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9y ago
You can't pay debt with debt. They may be getting better interest rates on the bond market to refinance their existing loans but total liabilities are going up, not down.
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No misrepresentation? Like Sundar Pichai and the media conveniently conflating neurosis with the completely unrelated theory of neuroticism? Search "Google memo neurosis" and see how many headlines contain "neurosis" whe
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The acronyms aren't changing, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks have been around for 50 years. It's only recently that code libraries like TensorFlow have abstracted away a lot of the math to the point that it&#
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9y ago
Sure, if you ignore the advancements of NLP in the past few years. Sometimes I wish I had NLP in my terminal to autocorrect my typos.
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I basically had to put up with that every day in the college library. I don't mind glass offices until I get the itch to pick my nose. I get that the optimal environment for programming work is at home or in a private office, but they
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I don't know the degree of complexity or technical ambition of the project you were a part of, but it's not unusual for a 23 year old guy to write most of the Ethereum app. In fact, that's probably the reason why most ICOs ar
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I don't get the complaints, that looks very cozy even if you have to share with what looks like a total of 4 engineers per room which is a reasonable number for collaboration. The second picture makes it look greater than 4, however. A
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Being neurotic is hardly an insult in the first place, it's a reversible state of mind. But searching "google + neurotic" showed that a significant number of news outlets made the same convenient mistake as Sundar Pichai. It&
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Why Google’s firing terrifies social conservatives so much
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I count 34 sources and 3 graphs that were completely omitted by journalists and conveniently tuned out by all the know-it-alls who said he cited zero sources and were therefor more qualified to assert their reasoning on this subject than a
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I doubt it. The women threatening to quit over twitter would still do the same thing if a social media post attached to his name and job went viral. Make no mistake, it's his views that he was fired over, not the medium in which he sha
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The brevity and aesthetics of async/await has made me reluctant to move back to any pyramid type async chain. I don't know if it's good practice, but I use typescript to declare an optional null type and just return a null fr
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It's funny that I read past this line without even thinking about how unusual it is that it needs a source. I've read so many blogposts and tweets about how it's justifiable to punch people in the face over specific disagreem
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As a non-white man, please show me where I can find these normal entry level jobs that pay six-figures out of college. Please, I have student loans and my mother is sick.
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> Only someone who is not a woman or not from a minority could say this. People tend to dismiss other peoples problem or minimize them, even when those people are telling they are hurting. Only someone who is a woman or from a minority w
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He's a Harvard trained Systems Biologist (3 years into a PHD based on LinkedIn). If his educational qualifications aren't enough for an unofficial rant, all of the graphs and hyperlinks he used as external references were edited o
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> They can put anything they want into it, even $0. Those pledges aren't even enforced. A country can pledge whatever, and change their mind later. Sounds like unlimited vacation. If anybody is trying to sell you something that'
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I know the people I wouldn't want to work with, and they plaster their names and beliefs all over social media for the world to see. I'm mature enough to get past my views and work with people of different viewpoints as I've
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The mistake Google made was thinking that they don't have 100 conservative-leaning employees also willing to martyr themselves in the shadow of the original author's exit. What are they going to do when someone else steps up and m
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Why did you present it as if this is just something that the guy "believes?" I thought that was the strongest argument of his memo and the perhaps the point with the biggest scientific backing. If you wanted to pick out any argume
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It says a great deal that some people won't concede that a company like Google doesn't have "hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for 'diversity' candidates" even if the author was much more pol
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Assuming 1) is a true premise and 2) ??? is some black box function, it's hard to reason in any way that 3) is not true to some extent. When you change the input, you would expect the output to change unless you can somehow argue that
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What a tragedy
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So if everything is already an art, why include it in the acronym?
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How is your solution any different to the other hundreds of FSBO platforms currently operating? What value does it bring over Redfin or Zillow? Why would real estate agents, escrow agents, mortgage brokers want to work with you if it means
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Sure. If I had a billion in the bank, I'd be 100% for bribing the common folk with their own tax revenues. As a rich person, the only thing preferable to no taxes is exorbitantly high taxes so no-one else can get rich and my relative p
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Why do these discussions always devolve into talks about punching people or getting punched? I can't get through a day without somebody suggesting violence is the only response to get somebody to think like them. If you don't want
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If Marissa Mayer is the best female candidate that comes to mind, then that proves the best candidate for the job does not happen to be female.
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So this guy in Amsterdam happens to be a prodigious programmer who reads lots of books and lands a sequence of full time jobs due to people seeing potential in him. After several years, he quits his well paying job to start a business at 22
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Why should I not deserve to be in the top 20%? I worked hard, studied diligently, and obtained rare and pragmatic skills so that I may live my life to a greater degree of contentedness than 80% of people. Why should I not I want my kids to
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