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by vkou 6mo ago
> Even many hobbies start to require money. Hobbies require money, but a lot of hobbies don't require very much of it. Yeah, if your primary hobbies are skiing and golfing and traveling and rebuilding 60s cars, that's not going
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by vkou 6mo ago
Authoritarian hierarchies (Which is precisely what your workplace is) rarely have dignity to spare for the people building the pharaoh's pyramid.
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by vkou 6mo ago
> could also be conceived of as unreasonable It could also be conceived of as perfectly reasonable. One of the many (some very flawed) purposes of the ACA was to get more people insured, advertising that state-subsidized insurance is ava
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by vkou 6mo ago
Opening a gas station is a lot easier than acquiring mineral rights, drilling an oil well, refining that oil, and getting it to market. Oh, and your customers can't just drive across the street to your competitor because they are 1c&#x
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by vkou 6mo ago
Allright, I'll bite. Could you tell me if there's any meaningful distinction between someone hanging a Ukranian flag and a... Russian Federation flag? Circa 2026, do those flags stand for something, when hanging outside of either
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by vkou 6mo ago
> But I still think it’s a point worth making—that it could apply to anyone. ... anyone who engages in this behaviour, yes. Not anyone nor everyone does.
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by vkou 6mo ago
This criticism would carry more weight if the people this statue criticises had the intellectual and emotional maturity beyond that of a teenager. Unfortunately, they often don't meet that bar, so the message has to be in a form they c
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by vkou 6mo ago
Does our society generally have good, user-friendly practices? What will amplifying its output do?
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by vkou 6mo ago
> That rules out classes of problem which we want to teach Does it? Could you give a contrived example of a high school problem that would be ruled out by a lack of a graphing calculator? > Teaching students to graph They should be a
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by vkou 6mo ago
You can enjoy that as much as you want without the curriculum mandating or all-but-mandating that every student buy a $160 toy.
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by vkou 6mo ago
> This is nonsense. Kids are not expected to look at polynomial equations and be able to deduce the shape of the graph without a graphing calculator It is not nonsense. I'll draft an example. Any second degree polynomial is a parabo
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by vkou 6mo ago
Or, here's a wild idea - exam problems should be structured such that they do not require any advanced calculator. Math problems should not require any calculator. Physics problems should require a scientific calculator. Overcompli
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by vkou 6mo ago
There is no graphing problem that you'll be asked to solve before university that can't be plotted to a 'good enough for high school' level by hand in seconds . Four data points is sufficient to give you a 'good en
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Show me a highschool math problem you can't do on a $12 Casio scientific like the classic FX-300MS There isn't one. The TI-83 is just a $160 tax on every high school student. There is precisely zero use in a graphing calculat
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Uhm, we have an active interview pipeline where we give a take-home technical assessment. After we got a few submissions, and manually evaluated them, I fed our analyses in and our grading rubric and had it generate assessments for inc
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by vkou 6mo ago
You're assuming that the goal was making the company more successful. On the other hand, if the CTO's goal is to grow his empire with no regard to the well-being of the company, this approach makes a lot of sense.
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by vkou 6mo ago
Of course they are not well thought out. The biggest limiting factor on software quality has always been PM and executive prioritization. If they decide that you should build garbage anti-user features, that's what you'll build
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by vkou 6mo ago
They create another financial incentive for insiders to make decisions focused solely on personal profit, rather than good stewardship of whatever they are in charge of. I don't give a shit about the addicts losing their money on those
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by vkou 6mo ago
Sea level rise was much faster before the cooling of the Younger Dryas.
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by vkou 6mo ago
That's a good start, and should be followed by banning everyone else from trading on them.
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by vkou 6mo ago
The US political system is inherently unstable. It has a strong god-king executive branch of government, and only uses first-past-the-post voting, which results in truly insane election results, and little to no need for cross-party coaliti
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by vkou 6mo ago
The US spends much of its defense budget on building expensive high-tech toys and maintaining 11 carrier strike groups, because it's military priorities are, in decreasing priority: * Making sure everyone loses a MAD nuclear war * Main
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Debt can be paid off until it can't, > The USA currently depends on debt, it doesn't collect enough taxes to cover expenses as it is That's where the lack of 'good governance' comes in. Good governance woul
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by vkou 6mo ago
The escorts wouldn't be for defense, they'd be for PR.
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by vkou 6mo ago
The issue isn't the debt. Debt can be paid off. The issue is that there's a complete collapse in it's ability to pick good leadership, or at least leadership that can meet the bar of 'doesn't piss on the floor'
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by vkou 6mo ago
You can also ban 100% of gambling advertising and get 100% of the (dubious, but I'll humour the possibility) 'benefits' of gambling, while removing 90% of the downsides.
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by vkou 6mo ago
It should be obvious that the answer is no. So obvious that I'm not sure why the question is even being asked.
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by vkou 6mo ago
These aren't random citizens, these are people accused of violating export controls of sensitive, dual-use technology. They seem to be the poster children for a flight risk.
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by vkou 6mo ago
> A standup meeting to try to ensure visibility and accountability are necessary but by no means sufficient; you only get as much of those as the underlying company culture, plus the seniority of the person running the meeting. Not to m
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by vkou 6mo ago
That's exactly how it currently works, though. Different states can and do set different healthcare standards, above some minimum floor. I'm not sure why you think there's a problem with that. (I mean, I think it's a pro

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