thomaspaine

And you think this suspension will help them?

This is a pretty obvious move by the administration to discourage immigration, in any form. Could the H1B system be more equitable to workers, more efficient, less confusing, etc? Absolutely. But suspending H1Bs and green card applications like this does the opposite of all of that and throws thousands of families into limbo.

My experience at big companies is the inverse. The people who advance are the ones who spend 80% of their time focused on politics, while the heads down engineer will get a thank you and inflationary raise.

From the article:

>A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia.

>The 10 rivers that carry 93 percent of that trash are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa.

So to say "10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans" is not really correct, they contribute something like 25%.

It's interesting to read the full SEC report because it's a little more complicated than that: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2015/34-75331.pdf

It basically outlines a cascade of failure in controls, bad configuration defaults, and poor SDLC. In particular:

>In addition, the firm’s operation and management of its electronic “circuit breakers” did not effectively block the erroneous orders sent on August 20. These circuit breakers existed to prevent erroneous orders by halting all message traffic to the exchanges once that traffic had exceeded a certain rate. However, on August 20, the firm’s control personnel repeatedly lifted the circuit breakers blocks between 8:44 a.m. and 9:32 a.m., thereby permitting additional erroneous orders to be sent to the exchanges. Before lifting the circuit breaker blocks, the control personnel did not obtain authorization from the responsible technology employees, as required under written firm policies.

>The firm’s policies relating to the manual “lifting” of those circuit breakers were not disseminated to or fully understood by the employees responsible for deciding when the circuit breakers should be lifted, and, prior to August 20, 2013, GSCO personnel had lifted circuit breaker blocks shortly after learning of the block and while still investigating the cause of the circuit breaker trip.

From what I remember, this circuit breaker was notorious for raising so many false positives that control personnel just got used to lifting it without thinking.

Neglecting to publish a salary range seems more like a negotiation tactic on behalf of companies of not wanting to be the first to name a number. Either that or you know your company can't compete on salary, which is my typical assumption when it's a company I've never heard of and I don't see a range provided.

I was told by several people that the ratings are normalized to adjust for this.

For example PageRank can be modeled using markov chains. You can surely develop more complicated models but markov chains provide a good starting point.

People who only have ninth-grade educations aren't the greatest at basic math or delayed gratification.

If I'm going to be somewhere where I might need a business CC or debit card then they're temporarily added. Otherwise I store all my CC info in 1password anyway which I can access on my phone.

If you think that's idiotic then ask yourself if you were given the opportunity to buy the first original Apple 1 or an exact replica, how much more would you be willing to pay over the replica? If the amount is greater than zero, then you're admitting that you're really buying an experience and set of emotional states in addition to a physical good.

To put it in Steve Blank terminology he likes to invest in companies that face invention rather than market risk.

>Kickstarter is amazing, but one of the hidden catches is that once you have taken a bunch of people's money to do a thing, you have to actually do that thing, and not some other thing that you thought up in the meantime.

His point being that Kickstarter funding makes it hard to pivot, as opposed to other types of funding.

This is a little inaccurate, the purpose of these macroeconomic models is either to make future predictions or run simulations to see what happens when exogenous shocks occur. They're not "testing data against theory", the data is used for parameter estimation and then verifying the accuracy of the models. It's actually very similar to the way certain AI models are developed and trained.

I do agree that these models are usually pretty inaccurate and somewhat useless though.

https://www.groksolutions.com/htm-overview/education/HTM_Cor...

There are some subtle differences between HTMs and straight up deep learning, mainly the requirement for HTM data to be temporal and spatial.

I know Andrew used to sit on an advisory committee at Numenta, I don't know if he still does.

How about food? Is a $250 dinner at Saison a necessity? $5 dinner at McDonalds? $20 per pound imported beef at the grocery store?

$200 jeans vs $80 vs $20?

Are glasses a luxury item? How about Google Glasses?

How do you define it? The devil is always in the details with laws and especially tax law, you can't just hand waive this kind of stuff away.

I think the point is that atherosclerosis was just as prevalent in the hunter gatherer society as it was in the agricultural ones. Sample size is admittedly small though.

It's bad, but I would say its notoriety comes more from the fact that it's so bad relative to the neighboring blocks. Walk two blocks and you're at the Westfield mall / Union Square.

I have several MTM shirts and suits, and honestly I don't think it's really worth it. For a couple reasons, I'm much happier these days finding a brand that fits me off the rack and having it altered if necessary.

1. The grand promise of MTM is the perfect fit, but your first one or two attempts are almost certainly going to leave you with a garment that doesn't fit. At best, this requires more fittings, trips to the tailor, and time. At worst, you're stuck paying for a garment that you will never wear and cannot return.

2. MTM will always be more expensive. For example, Indochino suits are pretty cheap ($400), but for the same level of construction and fabric you're looking at a a $200 suit from Men's Warehouse. J. Crew sells $130 Thomas Mason shirts, and to get the same shirt MTM from my Hong Kong tailor costs me $200.