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Here's the technological aspect of how China oppresses the uighur community: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/11/china-hi-tech-w... . Terrifying stuff, it literally is str…

"But of course, the CCP is ideologically opposed to self-representation." Don't think it's to do with ideology, just desire of a small cabal of people to have absolute power and co…

In my view, accidents aren't the main issue, it's more the disruption caused if an AV, with no human driver, encounters the 'freezing robot problem' (I.e. When traffic lights not w…

I'd honestly just walk out if a company asks this stuff, yet the actual work is maintaining a CRUD app.

"AI is the phrase behind which magic hides and people love magic. Everything that has the aura of “humans don’t fully understand how it works in detail” will be used by charlartans…

How does a profitability dial work for companies like uber, which don't have the network effect monopoly that the Amazon's, Facebook's etc have? Hike prices for passengers -> passe…

"Uber/Lyft do have a VCs-will-not-race-to-the-bottom-with-them moat, and tomorrow they might as well raise their prices to turn profitable." That's the multi billion $ question, if…

I presume it's because they're contracting? It's the way to cash out in software in the UK, I believe in most companies, contractors get to sidestep the HR/salary budget hierarchy,…

"10 teams of 3 each owning their own little slice of the pie sounds like an organizational nightmare; mostly, you can't keep each team fully occupied with just that one service, th…

I think other professions emphasise past experience and referrals more. That and official credentials, especially in certified professions (I.e. Medicine). That said, I think all i…

Personal experience on this. My degree (physics) was nearly completely orthogonal to my career (software engineer). But I have no doubt it helped me get not just my first job, but …

"The ways engineers are terrible managers non-technical managers are often terrible too. In addition to that, they also know less about work itself and are more likely to be insecu…

"Non technical management - this should speak for itself. I've done it before to much regret." I wouldn't put this as a con, I've seen lots of engineers turn into terrible managers…

I understand anther part is, they can't afford to have unemployment either, especially in the restive uighur and Tibet regions. Having millions of unemployed young men, without a p…

What's this got to do with Richard Feynman?

I'm not sure it's easy for a software engineer to develop a model, it's quite an orthogonal skill, you need a solid grasp on mathematics and especially statistics.

Must have been really exciting time to be particle physicist in those days. SLAC & other colliders enabled a revolution in physics, culminating in the formulation & verification of…

I always understood that the Stress–energy tensor in general relativity has a momentum component, so two electrons whizzing past each other at near the speed of light would exert a…

Minor clarification. The standard model does not describe gravity. It ignores it, which is fine at LHC energies because it's orders of magnitude weaker than the other three forces.…

Indeed, I've never in my career (in high level businesses, I.e. Finance, advertising) seen such a thing as a proper 'specification'. It's more the business has a high level, rough …

Imagine that's part of the challenge. Since python is dynamically typed/duck typed, it's hard to audit all usages of a variable. I.e. If I see a py2 string declared, how can I be 1…

That's the energy scale where the force of gravity becomes strong enough to influence subatomic particle interactions. Currently, our model of nature at subatomic scales (the 'Stan…

Ktor, it's working really well, only downside is limited openAPI/swagger support, i.e. Schema first or code first code/schema generation.

Kotlin, our company had recently turned into a java shop, and I was literally tempted to throw in the towel because I'm used to C# & python, so the boilerplate was really unpalatab…