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by yarky 5y ago
I agree, the "we don't know that the cause is" type of answer makes me think of those doctors saying back in the days that we didn't know whether smoking cigarettes caused health issues. There's something called com
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by yarky 5y ago
Walking helps thinking, that is a well known fact, which I also learned from a mathematician who kept sharing in class how many problems he solved while walking his dog. He would always start his phrases with "while I was walking my do
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by yarky 5y ago
[inflation enters the chat] You can buy to consume today at a lower price than you likely will in the near future, assuming serious inflation on everything. So consuming today might be a good investment since you end up with a lower cost
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by yarky 5y ago
Believe != Reality. I still don't see the why though. It seems obvious to me that nothing is to be expected from corporations, other than a hopefully nice product at a reasonable price. Anything other than that sounds like wishful
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by yarky 5y ago
Why sad? It seems to me this is the only thing to expect from a for-profit corporation under these circumstances. I don't really see how anybody could expect something different, specially here.
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by yarky 5y ago
> You've never had to do that before? Not really, but I came across some teammates in college who didn't seem to be able to follow a conversation yet they seemed to have quite good writing skills. This might be the reason why ;
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by yarky 5y ago
[here]( https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-canada-durum-wheat-dispu... ) is the story. The point being glyphosate is widely used in Canada to increase yield and italians didn't like that either.
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by yarky 5y ago
And that's exactly why they're doing it, because there are more important things than yield, e.g. food sovereignty. Italy did something similar to target the cheap (high yield) canadian grain imports, but using labelling instead o
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by yarky 5y ago
I love how confident you sound about the Bolivian language. I guess you meant spanish, or maybe aymara/quechua. > This will be familiar to most people who've studied abroad It wasn't to me until now but this explains a lot
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by yarky 5y ago
I don't know, but this reminds me of a saying they had in the army, something along the lines of "training must be so hard as to make the real thing feel like a break". Not having windows seems harder than the real thing. If
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by yarky 5y ago
It looks like you need a car indeed. I grew up the way you live and just loved it when I first lived in a city where I didn't need a car. If you needed a bus/train to do your groceries I understand that you hated it, that&#x
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by yarky 5y ago
> I'm 40-something and I wonder if that's the case with today's teenagers or 20-something generation. That's exactly what I've realized and why I decided to get serious about cs. I didn't start in cs because
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by yarky 5y ago
> I'm sure there are some things that could be done to speed them up further (e.g. offloading them to a backend where they can run faster), but there could also be some trade-offs with that -- for one, it would violate the "eve
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by yarky 5y ago
Sure but that's true about any number, I can't think of any number which adds any value without some context. In statistics, your population is your context and all inference/conclusion depends on the population (local, city,
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by yarky 5y ago
That's part of your modelling. If you're interested in the neighborhood's income distribution, then use the neighborhood's data. If you're interested in the world's distribution, then use world data. This depen
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by yarky 5y ago
I'm not an expert statistician, but why can't you classify people's economic class based on the quantile their revenue falls in? You can assume a distribution based on the data (probably normally distributed) or go all non-pa
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by yarky 5y ago
> And sure, I'd be curious to hear how your Monte Carlo implementation might differ. Excel is just too slow/not the right tool for MC (or most serious statistics). From my experience with mcmc, compiled languages come in pretty
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by yarky 5y ago
> Where I come from, jobs are simply unavailable and at the moment you advertise it, even if it's just flipping burgers, there are lines and lines of people competing for it. I can think of two reasons: 1. I doubt those people linin
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by yarky 5y ago
Indeed, the smartest people I've met are the nicest people to chat with and always ask questions instead of affirming themselves. As you point out, skills + attitude is the smart way since everyone wants to be around a nice and skilled
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by yarky 5y ago
The OP is probably talking about the psychological impact of washing Netflix restlessly during long periods of time. That generates GDP, but the net impact on society might not be positive. Same thing with the psychological issues associate
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by yarky 5y ago
> Everything else being equal, I'd rather take someone with a 9 (out of 10) on soft skills and a 6 or 7 on technical skills, than someone with a 3 or 4 on soft skills but a 10 on technical skills. I agree, I've even had to reve
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by yarky 5y ago
Oh don't worry it wasn't just one question but the whole interview. One I remember was how would I explain [ insert random algorithm ] to a board of decision makers, I made it sound like I was explaining a 100 year old how to turn
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by yarky 5y ago
This makes me thing of the time I was interviewed by three bankers. I'd probably be rich and miserable had I answered non sarcastically :/
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by yarky 5y ago
> You made the mistake to assume that we are idiotic enough to be emotional for job interviews. And that's a risk that could potentially be spotted by a competent HR. > It's harder to deal with people who think they are comp
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by yarky 5y ago
> I would really like to know what risks (other than useless non-technical HR keeping their jobs) there are after candidates have past a certain threshold for quality, particularly for junior positions. It's harder to deal with emot
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by yarky 5y ago
3.3% of gross revenue isn't as tiny as you make it sound.
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by yarky 5y ago
> Why is it important to you that your employer view you as a person? Because we, generally speaking, are people and not robots ;) That being said, I agree with your point : people would have less issues if they just felt happy about wha
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by yarky 5y ago
I'm not an expert, but a plastic bag takes longer to disappear naturally than a paper bag. Your energy accounting and waste source/destination issues are just the top of the iceberg. The elephant in the room is the plastic.
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by yarky 5y ago
If you insist on looking at it from our perspective, how about curiosity? Let's see how far they (us) keep trying to make sense out of this nonsense. Trolling in the name of science I guess. People from North Sentinel Island might ask
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by yarky 5y ago
I agree both as a junior and as a senior human.

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