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by schimmy_changa 7y ago
My friend made this newsletter, the "Work From Home Times" if you're interested: https://wfhtimes.substack.com/ , which has lots of good ideas and will be updated daily!
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by schimmy_changa 7y ago
not sure if this is kosher for Show HN, but we're proud of it - it's my first standalone site for a political cause. Super easy to make with firebase as the backend store. Also thank god for HTML5 email validation, we've come
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Show HN: Site we made for committing part of your refund to Climate Change orgs(climaterefund.org)
3 points by schimmy_changa 7y ago|1 comments
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by schimmy_changa 7y ago
I disagree - it was a really great product, something to be emulated. When it came out, there was nothing like it, and it truly felt like a step change compared to the existing sites. It was not quite the same impact, but felt like a shadow
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by schimmy_changa 8y ago
or maybe... whenever they feel like it?
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by schimmy_changa 8y ago
This does not tell the whole story - there is also a lawsuit against google for “under-leveling” women in engineering. This is when, at the same skill level, a hiring manager would perceive the woman as less competent and place her in a low
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by schimmy_changa 8y ago
This is what the Irish did, and the typical Irish peasant in the 1st half of the 19th century was about half as well off as the typical American slave Citation needed However, there are some historical patterns found in the study of immi
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How large is 52 Factorial?(medium.com)
3 points by schimmy_changa 8y ago|0 comments
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by schimmy_changa 8y ago
Huh - would it be possible for a state that cares (say... California?) to check the trucks when entering the state? Or is that not allowed due to the Interstate Commerce act? Perhaps our CARB exception could allow us to regulate this and ch
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How large is 52 Factorial?(colinschimmelfing.com)
2 points by schimmy_changa 8y ago|0 comments
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by schimmy_changa 8y ago
That may be true (but is arguable) if you see college as nothing but a vocational school, training you to be the best worker which society could ask for. A truly liberal (in the John Stuart Mill / Enlightenment sense of the word) educa
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by schimmy_changa 8y ago
I'll answer it for him: "So that I can get support (or at least not outright hostility) from the left wing of the democratic party when I'm running for president in 2020, who otherwise would be very unhappy with a billionaire
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by schimmy_changa 8y ago
> That's around $268 per Github user. That seems like a decent deal for MS... Assume on average a user is an active engineer for 5 years (of course this is back-of-the-envelope and not even taking into account the growth of the fiel
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by schimmy_changa 8y ago
Hmm - that was not my experience. They set up a demo environment and allowed us to upload example data sets so that we could fully play around with it.
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
Calculation for 24 copies of the Library of Alexandria (LOA): 100,000 (moderate number) scrolls * 10,000 words per scroll * 6 bytes per word = 6 GB Cost of a GB today = ~ 7 cents (again using Matthew Komorowski’s data) Cost of a sandwich: ~
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Save time: Why Clever (YC S12) adds yet another timestamp to our analytics data(medium.com)
22 points by schimmy_changa 9y ago|1 comments
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
I find it odd that PG never uses the term "status" in this post - that's what he's talking about, what gets you social status in each place. However I love this post, and wrote up my own little analysis of a few citi
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
It might be a little gauche to link to your own blog, but my thoughts on figuring out the impostor "higher purpose" mission statements: http://colinschimmelfing.com/blog/the-hierarchy-of-jobs/ We can se
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
Ok, I'll try. Ethical divestment quietly, by regular individuals: mostly useless. Ethical divestment loudly (publicized), by respected institutions or famous investors can be useful if done correctly. The utility of divestment comes in
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
I feel ya, this stuff wears me down too. It's exhausting thinking about this stuff and wondering what the right thing to say or do is. However, that's exactly what the women and other under-represented minorities have to handle ev
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
... and now I'm getting downvotes after answering the OP's question earnestly trying to provide the opposing viewpoint ...
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
Already mature discussion about the issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14948857
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
You original post suggests that, because there is not retaliation against people speaking in favor of diversity efforts, we should thus create one to balance it out. I have shown you that there is retaliation against people who speak out ab
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
The issue is that he is trying to solve an social problem via engineering, and in trying to simplify the problem, not spending enough time researching, and by "de emphasizing empathy" he takes a step backwards. Basically, he sets
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by schimmy_changa 9y ago
This sounds true, but is actually incorrect. Whenever women speak out on social media, they get at the very least abuse, but also often rape threats and death threats against them. That is retaliation, plain and simple. That's just the
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by schimmy_changa 10y ago
Just used this, Breaker05 is probably going to do better from the Twilio IPO than the Twilio employees ... :P
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by schimmy_changa 11y ago
I think most people miss the point of public, large-scale divestment (as opposed to private, small scale consumer ethical purchases which I find not super useful). Divestment by a well-respected organization like the Gates foundation is a s
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Three ways to fight climate change that Bret Victor missed(medium.com)
2 points by schimmy_changa 11y ago|0 comments
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by schimmy_changa 11y ago
It's interesting there's so much activity on HN this week related to climate change - maybe because COP21 is coming up? In any case, check out the marches happening around the world today: https://twitter.com/searc
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Three ways to fight climate change that Brett Victor missed(colinschimmelfing.com)
6 points by schimmy_changa 11y ago|1 comments

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