tomcat27

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by tomcat27 6y ago
Number of top peer-reviewed conference publications is the closest reasonable indicator of state of the art. I didn't make this up, the community did. Yeah, let's see some numbers in STEM - stack up the university departments and
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> It's impossible to "compete"... No one is master of everything. Economies with weaker currencies by no means have upper hand on every trade. Like the example I gave before: corn exports. Economies could be subsidized by
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And to comment about importing cheap labor. China has 1.3B population, US 400M, Canada as 40M. Population sparsity is proportional to the extent of shocks a local economy can absorb. Immigrants are not distorting the market as much as stren
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First I am not defending big rich companies. If anything I am complaining the government is not doing enough in the right direction to improve the proportion of Americans in tech jobs. Every H1B petition from American companies is precisely
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The market's network effects will negatively effect this new tax. There is cost-benefit analysis to everything one spends from their limited resources. The "just shift" in the market is painful like you said before.. to the w
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That's a damn good question and but I don't see how this policy is the right answer.
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When the US subsidizes corn production so much it destabilized local corn markets everywhere else in the world. Suddenly, it's cheaper to import corn from the US than buy at a local farm house in other places. This alone doesn't m
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Did I correctly understand: You are converting everyone's internal scale to a common scale. The conversion is parameterizing by additive delta such that overall distribution remains normal with std 1. Cool.
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Most of the work these companies are hired to produce is done in India. People on H1B are few and hired to delegate across time zones. It's hard without someone in the US connecting the bridge. This pandemic made it clear. It's a
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How did you handle difference in personal scale. An A- from two people are not always on same scale. If a person looking at these reviews has an internal scale different from the existing reviews, they may not be making an optimal choice. S
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seriously! strike for a week.
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This seems to be also an interesting way to read books. Those who don't have a habit of reading can get distracted very easily and writing like this keeps the focus!
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authoritarianism is when a ex judicial company has so strong influence over regulations and those adjudicated arbitrarily and in-transparent and the effected party couldn't do a damn thing about it.. while it's not the best soluti
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Absolutely!
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They both have done more service than all business schools combined!
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Trump will win! sorry.
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I find those people who determine to earn big and then give away big very interesting minds. Their reasons to earn are most of the times very different from a typical person.
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What you mentioned is the raw materials of the post.. but the nice stuff I see: experience around these raw materials.
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wowowowowowow!
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Zuck probably begged Tim
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Dumb question -- is this guide related to reMarkable gadget?
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another notes app people love in the beginning but eventually abandon
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It's always a pleasure to read one's clear and well written thoughts. Thank you!
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It's a matter of who owns the user activity data on TikTok whether ByteDance retains rights to sell or rent without informing public to someone at some point in future..
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It makes more sense to have this oath for all tech workers, not just software engineers. Software Engineers may have less visibility on matters that determine ethics. Managers handle the context of application of a software.
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by tomcat27 6y ago
Would Uber be willing to pay a premium initial deposit to the collective fund on the name of all their gig workers they had since the beginning. That would assuage people skeptical about marketplace dynamics for new startups.
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Better camera, that's the only thing I see useful to an average user.
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very nice!!