waterhouse

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by waterhouse 2y ago
If you check the usernames, the one who suggested and the one who followed up are the same person. :-)
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by waterhouse 2y ago
If you're going to retire in N years, then that gives you an upper limit to how much you can benefit from learning (or even experimenting with) a new and potentially better approach, versus sticking with what currently works for you.
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Sure, glad to help. I can give more detail including etymology. "Woke" originally meant that a person has "awoken" to the true nature of society. They see the thing that others do not see! Unfortunately, it seems that
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by waterhouse 2y ago
(Not the person you were asking, either) In one sentence, wokeness is aggressively pursuing racial (and other identity-based) conflict above everything else, not caring what else you trample on (including even classic civil rights principle
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Or 0.days(5).hours(8).minutes(1)?
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Staggering is necessary in some cases. I've heard of scenarios where a company has lots of devices in the field which all simultaneously try to download a big update, and DDOS the servers hosting that update.
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Scene from The Wire doing roughly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg13hyfm2Ik
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by waterhouse 2y ago
From a justice perspective, it should be scaled according to the number of customers impacted (and how bad the impact was). Which is likely to be about the same as scaling with revenue.
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Related, fun post: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/roundy.html
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by waterhouse 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit famously shut down rather than compromise its security.
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by waterhouse 2y ago
If you were looking at the same revision I saw, the "citation needed" was on the word "was", and on mouseover said "Please add credible news of death".
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by waterhouse 2y ago
I take the "professional value" to mean essentially putting it on your resume, gaining publicity by blogging about it, getting conference organizers to let you give a talk about it, etc., all of which may ultimately increase the m
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by waterhouse 2y ago
> OpenAI partners with Vox Media This strikes me as very weird, coming after some highly critical reporting by Vox about OpenAI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447431
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by waterhouse 2y ago
In theory, you could pay yourself 2x for 6 months, then 0x for 6 months if the startup lacks money but seems worth persisting at. I think it's not especially rare for founders to work for temporarily zero pay early on. Seems like the
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by waterhouse 2y ago
The best, most plausible-seeming description I've encountered is that autism is a collection of imperfectly correlated traits. One may be able to make "often" and "usually" and "sometimes" statements, but
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by waterhouse 3y ago
> pick the people that were going to succeed no matter what, and claim credit for preparing them. I do think this is what lots of schools do. I mean, "the best people available" will be roughly identical with "the pool of
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by waterhouse 3y ago
An implication is that, of the metallic debris a cow might ingest, a large fraction of it is magnetizable—otherwise there'd be little point. I wonder, does this feed back into the decisions that are made? Do people deliberately choos
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by waterhouse 3y ago
The evolutionary use of anger is to disincentivize others from mistreating you.
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by waterhouse 3y ago
> when competitors point out the superiority of their own product, are they also often correct? I would say they are in fact usually correct about the specific point they're making. However, it's also common for them to be dra
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by waterhouse 3y ago
I'll note that one could say the same about any specific feature that improves a study. There's a list of ways that a study could go wrong, and if nine aspects are good, that doesn't rule out the tenth being awful enough to
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by waterhouse 3y ago
Presumably a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system > On 15 August 1971, the United States "temporarily" suspended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively b
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by waterhouse 3y ago
If you do, then that marks you as having cash to throw around, making you a more valuable ad target. So the advertisers raise their bid. It's part of the great cycle of digital content channels.
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by waterhouse 3y ago
Suppose all existing voice actors, and, to be maximally generous, everyone who had spent >1 year training to be a voice actor, was given a pension for some years, paying them the greater of their current income or some average voice acto
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by waterhouse 3y ago
Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school is the one, certainly based on the name.
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by waterhouse 3y ago
How does that work? If it were simply "oil can be turned into fuel or turned into plastic", then lowered demand should lower the price. Is it that turning oil into fuel produces plastic (or plastic precursors) as a byproduct?
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by waterhouse 3y ago
> RCTs are also observational The key phrase is "purely observational". Now, occasionally you end up with a "natural experiment" in which some accident has effectively done the randomization for you—specifically, whe
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by waterhouse 3y ago
I'm advocating that people do studies with randomized interventions—an approach that is capable of proving causation—and not being satisfied with purely observational studies that look at correlations, which are often hopelessly confou
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by waterhouse 3y ago
A randomized intervention! Huzzah! > The researchers randomly assigned participants to one of two interventions. About half received hearing aids and instruction in how to use them. The other half were assigned to a health education pro
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by waterhouse 3y ago
"Maximizing short-term profits (by cutting costs)" would be more accurate, and yeah, that is a misaligned incentive.
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by waterhouse 3y ago
And how about reading an ebook?

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