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> Two weeks after leaving Google, I returned home to Maine. It’s where I was born and raised, and where I was taught basic values like the importance of working hard, standing up for what is right, and speaking the truth.

The folksy tone at the end had me expecting some kind of agenda on behalf of the author with writing the article. Lo and behold, she's a political candidate.

The whole article feels like someone trying to control their past narrative as they preprare to enter public life. She never 'left' for ethical reasons - she was fired then offered a crappy role.
Many corporations are prone to claiming outlandish things about themselves, so if that's the answer it suggests another question: why did so many people believe this particular corporation that claimed to be unique?
For the overtones put your tongue somewhere between an L and an R sound. Then move around your lips to create different o shapes while humming. Move around your tongue slightly in different ways as well. At some point you'll accidently create an overtone for a brief moment. Then see if you can recreate that. Slowly you'll be able to consistently hit the overtones and from there it's smooth sailing.

For the throat singing it's the exact same technique beat boxers use to create the deep bass. Just try to make a exagurated sigh. Do so until you accidently do throat singing for a brief second, then see if you can recreate that for a longer duration.

It's all about trial and error! It's really not as hard to learn as it might seem :)
> heavy-metal soil toxicity; by pesticides; by coincidental allergens in non-active-ingredient plant matter

The exact same risks are in your grocery store produce aisle.

I'll grant that illegal marijuana has higher risk, but if it's regulated like any legal food crop I don't see the difference; in fact, I'd say there's less, since people consume it in relatively low quantities.
This makes me wonder, who's factory pig-farms are more hellish? China's or USA's?

You might think that China's notorious inhumanity gives their factory farms a leg-up. But there might be hellishness-ceiling that Chinese and USAian factory farms both meet.
Engine developers have clear needs that don't depend on what someone discusses in the "GDC corridors".
Haven't thought about it. It's hard to find theses that have all the elements that makes it investable. Need 1. Something people don't know which 2. They will soon know which means 3. Things are mispriced.

I don't know that the global warming story has something like that yet, but I'm no expert so I really don't know.
Rules for thee but not for me.
Fabien's blog is a pot of gold. I love this "archeological" approach to programming. He also makes the articles feel like documentaries. It's just unique.
I don't think the data supports your conclusion about FB. See the below article from earlier in 2019.

"The company has seen a decline in its job offer acceptance rates to software engineer candidates from nearly 90% in late 2016 to almost 50% in early 2019."[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-re...
That's happened to several food compounds. Scientists don't spend time on a compound unless there is a compelling medical need to do the research. There just isn't much money in supplements / foods as compared to prescription drugs and the risk of litigation is really high, according to a few of my favorite scientists that I follow.
> That single responsibility in this case is to make a contribution of our income to fund the government, period.

Yes. And as part of that you have to decide how much each person is to contribute.

> We should have a simple tax formula strictly dedicated to funding the government where everyone has skin in the game

Yes.

> ..and contributes equally along some metric.

Yes, according to their means. The metric is contribution proportional to your ability to contribute and that folds in implicitly the idea that your "means" are non-linear with respect to marginal utility. Noblesse oblige. [1]

> The flat tax seems a dead simple reasonable metric and is unquestionably equal when focused on contributions.

No, it is not. Because 10% of 10K/yr income of someone working at burger king is an undue hardship whereas 10% of 1M/yr income of someone running a big company is no burden at all. 1K to someone making 10K may be the difference between sleeping in a bed and sleeping in the street, but 100K to someone making 1M, frankly, they wouldn't even notice it.

> Once we start trying to equalize along these other dimensions of marginal utility or equality of some other thing we're no longer focused on funding government but enacting some equality/justice endeavor.

No, we know how much we need to fund the government based on cost of policies enacted. That's not the job of the IRS, that's the job of the budget committee in congress. What the IRS is doing is figuring out how to apportion that burden among the population.

> Those I imagine probably also suffer from holding no simple formula to calculate their equalities against. Let such endeavors be handled by some other government agency dedicated to those causes, why drag the tax system into the mix and complicate things is what baffles me.

Again, the goal is to figure out how to apportion the burden, and that's done by indexing to marginal utility, bringing us back to where we began.

To be clear this isn't coming from someone looking to take from others, I'm in the top marginal income tax bracket, and I think it should be much higher than it is. IMO it should go back up to 70% as it was for much of the 1900s. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/27/top-tax-...
Sure, you do you. But again, you should understand that many people will not listen to you because of the strategies you’re using. I try my hardest not to work with people who conduct themselves that way, and I don’t listen to anything they have to say because I can’t trust that they’re being honest.
Awesome! Can't wait until 2030 when it is legal in a handful of states in the US.
I am a big fan of RQ along with Huey (https://github.com/coleifer/huey)
Journalism, perhaps? https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/san-francisco-p...

Or politics (see Watergate), or being a public defender, or environmental activism, or... the list goes on.
Was about to say the same. I love Huey.
RQ scales surprisingly well and for certain types of projects is a nice lightweight alternative compared to more complicated job queues such as Celery.
Lol. This sort of thing is nothing new. Canada, and many other countries, don't operate their bases like the US. There isn't razorwire and men patrolling the perimeter with guns. Often, if you don't notice the signs, you can drive directly onto a base unchallenged. Only the areas with sensitive stuff are behind 24/7 guards. Usually the first thing a wayward driver notices are the signs saying 'marching troops have right of way'. What is funny is seeing people who have made that wrong turn freak out thinking they have done something wrong. Admittedly, sharing the road with an armed platoon can be a bit intimidating but at most you will get an escort back to the public road. So it is no surprise that pokemon classified such bases as public areas.

The upside of this security posture is that to get eyes on the guarded perimeter you have to first enter the open area of the base, somewhere where unusual activity will be noticed.
Hiring off of behavioral questions is exactly what opens the door to abuse.
> Most of what we work for goes to the government.

Relatively few people have an effective tax rate above 50%.

In the US, if you live in a high tax state like California or New York, you need to have an income (single person!) of about 2,500,000 USD/yr to have an effective tax rate above 50%. (Actually more like $2.9m in NYC)

Edit: for an EU example, somewhere in Bayern, Germany it'd be about 1m ~ 1.5m EUR to have an effective tax rate above 50%.
I am curious about rent in Finland as well. I agree 100% with the fact that real-estate is the number 1 reason middle classes lost in power. it is the number 1 limitation when 30 to 50% of your income goes into your rent it is basically like slaving half of the time for some random guy who has a grandfather who bought some buildings two or three generations ago. we need to change this if we want our societies to work.
>This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it's fine if Facebook refrains from sending (attempted) breach notifications [...] if there's a valid court order sent to Facebook

So... a gag order? The reason why they didn't send facebook one is simple: they didn't expect to get caught. If tech companies start getting proactive about warning their users, I'd expect gag orders to be SOP when hiring cyber mercenaries.
Well, it's all in the name, no? And the use is rather obvious, mutable vs not, typed vs not, and buffer types (contiguous memory with count of items) or not.

If only C had those how safer it would be!
I suspect Google's real sin is to be seen as competitors by dying old media conglomerates who own much of news for fair use snippets and owning youtube.

The NSA spied on everyone and got practically a yawn. Google as a competitor and suddenly they are the panopticon and receive utter bullshit accusations of "selling your data". Meanwhile ISPs did illegal shit and got retconned protection.

The inconsistencies speak volumes even accounting for Zeitgeist of the past.
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Best to compare it to a known and easily accessible baseline such as index funds / passive investing. You are gambling relative to passive investing, in that you hope for higher returns but statistically you will achieve lower returns. Not that complicated.
That’s good news! I guess it would be very helpful to formally address this concern. Is there something that has been written / published to that effect?
"Magic mushrooms were the first substance to make me feel like myself after years and years of deep depression. But I didn't get quite the one hit, life changing state of mind that is often attributed to psychedelics."

Did you take them under the supervision of a trained psychedelic therapist, with the appropriate dose, with the right intention, in a therapeutic context, over multiple sessions, using a protocol designed for maximum therapeutic effect (which usually includes talk therapy both before and after the sessions)?

Having the right set and setting are both absolutely critical to get the most out of psychedelics.
Norway also produces nearly 10x as much oil per capita as the US. Everybody seems to forget that when pointing out how nice the place is.
You should look over the article a little more carefully. The special library is only if you want to inline WASM in javascript. You can still write and use WASM without it
What economists call path dependence.

The alternative algorithm would be better than DNN if the same amount of effort was put into creating special-purpose hardware, libraries, and so on; but in the dystopia, it's not fully refined DNN vs fully refined alternative algorithm, but fully refined DNN vs alternative algorithm with hardware and software optimized for DNN.

The alternative algorithm always looks unappealing because the playing field historically favors DNN, and so doesn't take off in the dystopia.
That’s a claim you should not read uncritically, given where it is published — the site is a “climate skeptic” page, and the claim it is trying to advance is that the national broadcaster is being manipulated, or at the centre of a vast left-wing conspiracy, that has inexplicably ruined the country, despite having apparently not convinced its audience to vote for a left-wing party.

Here’s the thing: the reportage of the protest was on a local-news Facebook page maintained by the national broadcaster and was not reported more widely at the time (September 2019). You can find the post cached, it doesn’t read as being in favour or opposition to the protest. But it did contain the names and faces of the (two) protesters.

The planned burn zone is in the one of the current fire-affected areas - although probably not the massive ones you’ve been reading about, 500 miles away.

The article posted asks whether the area of the planned burn “has now been completed by Mother Nature” alongside screen grabs of the cached article, and you can see the tenor of the comments section what sorts of feelings that provokes.

It’s pretty reasonable to assume that the post was deleted to protect two protesters from harassment.
For what reason? What device do you consider buying and how do you plan using it? I wasn't even aware that they can be bought anywhere for non-medical use. I don't see any reason why it would be a good idea to buy one.
Microsoft is essentially a spring chicken compared to other entries on the list.
There's no reason to caricature anyone's arguments here. Why the antagonism?
There's plenty of middle ground. Lots of people--the majority, I'd say--treat open source as a positive and seek it out. But they also won't go with an inferior solution just to check the OSS purity box.
so fun to see both of you discuss in depth like old magicians
Which is why you should only use these strategies if you have the leverage necessary. If you don't (or if the situation doesn't dictate the need), you would opt for alternatives. Operating in such a fashion (if my comments did not make it clear above) is a last resort and calculated risk.
There’s a great book by Michael Pollan, called “Change Your Mind”, I think, which talks a lot about the history of psychedelic research in the US. Great read.
Plant diseases are caused by animal agriculture operations for the more part. E.Coli and salmonella are two big ones that were on salad greens recently. Guess what - they didn't originate from the plants. They are 100% animal (or human) based.

Manure, contaminated water, runoff - all contributing factors to "plant diseases", all issues from raising animals for food.
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Would love to hear an informed opinion on why meat alternatives aren't commodities.

Is what the first mover brands are doing that unreproducible?
I consider this and the other article by the international relations guy to be very one-sided accounts.

A couple of people are unhappy, out of a workforce of 100000. So what?

It also mostly seems to be political reasons. I would imagine a lot of people working for Google just want to do a good job for a good salary, not make Google a vehicle for their political opinions.

I think people pushing their political agenda within a company tend to harm the company and it should therefore be ok to fire them.

That said, I haven't wanted to work for Google for years. But I am from the opposite side from these veterans. I felt it was very unjust when James Damore was fired, and I really don't want to work at a place that distrusts its workers so much that it forces them to go through diversity trainings and things like that. I would feel "unsafe" at Google.
IV Saline Solution is not a good analogy, that's a very different case from herbal medicine.

People have been using willow bark for pain relief for hundreds if not thousands of years. They have not been injecting saline solution.

There's reason to believe that, in some cases, it is better to get medicines in their tried and true forms (those used for hundreds or thousands of years) rather than their more recent isolated forms (which only have a few decades of use). There could be beneficial interactions between all those unknown substances. In some cases - again see St John's Wort - the natural herbs are more effective, safer, and with fewer side effects than the concentrated drugs. And they are infinitely more available, since they can be grown right in your back yard.

There are of course exceptions to this - there was the very popular Chinese herb that had been used for a thousand years that turned out to give you throat cancer.

Don't get me wrong, I use the medical system. I also sometimes use herbal medicine, but I'm much, much more likely to reach for Advil than I am for willow bark. But I understand those who reach for willow bark, and recognize the validity of their reasoning.

Personally, I want to see these herbs tested in proper trials so we can determine which are pure placebo, which are effective the way St John's Wort is, and which are dangerous the way that Chinese herb was. If we can identify the ones that are actually effective, then that opens up a ton of room for people to self medicate and frees up resources in the medical system for those who really need them.
This argument is downright silly. 20bln can do a lot of stuff. You’re conflating reckless spending and the amount of utility 20bln has.
Like the author said, Google put their money where there mouth was on several occasions regarding China. They simply started ignoring Chinese government requests to sensor things and put billions of dollars at risk in an attempt to not be evil. It's one of those "we're not mad, we're just disappointed" situations (for me at least).
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clear difference between your local OS and a website you're visiting.
I've started telling myself something and it's helped me to curb a bad habit:

"I'm not wasting this food by throwing it away, I wasted it when I let it go bad in the refrigerator"

If we really do care about the customer, we should be fixing the problem at the source, not trying to scramble to fix things after it's too late.
> Nobody has even made serious efforts to use deep learning for physical design

DeepMind have for place&route IIRC.
Google is an Indian software company now. Don't short it however yet. While they cannot create new products (see Gundotra's ejection), Pichai will successfully milk Android and Gmail for a while.
Everything seems useless if you don't understand it. Open a giant page of mathematical number crunching (with integrals and infinite series and everything) and it'll seem totally useless if you don't have the prerequisites for it.

The difference in philosophy is there are no pages full of integrals and infinite series, it's all just words, many of which look familiar to you, so you don't even realize that you don't have the prerequisites for it.
I will dissent. Organic interposers are dirt cheap, and nearly as good unless all you want is density.
> Society just need to decide how it wants to play this because its an either or proposition.

In the US the odds of dying in a terror attack have remained historically low since the mid 1970s.

Specifically, it's between 1:12M and 1:40M - about the same as picking the correct inch between DC and NYC.

Conversely, the odds of a US citizen (who is not suspected of a crime) being inappropriately surveilled is near 100%.

How to play it? Prioritize real threats over the nearly imaginary ones.
If you were making 60k+ through your college "internships," I would put them at the same level as full-time work. My first college internship was $9/hour with no benefits, and it lasted
6 weeks...

Also, donations are discretionary, so you wouldn't count them at all -- you would just count your salary minus your tax rate (not counting deductions, so that the average Joe can get some context).
If we want to fix this problem, the first step is eliminating Third Party Doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

Basically, it says as soon as you involve a third party - in your example, a messaging app - you can't expect privacy and therefore law enforcement doesn't need a warrant.

If law enforcement had to get warrants for all of this information from services, providers, and vendors, they'd be forced to a) be more selective and b) move slower for judicial review. Both constraints would significantly improve the situation.
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> But hey, the goal is not to test knowledge, but to differentiate the top X from a pool of a thousand.

The top X leetcoders. Not the top X most impactful contributors to a company. There could be some overlap, but not complete.
It's a problem for China because something like 50% of their pork production (maybe more) comes from backyard farms which do not have the biotech and other safety measures in place to contain the disease.
As long as it gets used the way they want it used.
Re independence: identifying whether or not these physical assumptions covary is not that easy. That's my point: assumptions a, b, c, d could easily have some mutual incompatibility that makes them non-independent. It's an active area of research.

Re probability, I'm glad you committed to the Bayesian interpretation. Bayes gives you a _degree of belief_, based on your priors.

It's quite fortuitous that you mention the 2016 election. As you say, there's only one instance here. Which is why the prior matters a lot. We can incorporate (partial) evidence from past elections, but it's going to be very sensitive to the priors that we place, since the net amount of evidence we're working with is very small.

As we found out in 2016, that means these beliefs aren't worth much in such low data scenarios, since the prior has a large impact! https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

This brings me to my original point:

> In the limit of evidence, this prior matters less, but constants matter here! How much evidence do we need before we can be confident the "belief levels" we're throwing around aren't that subjective anymore? We don't really have a good sense for what the structure over this space of "assumptions of physical models" is, so we can't really answer this question.
...from contact with contaminated water, which is contaminated with things like animal shit, from farms.

Plants don't just get horrendous diseases - nearly all of these outbreaks can be traced back to animal agriculture in close proximity.