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by woofie11 5y ago
I think the bar I gave, PQ of 130, is about right for Google. Your typical Google programmer is pretty bright and pretty competent, but not spectacular. Most of what makes big companies succeed or fail is in the overall culture, organizatio
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Pretend there's a Programming Quotient (PQ) which is like IQ. Let's say Google would like candidates with PQ>130 with 95% confidence. Google has an error with std. div. of 15 points in measurement of PQ in jobs interviews. Goog
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> Can you please show me where in my comment above I say that "science is "opinion of experts"? Right here: "What's hasty is the easy dismissal of the *opinion of experts* on a subject ... When did HN become so a
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by woofie11 5y ago
Can you please point to where I'm lying? NY Times has been running a series of articles blaming every fire and extreme weather event on climate change. This does two things: 1. Convinces liberals of the coming apocalypse of climate cha
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The two are connected. Scientists lying about climate change, especially in obvious contexts like this one, makes people see that scientists are not to be trusted. It's the boy who cried wolf.
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When the experts are all white liberal progressives competing for citations and news coverage, you're doing science a disservice by not having a critical read....
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Science is a process. HN isn't anti-science. The scientific establishment is a group of people in various organizational structures and alliances. I'm part of that establishment, and I can say that it lies, exaggerates, and has be
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by woofie11 5y ago
My first gig out of school was consulting. Heck, I did consulting in school to support tuition. I think there are a few factors to consider. (1) Ability isn't one-dimensional. Consulting is a different skillset than full-time work. It&
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> Any company that requires candidates to have significant open source contributions is going to have a hard time hiring, because it’s not very common. Nope. Logical fallacy. FAANG needs to hire thousands. Startups I've been at need
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(1) Mortgages currently have LOWER interest rates than inflation. Right now inflation is above 5%, and I know people who refinanced below 3%. (2) It doesn't matter too much in either case. If I took on a debt 5 years ago, and I'm
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Thank you! I dislike pushing "buy" too, but I like being able to find it, or at least knowing it's for sale. Most people coming in will have no idea. Two more proposed changes: 1) "Getting started" presumes I have a
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Folks would be more likely to do so if there were a visible way to do so. I suspect they'll lose many people that way, since it's not clear the thing is even for sale unless you stumble upon it somehow. Is this an open source make
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by woofie11 5y ago
I'm not sure I'd call flat earth or a geocentric model hateful, but if you think so, more power to you.
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by woofie11 5y ago
It's my own insight. I have about a half-dozen similarly remarkable insights each week. If you're interested in writing an econ paper about it, I'm glad to let you take first authorship. We can call it the "Founders Race
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It works brilliantly. It's called dumping. It created major businesses like Standard Oil, prior to antitrust laws. Indeed, it's #1 on Wikipedia's list of anticompetitive strategies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by woofie11 5y ago
I don't actually know how my child will learn to recognize charlatans and snake oil peddlers unless he learns many contradicting theories, has to sort through that, and gain experience doing exactly this. The one place where we tend to
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by woofie11 5y ago
> I don't agree any of those things should be taught in 3rd-5th grade because I think it is much more important to exercise the fundamentals of critical and creative thinking, logic, imagination, etc. at those ages. That's exac
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by woofie11 5y ago
And if you go to school in a Christian community, Christianity will be the unseen lens that underlies the curriculum. And so on with any other culture. It's not ideal, but it is what is. CRT is a helpful lens, much like Marxism, Smith-
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I kinda feel like the central problem is that CRT is that its an ideology. It's a bundle of ideas, packaged together, and you can take it or leave it as a whole. Promoters take it. Opponents leave it. I read and re-read CRT papers to u
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That's the point: it changes. One representation is a line graph with two lines -- one is showing the maximum MIPS (right now), and one is showing the actively-used MIPS. Another is a pie chart, where the size is the chart changes base
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It's the testing problem: Trying to report squish too many numbers into one. The right reporting is to report both the numerator and the denominator. I'm using 800 MIPS out of 1200 MIPS available.
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No, they're not. Learn some history. You'll see profiles of many people have that pathway. You'll also see virtually everyone 300 years ago was exposed to things which would be considered traumatic today. It's how we evo
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I would look up the life history of Temüjin, Viktor Frankl, and others. Seriously. Do a quick web search. There is a circular definition here. If we define trauma in terms of harmful outcomes, it's bad by definition, but that's ar
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Psychologists mostly mirror the cultural values they're raised in. A lot of historical figures contradict the prevailing narrative.
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There are perfectly good justifications: More Americans died than combat deaths in WWII at this point. Young Americans can be permanently disabled, and can share diseases with old professors. There are also perfectly good justifications for
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by woofie11 5y ago
Looks like MIT has one fewer way to threaten whistleblowers and activists. Yay?
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I think the FSF is starting to realize that Stallman is not forever, and FSF ethics aren't forever. Having the FSF have exclusive rights to change license terms with "or newer" terms and to hold copyrights to projects is a ba
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If we don't require it to produce a profit, profits from it shouldn't go to executives or shareholders. I'm okay with a free PUBLIC transit system. I'm okay with private transit. I'm not okay with the government-sub
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I think we should solve this problem. It's a big lift, but so was moving ASCII to Unicode, or supporting screenreaders. Making things accessible is the right thing to do, and once the right infrastructure is in place, it's not ove
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I hate to say this, but: Think of the children! Seriously. American kids can start to learn to program at age 6. Non-English-speaking kids can do so once they're old enough to know English. Who do you think will have the edge? Plus, th

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