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They are trying to kick you out a month before you vest! These guys are not acting in good faith. Do not trust them. Wait a month and vest. Then quit.

You were the technical lead. More than anyone, you built it. Don't let these suits steal it from you or bluff you. So often business types take advantage of financially unsophisticated technical people.

This is a bait and switch. Talk to a lawyer. Wow, just absolutely scummy.

I avoid buying anything "smart." Very few things need to be connected to the internet or have an OS. There's no reason I've seen for a TV or fridge to be smart except for nefarious purposes.

Seems like very typical behavior for university and hospital administrators.

I usually think of it as being a reflection of entropy. There are innumerable configurations of the plastic and steel that makes up my car, but only a vanishingly small proportion result in drivable vehicles.

A flat farm, everything else being equal, will take less humans. There's nothing about being indoors and vertical that is a magical advantage for mechanization. There's also a lot more mechanization necessary in dealing with vertical farms. All of a sudden you have to transport soil, fertilizer, and harverst vertically in addition to horizontally.

Already, wheat fields can be tilled and harvested by autonomous combines. Direct human labor is basically down to picking fruits and vegetables. Most of the time, it's going to be cheaper growing something outside, in the sun and dirt that's already there.

I'm kind of surprised that an apparently large segment of HN thinks McCarthyism was a good thing.

Great comment. There's a pervasive lack of self-awareness among the right, manifesting as a pathological inability to empathize with individuals in other groups. Introspection can be painful at times, but it's necessary to be a morally full and content person.

There's not much of an equivalence between some professor saying something illiberal and the apparatus of state power doing something illiberal.

So therefore it follows that blatant disregard for civil liberties is justified? I thought you guys were against "cancel culture."

Yeah, it seems most tech standards are design-by-committee disasters.

One particular issue is that nobody actually implements the ACPI power management protocol correctly.

Most people only need therapy for a few months. Very few need long-term therapy.

This kind of sounds like depression or anxiety, which most everyone has to some extent now. Loss of interest in normal activities is a key symptom. I've heard that mental health professionals are still trying to figure out how much to pathologize the very bad but mostly normal responses people are having to 2020.

Everyone that's having issues should talk to their doctor and/or see a therapist. They know what they are doing.

There's been enough progress in approximate Bayesian methods that many things can be done thousands of times faster than back then, as well. The reputation of Bayesian methods as being slow is undeserved nowadays.

Synthetic clothes shed microplastic particles in the wash. It's actually a significant source of plastic pollution. Cotton is kind of crap fabric and takes enormous amounts of water to grow, but wool and linen are both much more durable.

They tried to cease-and-desist Rockstar, actually.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-11-take-two-r...

From what I understand, it is usually the minimum size rather than any kind of average.

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." - Keynes I think

Theranos at least fell apart once the WSJ put out extremely strong evidence that it was fradulent. The innovative tech that Nikola claimed to have was shown to be fradulent months ago, but they're still worth billions of dollars.

It's an incredible testament to the distortions of the capital markets that Nikola's current market cap is still $7.84 billion, and not zero. There's nothing that justifies that other than the hope that one will be able to leave others holding the bag.

What are the benefits of abandoning net neutrality if you are not an ISP?

He'd be better suited to ALEC or any industry group. Companies like to farm their bribing (ahem, lobbying) out to groups who don't have to worry about their reputations.

With huge capital costs, and patent entanglements. It's not something that some Randian hero can just do. The "free market" never precisely exists. Adam Smith himself was very cognizant of this.

You are completely glossing over the fact that animals need to be fed.

Sustainable grazing (most grazing isn't) is a perfectly good use of marginal land, but that cannot produce anywhere near the meat we consume. Most animal production requires producing feed from other agricultural products. It is inherently less efficient to do this. Chicken is more efficient than beef, but still much worse than just eating plants directly.

I'm sure they've got more/better data in production. There seems to be some arbitrage that can be shaved off the edges for players with innovative enough strategies and good and timely enough data.

There definitely would have been pressure to change. I highly doubt he would ever have been cancelled, though. Nothing he did ever rose to anywhere near that kind of level, except for possibly aspects of his family life. Jobs was brilliant product guy, but verbal abuse never helps teams become more productive. All that he did was in spite of his temper.

There's definitely a segment of HN trying to push these kind of dog whistles. Quilette is an outlet of the alt-right. No reputable publication does race science.

If it's a problem domain that needs more exploration, there's nothing wrong with forging ahead. If nobody ever did that we'd still be using COBOL.

Bayesian stats actually let you integrate stochasticity into deterministic models fairly easily, in a way you can't really do with frequentist stats. Bayesian methods are common for geophysical inverse modelling, for example. Probabilistic programming does this, for example. Exact Bayesian inference is impossible in the general case, but approximate inference often works well.

Subjective priors are one of the main advantages of Bayesian stats. Regularization used in ML corresponds to using subjective priors, for example. L2 regularization finds the MAP with a normal prior, favoring parsimonious solutions.