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by s17n 5y ago
I think the number you want is closer to 99.99%.
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by s17n 5y ago
The alternative suppliers that don't have any employees?
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by s17n 5y ago
Sounds like the issue is that the "blue collar industries" employers need to offer higher salaries?
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by s17n 6y ago
At Google, Go is mostly used for stuff that they would have used Python for in the past. Idk about the rest of the world.
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by s17n 6y ago
> The reality is that people who achieve in one area are more likely to achieve in others. Aptitude is in general going to be either uncorrelated or positively correlated across different areas, but time invested is going to be negativel
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by s17n 6y ago
What does this have to do with the article?
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by s17n 6y ago
I went to a bootcamp (one of the more reputable ones at the the at least - they didn't charge the attendees) and it was basically 75% interview prep, 20% working on a project designed for the job search (highest possible ratio of buzzw
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by s17n 6y ago
I'm guessing that those parts of what ISO does aren't what Tim Sweeney had in mind - he specifically called out C++ in the tweet.
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by s17n 6y ago
What do nation-states and legal compliance have to do with standards like C++ and SQL? I've never heard of a government mandating that compilers be standards compliant, or anything like that.
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by s17n 6y ago
Iot device makers aren't going to be better just out of the goodness of their hearts - regulation / litigation is needed.
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by s17n 6y ago
I don't need to do any research to tell you that the total wealth of the Chinese middle class is a lot less than the total wealth of the top 1% of Americans.
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by s17n 6y ago
(For those who didn't read all the way, the author suggests replacing overly rigid parliamentarian rules with Agile methodology) Corporate ideation and decision making processes in general, and certainly this includes Agile, prioritize
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by s17n 6y ago
Nah, just made it up, it's probably total crap
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by s17n 6y ago
The root cause is increased wealth inequality. "Capital" is assets that are invested by their owner instead of just immediately consumed. So, the amount of capital that exists is variable, depending on the preference of asset ow
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by s17n 6y ago
OP and Noam Bardin both dance around the core issue which is that you can't give more than a handful of people enough equity to actually care about your company.
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by s17n 6y ago
That's ridiculous - in the US, at least, our failure to contain the virus was clearly due more to a substantial portion of the population not wanting to contain it (and this ambivalence being correctly reflected in the government'
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by s17n 6y ago
Compared to the traditional "PI starts company with venture backing to commercialize their research" model what types of opportunities do you think are uniquely suited to your approach?
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by s17n 6y ago
I mean I definitely judge people based on how many questions they ask - not that I think asking questions is a bad thing, but more like part of being ready for promotion is no longer having to ask certain questions.
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by s17n 6y ago
Humans are much, much better drivers than autopilot.
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by s17n 6y ago
It’s one per 100 million.
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by s17n 6y ago
I think most people will prefer markdown, since this breaks the ability to read the doc as plain text. However for people that don't care about that, dumbdown might be nice.
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by s17n 6y ago
The billboards on the street or the menu card of the kebab shop are actually great examples of things that would be worth archiving. The stuff that isn't worth archiving is things like the current ordering of items in my facebook feed
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by s17n 6y ago
Sundar Pichai
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by s17n 6y ago
A SWE might make like 5 times what a teacher makes but a CEO can make like 1000 times what a SWE makes (eg $50k for the teacher, $250k for the SWE, and $250M for the CEO).
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by s17n 6y ago
What are the costs / tradeoffs of this (vs the normal application-layer object storage paradigm)?
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by s17n 6y ago
The point is that writing the rules should to a large extent be taken out of these organization's hands, because they control vital infrastructure. The new, regulated rules will probably look pretty similar to the existing ToS except
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by s17n 6y ago
"Freedom of press" can and should be interpreted to proscribe deplatforming by the big tech companies.
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by s17n 6y ago
But unlikely to lead to a worthwhile conversation.
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by s17n 6y ago
I think the key difference between this and the Wirecutter is less that the Wirecutter looks at fewer products (although that might be true) and more that the Wirecutter model is for an expert to form their own judgements about what is impo
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by s17n 6y ago
Exactly, he's reading Amazon reviews instead of me, that's the whole point. (If you don't want to call that "vetting", fine by me I guess)

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