago
> If something reads 98.2 one year and the prior reading is 97.3 we have a 0.9 increase in temperature, but in reality it could be the margin of error based on cloud cover or a change in instrumentation. That would be true if we had only
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by rjtavares 3y ago
The cost of buybacks is affected by timing, unlike dividends. Dividends are cleaner and affect the price in well understood ways: you set a date for the elegibility, and if you bought before that you get the dividend, if you buy after you d
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by rjtavares 3y ago
If Reed Hoffman was still there, I can't see this happening. People here talk about "glorified salespeople" as an insult without realizing that having people skills is a really important trait for Boards/C level people,
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by rjtavares 3y ago
Buying 49% of a company is a risky deal. You better make sure the other 51% have good governance.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
I based that opinion on two news that came out: 1. When they invested in Open AI it had a more mature board (in particular Reid Hoffman) and afterwards they lost a few members without replacing them. That was probably something Microsoft co
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by rjtavares 3y ago
This whole weekend will probably be a case study in both Corporate Governance (Microsoft may look bad here for not anticipating the problem) and Negotiation (a masterclass by Satya: gave Ilya what he wanted and got most of OpenAI's com
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by rjtavares 3y ago
You will go to whichever hospital your doctor sent you in any case... The idea that price shopping in important is healthcare is completely unproven worldwide, as far as I know.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
The idea that either hospitals or insurance companies are single handedly to blame for the mess that is the US healthcare market is naïve. You can't have a normal billing process when the buyer can't decide what they want. The pro
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by rjtavares 3y ago
> use small LLM for quick response with something generic while big LLM computes Can't wait for poorly implemented chat apps to always start a response with "That's a great question!"
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by rjtavares 3y ago
You don't know why doctors don't build their own hospitals, yet feel you are knowledgeable enough to identify "hospitals" as the real villains of the whole system?
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Revisionist History – Silicon Valley on the Couch(pushkin.fm)
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by rjtavares 3y ago
While I can speak in Portuguese without much issues (except being hard for them to stick to European Portuguese), I've nooticed that sometimes it uses a clear translation of an English expression that does not feel natural in Portugues
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by rjtavares 3y ago
Since we're recommending recipes, here's one from my country - https://www.authenticfoodquest.com/polvo-a-lagareiro-recipe-... Cheers neighbour!
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by rjtavares 3y ago
Ad-supported cheaply produced reality TV + added subscription for premium content. Basic cable + HBO.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
That's a misunderstanding of what IC means: "an employee responsible for performing specific tasks or functions within an organization without the authority to manage other employees". Keyword is authority, not leadership or
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by rjtavares 3y ago
Again, the problem is the "merely". Sports stars are ICs and they're well paid.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
The distinction is useful because people managers have some specific tasks related to HR processes. The fact that the distinction has an ego implication is the problem, not the distinction itself.
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by rjtavares 3y ago
I've actually been in HR discussions telling people managers are overrated and we need to value ICs more. It's really difficult to explain to HR people that managing people isn't[1] a higher responsability job than being an e
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by rjtavares 3y ago
Another good story is "Vindaloo", which originates from the portuguese "Vinha d'alhos". As expected, the portuguese version is much less spicy :)
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by rjtavares 3y ago
We invented the Turing Test decades ago. Since it became irrelevant with ChatGPT [1], we need new tests. [1]: We can discuss if ChatGPT passes the Turing Test or not, but I think we can now all agree that being able to have a convincing con
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by rjtavares 3y ago
Thank you. You are right, that version is a lot better.

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