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by wegs 6y ago
There's a difference between a disagreement, name-calling, and cancel-culture. This has crossed at least into name calling. From the article: "astrophysicist Ethan Siegel called Loeb a 'once-respected scientist'" I&
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by wegs 6y ago
Scientific papers aren't for money, but they are for faculty positions and tenure. They suffer from much of the same grandstanding and outright fabrication as books do. We're living in a post-truth era, and it's a problem we
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by wegs 6y ago
I'm not even sure I'd call it a "danger." The Sahara creeping south is a danger. If we could make a dent in the amount of sand, it'd be a pretty amazing thing.
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by wegs 6y ago
You mean "withdraw resources by dictatorships", not "from" dictatorships. As a dictator, my goal is to fill my bank accounts for when I get deposed. In most cases, countries who have their resources fleeced have lawful m
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by wegs 6y ago
The Nazi and Stalinist regimes also stood to change the world too, you know. That didn't make them like the Apollo project. To be clear, I'm not trying to liken Bitcoin to either of those, just to point out that there's a spe
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, let me pick those apart. 1) By-and-large, I do call people by what they want to be called, but by-and-large, I have few ways of knowing before we've interacted. Over email, I typically mirror whatever they use (if they call me wi
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by wegs 6y ago
The first segment, on Dr/Mrs/Mademe/First Lady/etc. Biden is ill-informed. The use of titles carries very different implications in different cultures. America is diverse. First name can signify disrespect or familiarity
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by wegs 6y ago
If my life depended on having a self-driving car ready in a year to drive me to California, I'd have a self-driving car ready in a year. It could drive me to California with perhaps only a 25% chance of an accident. I mean, it might be
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by wegs 6y ago
Non-rhetorically, I'd encourage you to look at which vaccines we're missing and why. Do any of those apply to COVID19? Early vaccines were made in the scientific equivalents of modern basements and worked adequately well. Influenz
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by wegs 6y ago
Why? In many cases, the hard part isn't so much making a working vaccine, as proving it works, scaling manufacturing, etc.
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by wegs 6y ago
Owners. What a concept. The owners are the shareholders. GameStop was started as a side gig by Riggio, who was also the founder of Barnes and Noble. He has bigger things to worry about, like his retirement. It's been run by professiona
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by wegs 6y ago
Not really: * CEO gets a golden parachute and finds a new job. A competent CEO will always find a job. A turn-around is risky, and a failed turn-around will have exposes and will ruin a career. Easier to stay-the-course. * Workforce is laid
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by wegs 6y ago
Like Radio Shack seamlessly turned into makerspaces, as the maker movement came out, where people could 3d print, design things together, and whatnot? Turning businesses around is HARD. I hope they do something, but I'm not optimistic.
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by wegs 6y ago
There isn't a robust economics argument for advertising. We're dumping a bunch of economic resources (lost otherwise productive time) into an industry that serves to distort free markets. There are claims of letting people know ab
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by wegs 6y ago
I would consider look at the content of websites, not of ads. Advertising is generally dishonest and predatory. It also tends to be AB tested and targeted enough that it doesn't feel dishonest to the readership of any particular venue.
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by wegs 6y ago
I tend to distrust web sites when I find they serve up false information. I don't tend to pattern match on speech/content patterns of groups I disagree with. You have half the country distrust anything with ads for guns, and the o
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by wegs 6y ago
Having been down this road perhaps a half-dozen or a dozen times, I take the same attitude towards exposing business processes to Google Cloud as I do to exposing myself to COVID19: * Only when strictly necessary (there are no viable altern
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by wegs 6y ago
To be specific, we're in the land of confirmable and obvious. Consider: * Most conspiracy theories are false. * Many conspiracies do exist. I've seen people involved in a few. In conspiracies, people keep secrets. Ergo, there&#x27
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by wegs 6y ago
Perhaps it might be enough to allow this sequence to play out is if they were a new immigrant family if it was actually playing out . At least where I live, it's not. Socioeconomic mobility is dead. My family has moved up these rungs,
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by wegs 6y ago
From my perspective, financial stability is when, if you lose a job in an economic downturn, you don't automatically lose your house. You have enough savings for 1-10 years (yes, that's a big range). But yeah, it's a fair poi
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by wegs 6y ago
Kinda.... 1) I'd expect a credible brokerage to treat me like a human being. Call me up. Talk to me. Allow me to add money to my account if need be. Simply liquidating my position with no notice with an automated script isn't how
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by wegs 6y ago
My experience as well, until the first time I got funded. After a success under your belt, it's easy to keep going and get more funding. There's no shortage of capital looking for people to fund right now (it goes through spells).
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by wegs 6y ago
I kinda feel like there ought to be some coherent effort to archive all this documentation, beyond archive.org (perhaps in collaboration with?). Good developer docs have source code, and are often interactive (you can play with code in a sa
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by wegs 6y ago
On a more serious note, most uses of Docker that I've seen push problems back, and have accumulating technical debt (with interest). * Robust systems shouldn't be tied to pinned versions. If your code works with PostgreSQL 9.6.19,
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by wegs 6y ago
> 1) If you're writing anything that's not a script with a few lines, and you care about your software not being terrible to maintain and change for other people in real production settings, typed languages wipe the floor with
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by wegs 6y ago
There is a self-reinforcing network of assumptions in that statement: - Good architecture beats good code. - There are things I can express in dynamic languages which are hard to express in static languages. - If you're not expressing
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by wegs 6y ago
And the opposite -- tons of little unimportant scripts sitting around that add a lot of value as a whole, but just aren't worth devoting to rewriting on a whim of poor decision making skills of the Python developer team.... I have Pyth
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by wegs 6y ago
There's a scene in Major Payne: === [Marine has been wounded] Marine Private: AHHHH my arm, my arm! Major Payne: Want me to show you a little trick to take your mind off that arm? [Marine nods and Payne grabs the private's pinky f
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by wegs 6y ago
My experience from other organizations: * Corruption runs to the top. * The top is very careful to communicate verbally, through implications, or otherwise. Dunno about Google.
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by wegs 6y ago
I predict the following changes: 1) Typed languages are worse, and you want people with high levels of competence. 2) Java actually IS terrible. You win very little by designing for incompetent coworkers. Plan for competence, and hire appro

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