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by tj-teej 5y ago
"The basic law of economics is that price is determined by BOTH supply and demand" That is one basic law of economics, but in some markets price isn't only determined by supply and demand. I think a similar/analogous e
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by tj-teej 5y ago
I live here, it's fine. There are pockets in the Tenderloin and around that are filled with real misery, but I've never felt unsafe. It's just sad to see. There's police everywhere and the homeless may do drugs but I&#x2
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by tj-teej 5y ago
Bob: "You know I used to think correlation implied causation, but I took this Statistics class but know I know that's not true." Jeff: "Wow it sounds like that class really helped you" Bob: "Maybe!" Credit
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by tj-teej 5y ago
Opinions on this aside (which are subjective), we should remember that the "this is a bad precedent to set" argument is ignoring the (objective) fact that this precedent has already been set. The US Government took many actions ev
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by tj-teej 5y ago
But why do you need to be an expert (20 years experience, and whatnot) to be a good mentor? You don't need to be an expert mathematician to be a great Math teacher; you don't need to be a happy well-rounded person to be a good the
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by tj-teej 5y ago
It blows my mind that news papers will report things told to them by the CIA as fact after all we know from the past decades. "CIA claims officer suffering from Havana Syndrome" makes sense as a headline.
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by tj-teej 5y ago
This is a great point, maybe an AI can do the work of editing podcasts to remove "ums" or air-brushing ads to remove blemishes cheaper than a creative-type would but I don't see podcasters or fashion models disappearing as a
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by tj-teej 5y ago
I would encourage a combination of fartlek and slow running. One day just go for a 20 minute "jog". Try and run as slow as possible with the goal of running for 10 minutes out and then just getting home. It's OK if you walk a
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by tj-teej 5y ago
I think Tony would say "whatever happened to Gary Cooper"
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by tj-teej 5y ago
Because you can't see underneath, a pool is 3D and if we can only see the surface we're missing the most dangerous part.
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by tj-teej 5y ago
For someone on the outside, what was 'the pipe dream that was never going to work'?
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by tj-teej 5y ago
Everyone will have kids one day or knows someone who will. And if that kid is born with type-1 diabetes they will require insulin everyday or else they will die. The inventor of insulin sold the patent for $1 because the thought that it wou
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by tj-teej 5y ago
Yeah, see Trader Joes Sriracha! https://kakaomart.com/products/trader-joes-sriracha-sauce-1-...
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by tj-teej 5y ago
Obvious stupid uses of work laptops are beyond the pale, but I can see why someone would check their gmail from a work laptop (I'm posting this on my work laptop while my code compiles). But one thing I found which is great is setting
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by tj-teej 5y ago
Maybe this is a naive question: but I remember growing up there was a hard and fast rule that you could not have magnets anywhere near your technology, is this not the case anymore? Was it only floppy-disks and disk based tech which had iss
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by tj-teej 6y ago
What was the company?
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by tj-teej 6y ago
A boy and a girl are sitting next to each other in a Java Computer Science class. The boy reaches over and starts going through the girls purse. The girl says: "Hey! That's private!" The boy replies: "But we're in t
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by tj-teej 6y ago
Free Speech does have limits though. If you're incarcerated for a felony you can't vote, if you go to a mall and start yelling obscenities you can be removed, if you make youtube videos on how to create pipebombs the US President
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by tj-teej 6y ago
There's a clear objective difference between judging output vs secretly watching an employee
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by tj-teej 6y ago
I think this is a great point and the economics of the job come into play too... A lot of the initial challenge in interviewing is proving you can meet a certain bar to get your foot in the door for an interview. And $150 to prove that you
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by tj-teej 6y ago
I think more specifically it's rare enough that it hasn't happened to most people yet or people blame themselves ("my internet is bad" and the like)
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by tj-teej 6y ago
+1 to this, lying is never the right move, especially to a company you want to join.
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by tj-teej 6y ago
Reminds me of the XKCD joke: Person A: I used to think correlation implied causation, then I took a statistics class. Now I don't. Person B: Sounds like that class helped. Person A: Well, maybe...
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by tj-teej 6y ago
Aren't taxes the way to solve that? Isn't it easier to give everyone the money and then when Tax Season happens you just tax it back out of the people who didn't need it?
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by tj-teej 6y ago
A lot of comments here are missing the point of boycotting, it's an expression of power with the concrete goal, it's not individual decisions of whether the mathematicians feel the work is "ethical". Yes, having more lib
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by tj-teej 6y ago
At the end of the day people do need to be informed. Saying "stop watching the news" is like telling someone who's overweight to "stop eating". As I see it the problem is the junk-news. It presents as news but there
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by tj-teej 6y ago
People should accept the fact that people are busy and often don't have/take time to read documents offline. I really like how Amazon mitigates that, you hold a doc review meeting. Everyone gets together, reads the document (in si
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by tj-teej 7y ago
Makes sense, as naming is the one of the two hardest problems in programming! (the other is maintaining distributed cache consistency and catching off-by-one-errors :D)
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by tj-teej 7y ago
There's also a lot of money behind the arguments made in the Economist that isn't there for a Left-Wing magazine (for obvious reasons).

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