noobhacker

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by noobhacker 1y ago
It's not basic supply and demand--indeed, most economists are pro immigration. Bryan Caplan went as far as advocating for open border (admittedly he's more libertarian than most). Labor market is complicated because jobs are not a
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by noobhacker 1y ago
Profit margin is the wrong metric in this debate. The person you are replying to is saying that the insurance companies as a whole is a waste, including all the salaries paid to their employees.
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by noobhacker 4y ago
I'd love to learn phonetics, but with written materials like this it feels like learning to ride a bike by reading a book. I'm still at a loss with regards to how to actually make the sound. Without a teacher, I don't think I
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by noobhacker 4y ago
I stalked the post's author (your?) LinkedIn and didn't see any background in statistics. How do you know to design this experiment so nicely?
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by noobhacker 4y ago
Excellent experimental design and analysis! Is there a way for me to buy you a coffee (or some cash equivalent)? I'd love to incentivize such rigor in online discourse. An obvious way is to try out readwise ;) but I mostly read online
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by noobhacker 5y ago
Buddhism is about recognizing that everything is one, i.e. there's no sky/earth, but just sky-earth as one thing altogether. Of course you don't have to believe it or find it useful, I'm just explaining Buddhist thought
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by noobhacker 5y ago
Does your son have other alternatives to learn programming and make money other than Roblox? If there are, then it's a great lesson about looking outside of one's immediate circumstance and striving towards something better.
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by noobhacker 5y ago
Could you elaborate on how this Hamilton framework is a case of Dependency Inversion (which in my understanding is about removing dependency on low level class and using dependency on high level class instead)? What's the low and high
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Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?
325 points by noobhacker 5y ago|259 comments
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by noobhacker 6y ago
A great way is to encourage them to question the rules that they have to follow, including your own. That's something they already do, and most enjoy doing. We just need to guide them to question the rules in a coherent manner. Besides
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by noobhacker 6y ago
Facebook, as a business, is primarily interested in making money and would love to avoid all these messy issues regarding what to censor so that it can focus on selling ads. Therefore, FB would love to have a legitimate external authority,
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by noobhacker 7y ago
Awesome! Could you speak a bit about what you have in mind to incorporate actual experiment data into the algorithm?
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by noobhacker 7y ago
This is an accurate summary of the article. However, in my personal experience, it is not an accurate summary of the Bay Area. The startup scene may be truly this toxic, but I think such toxicity plagues any small, homogeneous group of peop
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by noobhacker 7y ago
Could you suggest a low cost option for meditation retreat? I'd really like to do one, but the idea of paying $1000 for what's supposed to be a no-frill, minimalist, anti-materialistic experience still trips me up. (As a reference
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by noobhacker 7y ago
The article you linked says the opposite of what you quote. Right after the quote, the article's authors say that these claims [about Europe being economically interdependent before WW1] are exaggerated and this do not disprove the the
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by noobhacker 8y ago
I read through the top 3 links and would love to hear you elaborate more on how these are counterpoints to the assertion that the Times would not print a story not independently corroborated. The first link regarding Jayson Blair is the cle
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by noobhacker 8y ago
I also interpret the article as the author grieving her mother, whose Koreaness is the most distinguishing feature. Had her mother been unique in her love for a particular music genre, for example, the author would have written about walkin
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by noobhacker 8y ago
We go to H Mart mainly for their vegetables too, especially leafy green veggies (so many different kinds of choy!). I think leafy greens tend to go bad faster in general, and that's not any indication of H Mart's quality. Their se
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by noobhacker 8y ago
I used to dislike "rich kids." What worked for me is to look inside and ask myself exactly why I don't like them. It turns out that, at least for me, there isn't any valid reason. It boils down to me being upset at their
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by noobhacker 8y ago
Econometric models typically do not say anything about causality. For example, the coefficients in OLS are just correlation, i.e. one unit increase in X is associated with $\beta$ increase in Y. Let's say that we regress "happin
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by noobhacker 8y ago
I honestly don't know why it's better to ban denial rather than trying to engage and educate. It's been very confusing to me. Could you please explain?
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by noobhacker 8y ago
What are the recommended background readings to best prepare founders for this program? IMO it helps a lot when participants already use the same framework and speak the same language, so that more time can be devoted to specific problems.
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by noobhacker 8y ago
I used to get stressed listening. Now I just re-frame the problem to solve as "making the other person feel better" -- this way I don't feel the urge to offer solutions. As engineers and problem solvers, we should know how to
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by noobhacker 8y ago
Since location and family income are perfectly observable variables, shouldn't we use them directly instead of race?
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by noobhacker 8y ago
That's the opposite of my experience and understanding as a fresh PhD. In my field, social science, PhD students 100% own their research agenda. We get paid via a combination of grant (i.e. free money) and RA / TA work (i.e. money
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by noobhacker 8y ago
As a male, I used to also be upset about charges of discrimination against woman when I know in my heart of hearts that I don't mean to do anything badly. Geez, I'm just here at a conference to hang out with people also interested
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by noobhacker 8y ago
I think if you give the article a second chance, you'll see that it does not advocate for the self-promotional behavior you dislike. The article doesn't tell us to "listing out insignificant contributions to FOSS they have ma
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by noobhacker 8y ago
As a TA of statistics for non-statistics major, I find it hard to choose the appropriate level of complexity because every audience has a different expectation. I'd encourage you to communicate with your doctors that you'd like th
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by noobhacker 8y ago
Why do you think there are millions to be made here? I'm sort of familiar with international development, and I'm surprised by that estimate.
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by noobhacker 8y ago
That's entirely possible. I'm thinking more about the labor force of the next 40-50 years. In 100 years (or however long it takes for AI to improve itself), engineers may also be obsolete.

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