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I think you’re right, however, I think the person you’re replying to may also. And is shorthanding “everyone without direct experience of the influential power of market forces” in…

Almost as though there should be a “Capability Maturity Model.” Man, I wish someone had come up with that 40 years ago.

As a quite successful shark, I was initially pretty cynical and amused at the idea that “marine biology experts” with no shark experience had anything of merit to say. What brought…

What’s your point? Personal spiritual beliefs are bad because they encourage people to speak out in defense of potential life? Having personal spiritual beliefs automatically quali…

The paid version of Monosnap has a built in storage manager with multiple options for backing stores to use.

So, I made this last night. Having no clue what proportions you typically use, I just winged it. Turned out not bad. Not quite beef stew, maybe more like a soupy shepherd’s pie. I …

Warning: potentially biased opinion. Speaking only for myself, but informed by my job. There are lots of problems with scraping-based approaches. One, yes, you need some really goo…

Did you intend to share a recipe for the 4-Layer Dinner?

Reminds me of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion's_Seed

Individual performance isn’t the critical attribute for a company / hiring manager though. You can be an exceptionally talented developer and still be a complete asshole no one wan…

Do they also think that Lamborghinis are “market cars?”

Interesting that you know it as the SSC community, because Scott (TFA’s author)’s original site was Slate Star Codex. The new Substack where this was posted is Astral Codex Ten. Bo…

There can be cost bloat in all of those services, and if additional spend in those areas nets marginal or negligible additional outcomes, they might be “overgrown.” There’s an anal…

Aren’t you two the fellows I brought in to help out with my legacy Java desktop app’s UI layer? The ‘Sultants of Swing?

You may also appreciate: https://devonzuegel.com/post/we-should-be-building-cities-fo...

3-4x higher sounds like a good bit of the distance between $1500 and $9200. Maybe you implicitly agree with the premise, and are mistakenly thinking TFA is talking about Austin whe…

If you aren’t willing to look at the data, and are admitting you’re closed off to even considering the idea (“I have no interest”), how do you know your head isn’t fully in the san…

I dunno about the 90s, but it definitely feels to me like the industry largely stopped giving a shit about undergrad degrees at some point

I’m pinching your face!

Rereading the thread, perhaps we’re both agreeing with each other? The data wasn’t there at the start, was there three months later, and that’s when updated decision making could o…

Sure, I respect that. If it seems like I don’t think you’re a good person, my apologies. I am enjoying having this debate with you and wish you the best. But I stand by the asserti…

Nonsense. Yes, at the very earliest part of the pandemic, we had no data. We had to prepare for the worst. Very quickly, we started to see the relative impact of different measures…

Handwringing cowardice and whimpering inaction got people killed in this pandemic. Refusing to take action as soon as data were available to justify better methods got people kille…

“Remote schooling is the proven no-risk solution” - where are you getting that? The abstract you cited is talking about the harms of remote learning. The paper concludes that an ef…