charmides

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by charmides 5y ago
I might be wrong, but regarding the anecdote about the physicists at Michigan’s Albion College attempts to model the spread of COVID-19, I think the author misfired. From what I understand, many non-epidemiologists have been surprisingly in
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by charmides 7y ago
What did you end up doing instead?
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by charmides 7y ago
"Lichess is for professionals. Plenty of GMs ims and masters play on it. Even Magnus plays the tournaments. This is like saying Linux is not enough for computer professionals." This is a misunderstanding. Lichess is used by chess
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by charmides 7y ago
That is not a favourable comparison for this website. For those who are looking for chess opening preparation software for free, I recommend just using lichess.org. Considering that lichess is ad-free and run by volunteers only, it is amazi
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by charmides 7y ago
When I first looked at the website, I thought that it looked like a nice student assignment or a weekend project. But seeing that you are already attempting to monetize this website and that you are treating this somewhat seriously, I have
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In leaked audio, Zuckerberg attacks critics, competitors and Warren(theverge.com)
8 points by charmides 7y ago|2 comments
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by charmides 7y ago
"It seems highly likely that these preferences are socially constructed." People love to think this way, but study after study suggests that those preferences are at least partly biological. It's one of those cases where ther
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by charmides 7y ago
Thank you for the insight; this makes a lot of sense to me.
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by charmides 7y ago
Sounds like my experience is more unusual then. I would love to hear from other people. Java has been front and center on my CV since I graduated from college and for the ~10 mid-size and small companies that I've interviewed at, not a
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by charmides 7y ago
Do you frequently get direct questions about your technical knowledge during interviews or is your experience more like mine?
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Ask HN: Do you anticipate technical questions during live interviews?
4 points by charmides 7y ago|6 comments
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by charmides 7y ago
I don't think psychology is typically considered STEM.
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by charmides 7y ago
Note that this piece is from 2013. I think that should be indicated parenthetically in the title.
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by charmides 8y ago
It seems like you are just repeating the same specious point that OP was refuting. Right now, it feels like companies like Google are mostly silencing hate speech, violent extremists, and pornography, but there is no guarantee that their ce
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by charmides 8y ago
Right. The author seems to think she has the right to find work in "her chosen field." Anyway, I think Slate's strategy is working fine. The outrageousness of this piece is what compelled me to share it here.
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How I Went from Graduate School Student to Amazon Warehouse Janitor(slate.com)
4 points by charmides 8y ago|2 comments
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by charmides 8y ago
I did and I still did not understand it well. I thought someone could explain it better and it'd maybe start a dialogue. Thanks for a worthless comment.
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by charmides 8y ago
This piece talks about the subject, but can anyone explain in more detail why they couldn't put out a coal fire on a ship?
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by charmides 8y ago
To the author: This does not add up. After they fired you and then had you fight to get your job back, you said they hired a "coach" to help you learn new skills. But at the end of this training, the coach reported to your boss th
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by charmides 8y ago
The insight I drew from this article is that I never want to be an early employee of a startup and put my heart and soul into it unless I own a significant part of that company.
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by charmides 8y ago
Sounds like a fun initiative. How is this financed? Do you own the rights to the work produced during the Hackerurlaub? Thanks.
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by charmides 8y ago
Terrible textbooks are written all the time by cranks and eccentrics, and I did not see how this book stood out from the rest.
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by charmides 8y ago
Didn't this type of fraud require massive domain expertise?
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by charmides 8y ago
I would like it if submitters could tag their posts in three different categories or so; pure tech, economics, and politics. Users could then configure their settings to see the content they want. I think that this approach could be taken t
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by charmides 8y ago
This is fascinating. I never heard about this.
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by charmides 8y ago
The second metric is more useful since the former one is still affected to some degree by those who die early. Would be cool to get some more data on that second metric.
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by charmides 8y ago
Related to that, usually I am a little faster finding answers to syntax questions on SO than in the documentation, even when the documentation is good. So I'm glad that people have been asking those basic questions on SO.
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by charmides 8y ago
Wish this allowed you to see the income proportion of the top 1% and 0.1% too, not just the top 10%.
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by charmides 8y ago
He serves at the discretion of Google's parent company, Alphabet, of which Page and Brin are CEO and President respectively.
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by charmides 8y ago
They're still in charge.

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