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by YouWhy 2mo ago
The OP implicitly raises the question of why does "productivity" exist. I've been giving that some thought lately, and the hypothesis I arrived at was that of diminishing suffering. Many types of performance optimization work
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by YouWhy 3mo ago
I wonder what is the contextualization of the OP's preference of the "Palantir as a data/power broker" narrative to that of "Palantir as a highly profitable staffing agency".
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by YouWhy 5mo ago
Re the "Manhattan project in 1944" argument - I am very cautious about the "modulo engineering scaling" carve-out -- unlike the uranium manufacturing pipeline of World War 2, that involved massively scaling up a known pr
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by YouWhy 9mo ago
Touché! That's a good one.
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by YouWhy 10mo ago
Is the question at hand about balancing local building authorization with the government's intent to encourage a specific kind of national infrastructure businesses? This seems to be supported by this quote: > Putting arbitrary dead
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by YouWhy 1y ago
There's correlation all right, but is there causation? A lot of folks I know regard mechanical watches as a type of jewelry, a high value item that's not intended for the everyday. I concur that that popularity of mechanical watch
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by YouWhy 1y ago
I find merit with the core point as well the delivery. I wish it was more commonly accepted that choosing not to act is effectively a stand against one's own value system in favor of the value systems of those who do act.
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by YouWhy 1y ago
I think Python's centrality is a consequence of its original purpose as a language intended for instruction. Yeah, some of its design decisions required immense cost and time to overcome to make for viable production solutions. However
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by YouWhy 1y ago
I came to regard YAML as a kind of a syntactic HFC syrup, a bearable idea that was taken too far. Alas, YAML is just about everywhere, so the chances for a replacement that'll be both better behaved and as ubiquitous are unfortunately
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by YouWhy 1y ago
To the extent a random person's evidence on the Internet amounts to proof: From people at Facebook circa 2018, I know that end user privacy was addressed at multiple checkpoints -- onboarding, the UI of all systems that could theoretic
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by YouWhy 1y ago
TL;DR: is the described business viable? I can see how a tech-centric person would see the described business as viable, but putting on my founder hat, I realize that it faces enormous risks: - Any competitor could build the same product wi
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by YouWhy 1y ago
I'd like to encourage you consider the following two perspectives -- 1. A senior Google leader telling the shareholders "we've asked 1% of our engineers, that's 270 people, costing $80M/year, to work on services tha
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by YouWhy 1y ago
Proper disclosure: I'm not a US resident, and I'm deeply alarmed by the de facto defunding going on right now. Furthermore, I concur with the piece that a proper investment in the said fields would further the common good. However
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by YouWhy 1y ago
Hey, I've been developing professionally with Python for 20 years, so wanted to weigh in: Decent threading is awesome news, but it only affects a small minority of use cases. Threads are only strictly necessary when it's prohibiti
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by YouWhy 1y ago
Thank you, that's a well stated and thorough critique. A lot of your reaction is towards the notion of dramatic impact. Note that I tend to distinguish between an "intellectually capable" researcher and a "right stuff&qu
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by YouWhy 1y ago
> This raises the question of what constitutes "dramatic impact" That's a valid critique. What I had in mind is the overwhelming prevalence of researchers who in my opinion have never even carried out a high risk high rewa
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by YouWhy 1y ago
Proper disclosure, I have a graduate degree with a thesis in a STEM field from a university that's occasionally ranked worldwide top-100. I appreciate a lot of my former classmates on a personal level, but do think that a lot of them d
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by YouWhy 1y ago
Bell Labs grew to be a dominant player in an age that was characterized by an oversupply of a manageable number highly capable scientists who did not all have a chance for getting anything resembling funding. Today we have a huge oversupply
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by YouWhy 1y ago
What I find remarkable is the way the Admiralty - a very imperfect system with multiple facets that are downright clownish is nevertheless principled as a whole when it comes to strategic interests - the nation's foes are harassed, lea
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by YouWhy 1y ago
Actually I do not see the similarity. However it appears that you see disrespect where only respect was intended - could you propose how should I have conveyed the message in a way that would appear more respectful in your eyes?
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by YouWhy 1y ago
> people in more precarious circumstances have more kids. I don't know why. Did you consider that the judgement of precariousness of the people's situation is in your value system, and does not necessarily transfer to their val
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by YouWhy 1y ago
The duty cycle (number of business days per year) is less than 1% for typical guests but around 100% for a sizeable chuck of hosts, and in the 20-80% range for a lot of the rest. Hence I expect the host LTV to be a couple of orders of magni
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by YouWhy 1y ago
I mean by "competitive economic prosperity" the ability of a national economy to endure multiple successive economical challenges of modernity as well as other nations. Such challenges include the changes in labor costs, evolution
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by YouWhy 1y ago
I wonder how popular is my theory that competitive economic prosperity in modern times is almost always typical in liberal regimes, and is almost an impossibility in populist regimes. Successful conquests could possibly constitute an except
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by YouWhy 1y ago
I have very little sympathy towards the Soviet empire, but the war remained on the Afghan side of the border, and was of a limited scope for most of its duration; construing the Soviet defeat into a direct cause of regime collapse is an ext
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by YouWhy 2y ago
My only non-truvial tip about tmux is that the only thing that one needs to do is to look for help: Ctrl+B then '?', and then figure the rest out. When I learnt tmux, I had to access multiple VMs which were de-facto ephemeral, whi
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by YouWhy 2y ago
> That thing isn't going to last 3 winters let alone a volcanic eruption. Could it have been a case of survivorship bias? I.e., perhaps jankier facilities have been built at Pompeii but simply did not make it at all or were not prio
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by YouWhy 2y ago
The home in question is thought to have belonged to the wealthiest family around - which, for a society where economics are generational and local, practically means super-rich. In modern societies such super rich people flock to major citi
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by YouWhy 2y ago
The domain name is consistent with the name of one of the founders of the mentioned startup, Loom.
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by YouWhy 2y ago
While I'm not a mathematician, I think such an attitude on behalf of the journal does not encourage healthy community dynamics. Instead of allowing the community to join forces by breaking up a larger problem into pieces, it encourages

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