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by topkai22 7y ago
I read the implicit claim to be that technological innovation has fairly rapidly mitigated it’s own problems. What I think the author misses is the interplay between pessimists identifying problems and innovators creating solutions. A voic
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by topkai22 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I think broadly speaking US law would not prohibit that disclosure. The major exception would be investigations covered under some sort of a gag order. Overall though, the constitutional protections for freedom of
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by topkai22 7y ago
I suspect CS and programming will still be a very good career choice even if there is a shakeout. More importantly do you see anything out there that looks like a better career choice in 3-5 years? I don’t see any clear winners. You sound l
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by topkai22 7y ago
I semi-seriously wonder if they just brought back Google Reader and seriously supported it how much goodwill they'd regain. Not that they haven't killed hundreds of other products, but that one just sticks out so much.
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by topkai22 7y ago
It's possible, but the reputation management people also worry a fair amount about getting caught astroturfing or running bot nets. There are a lot less risky ways of accomplishing the same goal- pushing positive stories, honestly resp
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by topkai22 7y ago
35. Our energy levels are fine for raising the kids, although there are always moments of doubt... :)
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by topkai22 7y ago
In all honesty- don’t be afraid to make the move, especially to family. I switched roles at one the tech giants from software development to the "field" (sales, service, and support) in order be able to move closer to my wife, and
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by topkai22 7y ago
There have been a series of studies demonstrating that happiness of parents with l children at home is lower than non-parents. However, if I remember correctly, parents with children at home also tend to have higher degrees of life satisfac
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by topkai22 7y ago
I can concur- we have got to the 3 and 5 stage and then choose to have another. That one year while they were both pre-school age was glorious, the kids were getting so much easier. Now we are back to never having time again. For me the one
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’m not part of the target market segment, but I am part of the market. As another poster pointed out, I could buy one but won’t, depriving Apple of revenue. More importantly though, that truism is used to shutdown discussion of value and w
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by topkai22 7y ago
I've always hated the "it's worth what the market will bear truism." We are all part of the market, we all get to contribute to the assessment of value.
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by topkai22 7y ago
We don't need a new tax, just a fix to an old tax- tax all capital gains the same as normal income. Even better if we enabled a refund of some sort in years with negative capital gains to act as an automatic stimulus.
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by topkai22 7y ago
In my view, I’ve been surprised how much the world has already been willing to attack the problem. More conservative fossil fuel exporting countries like the US and Russia are resisting, but more left leaning and fuel importing countries su
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by topkai22 7y ago
I find climate panic to be really bad because I am optimistic about being able to significantly reduce emissions, and I think that panicked, depressed people convinced the world is going to end it harder to get everyone to adopt the policie
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by topkai22 7y ago
They do, you just have to be flying the plane to get access to them :) Check out crew rest areas: https://www.airlinereporter.com/2014/10/inside-look-crew-res...
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by topkai22 7y ago
I've always found the knees hitting the seat thing an amazing variation of human anatomy. My wife is 6' tall with long legs and will have 3 or more inches to spare on leg room, while I know people shorter than 5'10" who
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by topkai22 7y ago
There are a couple of wide body configurations that have 2x3x2 seating in economy, but I'm a little incredulous too. Unless they are pretending that's a regional jet :)
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by topkai22 7y ago
That’s a problematic definition of in the workforce- in the US 32-47% of people filing tax returns have 0 or negative income tax liability. Paying payroll taxes might be a better definition. Regardless, accounting for value provided in “gra
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by topkai22 7y ago
It’s mostly based on census data. It looks pretty solid, I’ve run numbers like this before (although I was looking families with children to live near, but old people.)
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Verbal conversation gains the context of audible emphasis on the difference. Rhetorically, you are able to say "Waymo has revenue of 5 million dollars, while Google has 160 BILLION dollars." (imagine the all caps being dramaticall
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But nukes have been delivered by robots (ballistic missiles) since the 50s
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Excessively inaccurate clickbait. The tutorial is one of literally hundreds, it’s sponsored by Microsoft not Facebook, and the part of the tutorial that includes the awesome label (as one of about a dozen training words they can use) includ
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by topkai22 7y ago
I think it’s a good practice to keep the abbreviations the same when talking about in the same context. It makes clear the ratio being talked about.
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by topkai22 7y ago
It's not small change, but when it is ~10% of the claimed figure I think "only" is the proper adjective. It's what upsets me about these sorts of papers- "civilian" climate change skeptics/deniers point to
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by topkai22 7y ago
Yeah, in the cited study is almost all externalities. Only something like $500B is attributed to direct subsidies or foregone tax revenue.
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by topkai22 7y ago
At Microsoft its pretty good, I can't speak well for others. Work-life flexibility is something we take pretty seriously in the groups I've worked in, and the workload is pretty manageable. It's a little >40h/week on
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by topkai22 7y ago
Having spent a good deal with my of my career in the wilds of technical consulting, I can say with confidence that the product group and engineers at places like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon really are better than average. That's not
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by topkai22 7y ago
But for perspective, 10% is a large portion of the population. As a population subgroup, Asian Americans only account for 7% of the US population.
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I learned ML in school 13 years ago. I've been happily employed since then at a major tech company with increasing responsibility and the only time I've really needed that background was to call BS on a given project needing a cus
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by topkai22 7y ago
I'm totally with you. Reducing carbon intensity is possible (and almost easy) up to a point, but once you've converted 80-90% of the power grid to renewable sources and electrified most transportation there is still significant c

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