jplasmeier

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by jplasmeier 3y ago
Fact is the recently elected City council made public drug use illegal: https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/09/seattle-city-council-p... Murdoch and co. will have you believe Seattle is a fentanyl-ridden wastl
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by jplasmeier 3y ago
That's not the same question though. I've answered those questions for myself, but I couldn't tell you what consciousness is or isn't, because that requires language, and language cannot suffice to communicate our person
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by jplasmeier 3y ago
I actually wrote a paper comparing how Tractatus and Godel’s incompleteness theorems approach the concept of self-reference. (I believe it was the final for Philosophy of Mathematics with the brilliant Colin McLarty.) I don’t have it hosted
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by jplasmeier 4y ago
I found this piece revolting. The author feigns a conscience so that you too, conscientious engineer, can stomach working for the modern day equivalent of big tobacco. To be clear I don’t have a problem with anyone who works at Meta, but I
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by jplasmeier 4y ago
The whole article is written like an ad. I wouldn’t take any of it at face value.
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by jplasmeier 4y ago
What makes you think YC companies have any different standards than the rest of the corporate world? If anything startups are deliberately held to a lower standard on the justification of “disruption”. YC is a way to make people money first
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by jplasmeier 8y ago
This comment itself kind of falls into that, isn't it? :p
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by jplasmeier 9y ago
"More readable code almost always means less efficient code." Can you give examples? I'm not sold that the "low hanging fruit" of readability improvement (empty lines to break up "paragraphs", breaking up
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by jplasmeier 9y ago
As a personal anecdote, I was a vegetarian for ~3 years from late in high school to junior year of college. It was definitely a valuable experience that afforded me much perspective into my diet, the diets of others, and food in general. Wh
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by jplasmeier 9y ago
Does anyone have data on the departure of executives at other companies, past or present? Of course the reaction is that this is something like an exodus, but I would love to see data on exec-churn at similarly sized companies for compariso
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by jplasmeier 9y ago
But he's making the world more "open and connected!" (by bringing internet to third world countries and restricting them to his website...)
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by jplasmeier 9y ago
Of course. For example, many of the questions for technical interviews involve knowing which data structure to use in a given setting, and applying it to find a solution. The interviewee is more than welcome to study data structures and int
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by jplasmeier 9y ago
Facial unlocking programs have this problem too. Just search for "facial unlock racism" and there's pages of results from various sources and years. Software is subject to the same effects institutions of racism, sexism, etc.
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by jplasmeier 9y ago
While this can easily be reduced to petty arguments and farm animal related epithets, I think this at least a reasonable enumeration of skills one can aspire to learn in their free time.
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
You're right, but I disagree with your argument that: "the 'laws of logic' are universal axioms that would not change." Axioms are not universal and have been modified or discarded throughout the progression of math
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
The issue with tricky algorithms questions is that they often become tests of how well you can keep your cool. I've (and I'm sure others have also) bombed relatively easy questions due to nervousness compounding. I've also do
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
I think that a quick survey of the user would be helpful as well- specifically their experience with programming, and their experience with the language in question.
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
This is cool! Is similar data available for other legal states? Are you working on implementing similar services for those states?
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
My experience has been that my friends and I troll each other by submitting endorsements for irrelevant things like "Microsoft Office" or "Public Speaking." I usually spend a few minutes on LinkedIn when this happens, so
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
Someone should spend the money to ask him if he thinks the service is worth it, or if he would have used a similar service at any point in his career.
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
> Soy isn't part of the natural diet for chickens, so feeding it to them means also feeding them antibiotics. Do you have any more info on this? I was under the impression that giving chickens antibiotics was illegal and so feckless
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
I would imagine it would help a lot with learning cultural idioms as well. Given that a large percentage of the mannerisms my friends and I use are copied from TV, it would be invaluable to be exposed to the language elements which speakers
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
I believe the comment was in regards to time spent on either venture, not the legality of doing both.
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
So, like Brave New World?
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
It's interesting that the conclusion serves the opposite purpose of what one expects from a conclusion. Usually the conclusion serves to put the preceding argument or analysis in context, but in this case the conclusion does the opposi
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
Right, but isn't that rather useless? If we knew the actual probability of each individual being killed by guns or terrorists, we could find that neither of these averages would be represented by even a single person.
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
> jihadists killed 94 people inside the United States between 2005 and 2015. During that same time period, 301,797 people in the US were shot dead > Americans are more afraid of terrorism than they are of guns, despite the fact that g
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
I agree, but there is a lot of value in approaching Philosophy from a mathematical context (both as a student and as a philosopher- c.f. Russel, Wittgenstein, et al had backgrounds in mathematics and left a huge mark on the subject). I was
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
I believe it's vim vs. emacs :P
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by jplasmeier 10y ago
Freedom is an awful word (to use in rigorous discourse) because it simultaneously means two very different, if not in some way opposite things. Freedom can be used in the sense of having many options to execute your will, or it can be used

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