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I make 290k total comp as a SWE III at Google. I would make around 240k if my initial stock grants hadn’t nearly doubled in value since I joined. I will probably actually make less…

I'm getting "Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here." in both Chrome and Firefox. What's up with that?

I find that mindfulness both reduces my stress in the short term, and causes me to reflect and choose to eliminate stress-causes in my life in the long term. Both effects are posit…

The "Non-Timely Scotsman" fallacy?

Er, no, bitcoin going up is nice if you hold bitcoin like gold, and irrelevant if you imagine actually using bitcoin as a way to do transactions. Bitcoin going up or down in value …

Don't use the tool, then.

This comes off as pretty biased. "Run its course?" - really? Remind me, did DeepMind use Probabilistic Graphical Models to beat Lee Sedol at Go? Does any of OpenAI's research use t…

Which doesn't even take into account other serious externalities like smog.

It's definitely possible that people complaining about phony apologies are doing a power thing... Hmm, maybe they want to take away power from people who do bad things? It would be…

For formulas, I find Anki to be pretty effective, because it forces me to recall the formula. I also try to put proofs and proof-techniques into Anki so I can maintain knowledge of…

Really cool idea, thanks for sharing!

You might be able to use https://opentimestamps.org/ to provide evidence over time (i.e. proving it wasn't fabricated all at once). Still, that doesn't prove that the individual po…

Why is integrity such a concern these days? Obviously they're pretending to have integrity for PR reasons, as should be expected. You're just creating an environment where people l…

Yes, have you seen this article? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-significantly-underestimate...

You can always back up to your password (at least, with TouchID).

Yep. Another reason to disallow private prisons.

Yeah, you would think the tax dollars spent on prisons vastly outweigh the extra dough it would take to actually try everyone who goes through them. Plus, the innocent who aren't j…

Does santa work with brew? If not, how do you even function?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#He... Agreeableness is only 42% heritable (the least of the Big 5), and the relative impact of the genetic component decre…

If one can create $1 million/year in revenue for $BIGCORP it's completely plausible that they could create $5 million/year in expected value on some better, innovative idea of they…

Feel free to link to any Kaggle blog posts showing victories using probabilistic programming. Is your opinion independent of evidence?

> The workers own the products that they make I'm still a bit confused. If the workers own the outputs of their labor, then if I produce a tool, algorithm or machine, do I own it f…

People contain multitudes. "You" aren't a single entity which wants or doesn't want things. There is such thing as internal conflict.

Suppose you have two options: - Work for MEGACORP and produce $400k/year of value - Develop a new business which has a 30% chance of succeeding. If it succeeds, you estimate it wil…

Everything is finite when you have a fixed amount of information and mass in the universe. That doesn't mean the common economic definitions of wealth are useless. The act of creat…