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by squokko 3y ago
Yes, differences between 18 year olds are extreme when you look at the best vs. the average
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by squokko 3y ago
"We don’t need to sort and classify 18-year olds. It’s absurd. Stop trying to fix it and get rid of it." Would the OP make the same argument about athletics? That 18-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo and 18-year-old Frankie Fatass, inste
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by squokko 3y ago
I hope Quanta continues when Simons dies. There's no way the mathematicians in this story could have written anything like this.
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by squokko 3y ago
I don't see any evidence of Lichess being "pushed into" this. It's owned entirely by a single person. I don't recall any PR campaign to pressure Lichess into doing this. This feels much more like one person making a
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by squokko 3y ago
It is so amazing that I can read articles like this for free
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by squokko 3y ago
Spoiler alert - this is just a drawing, not something anyone's built
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by squokko 3y ago
It's a terrible luxury product though because 1) Prop 13 means that people from 50 years ago are still in the luxury neighborhoods 2) Crime is not sufficiently eradicated even from expensive areas
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by squokko 3y ago
Is it team tactics that had to shift or is it just that the team had to let go of good players to afford the salaries of Ronaldo or Messi?
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by squokko 3y ago
Ultimately even Jeff Dean is not so great that 1000 Google engineers doing what he tells them to isn't even more impactful
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by squokko 3y ago
Whatever his title, he runs Google Brain.
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by squokko 3y ago
If you don't want the job, quit
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by squokko 3y ago
Whether there is a "practical" difference, there is usually a big legal difference in outcomes based on what the perpetrator's intent.
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by squokko 3y ago
In the US, anyone is permitted to fly anywhere in unrestricted airspace, and anything in view of public property is considered to have no expectation of privacy.
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by squokko 3y ago
Yes, the government should do that. If you get a drug patent and failure to ensure supply causes the patent to be terminated I would bet the behaviors would change quite a bit.
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by squokko 3y ago
Well Lina Khan went after Meta for acquiring Supernatural for $500 million while Apple continues their trillion-dollar anticompetitive empire. So it wouldn't be that weird for the FTC to be focused on stuff that does not matter
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by squokko 3y ago
It's not Pfizer's job to safeguard US interests, it's the US Government's. If the US Government wants to ensure reliable supply of medication they need to develop a policy and administrative framework to make that happen
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by squokko 3y ago
Infrastructure is more fragile than anyone realizes because everything just magically shows up at the store. Pfizer doesn't keep empty plants ready to go in case one gets hit by a tornado. If they make say 5000 medications, each medica
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by squokko 3y ago
I've seen this SO many times. "We'll spin up this server that renders thumbnails of images for the UI."... months pass... "Hey why don't we use the thumbnail server to create low-res images for our marketing em
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by squokko 3y ago
> I just tell myself that those jobs would have made me miserable anyway This is certainly wrong because the usage of LinkedIn is very high. It's equivalent to saying, "I don't take recruiting calls from meat-eaters."
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by squokko 3y ago
It's not really a "jailbreak," they replaced the entire PCB, but it makes sense because Google sells these almost certainly below their own cost (when they do the promotions), and overwhelmingly below the cost that you'd
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by squokko 3y ago
Overall people in software cannot stop talking about fonts
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by squokko 3y ago
Why would the business be horrifically in the red? It's commodity hardware at a slightly premium price.
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by squokko 3y ago
It's not a joke and there's nothing funny about it.
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by squokko 3y ago
I don't mean this as any insult to the University of Rochester but I don't think that any of this national conversation around legacy admissions and privilege is relevant to them.
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by squokko 3y ago
Robust health is positively correlated with pretty much every metric of life success. Success in athletics is not only a sign of positive health but also another data point on work ethic. There are some people who can get a 1600 on their SA
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by squokko 3y ago
Does the application have a spot to mention your relatives who attended MIT? And if not, how would they have such a dataset?
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by squokko 3y ago
Yes, there are ways to use social class to your advantage, even if just the ease to walk into a mansion and converse fluidly with the owner rather than feeling at unease. There are no ways to fully eliminate the effects of this, but MIT is
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by squokko 3y ago
My guess is that operators of cars like this kill far fewer people per hundred million miles traveled than soccer moms in their SUVs texting with their Frappuccinos but I'm willing to be proven wrong with data.
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by squokko 3y ago
The thing is that you don't get anything by investing more effort into an online job application. It's all a big stochastic dumpster which might spit out a hire or two every so often. You're better served by finding 20 compan
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by squokko 3y ago
I think you're thinking not of "Most Americans" but "Most well-educated Americans" or perhaps "Most Americans I meet"

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