sethev

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by sethev 9y ago
It seems weird to insist that all future obligations have to be funded with money that's set aside now. To give a small example, it would sound crazy if someone said people had to set aside a fund whose interest could pay all the cost
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by sethev 9y ago
I'd say Dennett's claim is that Chinese Room isn't an argument at all. The reason it has a guy in the room is because we're used to people understanding language. It applies just as well to components of the brain, like
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by sethev 9y ago
The theory is you wouldn't need to simulate every atom any more than you do in a video game.
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Transit data interchange format(github.com)
1 points by sethev 9y ago|0 comments
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by sethev 9y ago
It's solving a real issue at Duolingo and it's their policy.
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by sethev 9y ago
Why did you feel the need to even comment if you don't care about Duolingo's motivations for hiring people? Of course not every company could have 50:50 with the current pool of software engineers but that's a trivial point.
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by sethev 9y ago
Even your moved goal posts still try to connect one small company's policies to the industry as a whole. Maybe it's worth emphasizing _your_ unstated assumption that the only reason a company would want 50:50 is to satisfy some ex
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by sethev 9y ago
It doesn't assume that at all. Any company can choose to implement a hiring goal for (almost) any reason they choose. Maybe they wanted a broader set of perspectives on their team? The idea that Duolingo would have to justify their hir
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by sethev 9y ago
Having used products that bragged about their performance benchmarks (won't name any names), I respect the Datomic team's position on this. Benchmarks lead to gamed results and you still have to test with your workload.
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by sethev 9y ago
The vast majority of people who did business with AIG had nothing to do with subprime. Your whole answer seems to assume that the consequences of AIG going bankrupt could have been neatly contained the subset of their business that caused t
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by sethev 9y ago
To take the biggest example, AIG's owners did bear the consequences. Their equity was wiped out in the bailout. Do you believe individuals who did business with AIG are the ones who should have born the consequences for bad decisions m
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by sethev 9y ago
The new discovery was that there's a speculative execution side channel. Those links are discussing the potential of a cache side channel which is very different thing. It's the difference between "i might be able to infer so
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Git Deps for Clojure(clojure.org)
20 points by sethev 9y ago|0 comments
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by sethev 9y ago
How about if you invert it. If somebody came to you and asked for a system that can send emails when certain conditions are met in a database and track the results, would you assume that to write the program you would have to hang out with
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by sethev 9y ago
Because they don't need a full time person to achieve the results and it would be silly to shell out more money and try to train somebody to do something that they've clearly failed to do in the past. If my car needs $1000 of repa
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by sethev 9y ago
It's really hard to tell from the overall numbers whether they're in bad shape. If a significant amount of the expense is in acquiring new customers then it makes perfect sense for investors to keep pouring money in.
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by sethev 9y ago
There doesn't have to be any justification. Maybe they're hoping enough early investors want to lock-in their paper profits that they'll accept the offer.
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by sethev 9y ago
>The number of bugs are proportional to the lines of code, this is undeniable from empirical data. Ergo, fewer lines of code will tend to yield fewer bugs. So if your code is literally the same, there's no reason not to extract it i
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by sethev 9y ago
Lots of people use git as a solution to their source control problem who only started writing code after it was invented.
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by sethev 9y ago
"Trial by media" is not an actual trial, it's a term made up by people who don't like how the media is covering things.
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by sethev 9y ago
So mtgox could have been implemented in Magic: The Gathering.
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by sethev 9y ago
Revenue and number of employees
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by sethev 9y ago
Float can be invested in pretty much anything. You're right that as an industry it tends to go into low risk fixed income investments but that's because it's safe (and easy for companies whose core strength is selling insuran
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by sethev 9y ago
It's not a label, it's a description. Based on his post, that Zhang guy believes that people shouldn't have donated to Arachne, for example, because he personally didn't think it was necessary. In other words, his person
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by sethev 9y ago
To me the original article read as an expression of frustration - the sort of feelings that are easy to understand but hurtful and frankly stupid to put out in public.
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by sethev 9y ago
"Entitlement" really captures the post Rich is responding to. Objections to the existence of Arachne and spec? Who is Chris Zheng to tell people what to spend their time and money on? And he wants Datomic open sourced. Waaah.
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by sethev 9y ago
What does intention have to do with it? Are you saying that if you unintentionally seek people based on criteria like race or gender you're more likely to find the best candidates? Affirmative action, as you call it, is an intentional
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by sethev 9y ago
Most private banks aren't established by an act of Congress and run by people appointed by the President and approved by the Senate.
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by sethev 9y ago
Ownership seems to get mixed up with efficient capital allocation in a lot of discussions about this (referring to likely comments, not the article). For index investing to work you only need a market that's "efficient enough in a
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by sethev 9y ago
Right - that's a completely different topic though. That's an individual paying taxes on a gain that they've realized. Not a company paying taxes based on other people's gains.

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