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by yaacov 8y ago
> Electrification of mobility and transport makes the environmental argument a moot point. I disagree. Electric cars are more efficient than IC, but they still use electricity which mostly comes from fossil fuels. Add in all the massivel
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by yaacov 8y ago
New York Times has had a consistently anti-tech slant the last few years. I don’t know the reason for it, but I find it very annoying
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by yaacov 8y ago
When apartment hunting I used them to ask questions about availability of units that fit my needs and to schedule visits
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by yaacov 8y ago
Hookah smoke has almost no nicotine since it’s filtered through water, but hookah can still be addictive. That’s because tobacco also contains addictive MAOIs in addition to the more well-known nicotine. E-cigs don’t have MAOIs, only nicoti
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by yaacov 8y ago
> Using computer models, scientists simulated a 4,000-foot asteroid smashing into a 15.5-mile asteroid at 11,200 miles per hour. The biggest known potentially hazardous asteroid is only 7 km in diameter. ( https://en.m.wikipedi
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by yaacov 8y ago
Nitpicking here, but in Warren’s post she writes: > Google couldn’t smother competitors by demoting their products on Google Search. Isn’t this already illegal?
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by yaacov 8y ago
Depression and suicide rates are a bad measure of unhappiness or social dysfunction. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/15/depression-is-not-a-pr...
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The Conversation about Diversity in Tech Is Getting Hijacked by Bad Research(vox.com)
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by yaacov 8y ago
Very few people are pro- or anti- local control in general. People have specific policy goals, and achieve those goals at the level (local, state, federal) where they’re most feasible. There’s no hypocrisy there.
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by yaacov 8y ago
Facebook also doesn't sell personal information to advertisers. Both Facebook and Google let advertisers target ads based on location and other personal info, which is not the same thing as actually providing that information to third
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by yaacov 8y ago
XKCD has a comic for just this situation: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by yaacov 8y ago
> Ms. Brown said a lot of students criticize Facebook and talk about how they would not work there, but ultimately join. “Everyone cares about ethics in tech before they get a contract,” she said. This describes my what I've observe
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by yaacov 8y ago
I’m an average looking dude and my interview experience at Google and comparable companies has been pretty similar to the one described in the article
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by yaacov 8y ago
I’ve used that feature a few times. It’s very helpful when trying to grow a new group
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by yaacov 9y ago
ICE is 15 years old. We didn't have open borders before ICE, and getting rid of ICE wouldn't lead to open borders. I don't have an opinion yet on whether or not the US should get rid of ICE, but the particular argument you&#x
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by yaacov 9y ago
The only advertisements I see on Reddit anymore are from triplebyte. I'm not even looking for a job (still a student), and I won't be for at least another 9 months.
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by yaacov 9y ago
The 'how it works' section of your landing page is broken on iOS safari. This looks like a good product and one that I will consider trying when I have more disposable income. I would be more likely to use it if it included blood
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by yaacov 9y ago
That's a good point. Thank you
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by yaacov 9y ago
> “The largest supercomputers in the world are inside of two companies — Google and Facebook — and where are we pointing them?” Mr. Harris said. “We’re pointing them at people’s brains, at children.” I'm not sure if I should be conc
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by yaacov 9y ago
If malaria had some other way to spread it wouldn't wait until mosquitos were wiped out to use it. It's not like the parasite is intelligent or anything.
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by yaacov 9y ago
Looks like his blog's down? Guess I'll try again in the morning Edit: seems to be working now
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by yaacov 10y ago
Alternate title: Microsoft to add more in-app purchases to Minecraft.
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by yaacov 10y ago
One thing that would help is making Suboxone more freely available. It's a pretty safe drug that effectively treats the physical symptoms of heroin withdrawal, making quitting a lot more possible. For no good reason whatsoever, the FDA
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by yaacov 10y ago
They already spend less than most comparably-ranked universities. If you take a look at the link I posted on the top-level comment, you'll see that expenses per student have been increasing pretty slowly. Of course, waste should still
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by yaacov 10y ago
That's because nonresident admissions don't reduce the absolute number of Californians the system can support! They pay much more in tuition than the UC spends on their education, and much of the remainder gets spent on in-state r
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by yaacov 10y ago
I'm an undergraduate at a UC school right now, and I can tell you that that is happening in the UC system. State funding per student has collapsed [1] and campuses are scrambling to cover the costs. One way to do that is by increasin
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by yaacov 10y ago
Nice hypothesis! You should try to test it empirically sometime. Or wait- other people already have! Skim through this paper and let me know what you think. https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Universal-Health-
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by yaacov 10y ago
>Asians only make up 4.4% of the population. The percentage of Asians in the population of the United States is irrelevant to the question of whether Palantir discriminates against Asian job applicants because Asians make up a much lar
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by yaacov 10y ago
Hey! I'm interested in an internship, but I don't see anything about it on your website. Who should I get in touch with?
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by yaacov 10y ago
Can you recommend specific resources?

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