sigstoat

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by sigstoat 7y ago
then it would go over budget by 100x, and if it ever did finish, users would be subjected to the intersection of all of those countries moralizing content bans?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
precision vs recall. if it correctly finds anyone on the watch list, but they comprise only 19% of the results returned, and the police force knows it, that strikes me as a great screening tool. just need some people to sift through it. i d
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you addressed none of my questions.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> But instead manufacturers of laptops, phones, and tablets are putting in substandard batteries to help ensure you come back in a few years for a new one. which manufacturer is it they're buying from that's substandard, who sh
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> The middle class gets to choose between getting fleeced by brokerage fees, getting fleeced by the low rates of return offered by the banks, or getting fleeced by your own ignorance and lack of access to the infrastructure to generate m
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by sigstoat 7y ago
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page is what you need if you're just joining the workforce. the details of how these large companies make their money is interesting, but tangential to your needs.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> There's lots of regulation on health services (obviously, as there should be, because safety is important), but more importantly, when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop. this is absurd. ther
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Anyone else with aphantasia relate to this, or are my issues unrelated? as another aphantasic, the only overlap i've got with you is perhaps in the face stuff. i'm slow to recognize faces, but i don't think that's c
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by sigstoat 7y ago
one benefit that would never go away is not needing a license/copy/installation of windows.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> I went to the A11y page that's like saying "i went to the mathematics page". there's not an a11y page. > I'm trying not to draw sweeping conclusions about the project from this... you went to the page of som
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by sigstoat 7y ago
* got a $6 christmas bonus one year. (they did a percentage across that board, and i was working very little.) * coupon for $10 off a turkey on more than one occasion * enormous bowl of candy left out for everyone to get fat on. when employ
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> The 'The Average American' does face 'adversity', because most people are barely getting by. > ... > It means no car trip to Myrtle Beach were you trying to make the point that people concoct adversity where i
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by sigstoat 7y ago
they probably forgot about it.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> You can't use logic to "win" this. and yet here you are, producing justifications about how your fantasy has to have particular levels of believability, instead of just saying "i like doing it".
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Saying "I don't know" like this in an interview scenario is nearly impossible for most candidates and only serves to humiliate rather than prove their abilities. with hacker news so utterly convinced that employers have
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> The likelihood of the two events isn't at all similar. 1e-9 and 1e-100 should both round to 0. and since people spend all sorts of time imagining things with likelihood _0_ (or downright counterfactual!), 1e-100 should be plenty t
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you could also just happen to find a winning lottery ticket on the street. the likelihoods of the two events are similar, and one fantasy is free.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
plenty of lottery winners get bigger piles of cash, and would be very poor folks to loan money to.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
surely there have got to be some places which have a better ratio of housing price to job prospects than seattle.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
what industrial/scientific equipment do you think has regulated ownership?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Everybody else is cumbersome or you have to wake your phone to bluetooth pair and then fuck with your phone. uh, i've got a years old subaru where i just turn on the engine, and by the time i've backed out of the driveway, it
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by sigstoat 7y ago
there are tradeoffs. digging holes and trenches is expensive.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the shiny one. because telescopes aren't in the habit of avoiding shiny things; they use the databases of where all of this stuff is and do the math to figure out where it will be. the dark objects at least won't introduce extra p
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Who's going to stop them and who's going to investigate them? amazon themselves. risking the entire AWS business to figure out that their retailers are selling lots of shower curtains and they could be undercut by $0.05 is id
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> If you host your website on AWS and store invoices on S3, Amazon can blindly enter your market with a competing offering and it might lose money, or they can go through your invoices... it is totally absurd to suggest they're look
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> So what is the purpose of the massive level of redundancy that you are already paying for when you store a file on S3? ... > > "fire, water, theft" i'm sure you could add a few more things to the list. > I don’t
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the whole point is that NASA isn't documenting this. go get a job in the industry and ask around after a couple of years.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> In any case, it's also probably too much infrastructure cost for a 2-man company. keeping your production and your backups in the same cloud provider is the equivalent of keeping your backup tapes right next to the computer they&#
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Only issue is, a lot of places I looked pay well below market rates :/ (at least for software engineers) aerospace places tend to just have one engineering rate, and it's dominated by what aerospace engineering graduates cost
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> There are many examples of NASA missions that had far exceeded the original expectations. many of those concocted by NASA announcing artificially low public expectations, while ensuring the contractors know what the real (much higher)

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