westwing

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by westwing 6y ago
> How can you say that with a straight face? I didn't. > They're both 10x engineers. https://medium.com/@yuval.idan5/the-10x-engineer-myth-is-wro... https://sparktoro.com/blog/belie
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by westwing 6y ago
Most companies don't care about diversity of any kind for any reason besides PR. Every hiring manager knows that the most productive engineering teams are made up of 100% Asian cis-male Libertarians. Diversity in terms of measurable me
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by westwing 6y ago
The curve flattens naturally at some point, always after “something” has been done. That does not mean these two things are related to any significant degree.
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by westwing 6y ago
Why? There's a lot of stuff getting developed with web technology as the platform of choice. Not because developers want to, but because major stakeholders are pushing for it. It enables cross-device deployment without gatekeeping by p
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by westwing 6y ago
On Windows 10, and I have tested various text input boxes. There's no way latency is anywhere near 100ms, I would notice that. Generally, from the tests I've seen, input latency is 30-40ms on a wired keyboard on Windows.
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by westwing 6y ago
Scrolling, yes. Mouse, absolutely. Typing? Not really. I have tested this side-by-side.
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by westwing 6y ago
If you take 10,000IU because 8895IU is what gets 97.5% of people to 50nmol/L, you are basically assuming you need more supplement than 97.5% of people, which is highly unlikely . There are people "at risk" that have trouble
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by westwing 6y ago
Safari may be fast, especially on mobile, but it sure is holding back everyone on features. The irony is that with WebGL2 and WASM, near-native-speed applications would be possible. Also, if there were Safari APIs for all their fancy chip f
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by westwing 6y ago
My point is that the Australian perspective on the matter invites no controversy. The indigenous population of Australia is dark-skinned and has access to all the sun it needs in order to stay Vitamin-D sufficient. Coincidentally, the COV
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by westwing 6y ago
Game engines are usually maintained for years if not decades, as they are often enormous investments. However, it's more common to fork (or at least freeze) for a specific project, so in that sense there is more room for ad-hoc solutio
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by westwing 6y ago
Few remember that the ancients decided to let the stack grow downwards to symbolize descent into the deepest circles of hell.
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by westwing 6y ago
I didn't mean to say that there isn't any race-specific research, but that there is a risk of being called a racist (or a "race realist") associated with doing such research, especially when it gets attention from sens
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by westwing 6y ago
The difference is that it's a shift in perspective. It's acceptable to say that white people aren't suited to live in Australia. It's not acceptable to say that black people aren't suited to live in the UK, for exam
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by westwing 6y ago
You're being uncharitable, which is part of the problem. These supplements are "recently invented" in terms of evolutionary history and it's not clear how well they work, compared to actual sun exposure. "Not suit
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by westwing 6y ago
Telling people that they "need to adapt or face consequences" would be even more dangerous than pointing out that they aren't adapted. Of course that's a highly uncharitable representation of what you propose, but you wo
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by westwing 6y ago
It can be mentioned as a footnote, because it is scientific fact. However, given the vastly higher death rates among people with darker skin, it should be shouted from the rooftops. Unfortunately, this would put into question the narrative
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by westwing 6y ago
The article goes into what makes it fast on general purpose code in the bottom half. Mainly, it's the better out-of-order execution that is possible with a large ROB, and how this wouldn't work as well on X86. Your points don&#x27
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by westwing 6y ago
Look at tax/insurance burden in all these developed and aging countries. Most of that money is going towards paying off the older generations, their ailments and their debt, and it's still not enough , debt just keeps growing. Th
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by westwing 6y ago
The loss of EITC affects low incomes. The mortgage deduction affects anyone with a "large" mortgage, but at current housing prices "large" is becoming the norm.
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by westwing 6y ago
There's a big conflict of interest between the walled garden and supporting a good PWA experience on iOS. As a result, you have buggy, limited and brittle Web APIs instead of native device APIs. Users also don't really understand
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by westwing 6y ago
Indeed, it's a very comprehensive list, helping you identify narcissists wherever you need them.
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by westwing 6y ago
14 ways to confirm your bias of being the victim in any situation.
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by westwing 6y ago
Why did you move the goalpost towards "innovation"? If you're on an H1B visa, you're probably contributing to some company attempting to be innovative. If not, who cares? The economy doesn't run on innovation alon
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by westwing 6y ago
This isn't really a concern when at the same time the people wishing to immigrate vastly outnumber the people accepted for immigration, as evidenced by the yearly limit for most visas being reached within days.
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by westwing 6y ago
The idea that immigration is declining due to social and political issues lacks perspective. Despite all the rhetoric, the US is high among the most equitable, least racist, safest and politically free countries in the world. If immigration
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by westwing 6y ago
I would argue that gold also derives most of its value from speculation, not its physical properties. There are metals with even more favorable properties that are even scarcer, yet they are valued less. Platinum for instance was at one poi
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by westwing 6y ago
> It might be a good short term solution but long term it certainly isn't. It is only a temporary solution - unless it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY7nx5Z6Kzo
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by westwing 6y ago
The PCR thresholds are chosen to minimize false negatives, not false positives. A sample that required 30+ replication cycles is unlikely to come from a person that is infected/infectious, yet it would be counted as "positive&quot
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by westwing 6y ago
> This study says live virus has only been confirmed to be seen for at most 9 days. However, (presumably inactive) virus particles can be shed for months afterwards and can show up as PCR positive. The paper cites 34 replication cycles a
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by westwing 6y ago
The PCR test amplifies RNA fragments. If after a certain amount of replication cycles the amount of detected RNA crosses a threshold, it is considered a positive. A positive PCR test does not imply infectiousness. Many people who have a pos

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