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Margaret Hamilton’s role on the guidance computer(twitter.com)
4 points by ryan93 4y ago|1 comments
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by ryan93 4y ago
She did not run the team until her husband promoted her to the role after the work was done. By her own admission she was working on beginner stuff in 1965. The popular claim that she was THE main person on the project is complete nonsense.
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by ryan93 4y ago
By her own admission she was on an unimportant part of the project when she joined in 1965. She was recorded working on completely unrelated stuff in 63. When she was actually promoted to leadership the work was already done
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by ryan93 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis_(economics) lol
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by ryan93 4y ago
There is truth to it. A lot of anti slavery but still racist northern whites thought slavery was bad for southern whites. Thought it bred laziness in them and didn't incentivize industrialization.
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by ryan93 4y ago
Funny to imagine all 28 people leaving for work everyday at the exact same time.
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by ryan93 4y ago
Why do “smart” people like trying to connect all the different current news items into one grand narrative. Is he trying to use the political capital generated by opposition to chatgpt for other issues? Chatgpt has less than nothing to do w
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by ryan93 4y ago
Equity is not a social problem. Do you think African women with five children would rather work 60 hrs a week in a cubicle and have .8 kids like Korean women?
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by ryan93 4y ago
This reads like you ran it through a translator.
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by ryan93 4y ago
Does china strike you as particularly religious? You dont even need IQ tests. Students naturally fall on a distribution if tested. And those students generally test in the same range their whole life.
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by ryan93 4y ago
???? Smarter people require less exposure to the same concept to "get it". You might actually just be lying and there is no reason for me to engage.
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by ryan93 4y ago
By the time you meet kids in CS at good schools they have all been heavily selected. Most kids at michigan or berkeley or wherever were easily top students with minimal effort their whole life. A decent number were genuinely outstanding. Id
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by ryan93 4y ago
A single international flight literally consumes a swimming pools worth of fuel. a few GPUs is nothing especially as we transition to wind and solar.
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by ryan93 4y ago
Hard to extract wealth. You can prevent Apple from making money off you by not buying their products. Also when you come for others wealth with guns don’t complain when your moral absoluteness generated out of thin air is not received well.
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by ryan93 4y ago
Food is more powerful
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by ryan93 4y ago
Probably hard to do without religion. Dont mention europe. They have marginally larger governments.
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by ryan93 4y ago
real estate agents aren't responsible for people overspending. come on
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by ryan93 4y ago
is this an anti-semtitic conspiracy or a possibly more delusional russia disinfo conspiracy.
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by ryan93 4y ago
Talking about animals? That has always been a thing
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by ryan93 4y ago
You are not confused you just do not like it. Hindenburg is well within their first amendment rights. And they are putting their money where their mouth is!
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by ryan93 4y ago
Africa would be much more profitable for America if they developed like Japan and China have. Before colonialism they were a prehistoric continent in many places. It was in many cases evil. But I’d didn’t make them poor or backward
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by ryan93 4y ago
Why does Africa need charity? Many countries didn’t have to beg for a special feel good rate to improve
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by ryan93 4y ago
Both you as a parent and the board had the power to stop children from using social media; or at least severely restrict it. Yet you choose to waste years on a very low probability lawsuit?
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by ryan93 4y ago
At the cost of upside to OTHER people.
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by ryan93 4y ago
Pfizer could fund research for two thousand years at only 10 million a year?
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by ryan93 4y ago
Its a practical not a philosophical discussion. Try driving through the western united states and see if a lack of land is a real issue.
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by ryan93 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway#Fossil_fuels
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by ryan93 4y ago
In Texas I’ve been without power for a total of three days in last 15 years and that was a once in a century event
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by ryan93 4y ago
Impressive the chatgpt could understand that backspace problem. I’m drooling on myself trying to understand it.
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by ryan93 4y ago
How many neighborhoods have you been in that look like a post apocalyptic waste land?

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