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by warcher 9y ago
Optimizing runtime performance can be a little tricky and nonintuitive. Debugging can similarly be tricky-- inspecting internal return values is not super fun.
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by warcher 9y ago
To say nothing of the many potential causes for potential cognitive decline in later life. I would expect the vast majority of cases of dementia in life to not include CTE. Except for NFL players. I'm honestly puzzled at the people
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by warcher 9y ago
110/111 testing positive for CTE is insanely high , even with selection bias. This is a big, big deal, and should be treated like a big, big deal. This is not hyperbolic in the slightest. If a chemical plant was suspected of causin
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by warcher 9y ago
They didn't say that. Here's the quote I believe you skimmed and misinterpreted. "About 1,300 former players have died since the B.U. group began examining brains. So even if every one of the other 1,200 players had tested n
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by warcher 9y ago
There's a pretty significant cult of the hero founder in businessy type writing. It makes for a good and almost entirely true story. But good stories always leave out at least as many things as they put in.
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by warcher 9y ago
I cofounded a small tech shop in flyover country. Mostly fitness and music stuff. Not hiring at the moment, but if you do native mobile, hit me up, we do a lot of stuff and it's only a matter of time before I need another native guy.
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by warcher 9y ago
I read and respectfully disagree-- this is college , not high school or trade school. You're not training for diesel engine repair here, you're training for white-collar jobs. Basic algebra is pretty uniformly necessary today,
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by warcher 9y ago
If you're a STEM person on my team that cannot write in a coherent and precise fashion, I am going to find you and you had better pray you're worth retraining, because this is a non-negotiable part of any technical career you coul
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by warcher 9y ago
I swear to god NPR spends half their time actively trolling at this point.
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by warcher 9y ago
Yeah man, the cure for declining American competitiveness is absolutely dumbing things down even further. The other countries need to respect our dum-dums!
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by warcher 9y ago
It's either part of the entire round, or it's gonna go to a founder, one of whom is an engineer if it's a tech biz, and it'll feed them for 2-3 months while they get the prototype together.
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by warcher 9y ago
This is probably not a facebook problem, as facebook serves you content based on.... god only knows what. But HN? Reddit? Tweeter? Rampant. Real bad for engagement, as anybody looking at a post with more than a few comments knows not t
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by warcher 9y ago
Unrelated but worse problem: top of feed livelock. If you're below the fold, cause, I dunno, you got shit to do, you are only going to get viewed by heavy scrollers, which overly favors (IMHO, as somebody with shit to do) folks who ge
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by warcher 9y ago
It's never going away, I don't think. Workers love getting extra money, and most food industry operations are barely staying alive as it is. I'm annoyed enough to whine, but I still tip.
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by warcher 9y ago
The problem with tipping is that it's spreading, as wages aren't keeping up with cost of living, but employers won't hand out raises. Uber driver? Tip. Sandwich shop? Tip. Coffee shop? Tip. Pizza delivery? Delivery fee
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by warcher 9y ago
It's not as if we don't have experimental data on both the ability to run a government that is more or less functional with a bunch of self-interested actors in general, or the relative merits of the free market vs socialized heal
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by warcher 9y ago
Basically yeah. I bought a car last month and I paid an extra... twenty percent before I walked out the door. Drives me nuts. That and fucking tipping, man. Enough already. Just put the price on the menu- I'm good for it, I swear.
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by warcher 9y ago
Oh yeah, I don't mean it'd work, I think healthcare neatly falls in the category of collective action problems that are poor fits for the capitalistic profit motive. A lot of people would suffer and die unnecessarily. And in a d
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by warcher 9y ago
Somebody pays, or you die in the gutter. Lotta people talk about charity as a replacement for government services, but folks give around 3% of their income to charity (tax deductible) in the US. That ain't gonna get it done. Not even
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by warcher 9y ago
It's still absurd to me that we make the false differentiation between taxes and insurance premiums. If you've got a family, neither is negotiable. If you have a job that pays, I promise you it affects your check in nearly ident
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by warcher 9y ago
Point two would be a hell of an incentive to get insurance, by the by. Beats the hell out of some candy-ass tax penalty. "Young invincible bet wrong, got caught in some freak skateboarding accident? Sucks to be you. You an organ do
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by warcher 9y ago
It's a fun thought experiment, but we'd never do it. A free market would look something like this: 1) everybody buys their own insurance in a genuinely free marketplace (this is ENTIRELY not the case now and would probably require
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by warcher 9y ago
It's a lot to do with the culture of entrepreneurship-- to do this stuff well requires taking a lot of risks without a lot of oversight. You can become fantastically successful doing it too, which comes with a whole host of other psyc
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by warcher 9y ago
I dunno, generally the best argument for democracy is when things come out of balance, there is a mechanism to adjust how things work without violent revolution (which generally necessitates a greater level of destruction than is advisable)
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by warcher 9y ago
Would you agree that the deliberate limits on participatory democracy imposed by Beijing are limiting the ability of the non-elite factions in society to redress these imbalances, or do you think, even with universal suffrage, the citizens
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by warcher 9y ago
If the sea change we observe as a result of these allegations is VC's and tech executives being scrupulously professional in their interactions with female founders and employees, to prevent even a whiff of impropriety, I think we&#x27
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by warcher 9y ago
haha, literal rust. Everything is decaying, all the time. Entropy never sleeps, to paraphrase.
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by warcher 9y ago
What would somebody from NBC be looking to get out of Snapchat? I admit fully that I'm too old for Snapchat-- I don't want my stuff to disappear, I don't do anything embarrassing and I forget enough crap already. Is it just
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by warcher 9y ago
Hm. Feels like a whole lot of companies are jumping on the Netflix bandwagon with original content. And here's the thing that concerns me: Netflix, on a tech level, is pretty much a solved problem. There's stuff left to be done f
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by warcher 9y ago
The issue with cutting a deal with Japan, as I see it at least, is that there are all these other countries where you now have to answer the question "Well, if you were willing to deal with _____, why not me?" As it appears that

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