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by tylerhou 5y ago
Except that's not exactly true; here is a counterexample. https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/aclu-backs-n-j-woman...
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by tylerhou 5y ago
> "These sex differences were larger in countries with a higher level of women's empowerment." There are confounding factors here, though — it's not like the only variable being changed between two countries is a woma
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I was aware of that distinction (of the decision problem), but I didn’t make the connection that solving the canonical decision problem in polynomial time meant that you could also solve the optimization problem in polynomial time with bina
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t think the decision problem “does an optimal path in TSP have length K” is in NP (as it likely cannot be checked in polynomial time). Otherwise, we could solve optimal path TSP in polynomial time by bina
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Nit: mini-LED is not the same thing as micro-LED, so it remains to be seen whether the LEDs are small enough/aligned in such a way that the black bar at the top doesn't have any backlight bleed. (Maybe this was mentioned in the pr
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by tylerhou 5y ago
> So long as you're at least a mediocre engineer, you can make it past the two-month mark and everyone gets their ROI. Is this sustainable, though? Why do you assume that there would be no system to detect people who abuse the syste
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I don't understand why people think this is nepotistic. If you're bad at the job, you won't make it past the first month or two. So you're really "buying" a (presumably paid) internship that has the potential t
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I know you’re giving helpful advice, but the author is talking (complaining) about Golang, which has no option typing (unless you want to use a pointer).
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by tylerhou 5y ago
It’s not about being right. It’s about being right for the right reasons. If you make a million predictions one of them is bound be true. Just because you’re the first to predict one thing doesn’t mean that everything you say is true, or th
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by tylerhou 5y ago
> repeated division/modulo operations that would likely be much slower in practice. … but that’s exactly how conversion to string works, so handrolling an algorithm would likely be around the same speed. I don’t know enough about th
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by tylerhou 5y ago
That’s a terrible interview question. I haven’t been at Google long enough to comment on hiring practices a decade ago, but nowadays I wouldn’t be surprised if an engineer who asked that type of question got feedback from HC to change their
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by tylerhou 5y ago
1,000 is more than enough people to make a measurement if they are selected sufficiently randomly. You only need to poll ~400 people to have a 5% margin of error for a binomial variable across all of the US (with 95% confidence). 1100 makes
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I disagree that it depends on such a prior belief -- the fact is that users seemed to have very positive feedback to the extension. As the extension has been taken down, it's not possible to see the reviews, but I've linked some o
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by tylerhou 5y ago
> Anyway, I can't speak for everyone, but as a remote approved FB employee, I've received no such request to RTO. Then I'm more inclined to believe you. (Hence my initial wording "this policy may have changed.")
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Facebook certainly has the right to ban this extension, but then we can't take their leadership seriously when they claim that they care about their users' health and well-being over profits. I.e. the point is the hypocrisy.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Nothing in your article contradicts the OP -- a RTO for non-remote workers being delayed doesn't mean that all workers had to RTO. (But now it seems like FB may have changed that policy.) https://www.cnbc.com/2021/
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by tylerhou 5y ago
That’s more like heapsort, because the OS will use a heap to implement a priority queue that contains times for when the next process needs to be scheduled.
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That is true of all property, so I don’t understand the relevance.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Possession of a deed is not legally binding — if someone robbed your house and took your deed, clearly they don’t own your house. The deed is only a signifier of ownership, nothing more. If you can prove in court that the possession of the
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by tylerhou 5y ago
It’s more like a deed. Even if you possess the deed, someone can still take you to court because they actually own the property. But a deed can still be a useful tool if most of the time whoever possesses a deed owns the house. But if peopl
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Group chat apps don’t care about preserving functionality when the network drops. But a document editor does. And editing a message is relatively rare in chat apps so they can afford to lock; editing a line is common in documents and the ch
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by tylerhou 5y ago
There is no notion of “same time” in a distributed system — what if a client locks a line and disconnects? Also, it leads to a poor user experience.
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The problem with your argument is that you assume that legitimate voices won't be coöpted by people pushing some agenda that is not supported by any data; i.e. you assume that the people on the other side of the "public debate&quo
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I think their argument is that if IG makes the rest of their users much more happy, that happiness outweighs the cost of making a small portion of users suicidal. First of all, it's not clear that this is the case -- that Instagram mak
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Also, as any photographer knows, the best camera is the one you have on you.
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Apple also has been doing this for photos uploaded to iCloud as they are not currently encrypted.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Wearing a mask reduces COVID transmission by ~70% [1]. Adding vaccination on top of that probably reduces transmission to ~5% percent (just a guess). These are almost free interventions. In contrast, heart disease and cancer are much more e
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Heart disease and cancer are an aggregate of very many diseases — there are many types of heart diseases (stroke, cardiac arrest, coronary artery disease), and many types of cancers. COVID is a single disease that has killed many multiples
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by tylerhou 5y ago
Startup stock is a security, despite trade restrictions (e.g. right of first refusal). Same with restricted (i.e. unvested) stock units.
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by tylerhou 5y ago
I don’t understand how you can make a profit larger than the risk-free rate of return without at least some risk; i.e. any risk free profit should be arbitraged away. If Coinbase has truly found risk-free profit it would be more profitable

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