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by t_mann 4y ago
Yeah, and countless people since prehistory have died or been significantly worse off because they simply didn't know better. Now we have science to help us figure things out before natural selection drives us away from unhealthy beh
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by t_mann 4y ago
I've seen people move into and out of HR roles from areas far more exotic than recruiting, including PAs, engineers, accountants, and be very successful at it. Claiming that there is 'no cross-capability' between HR and recru
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by t_mann 4y ago
No, you're missing the point. Our brains don't work like von Neumann machines with efficient architecture. What you can and cannot remember is a - still poorly understood - function of many variables, including the various neurotr
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by t_mann 4y ago
Seriously, they do that? Which lunatic came up with that idea?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Fyi, someone actually built a formal model to demonstrate that large conspiracies are probabilistically doomed to get exposed: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0127/Can-mathematics-... However, the mode
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by t_mann 4y ago
I think this is instead a good reminder that no matter how complicated / unlikely a specific attack vector seems, if the bounty is large enough you better assume that someone is going to do it.
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by t_mann 4y ago
This is an important social engineering attack vector that all companies should be aware of. These kind of targeted attacks (often spoofing valid contacts that employees would legitimately exchange documents with) were common since I can re
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Triathlon first UK sport to create 'open' category for transgender athletes(bbc.co.uk)
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by t_mann 4y ago
Church books were used to find Jews? Do you have a source for that?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Did you make the graphics yourself? What do you use?
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by t_mann 4y ago
It's strange, it seems more like someone built the minimum number of sentences around a few tweets to make it seem like a story. If that's the work of an AI, then I'm impressed, otherwise I'm baffled.
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by t_mann 4y ago
This must be like the 5th article on the HN front page relating to this particular memo from Meta.
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by t_mann 4y ago
That's not how percentiles work. They could be almost exactly as rich for what we know, but given the context (extremely high wealth inequality) four deciles would likely imply many orders of magnitude in absolute wealth difference.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Without the simple algebra taught in high school neither probability nor most interesting (high school) math would be possible. But a stronger emphasis on probability and statistics would indeed be interesting.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Praising a profession that is notorious for its lack of a specific trait for having exactly that trait, while there are be countless other examples that would come to mind more readily, can indeed be a subtle jab.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Of course one of the first things that come to mind when reading the title is first having some sort of AlphaGo-style AI go wild on collections of math proofs and then maybe some AlphaZero-style model that can get to work even without the l
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by t_mann 4y ago
This is a poor analogy - usage statistics tend to not follow Gaussian distributions, hence the average can be a poor measure of central tendency. Body measurements usually don't have that problem, and I suppose that the average was act
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Law is an impressionistic business, much less scientific than macroeconomics or inflation management Not sure if this is an intended jab at economists or just an ironic misconception. Macroeconomics is arguably the academic disciplin
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by t_mann 4y ago
Ignatova is assumed to be traveling the isles of the eastern Mediterranean on a private sailing yacht, so not the most inconvenient place for your investigations :)
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by t_mann 4y ago
Puzzling indeed. Afaik Dogecoin is pretty much a 1:1 clone of an old version of Bitcoin, and the founder made it sound like it was a weekend's worth of work.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I always hear that Klarna is about 'Buy now pay later' (and having a somewhat dodgy reputation for that), but I've used it quite a few times (somewhat involuntarily, because it was the only reasonable payment option for some
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by t_mann 4y ago
Schools are extremely artificial environments compared to pretty much everything else that comes later in life.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I think having good curricula to follow would be interesting. I always found the International Baccalaureate interesting. It seems to be both a more rigorous (academically) and a more flexible (administratively) system than typical public s
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by t_mann 4y ago
Schools are a fairly recent invention, and at the onset they were meant for those children (from non-aristocratic families) who weren't getting home-schooled (and would otherwise in many cases have spent their days labouring among adul
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yes, you may agree or disagree with that, and please do share your thoughts, but the discussion should stay on topic. The parent comment goes on a lengthy tangent why they like Golang that is completely unrelated to the article.
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Go statements are a nice syntax to run background micro threads (as mentioned in this article) That's literally the opposite of what the article says. Which btw isn't about Go specifically, but about concurrency in general.
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by t_mann 4y ago
What I heard is that the sprouts can contain high concentrations of nasty stuff, I'd always assumed that those were created during the sprouting, that might be something different as well, should probably check. But I think the consens
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by t_mann 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! I love making lentils - never had any problems, but that sounds scary. I suppose soaking them won't help with the denaturation?
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by t_mann 4y ago
There are probably few public policies that are so easy to implement, have such consistent research backing and yet so often go ignored than having school start later than 8pm.
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by t_mann 4y ago
> If it's realism you're after, how about listening to a professional talking about their profession? I actually do that too, why the false dichotomy? > Why bring Hollywood into it? Because I've already watched the movi

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