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Turns out that it also means fleeing :)

The “cost” of being GDPR compliant is negligible if you simply put static content on your website and don’t track users.

Indeed. Denial of responsibility is a feature of violent communication. https://blog.chaddickerson.com/2018/10/29/nonviolent-communi...

The 4% rule is wildly optimistic. You're assuming that there exists an investment that: - is 100% liquid - will return 4% consistently over decades - every single year - post-tax -…

Thank you for your reply. I found it very profound and insightful.

I wouldn't be surprised if a high number of us is now really doing 3-4 hours of real work a day, filling in the rest with stuff that we'd have been ashamed to do in front of our co…

I've read about the FIRE theory time and again. For some reason, I don't buy it. I fail to believe in the plan that consists in building enough FU money to then "be free". Free to …

Experienced manager as well. I highly concur. Sadly, the "good" solution is much harder to accomplish than one might think. One way to address it is to take it from the People pers…

I am with you on most of your points, but definitely not on the "normal and mostly acceptable". The truth of our domain is that you can get great work done in 3-4 hours a day (I am…

> I only invest money I can afford to lose. You mean "speculate" here, not invest. People definitely want (and must be able) to invest money that they cannot afford to lose, at lea…

Amen.

Indeed. Also, you have plenty of time do to both. Start as an engineer at 22, write code for 15 years. Switch to management at 37. That still leaves you with 15+ years to climb the…

Using the term "procedural noise processes" instead of "random noise" in the title would have been less click-baity and closer to what the paper is about.

Thank you for your reply!

This article is completely disconnected from what is happening in the machine learning community. Granted, datasets have grown larger and larger over time. This concentration is ac…

FWIW, this paper is being presented at NeurIPS this week.

This article seems to spawn many threads on online advertising, but the initial comment from the author seems to be more around a system/architecture issue (i.e. why should a brows…

The thing is: you paid for your bedroom ceiling, your bathroom and your car. You also paid for your computer & screen, but you did not pay for the content you're watching on it. I …

Same here. My guess is that they constantly AB test/explore captchas to push the envelope of genuine humans users in order to make it as hard as possible for the bots.

The first plot is interesting, but could also be mixing correlation with causation. I actually find it unlikely that raw financial inequality would be a direct generator of worldwi…

Ong bak was the real movie reference to use for tree climbing.

All that being said, I agree with you: leadership is hard. In 20 years in industry, how many (really) good leaders have I met? Three maybe. My original point is that the _role_ is …

Of course we have all met people who were pompous, arrogant and ignorant. But there are some good and outstanding leaders out there. If you never had the chance to meet one (or did…