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Agreed - I think it would be interesting to see it by state/province (or even better some kernel smoothing) instead of country. Country size is kind of arbitrary, as some countries…

(Note: full study PDF is on researchgate) I would take this with a giant grain of salt: 1.) N is in the hundreds of students, all with similar backgrounds - likely a highly specifi…

In the mid 2000s I worked at company that used Rocky Mountain Basic in a ton of their products (electrical test equipment.) Most of their product lines dated back to 1960s and 1970…

I think most of these techniques come down to the relationship between the management and employees. If everyone is honestly trying to solve the problem and earnestly listening to …

> Compare that to the Googlers who constantly complain about their employer The current set of Googlers that are complaining aren't the ones that built the company though. Google's…

In HS, I would have had more extracurricular activities at least joined some less competitive sports like cross country - there is literally no other time in your life where you wi…

and electrons are just quarks, and quarks are just a state in a quantum field, and a quantum field is just...

> ...endless annotations, dependency injection magic, all sorts of pseudo-types This sounds like what happens when a bunch of Java/C# developers jump over to python without learnin…

IBM was a much bigger and more domineering monopoly at it's peak - there was a time where you effectively could not have computers or a datacenter without paying IBM money, directl…

I don't think traditional companies will subsume technology as the article claims - big companies tend to innovate by acquisition, and VERY FEW companies are actually good at produ…

Meritocracy exists on a small scale, but always remember that someone wrote the rules, and they generally have an opinion on the outcome. The best moment of the show was when they …

Theoretically masks would be much more effective than this - I think the 30-50% number came from a study where they looked at actual non-professional usage of masks. Most people ha…

Right now we don't know the severity or impact of this variant, and several signs point in a bad direction. Maybe in 2 weeks we won't be worried about this variant, but right now b…

Yeah, I think the article missed the point on this one - travel bans aren't a panacea, but they definitely slow the spread and can buy valuable time at the start of an outbreak. Th…

This hasn't been possible since the silk road and was created. No one is going back to the pre-modern world.

The trouble is the authorities won't learn anything - many could care less about science or history, they just care about power and influence. I do agree that more dissent and conf…

Are there any experts here that can explain why rates are dropping in Japan, India, and a few other countries? Is it different flu seasons, different treatments, a new strain that …

I have always done "just in time" refactoring - when a big change comes to a module and you're going to have to re-test most of it anyways, then perform the refactor, test the code…

Personally, I no longer use the phrase "technical debt" when speaking to management. It's just too vague of a term. Instead I just explain the actual problem and the consequences -…

The most important part of Bayes rule is the concept of Prior knowledge and Bayesian updating - new data should always be combined with your existing knowledge (starting with the "…

Toyota is probably on the wrong side of this tech, but it's still a bad short. They can survive a decade or two off of install base and reputation alone, and hybrid tech is still a…

I think it can work when thinking about accountability and checks-and-balances in processes and roles; for example how would I detect if my CFO is stealing money from a startup, or…

I don't think this attitude is helpful - it's going to leak out in your interactions and poison relationships. You do need to consider the context and background of a person before…