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by stu2b50 6y ago
To be fair, that's an assertion with zero evidence or even reasoning, from someone who, having "fought against standardized testing for 30 years", is not exactly an unbiased source.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I think this is a good move overall. Remember, they're not phasing out tests entirely, it's over a 5 year period before they can develop alternative tests. I think US college exam systems are horribly flawed. For one, why are they
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I disagree, I think people underestimate the social cost of uprooting your life, leaving all of your friends and families, and moving into an area that often has beliefs counter to your own There's already examples. Epic will pay you t
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Happy that you have a job still? 25/hr is still better than flipping burgers, by like a lot.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I mean NNs are still quite bad at low n tabular data (and they may always be), which is honestly how a lot of real life data is, so there is clearly a need for not a neural network. I feel like I've seem more tree ensembles in the wild
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it was stock based. For one, Netflix is like, completely different than the rest. They only hire senior engineers and basically substitute a talent pipeline with giant wages. FAANG internships always sounded weird, cons
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I mean record traffic means record server usage with record low ad spend from their customers. However, that's just a short-term hit. FB and Google may very well increase their own spending so they can capture the huge amount of people
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Realestate has already been hit hard. Opendoor had like a 40% layoff + furlough.
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Airbnb reportedly lays off contractors and cancels summer internships(techcrunch.com)
65 points by stu2b50 7y ago|63 comments
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by stu2b50 7y ago
Jitsi uses WebRC, so it's p2p. It's great for 2 person calls, could be good for 3 as long as you all have good connections to each other, but doesn't and will never scale higher.
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by stu2b50 7y ago
Damn they really have more engineers than stripe has employees