woofie11

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by woofie11 5y ago
In the first 10 minutes, it was clear that: - Google has policies which are culturally unresponsive and discriminatory to Eastern Europeans. - Neither side was aware of the scope of the problem. I've seen this a lot, where there are cu
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by woofie11 5y ago
Let's say mortgage repayment is $3000, and rent only covers $2500. Let's add another $500 in overhead. I'm paying $12k per year. $36k would break me financially, but $12k is a good investment, since at the same time, two thin
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by woofie11 5y ago
Kinda. If I buy a 1M home at 2.5% interest, I have a $4,000 monthly payment. If rates go to 6%: - Housing prices plummet to $600,000, assuming people are willing to spend the same per month. - My monthly payments are identical to had I boug
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by woofie11 5y ago
That was a fascinating article. Thank you!
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by woofie11 5y ago
I would too. Unfortunately, the last Assyrian historians died nearly 3000 years ago.
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by woofie11 5y ago
None of the other parties here are EU members. Culture runs deep. France adores Vercingetorix, who surrendered to Julius Caesar after "releasing" all the women and children to die of starvation between the Roman and French lines a
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by woofie11 5y ago
To be fair, France has consistently betrayed its allies, throughout history. The start of WWII is worth looking at, where both France and Britain broke mutual defense treaty after mutual defense treaty appeasing Germany. https://
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by woofie11 5y ago
Yeah. Virtually everyone is there at 22. The problem here is metacognitive skills: knowing what you don't know. The parents are right: "Parents went ugly, they said I was a careless, stupid, ignorant boy. I know they are not right
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by woofie11 5y ago
I wasn't comparing to AMD. I've had few enough interactions with AMD that I can't pass judgement, but from the few I've had were consistent with your assessment. AMD was a complete black hole. My interactions with Intel
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by woofie11 5y ago
I think one more issue is support. If I want a chip from TI, Analog Devices, etc., I fill out a web form and get a sample. If I want to talk to an engineer, I place a phone call. If I want to order a dozen of a part, I go to Digikey. If I w
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by woofie11 5y ago
Yeah -- my experience is kids who have unconventional experiences do better socially than the ones who go through conventional school.
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by woofie11 5y ago
Increasingly, you can replace "is" with "was." Over time, MIT's acceptance of diversity, intellectual and otherwise, has waned. Right now, it's the top university brand in the world. That's a tightrope pol
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by woofie11 5y ago
Software, plumbing, and car mechanics don't need a degree. They are technician work. However, if you can have a much more fun life if you have a deep understanding of things like signal processing, image processing, differential equati
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by woofie11 5y ago
It's one of those things, if you've ever managed a larger team, that's incredibly, incredibly obvious. A single bad hire can suck up the vast majority of your management time, drain team morale, drain it further when you inev
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by woofie11 5y ago
I think the real story is subjective, not quantitative. Color pickers: https://bottosson.github.io/misc/colorpicker/ OKHSL works a lot better than the alternatives. It's really nice! OKHSV doesn't seem a
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by woofie11 5y ago
As a point of fact, that's kinda what happens at big firms. No one has yet figured out a better model. There isn't a magic oracle to point you to perfect employees. That's not really how it happens, though. You get people who
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by woofie11 5y ago
Some measure of employee quality, as evidenced in the interview. To make this simple, let's take an exam instead of an interview: * Let's say I was hiring someone to do calculus. * I want applicants who typically score at least a
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by woofie11 5y ago
Yup. The stupid brain version of a typo. * Setting the bar at 2 std dev means you need to interview 20 candidates at your hiring cut-off to find one you believe is qualified. The other 19 qualified candidates get rejected by chance. * Setti
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by woofie11 5y ago
It's a random process. I think the comments here are misleading. FAANG and peers set the bar about 1-2 std. div. above their typical hire. The cost of a bad hire is much higher than the cost of a missed good hire. People run the gauntl
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by woofie11 5y ago
I'm less concerned about fur with dander stuck to it then simply furniture with dander stuck to it. Three things to consider: 1) You can't see dander. 2) Vacuuming helps with pollens, and with dander from animals without fur too.
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by woofie11 5y ago
1) That a lot of allergic reactions come from actually touching a dog or having the dog touch something; they don't need to leave fur behind for that to happen. 2) That licking hair/fur releases the same amount of dander, whether
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by woofie11 5y ago
I don't think there is a database of allergic reactions people have had. They just happen and people move on. If the question is narrow enough, e.g., "Has there ever been anaphylaxis in response to a dog named Woofers jumping on a
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by woofie11 5y ago
Asthma attacks are not uncommon in response to dog dander. Those can be life-threatening, but can be managed with albuterol. 30 seconds with Google will turn up countless documented instances. Anaphylaxis is a very rare response to animal d
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by woofie11 5y ago
My perception is both the manufacturer and I were the victims of fraud, while Amazon was the enabler. Now, I wish the company didn't fulfill through Amazon, but that's not a crime or a fraud.
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by woofie11 5y ago
One of my worst experiences was ordering direct from a little vendor (not HDD) to avoid Amazon scams. The vendor added a markup to Amazon prices, and fulfilled with Amazon. I'm pretty sure I got a fake, ordering direct from the manufac
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by woofie11 5y ago
I do give credit to those reasons. Those reasons are fine, logical, and rational. My experience is that they more-or-less correspond to why the people I know who don't take vaccines don't take then. The existence of better reasons
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by woofie11 5y ago
It's trying to build empathy for a viewpoint. Understanding and empathizing isn't the same as agreeing. I've had 100% empathy for the opposite side of the political spectrum for a long time now. I talk to people there, and I
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by woofie11 5y ago
What I find obnoxious, and typical of MIT, is how credit is allocated. "Copyright © 2009--2015 H. Miller" Only hmm (H. Miller) didn't do the work. The "About" page, fortunately, lists the authors, but doesn't r
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by woofie11 5y ago
Yes, the algebra works, but you lose the intuition for what's going on. There's a pattern of factorial terms you see with successive integrations: 1/1, 1/2, 1/6, 1/24, 1/n!, Multiplying by 2 changes this t
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by woofie11 5y ago
It doesn't preclude the need to mask up around vaxed folks either. Delta is spreading in part because vaxed folks stopped taking precautions, trusting in vaccines. That's not good for anyone. Vaxed folks won't get severe case

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