wendyshu

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by wendyshu 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764630
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Not very many international Harvard College students and I'm not sure their race is even included in the statistics
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by wendyshu 6y ago
I think I remember reading that 10% of Harvard College students are international
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by wendyshu 6y ago
It says there that the denominator (total number of graduate students) is 4577 when Wikipedia says it's 14,215.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
I've used it in the past but there were subtle interoperability issues with existing python libraries and I gave up.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
You have to quote the cost too: "TDD teams spent 15–33% more time to write the code."
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by wendyshu 6y ago
He makes his living by telling stories to a popular audience. He's optimizing for a good story rather than accuracy.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Are black people in Germany especially abused by the police?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
This is a causal claim but you've only adduced correlations.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Anti-brutality is unifying, racial victimhood is controversial. For effectiveness focus on the former, for tribal signaling focus on the latter.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
There's some optimal place between writing nothing down and writing everything down. I don't think this is that optimal place.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Fee is greater than profitability? They make a loss?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
How could we do a test to determine which is the true cause?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
A glossary for those interested in Chinese internet terminology: https://www.chinasmack.com/glossary#%E4%BA%94%E6%AF%9B%E5%85...
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Did you need to submit a government ID and all that?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
If they're so sorry and they're listening to feedback why do they employ dark patterns such as requiring a government ID to delete an account?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Because screwing up and retracting is better than just screwing up.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Should have known there'd be outrage and never done it in the first place.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
What don't you agree with?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
What's an example of a well differentiated restaurant?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Is greed unique to the real estate market?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Isn't the lack of rent already an incentive to not let places sit vacant?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
So with profits dropping they should lower rent?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
"Demoscene" is like "informatics", an ostensibly English word but used primarily by non-native speakers.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Ceteris paribus I don't think many people would find that immoral, no.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Maybe, in the sense that it could be politically destabilizing or something like that.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Have morals that aren't a function of geographic location, presumably.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Trade barriers, price controls, stimulus, etc. -- remarkable how fast economic liberalism goes out the window in a crisis.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
You have a point, maybe he's in the job he's best at, he's worth double that to the organization so he's effectively donating $800k/yr, and that's the optimal amount to give to charity given his preferences. If
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by wendyshu 7y ago
If what he's doing is so worthwhile as you say, shouldn't he donate?

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