cipheredStones

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by cipheredStones 6mo ago
Location: Portland, Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Primarily backend engineering - APIs, databases (SQL and NoSQL), making complex systems work together. Enough of a full-stack dev (React, etc) to build personal ap
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by cipheredStones 1y ago
Every guy named Gary is named after Gary, Indiana. Gary Cooper named himself after the town, and then got very, very popular.
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Well, programming is a tool, right? There are clearly incorrect ways to program, but that doesn't mean there's one correct way to program - because it depends on what you're trying to make. It's incorrect to make a b
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
> 100% land value tax will get rid of those too. How many divisions does Henry George have? It's not really relevant to bring in radical overhauls to our economic system when people are talking about what politically-possible change
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
> Gen Z only voted democrat by a 4% margin Yes, which is not remotely the same claim as > Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election [and therefore Zuckerberg needed to change political course for his social media to s
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
> Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election What on earth are you talking about? 18-29 year olds were the most Democratic age group, as usual. 18-29 year old men might have slightly favored Trump, but to a significan
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Did you just arrive from Mars to judge our discourse norms? It's completely typical to expect someone who makes a surprising factual claim to back it up with evidence. You're talking to them because you think they might know som
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Something being in a business's best interests is very far from a guarantee that it'll happen. I've worked on a team in a household-name big tech company where our mission was almost exactly "make sure we're not blo
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Is there a known mechanism by which that happens? Or was it just a weird idiosyncrasy of her body and her diseases?
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
"Doctors won't mention that losing weight and exercising more will make you healthier" is quite a take. I've heard exactly the opposite from any number of people: that if you're overweight at all, many doctors will
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
> The Cosmic Crisp is a cross between Honeycrisp and Enterprise apples. So it's enterprise-ready. But is it webscale?
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
> But it's also not appropriate to lump them together and say "Big Pharma's critics are in the wrong." And accordingly, I didn't ever say that this was a good bill or all its critics were in the wrong. A lot of p
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
As I said in a sibling comment, the fact that there are real concerns about something doesn't justify ignoring the truth value of inflammatory claims about that thing. If one person is criticizing Big Pharma because they use shoddy tri
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
No. But "new cars will have mandatory automated controls to prevent drunk driving, which may be implemented insecurely in a way that creates major vulnerabilities" (very reasonable) is not the same claim as "Joe Biden signed
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
You and afh1 seem to be reading both the article and my comment as focused on whether it's appropriate to characterize a device that prevents a car from starting as a "kill switch". I didn't say anything at all about tha
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
> Media rushed to say it's not really a kill switch, just "sensors or cameras to monitor the driver’s behaviors, head or eye movements" and "block the driver from operating the vehicle". So... a kill switch. You&
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
I really enjoyed this phrasing, from the comments on the post: > I suspect the careerization of Big Science and Big Academia has a lot to do with [unwillingness to plainly admit error]. Although I have no proof to that effect. And certa
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
I wonder how long that site will be up, given his death. Hope someone mirrors it. It's interesting to read the Nicholas Kristof op-ed from 2006 ( https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/opinion/03kristof.h
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Sci-Hub complied with the order with the intent to actually argue their case (and possibly establish a legal justification for the site), rather than just defying the order and continuing to play cat-and-mouse with every authority.
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
I agree with you in general, but this part is off: > which is low since that 500k isn't cash comp and you wait for long term capital gains to kick in Stock that a company gives you as compensation is treated as ordinary income at th
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
"Galaxy" is from "galakt", "milk" in Greek - so, arguably all of them?
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
This is the entirety of the post's description of the interviewer and the interview itself: > He introduced himself and we settled into the usual ritual of a phone screen. ... He gave me a coderpad link. ... It presented a simple da
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Nope, you're correct: he runs a startup and apparently has been running startups since his early 20s. > Please tell us briefly about your background. > I grew up in the Netherlands, and I was interested in technology from a young
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
What a bizarre response from Google, a couple hours after this was posted: > @Reporter: As we are not very clear about the issue being faced by you, could you please elaborate on the same by providing detailed manual repro steps to repro
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Yes, he was capturing value for his clients , and getting paid some of that. That isn't the same thing as doing something that increases the amount of wealth in the economy, which was my point.
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
> Taking money away from mismanaged companies, and giving it to well-managed ones, is a net positive of stock trading. Where "well-managed" means "good at delivering money to its shareholders", which is at best obliqu
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
The article says that he made it by stock trading. It is, at best, difficult to articulate how that could be creating value rather than capturing it. Many of the world's billionaires made their money that way. Doing something positive-
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
The one-letter omission of "k" in "$20k/student/year" really makes a difference here.
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
My current phone, a Pixel 6 Pro, is becoming unusable due to screen flickering.* I have an unopened Pixel 8 Pro on my desk that I got for ~$700 after cashback during Prime Day last month, and I've been waiting for this launch so I coul
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Do most places pass the Joel Test? He says that if you answer no to two or more of these, "you have serious problems", and I count about seven that I would say no to at my current big-name (and well-reputed) tech company: 4. Do

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