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by _dps 5y ago
Russia provides something like 20% of global wheat supply, something like 15% of global agricultural supplement input, and something like 12.5% of global oil/gas. They also have an enormous intellectual human capital history — the sovi
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by _dps 5y ago
You raise an important distinction, but one thing I've always found to be troublesome with K-H is that I've never seen a discussion of whether the winners would have undertaken their profitable behavior but-for the high level of p
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by _dps 5y ago
Two likely contributors: 1) due to population effects, academic positions are much more competitive now than they were in say 1970; if you figure that the top 50 research universities are not generally expanding the number of professors, an
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by _dps 5y ago
It was implemented by Bismarck but it was an explicit plan to outmaneuver the left wing by taking a popular part of their platform, which I've seen translated as "stealing socialism's thunder". Good details from a US-lef
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by _dps 5y ago
As mainly a bottom-up person, I completely agree with your analysis but I wonder if you might be using "top-down architecture" here in an overloaded way? My personal style is bottom up, maximally direct code, aiming for monolithic
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by _dps 5y ago
I think you've misunderstood what I meant; I mean incentives for businesses to pay their people more (or to offer something like apprenticeships). As for status not being lowered by words, we'll have to agree to disagree. No one i
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by _dps 5y ago
I worry that believing the jobs are not coming back is a self-fulfilling prophecy – one with dangerous consequences of locking its believers into perpetual dependence on supply from places that act essentially as sin externalization depots.
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by _dps 5y ago
In the three European countries I've lived in (2 in EU + UK), licensed engineers must sign off on new building construction plans, and take responsibility for the suitability of the design.
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by _dps 5y ago
I don't know what kind of latency vs throughput tradeoff you're facing, but given these constraints (and being on windows) I might try running multiple python processes each with the C++ structure in shared memory, and then broker
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by _dps 5y ago
I don't know if Kelley would agree with my characterization, but I don't see comptime as metaprogramming. Instead it opens the very interesting possibility of having types as values, as long as those values are resolvable at compi
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by _dps 5y ago
This is a very large gap, but as someone who has recently had four appraisals done in the space of 6 months (long story), I have had a swing of 40% from the highest to the lowest (in all cases house was unchanged, and appraiser saw me in pe
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by _dps 5y ago
This kind of flexibility is one of the advantages of consulting/freelancing. Obviously the career security aspect is different, but in a hot hiring market there isn't a shortage of opportunities. I know several people who, as they
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by _dps 5y ago
Money under the mattress does affect the economy, by changing its owner's willingness to part with a marginal dollar. If I have $1k under the mattress I probably won't risk $100 on a share of CORP. If I have $100k under a mattress
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by _dps 5y ago
I think a very large number of people (myself included) would rather drive a 1990 Rolls Royce than a 2021 Accord, all else equal. I drove a 1990 BMW well into 2010 and I would very certainly take that car (in new condition) over a 2021 Acco
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by _dps 5y ago
This model circulates a lot but I haven't understood why; it literally treats them as the same thing. The model is outcome = idea x execution So both are "multipliers" in the language of the model. The formula is completely s
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by _dps 5y ago
Unity famously hired Mike Acton (a minor hero in parts of the C++ world, and a major hero if you restrict to games). I am quite certain they pay people like him, doing infrastructure engine work that scales across all users of Unity, someth
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by _dps 5y ago
I'll confess my bias up front: pairing has never worked for me, and I really just can't write serious code unless I'm in my own head. Having said that, let me now ask pairing proponents: can you give me a rough idea of what y
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by _dps 5y ago
I like this video a lot, both because it shows the lion in peril against the pack of hyenas but also because it shows that it only takes one additional lion to change the balance completely. When the second lion shows up around 2:50 the hye
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by _dps 5y ago
I only meant to comment on the article's neutrality with regard to evaluating the meta aspect of the headline quality. I personally think that the kinds of measures proposed here are counterproductive (I am, among other things, a mathe
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by _dps 5y ago
Indeed this headline is editorialized against HN guidelines. The original headline is: "To Promote Equality, California Proposes a Ban on Advanced Math Classes" and it seems, at least upon quick inspection, to be factually accurat
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by _dps 5y ago
I'm with you re: "pay more if you want more applicants" but this does not sound like a situation where the jobs are economically unviable. When I was a student in LA in the mid-2000s I lived on basically this amount of money,
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by _dps 5y ago
I share your view of what working mathematicians think like on this subject. I summarize it thus: how many interesting theorems are there in Category Theory? And the answer you get from proponents varies, but it seems to be like 1-3 with so
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by _dps 5y ago
In the right position, excellent SWEs have enormous leverage. A median SWE might maintain some line-of-business app for an insurance company, and an excellent one might create software that is used by an entire industry (say, Redis just as
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by _dps 5y ago
I take no position on talent or wisdom, but yes the kinds of people capable of being F500 CEOs are mostly already in this category of richness.
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by _dps 5y ago
Many people with the skills to be CEOs of important companies would consider $1M a rounding error. It makes no difference to their economic outlook. Also, there are many ways to make $1M without the risk and responsibility of being a CEO (a
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by _dps 5y ago
Video games have this as well — interactive cinematography and participatory narrative. As just one of many excellent essays exploring these subjects, may I suggest Noah Caldwell Gervais on Kentucky Route Zero through the lens of participat
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by _dps 5y ago
> Currencies have to be less valuable over time, otherwise no one would ever spend the currency. I don't have an opinion on BTC (or gold for that matter) but this widely-distributed meme is simply untrue. 1) If I have a bar of gold,
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by _dps 5y ago
There is a large generational gradient here which may be relevant. As of 2016 non-hispanic white is just slightly less than 50% of births [0]. The 1 in 3 number is a good estimate for the entire US population, but the school age populatio
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by _dps 5y ago
Indeed this is all of utilitarianism debunked in a nutshell. Even the concept of aggregate utility is incoherent, because it requires unjustifiable assumptions about intersubjective utility comparisons. It's not surprising that it lead
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by _dps 5y ago
This is not a reasonable summary of Progressivism. It has 100+ years of history and has a thoroughly developed ideological, political, and moral framework. It's not just "we'd like things to progress", because "prog

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