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by sgustard 5y ago
> we had so many redundancies and test servers run How did you hire the developers who built those systems? Was the bar higher then? Lots of companies have institutional memory of how their first few hires were crucial to make the compan
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by sgustard 5y ago
Check out https://www.everrati.com for electric conversions.
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by sgustard 5y ago
A hundred years ago you could buy "Drink This Arsenic Cure-All" off the shelf. Not sure that "early-stage capitalism" was any better.
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by sgustard 5y ago
We're talking about the school's goals in forming a class, not the applicants' goals. Most schools that are among the "best in the world" find they can weigh multiple factors to decide who to admit, and there's
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by sgustard 5y ago
The MIT article literally says "diversity" is one of their goals. Seems like you're arguing against yourself.
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by sgustard 5y ago
> common, popular notion that standardized tests do not predict anything of value It's backed up by research, for example: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/test-scores-dont-stack-gpas-... I don't doubt that
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by sgustard 5y ago
Same here, my mom worked at the local community college. The other detail was the computer had no display, only a line printer. Spewed out quite a stack of paper by the end of a day playing Adventure.
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by sgustard 5y ago
To be fair, his post does lead into a Twitter thread. Unfortunately it's a mess of the usual reactionary takes: white people are asked to feel guilty; Asians are discriminated against; nobody wants to hear whiny conservatives on campus
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by sgustard 5y ago
Not just swing voters. A lot of the effort is increasing voter turnout for your favored side.
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by sgustard 5y ago
Every company I work at requires regular rotation and other idiotic rules which lead people to choose demonstrably weaker passwords. My company refuses to listen to reason and accuses us of trying to subvert security when we point out their
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by sgustard 5y ago
It's not the feature set people react to, it's the speculative bubble and the hordes of grifters.
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by sgustard 5y ago
Police are an interesting counterpoint, since police are one of the most vaccine-resistent groups. I'd like to see a similar study: do we see the stronger the police union, the lower the vaccination rate? Is there any argument outside
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by sgustard 5y ago
Princeton has an order of magnitude larger financial endowment than Berkeley, if we're comparing resources. I'm not sure if either correlate to "ability to teach a compelling intro course" - depends a lot on the teacher,
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by sgustard 5y ago
It's a fine line, but I feel Apple avoided being exploitative here. The vibe wasn't "you deserve to have this terrible thing happen if you don't buy our product." The watch clearly provided real utility to real cust
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by sgustard 5y ago
The accredited investor rule is not the main barrier to investing in quality startups. The barrier is being part of an insiders' club. A16z will call its network of rich entrepreneurs when an investment opportunity arises. Nobody excep
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by sgustard 5y ago
I just tried this in USD and at least the initial screens were more clear about the options. To wit: after "start your free trial", there's a choice of "$79 monthly, no cancellation fee" or "$52 yearly billed m
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by sgustard 5y ago
> Somehow there's this idea that the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines need to prevent infection The original announcements from Pfizer et al touted the 90-95% effectiveness of the vaccines against infection (and 95-100% against severe infection)
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by sgustard 5y ago
In my case, I'm happy to engage Autopilot even though I'm under no illusion that it makes me safer. It's just a very useful convenience feature. OTOH: Tesla could still claim that if you replace all the distracted/drunk
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by sgustard 5y ago
What about just looking at the most vulnerable populations? My elderly grandma was certainly safer with her self-imposed lockdown, since by avoiding most people she avoided being infected. If that population benefitted from the lockdown, ho
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by sgustard 5y ago
My understanding is "present" means "school is in session", regardless of whether any children are visible.
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by sgustard 5y ago
That's funny since I am older, and I sat in the front seat of the car my entire childhood; there were no car seats. When my mother had to make a sudden stop she'd hold out her arm to keep me in place. I remember being dazzled by t
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by sgustard 5y ago
I doubt the move was "data driven". Elon has made it very clear his vision is to make the car automated enough that the driver doesn't need to interact with the UI. If anything, he's intentionally trying to change user b
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by sgustard 5y ago
The astronomers quoted in the article used the words "spooky", "unexpected" and "peculiar". It's not like the headline writer went completely off the rails.
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by sgustard 5y ago
These conditions (power breeds corruption) have been true since the birth of democracy. And yet you could argue democracy in the US has a reasonable track record, with only the occasional civil war. Why is now the time it is under such atta
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by sgustard 5y ago
You can pay for both human advisors and robo-investing. A human advisor will charge 1% of assets to manage your money for you, and the results may not differ much from what the robot picks at much lower cost. I'm happy with the robot&#
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by sgustard 5y ago
Very true, "red" and "blue" had no political meaning in my childhood. Another source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were...
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by sgustard 5y ago
If I leave my water running then go on vacation I'll have a huge water bill too. I don't conclude my water company is intentionally trying to overcharge me. The more reasonable conclusion is: building an alert system that addresse
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by sgustard 5y ago
Maybe your company's not a good investment if its business plan requires hiring a single magic employee for a half million dollars.
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by sgustard 5y ago
I used to drink sugared beverages constantly (Coke, Snapple). Just stopped one day. Replace the Snapple with unsweetened iced tea and add just a dash of lemonade. Today years later if I try a Snapple I find it disgustingly cloying and overl
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by sgustard 5y ago
That's a feature of many Tesla games. Now imagine your steering wheel stops steering the car due to a bug when your passenger fires up a game.

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