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While it may be difficult for someone in their 50s, I found indoor rock climbing, particularly bouldering and top-rope climbing, helped a great deal with a mild personal fear of he…

Companies comfortable offering loans to risky candidates will feel far less comfortable doing so. There is because there is some point where the ratio between amount of money reque…

As a preface, I’m not saying that those are inherently bad choices per se, because the underlying ideas are obscure enough that anyone who knows them at this moment probably knows …

This is anecdotal, but there are different forms of test prep which the wealthy have access to that are way better prep than private tutors. For example, Kaplan training offers 4-8…

This idea you had, interestingly, has nasty traps. 1. You need to specify an “origin” which is (0,0). This is hard because there is more than one good choice (base or top of a bric…

> It’s time for them to get creative and adjust their business models to become relevant again You’re assuming that at present small businesses can do this, or, at least will be ab…

That's definitely something which you can tell employees if you're making an app like that, but it's tolerable to use on customers too, in a pinch. They probably won't believe you,…

Well, in the most trivial and banal sense possible, it is: there's now another message app that wasn't there before. I tried to unpack why this phrase is overused. I think it is be…

Statistics arises from a set of axioms, assumed truths, which can be used to prove all other things in the field. You can take a look at the three axioms people use to justify stat…

> You can choose your own rate, so you can go as low as $10, or go as crazy as, jeez, I dunno, $500.. although the higher you are, the more difficult it is to land a client. I'm co…

If company politics won't allow it, there are several possible reasons why which I can come up with: >Possible Good Reasons >They don't want to divert resources from guaranteed use…

I am not saying Apple is a bad brand; their computers are of high quality, are great for personal use, and are more than capable of productive work. However, statistically Apple co…

This looks like a preliminary move by Apple to establish itself as a viable work computer. Windows and linux environments currently appear to reign supreme over the workplace, the …

If "smart person" is a proxy for "scientists and engineers", the answer seems obvious; it's not included in their education. Not in primary school, not in secondary school, not in …

>At some point, enough developers/managers will begin to take advantage of the system until executives wise up. They only wise up if they have data that tells them they need to. Wh…

You're not being naïve and if you're thinking in terms of maximizing positive company financial impact, you're correct. At the scale of most major, non-startup tech companies, howe…

This logic is wrongheaded, as it ignores the context which causes information to expire: >Socially: I'll expand this one the most, because a similar argumentative line will apply t…

>I don't think of a reading TODO as "food" such that you should eat the old food before the new food. (The old food will expire so it makes sense to consume that first.) Based on t…

Codecademy's model tends to be very poor for topics that are sufficienty theoretically complex, as the turnaround time between exercise beginning and conclusion appears to be about…

If I can be extremely frank, you don't HAVE to force someone gullible enough to do it willingly. And though this is conjecture on my part, even if you find refactoring and rewritin…

Trivially: fire you, and hire another poor shmuck at your starting salary to spend 90 hour weeks in time for the next launch. If they are willing to do that once, rewriting everyth…

This is because many European city were designed in a time preceding pubicly-accessible transport and thus were - and are - designed to be almost completely traversible on foot. Th…

>Every time I've heard from someone who has switched from a manual feature engineering approach to deep learning I've heard the same results ... dramatic improvements in accuracy, …

"The easiest way to avoid loopholes" and "frequency of use in real life" are not equivalent. I'd certainly argue there are plenty of vague, overbroad laws, regardless of the freque…

>Law ... monstrocities We already have that, though, and "sufficienty written" is a very dangerous standard. The easiest way to guard against "all" malicious input is write a vague…