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We do this too. In my team, my rule is: if it’s better than what’s on master, you approve and merge.

There’s no use making the customer wait for your questions, code style suggestions etc to be addressed.

Even if you request changes, you leave all your comments and make explicit which are the blocking ones and which can be addressed in the future.

But why would they all start at the same time?

The “second system effect” page more or less covers this

Like the stock market?

Which part perplexes you?

I may be wrong but I read “moderately successful in academia” as meaning: they have succeeded in gaining some social capital but make little money

Can we take a moment to appreciate that Dr. Adam Smith works at the University of Glasgow?

I’m more surprised we can tell so precisely where wood that spent 600 years under the sea came from

Interesting! I get a similar effect asking about a windmill emoji

It can be the oldest without being the first, if the earlier ones no longer exists

Quote me the passage where he said they weren’t?

Why Databricks would do this (rather than IPO) is obvious. When you can raise privately, it’s way easier than IPO. The real question to me is why the investors (new and previous) are going along with it?

That’s why the researchers used

> … a new open-source computational tool called ZLAvian, which compares real-world observed patterns to simulated ones to determine if ZLA is present.

(2019)

I agree with you, but a few slight caveats to your point that I think are worth noting.

> Not just because of the countless counterexamples of anthropology to everything you can think of in human affairs

A lot of anthropological research is done on non-agrarian societies. The author limited himself to peasants here, so that limits some (far from all) of the variation.

> I found far more even-aged or women-older marriages than I'd expected

The author also limits himself to age at _first_ marriage; I’d expect a lot more variation in age at remarriage. And even if divorce was rare compared to today, death of a spouse was much more common. So you’d expect to see quite some remarriages in the family tree

If I worked on it for 10 minutes 5 years ago then it’s definitely not taking lots of time and energy

Where I live they say it’s “so everyone can make the bus in time” and it’s always made sense to me. Running to arrive at a bus stop just in time, only to find it passed two minutes ahead of schedule, is way worse

Wait, am I reading this wrong or did they suggest abortion to avoid a mere 1% risk of Down syndrome?

> If you live in Europe, where healthcare is provided to everyone by the government

This partial sentence alone has so much wrong with it that this article is going to PETA me into finally deleting my data

It means the variation in monarchy is higher. So the best monarchy is better than the best democracy, but the worst monarchy is worse than the worst democracy

> the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable.

I mean she’s not wrong!

The title does literally say she is leaving the platform

It’s funny, how people identify can diverge a lot from genetic reality. Even e.g. Brazilians, who are mostly descendent of Europeans, will always say “we were colonised”

You didn’t say “if”

> LLMs … approximate correctness for varying amounts of time. Once that time runs out there is a sharp drop off in model accuracy, it simply cannot continue to offer you an output that even approximates something workable. I have taken to calling this phenomenon the "AI Cliff," as it is very sharp and very sudden

I’ve never heard of this cliff before. Has anyone else experienced this?

He’s not just saying he was locked up due to drugs. He’s saying that “all” his “poor decisions and lifestyle choices” in his twenties were related to drugs.

Would you say Einstein was not a researcher?

I feel the opposite. Work pranks are the best pranks because they only waste time that I was already selling anyway.

Many are complaining that this way the engineers are incentivised to carelessly create bugs because they have to ship fast and won’t be responsible for fixing them.

That’s easy to fix with an exception: you won’t have to worry about support for X time unless you’re the one who recently made the bug.

It turns out that once they’re responsible for their bugs, there won’t actually be that many bugs and so interruptions to a focused engineer will be rare.

That's how we do it in my startup. We have six engineers, most are even pretty junior. Only one will be responsible for support in any given sprint and often he’ll have time left over to work on other things e.g. updating dependencies.

I don’t think he’s suggesting we can teach how to be a good founder in general. Just that we can study and then teach the difference between managing a team as a founder vs general management practices