judk · HackerTrans

11 年前議論

Why don't we want that? We will never escape a little unfairness, and we don't need to. Telling a kid that their only path out of poverty is to be an engineer or schoolteacher, but art historian is not an option -- I would love for that to be the worst of our social problems.

judk

11 年前議論

Whatever the merits of the idea, a tv celebrity yelling is not releveant evidence. We can't all follow her path of selling self help books to riches

judk

11 年前議論

Emacs out of the box requires you to learn new key chords.

judk

11 年前議論

Educate yourself about the origin of the word "meritocracy". It is enlightening.

judk

11 年前議論

If you make some better decisions, you can make some extra money to pay for an article.

judk

11 年前議論

Mostly because they found rewarding opportunity as leaders of teams.

judk

11 年前議論

Is udemy just a scam site that trades ofd consumer confusion in with Udacity?

judk

11 年前議論

And a large part of this is Mountain View's refusal to allow housing and deploy public transit, pushing people into becoming traffic.

judk

11 年前議論

How very undemocratic of you. Sometimes the law from top down is incorrect. The experiences of stakeholders matters.

judk

11 年前議論

Sad and interesting. I rear ended a vehicle who turned into my lane, and the officer cited the other driver for an unsafe turn.

I guess it depends on officer mood and how long the car was safely in your lane before the breaking. Mostly officer mood.

Still, there are lots of completely legal sudden braking activities that would cause a collision over 10% of the time. People don't actually drive totally defensively all the time.

judk

11 年前議論

It is a stupid road. Built for speed, legistlated for slow. The road should be modified to make traffic calmer.

judk

11 年前議論

If tailgating is dangerous, in the sense that it is involved in a collision, the law finds the tailgater responsible 99% of cases. It just isn't applied predictively.

judk

11 年前議論

So, instead of 5 extra minutes of ads, you get 5 extra minutes of bad content. Is that a win?

judk

11 年前議論

I love that Netflix by mail logistics pushed you away from popular content , but online caching servers push you toward poplar content!

judk

11 年前議論

1. People like well targeted ads for their shopping intent.

2. YouTube autoplay and recommendations and subscriptions. And these days, youtube channels are even buying YouTube ads..

judk

11 年前議論

How do you get to 300M? Is is possible that someone like University of Phoenix might offer $1B for the company? If so, might it be accepted? If so, how much are shares worth?

At my old job, whenever investors bought in they offers to buy out employee shares at the stated valuation.

judk

11 年前議論

Enjoyment is different from understanding. Sachs career was all about studying (psychiatric) mysteries that were incomprehensible. It possibly gave him or fed his magical thinking, which can fly under the radar in psychiatry, but can't survive educated scrutiny in mathematics. He probably did love prime numbers, and discussed it with nonmathematicians who didn't see his mistskes.

judk

11 年前議論

Sachs's popular books consistently embellished reality to make a better popular read, and never really got called out on it by the scientific community , perhaps because psychiatry was rather unscientific --or rather pseudodcientific -- thought the early decades of Zach's career. Sachs wasn't exremely harmful in this respect (relative to the horrors of pre-21st century psychiatry, including the folder it gave to the rise of Scientology to prey on The mentally ill), but still provided more infotainment than education.

It is interesting that the author claims that getting a 37% guess correct a few times consecutively, in one measured attempt, is unsurprising.

judk

11 年前議論

The whole point of the article is to show that the premise is else, in every single case: there is no letter in English that always has unambiguous prononuciation.

judk

11 年前議論

People taking this article way to seriously. It is a humorous story about a rigorous analysis of problem that makes false but naively intuitive assumptions to misprove a contradiction. The point is (1) the rigorous analysis is possible and (2) the assumptions are incorrect -- English does not have consistent pronunciation rules.

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