tboyd47

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by tboyd47 6y ago
Ask if they can push any live interviews forward, before the coding challenge. Say the reason is that it saves both of us time. It takes longer to read code than to write it. So while it may take me thirty minutes to solve the challenge, it
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I've come to believe the most dangerous thing in the world is an expert with a computer model.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
You have to be comfortable enough with computers (real computers with keyboards) to be open to using one 8 hours a day. It may sound obvious but it's not obvious to a lot of people especially with the way programming is marketed to you
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Any mediating variables?
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I like this idea, but I don't like how they target Facebook and YouTube, and not Twitter, Instagram, and Google Search. There seems to be a moral sorting here of FAANG products that is weirdly selective to me and matches what I saw in
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Wouldn't that also teach them to lie to you about things they consider "unimportant"?
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Critical thinking is a lot harder than just saying, "Don't believe other people." You have to teach that people may be trustworthy in one area, but not in another. You have to teach when you can take a statement on face val
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Show them by example how to be skeptical without accusing people of lying, and mention often the many reasons why people say things that might not be completely true. Also, you need to make sure you yourself don't lie to them. A lot of
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by tboyd47 6y ago
That's fair. I read the "Social Cooling" site (as an aside, what would you call sites like this? E-pamphlets seems like a good term to use.) and it immediately made me think of this essay I read years ago: https://
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by tboyd47 6y ago
It's just a sloppily-written study. There are spelling and grammar errors all over the place, and it's full of unsubstantiated claims that are hard to take seriously at face value. It's hard for me to even call this a study.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Maybe I'm not always as diplomatic as I could be all the time, but what if I like it that way? I don't have this problem with offending people IRL or even in other online communities. And I'm not interested at all in cutting
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Exactly. Great way to put it. Facebook forces you into this politician way of communicating which is a waste of time and just sucks.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I definitely know that nobody on my Facebook would ever SWAT me. I just don't like to trigger people. People carry a lot of hidden emotional baggage with them these days with trip wires in various topics of discussion. Something about
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Yeah, I tried Twitter too, but so few of my friends use it, it just seemed like a clunkier, angrier version of HN with about half the average IQ points.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I posted a "good-bye" message so people would know not to expect any more posts, and kept my account because I wanted to still use Groups, Events, and Marketplace.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
This is exactly why I had to get off of Facebook (again). I deactivated my first account 8 years ago, but got back on to re-connect with my old pals and acquaintances from back in the day. For that reason, it was fantastic. After another ye
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I replied in place.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
It may not bother you, but it makes some people very uncomfortable. Do you not think it's somewhat entitled and privileged to assume that your own standard of what's convenient and what's not convenient should be applied to e
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by tboyd47 6y ago
The most compelling objection (to me) is that when surgeons wear masks, they sneeze inside their masks, then change their masks. When everyday people wear masks, we take our masks off to sneeze, expelling aerosol virus particles into the ai
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Thank you. Interesting stuff. This is the only study I've seen that actually presents evidence for masks slowing the spread. The comment section is a worthwhile read, too. I would like to see another study like this that's more re
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by tboyd47 6y ago
> This paper is a pre-print and has not been subject to formal peer-review.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
For your information, I was asking to expand my own knowledge on the subject. Top level commenter was adamant that masks were effective, so this being HN, where people typically know what they're talking about, I assumed they had a goo
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by tboyd47 6y ago
The link itself appears to contradict your statement. > The difference in conclusions of mask effectiveness studies is mainly due to different study contents, study designs, evaluation methods and endpoints. Understandably, good evidence
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Thanks. That study doesn't measure any sort of disease spread. It measures the density of candle smoke on either side of the mask.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I don't know if it does or doesn't, because I've never seen any scientific studies on universal mask mandates. That's why I'm asking.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Free money.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Interesting. Thanks.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Can you explain more why the section is particularly disastrous? I agree that it's a dumb name. The section: (1) “BAD SAMARITAN” CARVE-OUT. Subsection (c)(1) shall not apply in any criminal prosecution under State law or any
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Wonderful idea. Sometimes I get hit with 4-5 downvotes in less than a minute on controversial comments. Seems improbable for these to be organic.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Are you talking about absentee ballots?

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