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811.
by screye 4y ago
I am truly scratching my head. I'm stumped.
812.
by screye 4y ago
I admittedly went a little overboard with the tone of my comment. I bet most people do not think as much about company swag. Why rain on your parade right ? I do think tech generally has an unhealthy problem of over-identifying with their c
813.
by screye 4y ago
I actively HATE most company swag. Clothing is the most universal & oldest manner in which most people express themselves. To tie your company to your identity so explicitly is unhealthy, and swag signals that to everyone within eyesi
814.
by screye 4y ago
"More Kids (than 1st world countries are having is) Good" is generally true. Social security relies of the young bearing the burden of the old. Don't even get me started on the intangible energy of having little kids around.
815.
by screye 4y ago
Not this one, but Google's PaLM (which is 4x OPT3) trains semi-deterministically. These kinds of large transformers can be relatively reproduceable in results and benchmarks. However, making them converge to the exact same parameter se
816.
by screye 4y ago
At first I felt personally attacked. But there is some truth to what you're saying. There is deeply rooted pragmatism among Indian immigrants, no denying that. The reductionism is a necessary part of online forum based discourse. No on
817.
by screye 4y ago
For the most part history does have a dim view of the mainstream leftist movements (socialists and communists) from the 20th century. I don't know much about Paine, but trends are pretty clear. (Right-wing populists have a similarly sp
818.
by screye 4y ago
I have frequently participated in an extreme version of this discussion. Think about a situation where your race was being genocided in a neighboring country. The fastest way to stop it would be to engage in war. Now if you lose, genocide g
819.
by screye 4y ago
I'll be the begrudging devils advocate for a decision that is sure to have devastating consequences for poor women in red states. It is good for unelected bodies like the Supreme Court to allow such dividing issues be figured out democ
820.
by screye 4y ago
> I expect my cars to last 300k - 500k KM. Most non-japanese cars turn into crap-boxes post 100k miles. Assuming 10k miles/yr, that's expecting a 20-35 yr lifespan for a car. That is incredibly impractical. > Consumer Report
821.
by screye 4y ago
SSC spent the last decade as a blogger on the side. He had a big enough following to monetize it, but actively chose against it. It was only after the whole NYT debacle, that he actually moved to blogging fulltime. If his incentives were al
822.
by screye 4y ago
Scott Alexander of Slate-star-codex fame. Now at astralcodexten.substack.com It is funny you that you have never heard of SSC. Most people I know have found Gwern through SSC.
823.
by screye 4y ago
As a reader, if I had to generalize; Dynomight is a SF-rationalist-substack-adjacent blogger with a good understanding of statistics. The 2 closest popular bloggers I associate him with are SSC and Gwern; both pretty popular on HN. I partic
824.
by screye 4y ago
Wirecutter is like Leetcode interviews. The goal is not to find the 'best' option, but minimize false positives under intense time-pressure. Their recommendation is usually the 8/10 solid option that you can blindly buy and b
825.
by screye 4y ago
> If it's hard to tell the difference, it'll be hard to sell the difference That's going into my quotes list. Rhymes, is short and gets an important point accross. Bravo.
826.
by screye 4y ago
At the end of the day any rigid diet the restricts processed sugars is excellent. Keto indirectly ends up addressing this, and the rigidity of it makes it particularly effective. I find that keto excludes a huge portion of the population th
827.
by screye 4y ago
I have always seen Postdocs as a 'desperation' position. The struggle to recruit post-docs might indicate healthier alternatives for phds instead of living life as white-collar slaves. I am surprised that universities haven't
828.
by screye 4y ago
> Ladies would have been fighting tooth and nail for a good man They probably already were. I have heard factoids that the emphasis on heavy makeup and dressing up among Eastern European women was as a result of the dearth of eligible yo
829.
by screye 4y ago
apologies, missed the italics :P still think the comment adds context for how Houston zoning works, so I'm going to let it stand.
830.
by screye 4y ago
This is a common misconception. City Beautiful has covered it in detail here [1] A comment from the source research: • Although Houston does not have formal zoning, its land-use regulations combine to create a de facto zoning system that re
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by screye 4y ago
Each city in the US has a unique homelessness problem. Relevant blog [1]. The most relevant distinction is between tech-cities that HN audiences live in (SF, Seattle) vs the success stories mentioned in this article (Atlanta, Houston). See
832.
by screye 4y ago
> If it's a matter of quality of air Should be fairly easy to check for correlations across neighboring urban vs rural regions.
833.
by screye 4y ago
Can someone comment on whether ADHD medication leads to 'loss' of the unfiltered imagination that I have come to associate with my perpetually distracted self ? A friend on ADHD meds told me that it feels like trading unbridled cr
834.
by screye 4y ago
Every couple of months an article about caste is posted on HN. The article and the reactions are always the same. * Shallow allusions to how caste dynamics = white-black dynamics in the US * Any one in opposition = caste supremacist = hindu
835.
by screye 4y ago
> lot less noise. Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud [1] Having lived in many different types of cities, it is always the car-centric downtowns and suburban main-streets that are loudest. Well designed & walkable cities are actua
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by screye 4y ago
Yeah, I understand that a family of 4 will want to own 1 car. However, upper-middle class American families often have 2/3 cars due to lack of public transport infrastructure. Alternately, the densest cities can allow for a car-free li
837.
by screye 4y ago
Both are the exact same problem. Most of the US has outlawed the 'middle housing' [1], leaving us with massive crammed skyscraper concrete jungles or sprawling suburbia. Cities in developed countries around the world do not have t
838.
by screye 4y ago
Yeah, assuming a household of 2+2 in NYC/SF/Seattle: * Renting a 3 bed near work (financial district) will cost around $70k/yr * a nice car (a BMW M3-ish) + a cheap van (costs around $20k/yr * Ordering in everyday costs
839.
by screye 4y ago
I genuinely don't like this, in part because it is so good. Society continues cramming unnecessary, yet surprisingly useful features into bigger and bigger cars. With each feature, it brings people 1 step closer to thinking that they a
840.
by screye 4y ago
> fundamentally get one thing wrong I don't think they do. The user is the person who consumes your product and gives you money for it. 'End users' are hostages. The real user is the ad-company. Once your product is featur

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