yaacov

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by yaacov 5y ago
Facebook names their biggest outages and turns them into parts of the company mythology. Part of that is cool naming.
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by yaacov 5y ago
One benefit of rooftop solar is reduced transmission losses, but that isn’t usually enough to offset the costs from small scale/custom installation work. People like having them on their own rooftops for self-reliance, to flex on their
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by yaacov 5y ago
I don’t know what that means, can you elaborate?
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by yaacov 5y ago
I can definitely see this being an issue if your product bombs funerals, helps regimes cover up human rights abuses, or deports undocumented people. Fossil fuels are a maybe. This really shouldn’t be a problem for 99% of customers though.
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by yaacov 5y ago
The idea is to figure how to do this cheaply now so that in the future when we have abundant clean energy we can deploy it at scale
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by yaacov 6y ago
I think you’re using the word “intelligence” to mean something entirely different from what the AI alignment crowd is worried about.
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Airbnb listings in China are littered with racist discrimination(wired.co.uk)
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by yaacov 6y ago
If possible, might be worth trying to get a Covid vaccine. For completely unknown reasons that seems to help a lot of long-haulers
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by yaacov 6y ago
And cool enough! I’d rather bike year round in New York than in Phoenix. But if you can bike 80% of the time it’s not so bad to take inconvenient public transit the other 20%.
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by yaacov 6y ago
When you learn more and take on more responsibility and have more impact it helps the company, not just you. So they’re incentivized to keep you on a growth trajectory, regardless of your preferences.
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by yaacov 6y ago
I don’t quite follow... rich people and poor people have different needs, sure, but why is it bad to give people options that help meet whatever their needs are? Do you have a better suggestion?
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by yaacov 6y ago
Yeah, my German Jewish friend told me that spoken Yiddish sounds like medieval peasant German, and reading Yiddish written in Hebrew script makes him feel like he’s having a stroke.
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by yaacov 6y ago
I used to work at an aerospace startup with a lot of ex-SpaceX people. They worked 60 hrs/week and felt like they were on vacation.
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by yaacov 6y ago
I saw some of these people last lunar new year in KLM, just performing on the street in front of a pretty large (spontaneous) crowd. The acrobatics were really impressive. The performers looked like young teenagers who were having much more
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by yaacov 6y ago
I don’t think my response was born of political frustration. I think most existing gun control legislation does nothing but annoy legal gun owners. Though I would support things like universal background checks, cool down periods, and price
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by yaacov 6y ago
> Finally, the idea of "banning" guns -- which every basically qualified engineer or physicist should be capable to building from readily available materials and tools -- makes them even more interesting. If for no other reason
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by yaacov 6y ago
Don’t know about FB in particular, but decisions like these are usually made by overworked minimum wage employees who don’t care about the business outcomes, just need good enough metrics (reviews/sec) to not get fired. I’d expect this
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by yaacov 6y ago
I hear about stuff like this from Facebook pretty often, and to some extent from Amazon and Microsoft. Apple might be different because they’re mostly just making devices? The social implications are less obvious.
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by yaacov 6y ago
Naming something tells you what to look for in the academic literature (or even Wikipedia), where you will find in this case that the academic consensus has mostly moved on from the view named here
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by yaacov 6y ago
A good number of cards have been removed from the game http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Removed_cards
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by yaacov 6y ago
> Why was it OK a few years earlier when the emissions regulations were more permissive? Were the people killed by those emissions not worthy for some reason? Of course not. What changed is that in addition to being wrong, what VW did af
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by yaacov 6y ago
> The EV industry accepts that a road user charge is inevitable as the car fleets transition to electric, but argue it should be introduced fairly and evenly. It points out the petrol excise goes into general revenue rather than road fun
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by yaacov 6y ago
Why did Bloomberg adopt server-side JS in 2005?
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by yaacov 6y ago
Campaigns and parties buy polling and use it to make decisions on what messages to use, what races to invest in, etc. Those private polls were just as wrong as the public ones. From the campaigns perspective that’s wasted money.
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by yaacov 6y ago
This is a really good post for the most part, but I strongly disagree with > enforcing an arbitrary quota of half blue hurrah/half red hurrah would lead to a better flow and balance This forum isn’t meant to represent the American e
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by yaacov 6y ago
No, I just don’t know what I’m talking about. Looked into it a bit more and I was completely wrong. Thanks
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by yaacov 6y ago
Currently urban broadband costs are high in part because they’re subsidizing rural areas, right? So if starlink can cover the rurals for less costs can hopefully come down for everyone
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by yaacov 6y ago
Unions could endorse politicians who promise to enforce anti-collusion laws, incentivizing them to do so. In the US unions do stuff like that all the time.
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by yaacov 6y ago
I’d expect to see more work done in existing areas of tech worker activism: - Racial and gender equality in recruitment, compensation, and promotion. - Better working conditions for contractors and other workers who aren’t classified as emp
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by yaacov 6y ago
Can someone add IN MICE to the title?

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