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by wisty 2y ago
Is college actually adding value, or just filtering? If it's more the later, then more degrees mean that they're worth less.
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by wisty 2y ago
See e.g. the debate on colourblind casting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color-blind_casting
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by wisty 2y ago
There's also a lot of regulation and lots of subsidies (the US has similar per capita public spending to Canada - old people on Medicare are not cheap). If something is so heavily regulated and subsidised that the private sector is onl
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by wisty 2y ago
As I said, it's consumption not wealth. A billionaire with a super-yacht is more obscene than a trillionaire who doesn't have one.
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by wisty 2y ago
It's not real money. They aren't holding all the gold like a dragon. Or maybe they are, but that isn't hurting anyone, it's wealth not consumption. They consume the same number of calories as a poor person. They breathe
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by wisty 2y ago
It's always worth remembering that a soldier who costs a million dollars to train can be killed by a 20 cent bullet. But soldiers still exist. Everything in a war will involve losses that appear asymmetric if you consider losses in iso
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by wisty 2y ago
You're right, Reagan did ask where the war room was though, thinking it was real.
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by wisty 2y ago
The famous B52 cockpit - From wikipedia: > Lacking cooperation from the Pentagon in the making of the film, the set designers reconstructed the aircraft cockpit to the best of their ability by comparing the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortres
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by wisty 2y ago
Whether you're very left wing and want to lean on "elite theory" or more economically minded and want to call them "principal agent problems", it seems hard to avoid some employees having a lot of power in a larger
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by wisty 2y ago
Even manga translated into English is right-to-left with the first page (in English) scolding you for opening the book at the back, and telling you how to follow the text. Also fans of some manga (especially One Piece?) will talk about how
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by wisty 2y ago
Experts are often slower at starting to learn new tricks, because they don't need them, but are better at using them once they do. But for junior devs, it's often the blind leading the blind. That said, I don't actually use C
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by wisty 2y ago
Sorry, it was from a comment, metrics showed senior devs improved, juniors didn't. But if you want a sketch solution quickly, know the requirements, and can fix the silly mistakes it's a useful tool. Especially if you are doing so
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by wisty 2y ago
The mainstream thought is that they are real and undetected, but there are theories that they aren't and there's plenty of attempts to modify laws to explain them away (and I suspect there's some wistful thinking that there&#
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by wisty 2y ago
Not true. Current research is that experts are better with a ChatGTP, and beginners worse. An expert knows what to ask, and a beginner juat flails around. Tools like calculators, ChatGTP, Google, and chainsaws are often force magnifiers for
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by wisty 2y ago
Pituri is a native Australian tobacco relative (the only widely used old world tobacco) and was a hallucination in high doses.
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by wisty 2y ago
The vast majority of people are not that great at statistics. Even something as banal as "correlation is not causation, and can often be explained by a common cause" will blow a fair few minds (e.g. telling most people that old ch
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by wisty 2y ago
Haha, just like vitamin D. Everything is associated with going outside, but where is the causality? Almost any negative event, from financial to relational setbacks to a global pandemic make people spend more time indoors and will also have
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by wisty 2y ago
With heavy metals like Cd, it's a good first order of approximation. It's not like flourine that's a vicious oxidiser when it's alone, and so stable the only real issue with it is you can't get rid of it when it&#x2
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by wisty 2y ago
Seems somewhat legitimate, though I'd prefer more log graphs, linear scales can be misleading. Perhaps the Hakone Maru in 1968, the first TEU container ship (I think), was a harbinger.
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by wisty 2y ago
Non-programmmers are also often very proud, and also devalue things they can't do, so even if there's no technical issues that the boss needs to understand (e.g. if there's conflict or trade-offs) then this could be an issue.
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by wisty 2y ago
Reminds me of the HB100 teardown, but at least this one has an IC to make it more soothing that I don't really understand how it all works. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/teardown-tuesday-hb100...
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by wisty 2y ago
I have also yet to see a single WFH advocate explaining how to square their replies to objections (usually "managers should find better KPIs") with their theory of the firm (you don't just rely on KPIs, unless you are as good
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by wisty 2y ago
The teenagers working at the local McDonalds do a fine job modifying some truly unpleasant people.
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by wisty 2y ago
I assume any massive Musk hater has a weird parasocial relationship with the guy, and used to love him but feels betrayed. Obviously he's a bit flawed, and makes some bold and sometimes quesionable decisions, but that's not always
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by wisty 2y ago
Australia is more regulated than the US when it comes to plumbing and electrical, but it's still no problem getting an installer. Anyone who can install an air conditioner can install a heat pump, it's literally an identical job.
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by wisty 2y ago
> But drawing on his experience creating Khanmigo, an AI-powered tutor, Sal makes a compelling case that AI-powered technologies will be different. That’s because we finally have a way to give every student the kind of personalized learn
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by wisty 2y ago
I suspect a lot of people are actually kind of angry at themselves, but want to blame the ad for making them angry at themselves. How many people have a painting set, or a musical instrument, and dream of getting good at it but just can&#x2
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by wisty 2y ago
People assume this serves no-one, but a well heeled public servant with good insurance (or some other member of our new moral rulers) might think it's a fair deal, especially if R&D is amorised by having poor people also forced to
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by wisty 2y ago
It's still addictive and likely to be horrible for your heart (smoke causes cancer, but nicotine even in low doses causes what looks like heart issues, though unlike cancer these might be reversible).
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by wisty 2y ago
There's a lot of cognitive dissonance in the dislike of repetition, I think. People say they want to be good at things, but need excuses if they are told it takes work. So they find exuses to say that repetition isn't going to mak

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