caethan

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by caethan 2y ago
Harris significantly outspent Trump, particularly in key swing states.
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by caethan 4y ago
Part of the reason why in particular English & French settlers saw the local Indians as incapable of building the things they saw is because by the time they were settling these areas, the local Indians were massively depopulated and re
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by caethan 4y ago
Relevant article from patio11 on how to fix this problem if you have it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
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by caethan 5y ago
The context is more like this: we regularly have internal brainstorming sessions when we run up an interesting or tricky problem, to come up with ideas on how to solve it. So in the context of an interview, I'm trying to treat the int
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by caethan 5y ago
Scientific computing. We write software to do domain-specific scientific analysis on customers' machines. So we have a diverse set of needs of the specific analyses to do: sometimes we just use algorithms out in the open literature,
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by caethan 5y ago
Interviewees are encouraged to use Google, code on a laptop rather than on a whiteboard, etc. Sadly, I only get an hour to interview people rather than a week. But I have had people complain about "completely unrealistic problems unr
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by caethan 5y ago
It's the other way around: the "green = new" is derived from the usage of green timber, where newly cut timber is literally green.
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by caethan 5y ago
I've heard bitching about some of the interview questions our team asks before, but here's the thing: each of those questions is about a problem our team actually had to solve before, reformulated into an interview-style question
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by caethan 5y ago
Compare to needle cases, which were similar womens' tools. Most of them were wooden or bone, but rich women would get fancy ones made of bronze, and pretty commonly be buried with them.
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by caethan 5y ago
It was found in a woman's grave goods: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s00283-013-9403-7 Sewing, spinning, weaving, and knitting tools are fairly common grave goods to find in women's graves: spindle whorls, nee
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by caethan 5y ago
Plenty of people foresaw it. California spent ~$200m on building up a stockpile of PPE and other medical supplies back in 2006, before Brown cut funding for the program in 2011.
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by caethan 5y ago
I think we're at the point where public mandates are doing more harm than good. I am disappointed that there are so many people pushing back against simple approval of an effective vaccine because they are worried about an unnecessary
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by caethan 5y ago
Because the largest risk anyone has found with the Pfizer vaccine is of myocarditis in teenage boys.
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by caethan 5y ago
The risks of Covid to children is, as you say, extremely low. The risk of the Pfizer vaccine to children is even lower. Right now those "individuals with an underlying complex disability" are not allowed to get vaccinated because
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by caethan 5y ago
Here you go, Bernal Diaz del Castillo's account of the conquest of Mexico, written as a soldier in Cortez' company: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm
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by caethan 5y ago
More than 90% collapse in Mexico from 1520 to 1580, mostly from three epidemics. Starting from ~22m, 8m (37%) dead from a 1520 smallpox epidemic, 12-15m dead (~80%) from a 1545 cocolitzli epidemic, and another ~2m dead (~50%) from a 1576 c
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by caethan 5y ago
There's one, at Fort Pitt during the French and Indian war, as documented by multiple letters, as described in your link.
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by caethan 5y ago
There is exactly one documented case of deliberate attempts to spread smallpox among the Indians, from the British during the French & Indian war. https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smal...
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by caethan 5y ago
California regulatory requirements basically shut down drivers owning their own trucks: the cheap old diesel trucks aren't in compliance anymore. So there's a lot of scummy leasing arrangements for the newer more expensive truck
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by caethan 5y ago
But lots of stocks have their spread limited by the subpenny rule, in which case additional HFT in that market is completely socially useless.
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by caethan 5y ago
But the spread in many-to-most stocks is limited by the sub-penny rule (SEC rules, as of 2005, say you can't have a spread < $0.01) rather than by the supply of market makers in that stock. Extra competition in those markets is neg
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by caethan 5y ago
The Amish do not simply reject all technology past a particular date. Instead, they collectively decide on whether their community will use any particular new technology, based on whether they believe it will best serve the needs of the
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by caethan 5y ago
It's really strange seeing the anti-suburban attitudes right after we got a lesson in why relying on communal urban amenities doesn't always work. We moved to a nice town in walking distance of several parks and small shopping dis
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by caethan 5y ago
Scott has OCD. Search for "obsessive compulsive disorder" here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/11/going-loopy/
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by caethan 10y ago
Brain drain from developing to developed countries is far from a clear win. Here's some good links talking about the effect of emigration of Kenyan health care workers (mostly to the UK and the US) on Kenya: http://www.nc
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by caethan 10y ago
Here's the framework that I've found useful for thinking about this in my own life. There's three ways to spend your time: work, rest, and leisure. Work is all the things you need to do to live your life. This includes you
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by caethan 10y ago
Except that as far as the article describes, the students aren't being charged with a crime, the brokers are (and are pretty unambiguously guilty of it). The students are just losing their visas.
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by caethan 11y ago
The problem is with the consistent hand-waving between economically efficient - on average we've got more wealth - and we all have more wealth. Suppose my neighbor has a plot of land that he's not really using - it's mostly