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by tharne 5y ago
None, this topic has been written about to death for almost two years now and, as important as it may be, there's nothing new left to say about it. There's no shortage of interesting and newsworthy things going on in the world, we
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by tharne 5y ago
If you get stuck in a traffic jam on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend, you don't claim that the highway system is "crumbling". Sometimes you have a temporary surge in the demand for something - that happens. We don
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by tharne 5y ago
It's a fair point re: strain on hospitals, but The Atlantic could do without the hysteria and clickbait headlines. They undermine their credibility with nonsense like that. Hospitals are definitely under a lot of stress at the moment,
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by tharne 5y ago
> I think thought-leaders and experts could use a whole lot less deification right now I'm not sure that's possible - the experts are more or less screaming into the wind at this point. The WHO and the CDC have been reduced to
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by tharne 5y ago
> You need a new group of friends, firstly. This is really good advice. You'll never be able to give up a bad habit or an addiction so long as the people around you are caught up in the same thing. For years I was unable to quit smo
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> I truly can't understand why a COVID vaccine mandate, and only a COVID vaccine mandate, is suddenly tyranny. I have not managed to wrap my head around this one either. As a society we've been mandating vaccines for almost a c
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by tharne 5y ago
> There's simply no way of proving that to recruiters without Leetcode. If a recruiter can't assess engineers without something like Leetcode, they need to find a another job. Assessing talent is the job of a recruiter, and i
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by tharne 5y ago
> This is my point, I think these academic researchers and common people have no idea what they are getting into. I don't think that's true. Most people knew smoking was bad for you long before the medical establish said so, di
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> The claim in the article is categorical. The claim is that there are no detrimental side effects. That is not the claim made in the article. The article claims that no detrimental side effects were found over the course of the study
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by tharne 5y ago
"g", sometimes shown as "G", in the context of the study of intelligence typically refers to general intelligence or overall intelligence, in contrast to more specific types of intelligence such as EQ or mathematical abi
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by tharne 5y ago
Like a lot of the comments here, this seems to conflate education and intelligence, when in reality the relationship between the two is tenuous. When talking about the attributes of highly educated people, the most common trait you're
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by tharne 5y ago
Can you elaborate more on your "Other obligations"? This job sounds like a movie parody of a shitty office job and you need to get out of there ASAP.
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by tharne 5y ago
Crime is to Democrats what climate change is to Republicans: an inconvenient truth best ignored.
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> The amount of people on HN nowadays that are okay with getting nothing useful done is striking. You're mistaking the role of a mature company. Unlike a startup, in a mature company there are a ton of customers relying on your prod
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The fact he's being actively discussed in a thread about books that changed one's life, and your only criticism of the man is an ad hominem, would suggest that he's still very relevant.
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by tharne 5y ago
It's not necessary, but it is extremely helpful. One of the biggest mistakes I've made in the past was taking a job based on the description of the job rather than the manager. If I could do it over again, I would make working for
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by tharne 5y ago
Pelosi is the Speaker, not some backbencher with one vote. She has enormous power, perhaps only second to the President.
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by tharne 5y ago
I was going to say this. We have this weird habit in the West of trivializing raising one's own children, as if that's not "real work". A lot folks would rather raise their children instead of outsourcing it to strangers
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by tharne 5y ago
> I was hoping to learn a bit more about real world examples of functional programming... Watch any of Rich Hickey's talks on YouTube if you want to hear more about the advantages of functional programming.
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by tharne 5y ago
I wouldn't say spark is terrible, but it is a sort of a "reverse bicycle". If you put a spark codebase down for a week or two and pick it back up, it feels like you're learning everything all over again.
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> It’s also quite obvious, mechanistically: COVID doesn’t lose many infections by eventually killing the patient who, by then, is obviously sick and most often in the hospital. But viruses spread in the real world not some hypothetical l
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by tharne 5y ago
Splitting hairs here, Moderna and Pfizer were approved more or less at the same time and Moderna has shown itself to be the more effective vaccine. And we're talking about innovation in this thread, not which country is better at doing
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In my case, yes, though obviously that depends on where you live. You can also make the argument that it's better to have low federal taxes and high state and local taxes than to have the reverse, since it's much easier to leave a
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You can produce a boatload of a junk vaccine like Sinovac, that doesn't reflect much of anything, other than low standards, possibly. Objectively speaking, Moderna is the best vaccine out there and was one of the first. That doesn&#x27
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by tharne 5y ago
If that were true, why is it so rare? Even during bad periods in the U.S. there's never been significant levels of out migration, the way you see with other countries.
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by tharne 5y ago
Only at the federal level, which is not the majority of taxes for most people. State taxes and local property tax are significantly higher than they used to be in most places in the U.S. Other things like sales tax, fees, permits, fines, et
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by tharne 5y ago
Coming soon: AWS Ferret, a fully managed AWS alternative to FerretDB;
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by tharne 5y ago
Julia is the Plan9 of data science-y languages. It's better than python and R, but I don't see it being better enough to cause a meaningful shift away from those languages.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a vastly underrated book. It was decades ahead of its time.
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It would be a landslide by today's standards, but those kinds of margins were pretty common in the 80's and 90's. You had a lot more swing voters and people who would split their tickets so you had bigger margins while also h

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