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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> And while the governent largely paid most.of this grifter's rent, my family member was still out over 15k in lost rent and legal fees. Not "the government". Taxpayers. Taxpayers bailed out rent seekers. > you'
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Or are there other factors separate from the marginal cost to a professor of an additional grad student which should be included (e.g. are there institutional-level resources which are significantly supporting this workforce?) No. At
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
you're being downvoted for the second sentence, but the third sentence is indisputably true.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Is the US spending billions to educate them One PhD student costs a professor about $100K - $200K per year. A third of that is stipend and the other two thirds is... well, in CS I'm not even sure. A good bit of administrative we
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
The cost of progress is specialization. I can't even keep up with everything in my own subfield. There are enormous scientific enterprises dedicated to diseases that will never touch my life and mean nothing to me, but constitute actua
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Reminds me of how certain South American indigenous tribes have this very complicated ritual to prepare Cassava. They didn't know it, but it removes cyanide and makes Cassava way safer to consume. This is basically how a lot of
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
The JS ecosystem is sort of what you'd expect to get if you created LISP with C/Java syntax and then that weekend hack became a dominant language purely on the back of historical accident. Which is exactly what happened :)
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Is it these people's full time job just to rant about tech Not at all full time, but lead gen is part of the contractor gig :)
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
He answers is own question at the end: > A company may save both time and money in the beginning because, yes you can get something running quickly, but they always pay the price in the long run when they are faced with all the issues t
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Almost. I thought that was hyperbole too, but... holy shit, they aren't kidding: 1. https://www.tvcommercialad.com/watch/XosLKPV 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qDZA7j4rXU 3. https:/&#x2
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
feudalism -> domestic industrialization and the formation of capital markets (1700s) -> imperialist competition in global markets and the height of colonial exploitation (1800s) -> the fully privatized multinational firm, global fi
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
The original answers to "late?", "collapse?, and "what's next?" questions all require recalling that the term originated in Marxist circles. The "late" meant something like the type of capitalism that
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> So if the same degree had taken eight years The time value of money is powerful, but specialization in unique intersections of skills entails earning power. The place where that intersection lies on a graph will be different for each
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> when they knowingly claim that they have never even heard of, let alone made, even a single high assurance, robust system in Rust. Huh?! They said you can't build safety-critical software in Rust because it's not certified.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Your comment gives me the impression that you massively under-estimate the level of specialization in either software or operations, or perhaps both. Some systems are simple enough that a single person can understand everything about the en
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> So you're saying only studying and not doing anything else to eventually become a doctor that serves a community in Dallas doesn't demonstrate enough participation in society as much as being able to play a sport? To be fai
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> and not have to do any of the other trivial stuff that demonstrates that they can participate in the society in which they live How many DFW public schools have cricket or kabaddi teams? How many bands and choirs play primarily non-E
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Years of life taken goes in the cost column She wasn't in suspended animation for four years. She received four years of a valuable service. > us from a lower class background She grew up in a single parent household, was t
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> On one hand, the total payback would be $40K for six months of school. That is really high even for a top-tier college. For reference, my wife worked at a restaurant during undergrad, stayed with her parents, and didn't have muc
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
The thread admits that savvy financial consumers have better options: > Second, credit scores were the most predictive variable of good participant behavior for us. But people with high credit scores tend to have better, cheaper options
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> room for a competitor to come in and sell another huge accelerator but with only one of these two features either at a lower price or with more performance? They'd need fab capacity first. I wouldn't count on it any time so
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> I certainly become uncomfortable and angry, but at the end of the day I realize it's something I cannot fundamentally change. This is the point on which we agree. When I say >> Feeling tense and unwelcome in a space where
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Shaming and shunning can easily be considered harassment in the right context Shunning is never harassment. Shaming could be, but not on its own -- it would probably have to be either extraordinarily sustained/egregious and&#x2F
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> The opposite stance, not calling on people to end cancel culture, is also accepting a reduction in speech. I'm not sure that accepting certain spaces becoming unwelcome is the same as a reduction in speech. The quote toward the
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/12/1018222/deepfake...
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> A time-traveler from the 80's You don't exactly need time travel to get an opinion from someone who lived the 1980s... try asking your parents?
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
At FB's scale, there's not much of a functional difference between ad moderation and content moderation. Both are intractably huge. (The barrier for entry into the ad market is not much higher than posting -- your ad can meet 1K e
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> How do consumers self-help in the meantime? Consumers can't do much. Citizens can leverage their local government to prioritize investigation and enforcement of laws against harassment, stalking, and threats. Persons with suffic
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Moderating a general-purpose forum for the world is intractable, either automatically or manually. That's just a fact. Acknowledging this fact does not need to be understood as a defense of Meta. I cannot offer any solutions for tackli
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Excellent comment. This is exactly how I explain it to the students I tutor. I tend to use the term "contextual recall" rather than the term "memorization", since the former emphasizes that it's okay to rely on a co

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