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by rgbgraph 3y ago
I've worked on problems much harder than Reddit. Reddit is a trivial problem.
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
In applied maths, probably not. In theoretical maths, yes.
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
“Show me.” Path A: you’re shown the meme; “lmfao, nice” — now you’ve broken ice or strengthened a bond Path B: “nah” — “whatever” —— Don’t send your kids to a run of the mill public school — which is infested with children of asshats, jacka
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
- Java is majorly boilerplate. - If you map out the entire system, and understand how all the pieces fit together, you can: make something simpler that fulfills reqs/does the same exact thing; use template metaprogramming to generate t
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Same reason we (SW engineers) think X field is easy and can be self-taught: the fundamentals are easy to learn, but figuring out where and how to deal with edge cases when they pop up is something that can only be learned with experience. I
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Ask HN: Papers to get up to speed on database research
3 points by rgbgraph 3y ago|1 comments
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Just because it makes you feel seen doesn’t mean it’s baseless. Read Early Life (the author of TFA): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Finnegan In fairness, of all the long-winded, self-important, over-socializ
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
It helps that the “upper class” is mostly faux, and driven by fashion more than anything innate. Zuckerberg is not upper class in the classical sense. He doesn’t have the resources or molding to truly be able to fuck off, live in the woods
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
* Well-rounded in the context of a specific sub-culture, and such The flip side being, a father is not an absolute necessity, so long as there are adults with testosterone-correlated traits (actual; not stereotypical) in the life of the c
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Perhaps it shouldn’t stand the test of time — it should be a reflection if its time, and change with them. Here’s the one, let’s see if it renders:
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
If this were another venue, I would reply to this post with a single, solitary nerd emoji. The constitution should be ripped apart and rewritten — if it requires hordes of over-educated lawyers to faff about on what it actually means. The s
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Ironically, you’re doing exactly what the parent is describing: being pedantic to prove a point/win an argument because the OP was too hasty and forgot to append “pseudo” to his “intellectual.” I’m certain most of us know what the pare
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
That would require for you to be a well-rounded person that hasn’t optimized for only one facet of the job (e.g. money, technical skill, etc.) — at that point might as well be an entrepreneur. It would also require that your interviewees ar
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
> what the hell is the rest of the world thinking? — “Who wants to work that hard for nothing?” — “We’re a tech company? What do we actually do? Something that: atomizes social relations; enables the violation of people’s privacy and rig
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
The money means very little in actuality. Most CEOs are doing it for other reasons besides money (personal enjoyment, thrill, respectability, “duty,” etc.).
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
This conversation is going in circles. Linked study equivocating on the overstatement of statin side-effects has the first author as a pharmaceutical consultant (you do not see this as a problem, I do). 2% ARR is meager in relation to lifes
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Outlaw modern-day corporate trafficking. You cannot buy pieces of a person; corporations are legally people; you should not be able to buy pieces of them. Remove the corporate veil. All liability will rest upon a corporation's guardian
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
> "No one has ever said an unkind word to her." Leave no opening for others to be mean towards you. One of those is going about life not trying to push/get things out of people -- but to share in the "good vibes.&quot
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Financial engineering as a discipline is insane. Literally the definition of insane: seriously mentally ill and unable to live in normal society [0] -- so detached from the "normal" reality most people live in, and taken hold li
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
> I'd say that generally it's advisable to take both into consideration given that in most cases the author of a paper likely has more domain expertise than you in that specific area. Not always, obviously, and not to the exclu
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Then we are at an uncrossable philosophical chasm. I don’t consider 2% ARR huge — especially when the risks of side-effects have been down-played. We can argue about this all we want, but it’s no longer a matter of fact, but of opinion and
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
I cannot make it anymore clearer: statins reduce your absolute risk of mortality by at most 2%; not smoking reduces your absolute risk by 7%. Statins provide meager benefit for the associated risks. It does not take an expert to do math.
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Testosterone levels are drastically lowered in women going through menopause.
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Generally, you read the papers for their methodology and their data — not for the author commentary; and then make up your own mind. One man’s “benefits of statins for primary prevention” is another’s “the benefits are too meager to be nota
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Golly gee, someone that realizes software engineering isn't entirely just sitting down and pumping out code? Why aren't you in management? (don't tell me... it's because you're honest with yourself) I do wish this b
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Taylor, Fiona, et al. “Statins for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews , vol. 2021, no. 9, 2013, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd004816.pub5 . Page 11. If you h
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
It's a shame I have yet to see a microdose of testosterone included in HRT.
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
Don't do it if you need the money. At that point, it's like any other hobby: horse-racing, sports-betting, or purchasing YCH commissions to hang up on your dining room wall.
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
All adult patient populations: those without a history of cardiovascular events, and those with. Baseline risk is something like ~35% for men, and ~20% women. Time point is from 50 to 75 years of age. Statins -- at most -- reduce your absol
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by rgbgraph 3y ago
I had an inkling I should have ended one of the points with that line of thought. However, I haven't seen any research that shows more than minor absolute risk changes, regardless of statin -- they're the wrong drugs for the job.

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